What you'll learn

Many teams adopt Databricks and start running workloads before truly understanding the platform underneath, which leads to confusion about how data is stored and governed. In this course, Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate: Databricks Intelligence Platform, you’ll gain the ability to reason about the platform's architecture and choose the right compute for any workload with confidence. First, you’ll explore the lakehouse architecture, including the control and compute planes, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog. Next, you’ll discover how Delta Lake delivers reliable, transactional storage through the transaction log, schema enforcement, and time travel. Finally, you’ll learn how to distinguish the Databricks compute types, decode the DBU cost model, and match the right compute to each workload. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the Databricks Intelligence Platform needed to make sound architecture and compute decisions on real data engineering projects.