DE-ASSOC Resources — Official Databricks, Spark & Delta Lake Docs

Below are official resources for DE‑ASSOC. Use Databricks certification pages for exam logistics and Databricks/Spark/Delta docs as the canonical technical references.

Exam & certification (official)

• Databricks Certification
  https://www.databricks.com/learn/training/certification
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
  https://www.databricks.com/learn/certification/data-engineer-associate

Databricks documentation (canonical platform reference)

• Databricks documentation
  https://docs.databricks.com/
• Delta Lake on Databricks (concepts + operations)
  https://docs.databricks.com/en/delta/index.html

Apache Spark documentation (core behavior reference)

• Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide
  https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Delta Lake documentation (open source)

• Delta Lake docs
  https://docs.delta.io/latest/index.html

Practical “next” links from this hub

• Objectives by topic: Syllabus →
• High-yield Spark + Delta rules: Cheatsheet →
• Drills and mixed sets: Practice →