What does it cost?
The DP-750 exam costs $165.
Exam fee
$165
Microsoft prices the exam by the country or region where it is proctored; $165 is the price in the United States.
Source: Microsoft exam page
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DP-750 Exam facts
Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate
- Minutes
- 120
- Exam fee
- $165
- Passing score
- 700
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Short answer
Exam DP-750: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Azure Databricks is the exam for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification, for data engineers who build lakehouse pipelines. The exam runs 120 minutes, costs $165 and takes 700 of 1,000 to pass.
Sources: exam page, exam guide
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Edition 1.0, October 2026
How many questions and how long?
The DP-750 exam runs 120 minutes. Microsoft has not published the number of questions.
Source: Microsoft exam page
The exam
- Questions
- Not published
- Time
- 120 minutes
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
What score do you need to pass?
The DP-750 passing score is 700, on a scale of 1-1,000.
1-699
700+ PASS
Source: Microsoft exam guide
What does the exam cover?
The DP-750 exam covers four domains, weighted 15-20% / 15-20% / 30-35% / 30-35%.
Source: Microsoft exam guide
D115-20%
Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment
D215-20%
Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects
D330-35%
Prepare and process data
D430-35%
Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads
Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment
- 1.1Select and configure compute in a workspace
- 1.2Create and organize objects in Unity Catalog
Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects
- 2.1Secure Unity Catalog objects
- 2.2Govern Unity Catalog objects
Prepare and process data
- 3.1Design and implement data modeling
- 3.2Ingest data
- 3.3Cleanse, transform and load data
- 3.4Implement and manage data quality constraints
Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads
- 4.1Design and implement data pipelines
- 4.2Implement Lakeflow Jobs
- 4.3Implement development lifecycle processes
- 4.4Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize workloads
Inside the study bundle
Study guide chapters
Eleven chapters. Chapters 2 to 8 cover the four exam domains, weighted like the exam.
- 01 What the exam is p. 3
- 02 The platform: workspaces, compute planes and Unity Catalog p. 7
- 03 Set up compute and Unity Catalog objects p. 12
- 04 Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects p. 19
- 05 Data modeling and ingestion p. 27
- 06 Cleanse, transform, load and enforce quality p. 36
- 07 Pipelines, Lakeflow Jobs and the development lifecycle p. 41
- 08 Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize p. 49
- 09 Final review p. 54
- 10 Sources p. 61
- 11 Edition and updates p. 63
Look inside the study guide
Three pages of the Edition 1.0 study guide: the contents and the first two pages of a chapter.
What is free here, and what is in the bundle?
The exam facts and 5 sample questions are free on this site. The study guide chapters and the two practice exams are in the bundle.
| Item | Free on this site | In the bundle |
|---|---|---|
| Exam facts and change log | Yes, with links to the Microsoft sources | Chapter 1 of the study guide sums up the exam's format and scoring. |
| 5 sample questions | Yes | No. None of the 5 appear in the practice exams. |
| Domain chapters and final review | No | Yes, in the study guide |
| Two practice exams with answer keys | No | Yes, 120 questions with an explanation for every answer |
Questions before you buy
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No, the DP-750 bundle contains no exam questions, and every practice question is original.
How is the DP-750 bundle different from Microsoft's free materials?
Microsoft's free pages set out what the DP-750 exam covers. The DP-750 bundle adds a 63-page study guide that covers every exam domain, and two practice exams with 120 original questions, every answer explained. When Microsoft revises the exam, a new edition follows if the changes warrant it, included while your access lasts.
How do I get updates?
Updates to the DP-750 bundle arrive as new editions. Every bundle includes 6 months of access: download the PDFs, and any new editions, until 6 months after your purchase date. Download each new edition at overqual.com/download with the license key from your receipt email. The change log on the exam facts page says what changed.
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Does DP-750 replace DP-203?
DP-750 is a new exam for a new certification, Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate, and Microsoft's pages do not describe it as a replacement for any other exam. The Azure Data Engineer Associate certification, earned with Exam DP-203, retired on Mar 31, 2025, along with its renewal assessment (DP-203 certification page). DP-203 asked for proficiency with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Databricks; DP-750 centers on Azure Databricks, with Unity Catalog, Lakeflow pipelines and jobs, Declarative Automation Bundles, and the Azure services a Databricks engineer connects to: Microsoft Entra, Azure Key Vault, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory and Azure Monitor (Microsoft's DP-750 study guide).
How long is DP-750, and does it include labs or case studies?
DP-750 gives you 120 minutes, is proctored, and Microsoft says you may have interactive components to complete (certification page). Microsoft does not publish the question count or which exams contain labs; the exam's introduction screen gives the number of questions, case studies and labs, and each lab has 7-15 tasks (Microsoft exam FAQ). Most Microsoft Certification exams have 40-60 questions, and 120 minutes is the exam time Microsoft lists for associate and expert role-based exams that may contain labs. Microsoft Learn can be opened in a split screen during associate and expert exams, except Q&A, practice assessments and your profile, and no extra time is added (Exam duration and exam experience).
Is DP-750 still in beta?
DP-750 is no longer labeled beta: its certification page shows no beta label and lists ten exam languages, a 120-minute duration and a Last Updated date of Oct 19, 2026 (certification page). Microsoft announced the certification and the exam, in beta, on Mar 10, 2026, and said general availability was planned for early May 2026 (Microsoft announcement). Microsoft's pages do not give the date the exam went live.
Ready for DP-750?
Three PDFs, 110 pages: the study guide and two practice exams.
Which Azure Databricks and Azure pieces does DP-750 cover?
The DP-750 skills outline names these platform pieces. Databricks has renamed several of them: where the outline uses an older name, the current name follows in parentheses, and where it already uses the current name, the former name follows.
Source: Microsoft's DP-750 study guide
Compute and workspace
- Job compute and serverless compute
- SQL warehouses
- Classic compute and shared compute (standard access mode)
- Photon acceleration and the Databricks Runtime version
- Instance pools, autoscaling and termination settings
- Libraries and compute permissions
Unity Catalog
- Catalogs, schemas, volumes, tables, views and materialized views
- Foreign catalogs through connections
- Managed and external tables and DDL
- Privileges for users, service principals and groups
- Row filters, column masks and attribute-based access control (ABAC) with tags and policies
- Lineage in Catalog Explorer, audit logging and retention policies
- Delta Sharing (OpenSharing)
- AI/BI Genie instructions (Genie Agents)
Ingestion, pipelines and jobs
- Lakeflow Connect
- Auto Loader, COPY INTO, CREATE TABLE AS, CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE and change data capture (CDC) feeds
- Spark Structured Streaming and Azure Event Hubs streams
- Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow; formerly Delta Live Tables), with expectations
- Lakeflow Jobs (formerly Databricks Jobs), with triggers, schedules, alerts and automatic restarts
- Declarative Automation Bundles (formerly Databricks Asset Bundles), deployed with the Databricks CLI or REST APIs
- Delta Lake tables with OPTIMIZE, VACUUM, liquid clustering and Z-ordering; Parquet, CSV, JSON and Iceberg
- Spark UI, DAGs and query profiles for caching, skew, spill and shuffle problems
Azure services and Git
- Microsoft Entra, service principals and managed identities
- Azure Key Vault secrets
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Git for version control, branching and pull requests
How is it delivered?
The DP-750 exam is proctored, scheduled through Pearson VUE.
- Delivery
- Proctored, scheduled through Pearson VUE
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
- Prerequisites
- None listed.
- Validity
- 1 year
- Retakes
- 24 hours after a first failed attempt; 14 days between later attempts; at most 5 attempts in 12 months
- Test aids
- Microsoft Learn can be opened in a split screen during associate and expert exams: everything on learn.microsoft.com except Q&A, Practice Assessments and your profile. No extra time is added and the clock keeps running.
Source: Microsoft exam page
What are the key dates?
Microsoft has published no dates for DP-750 yet.
Source: Microsoft exam page
Fact sheet
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- Time
- 120 minutes Source: Microsoft exam page
- Fee
- $165 Source: Microsoft exam page
- Passing score
- 700 Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Score range
- 1-1,000 Source: Microsoft page
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish Source: Microsoft exam page
- Delivery
- Proctored, scheduled through Pearson VUE Source: Microsoft exam page
- Validity
- 1 year Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Prerequisites
- None listed. Source: Microsoft exam page
- Retakes
- 24 hours after a first failed attempt; 14 days between later attempts; at most 5 attempts in 12 months Source: Microsoft page
- Test aids
- Microsoft Learn can be opened in a split screen during associate and expert exams: everything on learn.microsoft.com except Q&A, Practice Assessments and your profile. No extra time is added and the clock keeps running. Source: Microsoft page
- Domain weights
- D1 15-20% / D2 15-20% / D3 30-35% / D4 30-35% Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Status
- Available Source: Microsoft exam page
- Certification earned
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate; level Intermediate; role Data Engineer; product Azure Databricks; required exam DP-750 only Source: Microsoft exam page
- Skill groups
- 4: Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment 15-20%; Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects 15-20%; Prepare and process data 30-35%; Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads 30-35% Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Skills measured as of
- Oct 19, 2026 Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Seat time
- 140 minutes Source: Microsoft page
- Typical question count (most Microsoft exams)
- 40-60 questions Source: Microsoft page
- Unscheduled breaks
- 5 minutes are built into the exam time; the clock keeps running during a break, and questions seen before the break cannot be revisited Source: Microsoft page
- Labs
- Microsoft does not publish which exams contain labs; the introduction screen says whether the exam has labs and how many, with 7-15 tasks per lab, placed as the last section Source: Microsoft page
- Scoring details
- Some questions may be unscored; most multi-part questions score one point per correct component; no penalty for guessing; exams with labs take about 30 minutes to score Source: Microsoft page
- Extra time if the exam is not in your language
- 30 minutes on request Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Accommodations
- Available if you use assistive devices, require extra time or need a modification to any part of the exam experience; request before scheduling Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Registration account
- Microsoft recommends registering with a personal Microsoft account; records tied to a work or school account are lost when you leave the organization Source: Microsoft exam page
- Preview features
- Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA); the exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Documentation named in Microsoft's DP-750 study guide
- Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Entra, Azure Monitor Source: Microsoft exam guide
- Official course
- DP-750T00-A, Implement data engineering solutions using Azure Databricks: Intermediate, 4 days, role Data Engineer, in ten languages Source: Microsoft page
- Practice assessment and sandbox
- Free practice assessment on AI Skills Navigator (sign-in required); exam sandbox at aka.ms/examdemo Source: Microsoft page
- Renewal assessment
- Free and online on Microsoft Learn, unproctored and open book, available from six months before expiry; unlimited attempts, with at least 24 hours between attempts after the second try Source: Microsoft page
- Question types in the exam sandbox
- Multiple choice, drag and drop, build list, hot area, active screen, case studies and labs Source: Microsoft page
What has changed, and when?
Changes to the exam and to the products it covers, newest first.
- Microsoft made minor changes to the DP-750 skills outline: data modeling in Unity Catalog and development lifecycle processes. Microsoft exam guide
- Microsoft announced the certification and the DP-750 beta, with general availability planned for early May 2026. Microsoft page
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