Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark — Free Practice Exams

Free full-length mock exams for the Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark. 614 practice questions with explanations, covering DataFrames, Spark SQL, the Spark architecture and performance tuning. No sign-up required to start.

What the exam covers

60 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes, pass mark 70%. Most questions ask you to read PySpark code and say what it does, rather than recall definitions.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the Databricks Spark certification exam free to practise for?

Yes. Every mock exam and practice question on PySpark.in is free, with no sign-up required to start. You only need an account to save your score history.

What does the Databricks Certified Associate Developer exam cover?

The exam covers the Spark architecture and execution model, the DataFrame API (selecting, filtering, joining, aggregating and writing data), Spark SQL, and basic performance concepts such as partitioning, caching and shuffles. Most questions are code-reading rather than recall.

How many questions are on the real exam and how long is it?

The Associate Developer exam is 60 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes, and the pass mark is 70%. The mock exams here are the same length so the pacing matches.

Do I need to know Scala, or is Python enough?

Python is enough. The exam is offered in both Python and Scala, and everything on this site is PySpark, so you can prepare entirely in Python.

How should I prepare?

Take a full mock exam first to find the gaps, then practise the weak areas with the free coding challenges, which run real Spark in the browser. Repeat the mock closer to the exam date to check pacing.

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