Preparing for the Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate

This article is for you if you are starting your journey towards this exam and are looking for some tips on how to prepare for it and ace it.

Let me start by sharing this official certification page where you can find all the details like the number of questions, format, duration, course, etc. that you will need to know for your preparation. Just for an overview: The exam is 90 minutes long with 45 MCQ quesions. I took the online version of it which was fairly easy to navigate and give the exam. You will need to install a software which will require admin rights so i would suggest to do it from your personal laptop. You will be able to go back and forth between questions and have an option to mark and review all questions at any point in the exam before you submit it. I can say that on an approximate basis, the question will be distributed as follows: 30% code(mlflow, feature store, delta tables), 50% on Databricks concepts(mlflow, feature store, repos, pandas, automl, etc.), 10% on Databricks UI and 10% of Delta tables

The main intention behind writing this blog is to share my personal experience in terms of what topics I feel are really important and you should definitely have a read before you take your attempt. These topics are mostly covered in the course videos but there are definitely some which need…