Databricks Data Engineer Professional (DE-PRO)

This section targets DE-PRO, the Databricks Data Engineer Professional exam. It focuses on production data engineering: incremental pipelines, structured streaming, quality controls, recoverability, tuning, and operational trade-offs. The strongest answers on this exam usually come from choosing the design that is observable, recoverable, and low-blast-radius instead of only fast on paper.

Use the cheat sheet for last-mile production patterns and performance heuristics. Use the FAQ for exam depth and study questions, and use the resources page when you need official Databricks references.

In this section

• DE-PRO Study Plan (30 / 60 / 90 Days)
  A practical DE-PRO study plan you can follow: 30-day intensive, 60-day balanced, and 90-day part-time schedules with weekly focus, suggested hours/week, and practice-first tips for production pipeline questions.
• DE-PRO Cheatsheet — DLT, Streaming, Performance & Reliability on Databricks
  Last-mile DE-PRO review: incremental pipelines, Structured Streaming (watermarks/checkpoints), Delta Live Tables concepts, performance tuning pickers (shuffle/skew/file layout), and production troubleshooting heuristics.
• DE-PRO FAQ — Databricks Data Engineer Professional Questions Answered
  Common DE-PRO questions answered: prerequisites, what to focus on (streaming, DLT, performance), how long to study, and how to practice effectively.