Databricks DE Professional — 04 · Data Ingestion & Acquisition
1,020 exam-style questions across all 10 sections of the July 2026 exam guide: Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, Auto Loader, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Jobs, monitoring, security, CI/CD with Declarative Automation Bundles, and data modeling.
Databricks DE Professional — 01 · Python Projects, Bundles, Libraries & UDFs
Section 1 part A: structuring Python projects for Declarative Automation Bundles, managing PyPI, wheel and source dependencies, and writing Python and pandas UDFs.
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Section 1 part B: streaming tables vs materialized views, Auto Loader ingestion, AUTO CDC (formerly APPLY CHANGES), expectations, and choosing between Structured Streaming and declarative pipelines.
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Section 1 part C: creating and automating jobs via UI, API and CLI, if/else and for-each control flow, retries and environment configs, and unit and integration testing with assertDataFrameEqual, assertSchemaEqual and DataFrame.transform.
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Section 2: ingesting Delta, Parquet, ORC, Avro, JSON, CSV, XML, text and binary from cloud storage and message buses, COPY INTO vs Auto Loader, Lakeflow Connect, and append-only batch and streaming pipelines.
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