Overview
This course serves as an appropriate entry point to learn Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks.
Below, we describe each of the four, four-hour modules included in this course.
Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of Spark Structured Streaming and Delta Lake, including computation models, configuration for streaming read, and maintaining data quality in a streaming environment.
Databricks Data Privacy
This content is intended for the learner persona of data engineers or for customers, partners, and employees who complete data engineering tasks with Databricks. It aims to provide them with the necessary knowledge and skills to execute these activities effectively on the Databricks platform.
Databricks Performance Optimization
In this course, you’ll learn how to optimize workloads and physical layout with Spark and Delta Lake and and analyze the Spark UI to assess performance and debug applications. We’ll cover topics like streaming, liquid clustering, data skipping, caching, photons, and more.
Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles
This course provides a comprehensive review of DevOps principles and their application to Databricks projects. It begins with an overview of core DevOps, DataOps, continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and testing, and explores how these principles can be applied to data engineering pipelines.
The course then focuses on continuous deployment within the CI/CD process, examining tools like the Databricks REST API, SDK, and CLI for project deployment. You will learn about Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) and how they fit into the CI/CD process. You’ll dive into their key components, folder structure, and how they streamline deployment across various target environments in Databricks. You will also learn how to add variables, modify, validate, deploy, and execute Databricks Asset Bundles for multiple environments with different configurations using the Databricks CLI.
Finally, the course introduces Visual Studio Code as an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for building, testing, and deploying Databricks Asset Bundles locally, optimizing your development process. The course concludes with an introduction to automating deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions to enhance the CI/CD workflow with Databricks Asset Bundles.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to automate Databricks project deployments with Databricks Asset Bundles, improving efficiency through DevOps practices.
Why Choose KORNERSTONE
- Accredited, practitioner-led, expert certificate trainers to provide high quality training
- Official training material included
- Practical, scenario-based learning – focus on application, not just theory
- Excellent Passing Rate
Skills Covered
- Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
- Databricks Data Privacy
- Databricks Performance Optimization
- Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles
Prerequisites
Participants should have a basic understanding of data concepts, SQL, and relational databases. Familiarity with Python or another programming language is recommended. Prior experience with data processing, analytics workflows, or cloud computing fundamentals will help learners gain maximum value from the DBK-ADE program.
Course Curriculum
Module 1: Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
- Streaming Data Concepts
- Introduction to Structured Streaming
- Demo: Reading from a Streaming Query
- Streaming from Delta Lake
- Streaming Query Lab
- Aggregation, Time Windows, Watermarks
- Event Time + Aggregations over Time Windows
- Trigger Types and Output Modes
- Stream Aggregation Lab
- Demo: Windowed Aggregation with Watermark
- Stream Joins (Optional)
- Demo: Stream Joins (Optional)
- Data Ingestion Pattern
- Demo: Auto Load to Bronze
- Demo: Stream from Multiplex Bronze
- Data Quality Enforcement
- Demo: Data Quality Enforcement
- Streaming ETL Lab
Module 2: Databricks Data Privacy
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data Privacy
- Key Concepts and Components
- Audit Your Data
- Data Isolation
- Demo: Securing Data in Unity Catalog
- Pseudonymization & Anonymization
- Summary & Best Practices
- Demo: PII Data Security
- Capturing Changed Data
- Deleting Data in Databricks
- Demo: Processing Records from CDF and Propagating Changes
- Lab: Propagating Changes with CDF Lab
Module 3: Databricks Performance Optimization
- DevOps Spark UI Introduction
- Introduction to Designing Foundation
- Demo: File Explosion
- Data Skipping and Liquid Clustering
- Lab: Data Skipping and Liquid Clustering
- Skew
- Shuffles
- Demo: Shuffle
- Spill
- Lab: Exploding Join
- Serialization
- Demo: User-Defined Functions
- Fine-Tuning: Choosing the Right Cluster
- Pick the Best Instance Types
Module 4: Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles
- DevOps Review
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CI/CD) Review
- Demo: Course Setup and Authentication
- Deploying Databricks Projects
- Introduction to Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)
- Demo: Deploying a Simple DAB
- Lab: Deploying a Simple DAB
- Variable Substitutions in DABs
- Demo: Deploying a DAB to Multiple Environments
- Lab: Deploy a DAB to Multiple Environments
- DAB Project Templates Overview
- Lab: Use a Databricks Default DAB Template
- CI/CD Project Overview with DABs
- Demo: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with DABs
- Lab: Adding ML to Engineering Workflows with DABs
- Developing Locally with Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
- Demo: Using VSCode with Databricks
- CI/CD Best Practices for Data Engineering
- Next Steps: Automated Deployment with GitHub Actions
Dates & Locations
October 6, 2026 - October 9, 2026
Exam & Certification
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.
The Databricks Certified Data Engineering Professional exam validates a candidate’s advanced skills in building, optimising, and maintaining production-grade data engineering solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Successful candidates demonstrate expertise across core platform features such as Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Auto Loader, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Databricks Compute (including serverless) Lakeflow Jobs and the Medallion Architecture.
This certification assesses the ability to design secure, reliable, and cost-effective ETL Pipelines, process complex data from diverse sources using Python and SQL, and apply best practices in schema management, observability, governance, and performance optimization.
Candidates are also tested on implementing streaming workloads, orchestrating workflows, leveraging DevOps & CI/CD, and deploying with tools like the Databricks CLI, REST API, and Asset Bundles. Individuals who pass this certification exam can be expected to complete advanced data engineering tasks using Databricks and its associated tools.
The exam covers:
- Developing Code for Data Processing using Python and SQL – 22%
- Data Ingestion & Acquisition – 7%
- Data Transformation, Cleansing, and Quality – 10%
- Data Sharing and Federation – 5%
- Monitoring and Alerting – 10%
- Cost & Performance Optimisation – 13%
- Ensuring Data Security and Compliance – 10%
- Data Governance – 7%
- Debugging and Deploying – 10%
- Data Modelling – 6%
