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Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate
The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate exam validates a candidate ability to build, manage, and deploy machine learning workflows on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- 90 min
- 70% to pass
- 48 bank questions
- 4 domains
Exam syllabus, organized by domain
The official Databricks blueprint, with the real weight each domain carries on test day.
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Sample Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate exam question
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A machine learning team must join observation data with feature tables for model training. They need to guarantee that each training example only uses feature values that existed at the event timestamp. What is the correct way to build this training dataset?
Exam facts at a glance
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- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Passing score
- 70%
- Domains
- 4
- Questions in our bank
- 48
- Level
- ASSOCIATE
- Measured complexity
- 2.1 / 10
- Question mix
- 16 single · 16 multi · 16 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.
- Databricks Machine Learning18 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- ML Workflows9 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Model Deployment6 questions · complexity 2.5/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 17% scenario · 33% interactive
- Model Development15 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
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Frequently asked questions
What you need to know before attempting the Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate certification.