DatabricksAssociate
Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
Shows you can design and build LLM-powered solutions on Databricks, from preparing data to deploying and monitoring.
- Issuer
- Databricks
- Level
- Associate
- Exam format
- 45 scored multiple-choice questions · 90 minutes · no test aids
- Valid for
- 2 years
- Focus
- Building generative AI apps
- Who it is for
- Engineers who build generative AI solutions on Databricks.
- Before you start
- None required. Databricks recommends 6+ months of hands-on experience with the tasks in the exam guide.
What the exam covers
Listed as the issuer lists them, with weights where the issuer publishes them.
- Design applications (14%)
- Data preparation (14%)
- Application development (30%)
- Assembling and deploying apps (22%)
- Governance (8%)
- Evaluation and monitoring (12%)
Key terms to know
Words from this certification's topic areas, in plain English. Know these and the study material will be much easier to follow.
- Large language model (LLM)
- A foundation model that reads and writes text.
- Chunking
- Splitting documents into small pieces so they can be searched.
- Embedding
- A list of numbers that captures the meaning of text, so similar meanings end up close together.
- Vector database
- A database that finds items by how similar their meaning is.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Looking up relevant documents first, then giving them to the model to answer from.
- Prompt engineering
- Writing instructions so a model gives better answers.
- Evaluation (evals)
- Tests that measure how good a model or an AI app is.
- MLflow
- An open-source tool for tracking experiments and managing models.
- Unity Catalog
- Databricks' central place to govern data and AI assets.
- AI governance
- The policies, roles and records that control how AI is built and used in an organisation.
Build the knowledge here
Our lessons are not exam prep for this certification, but they cover the same ground.
Details last checked Oct 7, 2026 against the issuer's own pages. Exams, versions and rules change. Confirm on the official page before you book. We are not affiliated with Databricks.