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Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark

Exam questions
Total questions: 45–55; Scored questions: 45; Unscored questions: 0–10; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Examination outline
  • Apache Spark Architecture and Components (20%)
    • Advantages and challenges of implementing Spark
    • Core Spark architecture components
    • Spark architecture, DataFrames, Datasets, sessions, caching, and memory
    • Spark execution hierarchy
    • Distributed partitioning and shuffles
    • Actions, transformations, and lazy evaluation
    • Apache Spark modules
  • Using Spark SQL (20%)
    • Read and write DataFrames with common sources
    • SQL queries on files and save modes
    • Persistent tables, sorting, and partitioning
    • Temporary views and SQL queries
  • Developing Apache Spark DataFrame/DataSet API Applications (30%)
    • Column, row, and table manipulation
    • DataFrame deduplication and validation
    • DataFrame aggregate operations
    • Date data type operations
    • DataFrame joins and unions
    • DataFrame input, output, and schemas
    • Sorting, schema inspection, and format conversion
    • User-defined functions and stateful operators
    • Broadcast variables and accumulators
    • Broadcast joins
  • Troubleshooting and Tuning Apache Spark DataFrame API Applications (10%)
    • Performance tuning and cluster utilization
    • Adaptive Query Execution
    • Spark application logging and monitoring
  • Structured Streaming (10%)
    • Structured Streaming engine and semantics
    • Streaming DataFrames, Datasets, outputs, and sinks
    • Streaming selection, projection, windows, and aggregation
    • Streaming deduplication and watermarks
  • Using Spark Connect to Deploy Applications (5%)
    • Spark Connect features
    • Client, Cluster, and Local deployment modes
  • Using Pandas API on Spark (5%)
    • Advantages of Pandas API on Spark
    • Pandas UDF creation and invocation
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