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Databricks · Generative AI Engineer Associate
Not every question here has one answer.
The exam guide describes the form as multiple-choice or multiple-selection items, so some questions ask you to select every correct option and a near miss scores the same as a blank. 45 questions in 90 minutes across six domains, rewritten on 18 March 2026, against a pass mark Databricks doesn't publish.
- Written to the guide version live since 18 March 2026, not the April 2025 outline it replaced
- Select-all items practised as select-all, because partial knowledge scores nothing on them
- Weighted to the official split — 30% application development, 22% deployment, 8% governance
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Generative AI Engineer AssociateData PreparationMedium
A RAG application answers questions about contracts. Users complain that answers cite the right clause but miss the definition the clause depends on, which appears in a definitions section earlier in the document. What is the most direct fix?
Select one.
One choice only. Your earliest pick was dropped.
Where this question sits in the exam
Data Preparation is 14% of the Generative AI Engineer Associate exam. Our mocks use the same mix.
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An original item written against the Databricks exam guide, last checked 18 September 2026. Not a real exam question.
How it's scored
The pass mark isn't just unpublished. It moves.
Databricks sets passing scores statistically and revises them as questions change. That's their stated reason for not printing one — so the figure you've seen quoted didn't come from them.
A readiness read still needs a line, so we use 80% weighted accuracy. It's ours, not theirs, and it's drawn that way: dashed where a published pass mark would be solid.
We set it high on purpose. Being too strict costs you a week of practice. Being too lenient costs you USD 200.
Generative AI Engineer Associate45 questions · 90 min
Accuracy by domain, weighted as the exam weights them · assumed 80% — ours, not Databricks'
Design14%78%
Data14%72%
Application Development30%61%
Deploy22%68%
Governance8%Furthest behind54%
Evaluation12%70%
Governance is your lowest score. Application Development is the bigger drag — a smaller gap, but on 30% of the form instead of 8%.
Recertifying here means the full current exam
The credential lasts two years. Databricks publishes a shorter renewal exam for the Data Engineer Associate only. Recertifying here means sitting whatever version of the full exam is live then.
On a platform shipping this fast the guide will have moved. Features that did not exist when you certified are on the form, and topics you revised for may be gone.
Question types
Two formats, and one of them punishes partial knowledge
Multiple choice
One correct answer among four. The bulk of the form.
Multiple selection
Select every correct option. The exam guide describes the items as multiple-choice or multiple-selection, and on a select-all item the option you're unsure about decides the whole mark — three right and one missed scores the same as guessing.
Several designs that all ship
Governance and architecture stems offer options that would all run. What separates them is usually whether the control stops data reaching the model or merely asks the model not to use it.
The loop
Practice, sit, review, repeat
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Practice · untimed
MediumA RAG application answers questions about contracts. Users complain that answers cite the right clause but miss the definition the clause depends on, which appears in a definitions section earlier in the document.
What is the most direct fix?
Increase the number of chunks retrieved per query
Chunk with the definitions section prepended to each clause chunk, so the retrieved chunk carries its own context
Switch to an embedding model with a larger context window
Lower the similarity threshold so more chunks qualify
The clause chunk retrieves correctly; it just does not contain what it needs to be understood. Carrying the relevant context into the chunk at indexing time fixes the cause rather than hoping the definition happens to rank. Domain: Data Preparation.
Click a step to see it.
What you get back
No official line. So we show you ours.
Your readiness is a range, because it's an inference from the questions you've answered rather than a result you've earned. For a certification the outcome is binary, so the question is whether the whole range sits above the line.
The difference here is whose line it is. AWS publishes 720 and we measure you against their number. Databricks publishes nothing, so we measure you against ours — 80% weighted accuracy, set high on purpose, drawn dashed and labelled everywhere it appears.
Governance is 8% — about four questions. Application Development is 30%, near fourteen. The same accuracy gap in those two is not the same problem.
When the range stops narrowing and stops rising, more drilling isn't buying you anything, and that's worth knowing before you book.
If the real pass mark is below ours, the worst case is that you sat more practice than you needed. We'd rather make that mistake than the other one.
Generative AI Engineer Associate · 4 mocks completed
Where you stand
Borderline
70–90
assumed 80% — ours, not Databricks'
Your range crosses our assumed line. On today's evidence it's a coin flip, and we'll say so.
Three states
Try the three states. We won't show you a percentage chance of passing — nobody can calculate one honestly without years of real outcomes to calibrate against.
What we don't do
We won't show you a percentage chance of passing. Nobody can calculate one honestly without years of real outcomes behind it.
What it actually tests
Building and shipping the app is more than half the exam
Application Development at 30% and Assembling and Deploying at 22% are 52% between them. Design, data preparation, evaluation and governance share the rest. If you have built a RAG application end to end, most of this form is familiar; if you have only designed one, half of it isn't.
| Domain | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Design Applications | 14% · about 6 questions | Decomposing a requirement into tasks, and choosing models, tools and approaches from the current landscape before any code exists. |
| Data Preparation | 14% · about 6 questions | Getting documents ready to retrieve against: chunking strategy, embedding choice, and what to put in a Vector Search index. |
| Application Development | 30% · about 14 questions | The biggest domain. Building RAG applications and LLM chains — retrieval, prompting, tool use and the logic between the model and the data. |
| Assembling and Deploying Apps | 22% · about 10 questions | Second-biggest. Packaging a chain, registering it with MLflow and putting it behind Model Serving. |
| Governance | 8% · about 4 questions | The smallest domain — around four questions. Unity Catalog over the data a model can reach, and guardrails on what it returns. |
| Evaluation and Monitoring | 12% · about 5 questions | Measuring whether a generative application is any good, and noticing when it stops being good in production. |
Domain weights are published on the Databricks certification page. The exam guide covers the same six sections. Last checked 18 September 2026.
Application Development at 30% and Assembling and Deploying at 22% are 52% of the form. Governance is about four questions.
Exam facts
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- Credential
- Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
- Level
- Associate
- Current version
- Live since 18 March 2026
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Scored questions
- 45
- Unscored questions
- Present, count not published
- Question types
- Multiple choice, multiple selection
- Pass mark
- Not published
- Domains
- 6
- Fee
- USD 200 + local tax
- Delivery
- Online or test centre, proctored
- Test aids
- None
- Languages
- English, 日本語, Português BR, 한국어
- Prerequisite
- None
- Recommended experience
- Six months hands-on with generative AI on Databricks
- Validity
- 2 years
- Retake wait
- 14 days between attempts, unlimited attempts, full fee each
- Recertification
- Full current exam — no renewal exam for this credential
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