Study Databricks DA-ASSOC Managing Data: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter is about trustworthy day-to-day analyst work once the data is inside Databricks. The exam wants you to know how to find governed data, clean it sensibly in SQL, and use metadata and lineage to keep analysis reliable.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 2.1 Cleaning & Quality | Learn how analysts discover, query, and clean trusted data without drifting away from governed workflow. |
| 2.2 Lineage & Discovery | Learn how metadata, tagging, and lineage help analysts find the right asset and validate what they are using. |
| If the question is really about… | Go first to… |
|---|---|
| cleaning missing values, invalid rows, or working with certified datasets | 2.1 Cleaning & Quality |
| tagging assets, validating trust, or checking dependencies through lineage | 2.2 Lineage & Discovery |