11 lessons focused on what really gets you certified AND keeps you running in production: advanced Delta internals, medallion, SCD/CDC/CDF, streaming, security with Unity Catalog, cost & observability, and CI/CD with Asset Bundles. Final mocks v1/v2/v3 to nail the exam.
Same areas the exam tests, taught with the production lens: when things break, how to size them, who can see what, how to deploy.
ACID internals, optimization, file layout, OPTIMIZE/VACUUM, Z-order, predictive optimization.
Auto Loader, Structured Streaming, CDF, idempotency, late data, watermarking.
Type 0/1/2 with MERGE, change data feed, slow-changing dimensions in real workloads.
Unity Catalog deep, dynamic views, masking, lineage, Delta Sharing, Federation.
Monitoring, alerts, query profiling, billing breakdown, cost-per-job analysis.
Automation Bundles end-to-end, multi-target deploys, testing strategies, GitOps.
Each lesson maps to a specific exam domain and to a production concern. No fluff.
Exam blueprint, prerequisites, learning path, what production-grade means.
What you must know coming from Associate. Compute deep, serverless trade-offs, runtime choices.
Transaction log internals, OPTIMIZE/VACUUM, Z-order, deletion vectors, predictive optimization.
Designing Bronze for replayability, ingestion patterns, metadata enrichment, schema discovery.
Tighten Silver, model Gold for consumption, complex window functions, pivot/unpivot strategies.
SCD Type 0/1/2 with MERGE, change data feed, building incremental pipelines that survive late data.
Structured Streaming, watermarking, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, stateful operations.
UC deep, dynamic views, row/column masking, lineage, Delta Sharing, Lakehouse Federation.
Job monitoring, alert rules, query profiling, billing breakdown, cost-per-job analysis.
Declarative Automation Bundles, multi-target deploys, unit/integration tests, GitOps patterns.
Final review by domain, exam strategy, three full mock exams (v1/v2/v3) with annotated answers.
Professional is part of our 6-course family in the Gold Plan — alongside Associate, PySpark Free, GenAI, SDP and DP-750.
After. Professional assumes you know what's in Associate. If you haven't certified yet, start with our Associate course first.
Half of it is. The other half is the production lens — what good Delta layout looks like, how to debug a job that's leaking budget, how to set up CI/CD that doesn't break. The exam questions reflect that, but the value is what you use Monday morning.
Most students with Associate already certified take 2-3 months at 6-10h/week. Coming straight from scratch is closer to 5-6 months.
The PT version has individual checkout in BRL. For EN, the current path is via the Gold Plan ($149/yr). Individual EN checkout coming soon — message us on WhatsApp if you want to be notified.
Delta Live Tables was renamed Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP). It's covered in our SDP mini-course, also inside the Gold Plan.