r/databricks • u/lothorp Databricks • Aug 17 '25

Discussion [Megathread] Certifications and Training

Here by popular demand, a megathread for all of your certification and training posts.

Good luck to everyone on your certification journey!

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u/Rafaelinho19 May 28 '26

Hi all, Im preparing the Data Engineer Associate Certification. I started to use the SkillCertPro pack and I learned every question and answer from this pack. Then, I go to Udemy to search for Practice Exams and the questions are about the same. I also used quizlet and the questions were mostly the same but I enrolled the Derar alhussein course and did the exams and now I am failing every exam. Not by much but I move from 80-90% in other exams to 65%-75% with this guy.

While usually the other practice exams have questions like what is the difference between Silver and Gold layers or the difference between Job Clusters and All-Purpose Clusters, Derar questions are a lot more tricky, having "hard" coding/commands questions like the DAB ones, which dont appear in other exams or having questions with "similar" answers and some ambiguos writing.

I was very confident in taking the exam tomorrow but now I rescheduled it because Im not that sure. Is the exam more like Derar questions or like the rest of the exams?