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DATABRICKSDatabricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional certification validates your ability to design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale machine learning solutions using advanced Databricks platform capabilities. It is for experienced ML engineers who build scalable pipelines, implement MLOps practices, and deploy production-ready models. Earning it demonstrates you can deliver comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment at scale.
Exam formatMultiple choice
Duration120 minutes
DeliveryDatabricks
Free questions230
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
3domains
11objectives
63concepts
$200exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional certification assesses your ability to design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale machine learning solutions using advanced Databricks platform capabilities. This includes building scalable ML pipelines with SparkML, implementing distributed training and hyperparameter tuning, leveraging advanced MLflow features, and utilizing Feature Store concepts for automated feature pipelines.
The exam also evaluates your expertise in MLOps practices, including testing strategies, environment management with Declarative Automation Bundles, automated retraining workflows, and monitoring using Lakehouse Monitoring for drift detection. You will be assessed on your ability to implement deployment strategies, custom model serving, and model rollout management.
Individuals who pass this certification can be expected to perform advanced machine learning engineering tasks at enterprise scale, implementing production-ready ML systems with comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment practices using the full feature set of Databricks.
Who it’s for
This certification is for machine learning engineers and data scientists who are responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models in production on the Databricks platform. It is designed for practitioners who need to manage enterprise-scale ML workloads and implement MLOps best practices. You should have hands-on experience with Databricks Machine Learning, including building pipelines, managing experiments, and deploying models. The exam assumes familiarity with advanced features like MLflow, Feature Store, and Lakehouse Monitoring.
Recommended experience
1+ years of hands-on experience performing the machine learning tasks outlined in the exam guide. Building scalable ML pipelines with SparkML; Implementing distributed training and hyperparameter tuning; Using advanced MLflow features for experiment tracking and model management; Applying Feature Store concepts for automated feature pipelines; Implementing MLOps practices including testing, monitoring, and deployment
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Databricks measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Databricks exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Model Development
- Using Spark ML
- Scaling and Tuning
- Advanced MLflow Usage
- Advanced Feature Store Concepts
ML Ops
- Model Lifecycle Management
- Validation Testing
- Environment Architectures
- Automated Retraining
- Drift Detection and Lakehouse Monitoring
Model Deployment
- Deployment Strategies
- Custom Model Serving
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Databricks publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationDatabricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
Exam formatMultiple choice
Duration120 minutes
Questions59 scored questions
DeliveryDatabricks
LanguagesEnglish
Pricing$200
Certification levelProfessional
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Databricks lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
Credential earnedDatabricks Certified Machine Learning Professional Professional level certification Renewal and maintenance
The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional certification is valid for two years. To recertify, you must take the current version of the exam. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Databricks maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Databricks
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Databricks, Databricks’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Databricks certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
How does the Machine Learning Professional exam relate to the Machine Learning Associate exam?
The Professional exam is a higher-level certification that builds on the Associate level. While the Associate exam covers basic ML tasks, the Professional exam focuses on advanced, enterprise-scale ML engineering and MLOps. There is no formal prerequisite, but the Associate certification is a recommended foundation.
Is there a hands-on or lab component in the exam?
No. The exam consists of multiple-choice questions only. There is no hands-on lab or performance-based component.
What is the retake policy if I fail the exam?
Databricks does not publish a specific retake policy for this exam. You should review the exam terms and conditions or contact Databricks support for details on waiting periods between attempts.
Can I recertify by passing a different Databricks exam?
No. To recertify, you must take the current version of the Machine Learning Professional exam. Passing a different exam does not renew this certification.
What job roles does this certification map to?
This certification is designed for machine learning engineers and data scientists who build, deploy, and maintain ML models in production on Databricks. It is also relevant for MLOps engineers and data science managers overseeing ML pipelines.
Are there any test aides allowed during the exam?
No. Test aides are not allowed. The exam is closed-book and you cannot use external resources.
How soon will I receive my exam results?
Databricks does not publish a specific timeline for score reports. You should check the exam delivery platform or contact Databricks support for information on when results are available.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 230 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Databricks measures — each one written out.
3domains
11objectives
63concepts
50free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Databricks exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Model Development77 questions
2ML Ops121 questions
3Model Deployment32 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Using Spark ML5 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
22 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
230 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
230questions
50pages
11objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Model Development77 questions
2ML Ops121 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
63concepts
230free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Databricks
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
63concepts mapped
The source
Databricks’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Databricks outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 11 objectives, 63 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Databricks changes the outline, this page changes with it.
11objectives on the outline→63concepts written→230free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.