Build GenAI on Databricks. Pass GenAI Engineer Associate.
Revision notes built around the work Databricks GenAI engineers actually do — chunking and Vector Search, LangChain and Agent Framework, Model Serving, MLflow evaluation, guardrails and monitoring — plus practice that explains every option and timed mocks shaped like the real exam.
The Databricks GenAI exam at a glance
Official exam details from the Databricks exam guide — the numbers our mock exams mirror.
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Who should take the Databricks GenAI?
Databricks GenAI is an associate-level, role-based certification. There are no formal prerequisites, but Databricks recommends hands-on experience — the questions are scenarios, not definitions.
You already build on Databricks
You run real workloads and want the credential that matches the job you're already doing — and the salary conversations that come with it.
You're moving into a cloud role
The exam blueprint doubles as a job description. Studying it task statement by task statement is the fastest way to find and close your skill gaps.
You hold a foundational cert
The natural next step on the same platform: deeper services, scenario-based questions, and a credential employers screen for by name.
What’s on the Databricks GenAI exam
Every lesson, question, and mock is weighted to match these official domains.
Design Applications
Designing LLM applications: prompts that produce a required format, model tasks for a business need, chain components, multi-stage tool use and when to use Agent Bricks. Official weighting 14%.
Data Preparation
Preparing knowledge for RAG: choosing source documents, extracting and filtering content, chunking strategies, writing chunks to Delta tables in Unity Catalog, evaluating retrieval and re-ranking. Official weighting 14%.
Application Development
Building the application: frameworks such as LangChain, prompt augmentation and engineering, quality and safety assessment, guardrails, choosing LLMs and embedding models, and agentic systems with MLflow, Agent Framework and Genie. Official weighting 30%.
Assembling and Deploying Applications
Assembling and deploying: pyfunc chains, RAG application elements, registering to Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI Vector Search, Model Serving and Foundation Model APIs, ai_query() batch inference, memory stores, CI/CD, prompt lifecycle, MCP servers and user interfaces. Official weighting 22%.
Governance
Governance for GenAI: masking and guardrails against malicious input, licensing of data sources, and mitigating problematic text in source data. Official weighting 8%.
Evaluation and Monitoring
Evaluating and monitoring: quantitative model selection, agent evaluation with MLflow scoring, tracing and custom scorers, judges and ground truth, SME feedback, inference tables, Agent Monitoring, AI Gateway and cost control. Official weighting 12%.
How you’ll prepare for the Databricks GenAI
Three surfaces, one loop: read, drill, rehearse — repeat until your readiness score says book it.
Read the lessons
Work domain by domain through 15 plain-English revision lessons covering every task statement in the Databricks GenAI exam guide — key terms, "what's tested" callouts, and takeaways.
Drill every topic
Work through 599 exam-realistic questions in learn mode to study, or quiz mode to test yourself. Every option explains why it’s right or why it’s a trap, with one click back to the lesson.
Rehearse the exam
Sit 3 full-length timed mocks weighted to the official domains and scored on the real Databricks GenAI scale — so your mock result predicts your real one.
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