Certifications
The Databricks certification exams, grouped by role, with the path that prepares for each. Exams are paid and run by Databricks.
01 / Databricks exams
Each exam links to its official Databricks page. The exam is paid and proctored by Databricks.
Pipelines, Unity Catalog, jobs and production practice.
Entry-level data engineering credential for pipelines, Unity Catalog and jobs.
Open exam page : Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. Opens the provider site in a new tab
Prepared by Databricks data engineering
The advanced credential for production pipelines, streaming, security and performance.
Prepared by Databricks data engineering, Governance with Unity Catalog
Feature engineering, training, MLflow and MLOps.
Entry credential for feature engineering, model training and MLflow.
Prepared by ML engineering and MLOps
The advanced MLOps credential: deployment, monitoring and MLflow at scale.
Prepared by ML engineering and MLOps
RAG, agent applications, context engineering and governance.
The credential for RAG and agent applications on Databricks, from design to evaluation.
Prepared by LLM apps and RAG
The newest AI credential, on context engineering and governance for agent systems.
Prepared by AI agents, MCP and evaluation
Databricks SQL, dashboards, DataFrames and Spark SQL.
Analyst credential for Databricks SQL and dashboards.
Open exam page : Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate. Opens the provider site in a new tab
Prepared by Open the exam page for the official guide.
The Spark foundation behind most pipeline work: DataFrames and Spark SQL.
Prepared by Open the exam page for the official guide.
02 / Course certificates
The Hugging Face courses below state that a certificate is available. The certificate comes from Hugging Face, and it shows that you completed the course.
A free agent course with smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph, and a certificate on completion.
Open course : AI Agents Course. Opens the provider site in a new tabLast verified 2026.11.11
Learn the Model Context Protocol from architecture to a deployed MCP app, with certificates.
Open course : Model Context Protocol (MCP) Course. Opens the provider site in a new tabLast verified 2026.11.11
A practical course on tuning and aligning small language models yourself, with certificates.
Open course : smol course (fine-tuning language models). Opens the provider site in a new tabLast verified 2026.11.11
Course details come from each provider. Check the provider page for the latest. Last verified 2026.11.11.
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