Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide: Every Exam Objective Mapped, 7 Domains, AutoLoader, Lakeflow Jobs, DABs CI/CD, PySpark, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Spark UI, and 6-Week Study Plan
The complete Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate study guide for the May 2026 exam blueprint. All seven domains mapped with sub-objectives. Domain 1 Databricks Intelligence Platform architecture and compute types. Domain 2 Data Ingestion with AutoLoader COPY INTO Lakeflow Connect and JDBC. Domain 3 Data Transformation with PySpark joins aggregations medallion architecture and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines. Domain 4 Lakeflow Jobs orchestration triggers and DAG dependencies. Domain 5 CI/CD with Declarative Automation Bundles Git integration and Databricks CLI. Domain 6 Troubleshooting with Spark UI data skew shuffling Liquid Clustering. Domain 7 Governance with Unity Catalog Delta Sharing Lakehouse Federation and ABAC. Every objective mapped to blog posts. Six-week study plan. Eight common mistakes and seven interview Q and As.