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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

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The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional (DE Pro) exam validates advanced skills in designing, building, and optimizing production-grade data pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform

120 min
70% to pass
59 bank questions
10 domains
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Exam facts at a glance

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Time limit
120 minutes
Passing score
70%
Domains
10
Questions in our bank
59
Level
PROFESSIONAL
Measured complexity
2.3 / 10
Question mix
22 single · 19 multi · 18 interactive

Where the hard questions actually are

We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.

Exam complexity score2.3/10Gentle · measured across 59 bank questions
  • Cost & Performance Optimisation8 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Data Governance4 questions · complexity 1.5/10 · Gentle

    25% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Data Ingestion & Acquisition4 questions · complexity 2.7/10 · Gentle

    25% multi-select · 25% scenario · 25% interactive

  • Data Modelling3 questions · complexity 3.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 33% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Data Sharing and Federation3 questions · complexity 3.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 33% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Data Transformation, Cleansing, and Quality6 questions · complexity 2.7/10 · Gentle

    50% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Debugging and Deploying6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Developing Code for Data Processing using Python and13 questions · complexity 1.9/10 · Gentle

    31% multi-select · 0% scenario · 31% interactive

  • Ensuring Data Security and Compliance6 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle

    33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

  • Monitoring and Alerting6 questions · complexity 2.7/10 · Gentle

    50% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive

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