DATABRICKS LAKEHOUSE FUNDAMENTALS
TEST 2026 UPDATED CERTIFICATION STUDY
PACK
◉ What are Workspaces? Answer: A workspace is an environment
for accessing all of your Databricks assets.
◉ What does a Workspace organize? Answer: objects (notebooks,
libraries, dashboards, and experiments) into folders and provides
access to data objects and computational resources.
◉ What is Unity Catalog Answer: A unified governance solution for
all data and AI assets including files, tables, and machine learning
models in your lakehouse on any cloud.
It offers improved Lakehouse data object governance and
organization capabilities for data segregation.
◉ NEED TO DIG DEEPER TO UNDERSTAND
Describe how a specific capability of the Databricks Lakehouse
Platform supports a data streaming pattern
,Which of the following correctly describes how a specific capability
of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform supports a data streaming
pattern? Select three responses.
☐ Structured Streaming enables stream-based machine learning
inference.
☐ Databricks Workflows automatically passes data from task to task
in regular microbatches.
☐ MLflow ingests its automatic experiment tracking data into a
stream for continuous monitoring. Answer: - Delta Live Tables
processes ETL pipelines on streaming data with advanced
monitoring mechanisms.
- Auto Loader continuously and incrementally ingests streaming
data.
◉ List these relational entities in order from largest (most coarse) to
smallest (most granular) within their hierarchy:
- Schema (Database)
- Metastore
- Catalog
- Table Answer: Metastore → Catalog → Schema (Database) → Table
, ◉ What is a schema (general) Answer: the specification of the
records in the database e.g. the schema can say a record will consist
of:
PersonID (unique index number),
FamilyName (40 chars),
FirstName (40 chars),
DateOfBirth (Date)
◉ What is a database Answer: consisting of one or more Tables or
records, actual data following a Schema of sort, plus other things
(stored queries, etc.).
◉ What does volumes provide governance for? Answer: Non-tabular
data.
◉ What is metadata Answer: Data about data
◉ What is a metastore Answer: the top-level container for metadata.
◉ What are models (databricks) Answer: Although they are not,
strictly speaking, data assets, they can also be managed in Unity
Catalog and reside at the lowest level in the object hierarchy.
TEST 2026 UPDATED CERTIFICATION STUDY
PACK
◉ What are Workspaces? Answer: A workspace is an environment
for accessing all of your Databricks assets.
◉ What does a Workspace organize? Answer: objects (notebooks,
libraries, dashboards, and experiments) into folders and provides
access to data objects and computational resources.
◉ What is Unity Catalog Answer: A unified governance solution for
all data and AI assets including files, tables, and machine learning
models in your lakehouse on any cloud.
It offers improved Lakehouse data object governance and
organization capabilities for data segregation.
◉ NEED TO DIG DEEPER TO UNDERSTAND
Describe how a specific capability of the Databricks Lakehouse
Platform supports a data streaming pattern
,Which of the following correctly describes how a specific capability
of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform supports a data streaming
pattern? Select three responses.
☐ Structured Streaming enables stream-based machine learning
inference.
☐ Databricks Workflows automatically passes data from task to task
in regular microbatches.
☐ MLflow ingests its automatic experiment tracking data into a
stream for continuous monitoring. Answer: - Delta Live Tables
processes ETL pipelines on streaming data with advanced
monitoring mechanisms.
- Auto Loader continuously and incrementally ingests streaming
data.
◉ List these relational entities in order from largest (most coarse) to
smallest (most granular) within their hierarchy:
- Schema (Database)
- Metastore
- Catalog
- Table Answer: Metastore → Catalog → Schema (Database) → Table
, ◉ What is a schema (general) Answer: the specification of the
records in the database e.g. the schema can say a record will consist
of:
PersonID (unique index number),
FamilyName (40 chars),
FirstName (40 chars),
DateOfBirth (Date)
◉ What is a database Answer: consisting of one or more Tables or
records, actual data following a Schema of sort, plus other things
(stored queries, etc.).
◉ What does volumes provide governance for? Answer: Non-tabular
data.
◉ What is metadata Answer: Data about data
◉ What is a metastore Answer: the top-level container for metadata.
◉ What are models (databricks) Answer: Although they are not,
strictly speaking, data assets, they can also be managed in Unity
Catalog and reside at the lowest level in the object hierarchy.
