Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional Exam Practice Test

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2 hours Time Limit
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Exam overview and details

Preparation for Databricks ML Professional covering MLflow experiment tracking, feature engineering, model deployment, AutoML, distributed training, and ML production workflows. Administered by Databricks as a linear format exam. Key domains include Experimentation, Model Lifecycle Management, Model Deployment and Solution and Data Monitoring. The exam consists of 60 questions over 120 minutes.

Sample Questions

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Model Deployment

A Subscription Gaming Studio is moving a propensity scoring workflow to Databricks Machine Learning. The workload has a baseline validation set approved by risk and compliance, and the team must keep the implementation maintainable for a regulated production release. Which rollout strategy best limits financial risk for a high-traffic model serving endpoint?

MLOps

A Subscription Gaming Studio is moving a churn prediction workflow to Databricks Machine Learning. The workload has a baseline validation set approved by risk and compliance, and the team must keep the implementation maintainable for a regulated production release. Which unit-testing approach is most maintainable for Databricks notebook code?

MLOps

A Logistics Broker is moving a route-delay prediction workflow to Databricks Machine Learning. The workload has daily retraining with late-arriving labels, and the team must keep the implementation maintainable for a regulated production release. Which drift comparison should the engineer configure when compliance approved a fixed validation baseline?

MLOps

A Travel Marketplace is moving a claim severity estimation workflow to Databricks Machine Learning. The workload has daily retraining with late-arriving labels, and the team must keep the implementation maintainable for a regulated production release. Which environment transition pattern best fits the deploy-code strategy?

MLOps

A Wealth Advisory Platform is moving a fraud scoring workflow to Databricks Machine Learning. The workload has daily retraining with late-arriving labels, and the team must keep the implementation maintainable for a regulated production release. Which Databricks Asset Bundle design best supports repeatable ML promotion across dev, staging, and production?

Career Opportunities & Salary

Median salary: $120,230– Data Scientists

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 -- Data Scientists (SOC 15-2051), US national. Occupation median, not a certification salary. (2025)

Data Scientists

Exam insights and study advice

In the real world, the gap between experimental models and reliable, scalable production systems is where most ML projects fail. This certification matters because it directly addresses that gap, proving you can navigate the full lifecycle-not just model building. It validates the practical skills needed to deliver tangible business value: deploying models that integrate seamlessly with data pipelines, ensuring reproducibility, managing model versions, and monitoring performance drift. For organizations, it signifies a professional capable of reducing time-to-value and increasing the robustness of ML investments.

These are the backgrounds the certifying body suggests. Check the vendor's own page for anything it formally requires.

What this exam covers

Use the published domain weights to plan your study. Practice results do not predict your certification exam score.

01Experimentation

30%

02Model Lifecycle Management

30%

03Model Deployment

25%

04Solution and Data Monitoring

15%

Exam Details ML Professional | $400 USD | 2 hours

Exam Code ML Professional
Vendor Databricks
Exam Cost $400 USD
Passing Score 70
Time Limit 2 hours
Exam questions 60
Question TypesMultiple Choice, Multiple Select
Retake Policy 14-day waiting period after failed attempt. Full exam fee required for retake.
Exam Format Linear
Online Proctoring Available
Available In
English

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