Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate

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Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate Exam Cost

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The published price for the Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate certification exam, what it covers, and what the real total budget looks like once retakes and study time are counted.

Registration fee: $200 (official exam page); FAQ: "All Databricks Certification exams cost 200 USD. Please note that there are no free retakes for any Databricks Certification exam." exam fee
90 min
48 questions

What the exam costs

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Official exam fee
Registration fee: $200 (official exam page); FAQ: "All Databricks Certification exams cost 200 USD. Please note that there are no free retakes for any Databricks Certification exam."
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What the fee covers

Knowing the boundary of the price stops the surprise costs later.

ItemIncluded in the exam fee
The exam sessionYes, including the 90-minute session
Exam retakeCovered by the published terms
Discount voucherNot listed in the published price
Practice questionsNo, those are a separate Certilum product (48 questions for this exam)
Training courseNo, sold separately by providers and training companies

The exam fee buys you one attempt at the Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate. Everything else on your path to certification, revision material included, sits outside this price, and that is where most of the budget of a certification actually goes.

Note from the vendor record: Issuer: Databricks, Inc. Status: active - not listed among deprecated exams (only Professional Data Scientist and Azure Databricks Associate Platform were deprecated on August 22, 2022). Current exam guide is the version covering "the currently live version as of Mar 1, 2025" (guide PDF dated 1-mar-2025); domain weights: Databricks Machine Learning 38%, ML Workflows 19%, Model Development 31%, Model Deployment 12%. Prerequisites: none required, 6+ months hands-on experience recommended. Delivery: online proctored or test center (Kryterion/WebAssessor), languages English, Japanese, Portuguese (BR), Korean; code is Python (SQL for non-ML data tasks). Validity: 2 years; recertification requires taking the full current live exam; retake wait 14 days, each attempt charged. Caveat: exams may include unidentified unscored items; question/time figures should be re-checked against the exam guide shortly before testing.

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