DatabricksCertified Data Engineer Associate
Domain 5Objective 2
Understand Environment-Specific Configuration Using Automation Bundle (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles) Variables and Overrides While Promoting the Same Codebase Across Dev, Test, and Prod Targets. DATA-ENGINEER-ASSOCIATE Practice Questions (Page 3)
Part of the Implementing CI/CD domain, which accounts for 10% of the DATA-ENGINEER-ASSOCIATE exam. Databricks does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~4–6 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 23 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 11–15
- 11
If a variable is defined with a default value in the variables section and also overridden in the target configuration, which value is used when deploying to that target?
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A team has a Databricks Asset Bundle with a variable `max_workers` defined as follows: the variable has a default of 4; the `dev` target overrides it to 2; the `test` target overrides it to 8; and the `prod` target has no override. During a CI/CD run, the deployment command for the `test` target is executed as: `databricks bundle deploy --target test --var max_workers=6`. What is the final value of `max_workers` used for the `test` deployment?
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How do you reference a variable that has been defined in a Databricks Asset Bundle configuration?
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A team has a Databricks Asset Bundle with a variable `max_retries` defined as follows: the default is 3; the `dev` target overrides it to 1; the `test` target overrides it to 5; the `prod` target has no override. A developer runs `databricks bundle deploy --target test --var max_retries=2`. What is the final value of `max_retries` for the test deployment?
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In a Databricks Asset Bundle, which of the following has the highest precedence when resolving a variable's value?
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