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A Generative AI Engineer builds an assistant over 4,000 HR policy documents that the benefits team edits most weekdays. Answers must quote the wording in force on the day the question is asked, and the policies are prose rather than fields.
Which architecture should the engineer choose?
Answer it and read the explanation →About the GenAI Engineer exam
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Questions
- 45 scored questions (unscored items may appear)
- Passing score
- 70%
- Price
- $200 USD
- Question types
- Multiple choice
- Where you take it
- Online proctored or test center
- Valid for
- 2 years
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean
- Prerequisites
- None; 6 or more months of hands-on experience recommended
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What the exam covers
Check the current Databricks exam guide before booking. This starter bank covers selected application and retrieval concepts, not every objective.
- Design Applications14%
- Data Preparation14%
- Application Development30%
- Assembling and Deploying Apps22%
- Governance8%
- Evaluation and Monitoring12%
Weights are from the provider's published exam guide.
Who this is for. Engineers building LLM applications with Databricks and production retrieval pipelines.
How to study. Separate retrieval errors from generation errors. Practice evaluating context relevance, answer faithfulness, permissions, and operational behavior.
Our bank has 45 questions and uses single-answer multiple choice. Official exams may use additional formats. This is an independent practice set.
All 45 practice questions
Open a question to try it and read the reasoning. Related questions may also appear in other relevant tracks.
Design Applications 8
- Which architecture should the engineer choose?medium
- Which model should the engineer serve?medium
- What should the engineer change in the request so the claims system can parse every response?medium
- Which approach meets these requirements?medium
- What should the engineer change so those manuals can be cited?hard
- Which structured retrieval tool should the engineer build for this lookup?medium
- Which design meets the requirement with the least custom code?medium
- What should the engineer fix first to improve tool selection?medium
Data Preparation 7
- Which change to the chunking step addresses this?medium
- How should the engineer configure the index?medium
- What should the engineer check first?medium
- Which approach produces that output with the least custom code?medium
- What should the engineer change in the pipeline?medium
- Which retrieval change best improves answer quality here?hard
- Which change to the data pipeline addresses this?medium
Application Development 8
- Which change to the index query should the engineer try first?medium
- Which built-in judge should the engineer score the application with?medium
- What is the application responsible for in this setup?medium
- Which change delivers all three goals?medium
- How should the assistant send the follow-up request?medium
- What should the engineer add to the retrieval call?medium
- What should the engineer do to the agent code?medium
- How should the engineer make that step visible in the same trace?medium
Assembling and Deploying Apps 7
- What makes the registered model callable from that application?medium
- What should the engineer do?medium
- How should the engineer size the endpoint?medium
- What should the engineer check first?medium
- Which approach does Databricks recommend for this workload?medium
- How should the deployed agent reference the prompt to remove that redeploy?medium
- Which Databricks AI Search configuration fits these requirements?medium
Governance 7
- What should the engineer do?medium
- How should the engineer change the deployment?medium
- Which reference does that?medium
- How should the engineer attach the built-in guardrails?hard
- What should the administrator grant that engineer?hard
- Who holds that responsibility?medium
- Which AI Gateway setting meets this requirement?medium
Evaluation and Monitoring 8
- What should the engineer do?medium
- Which capability gives the engineer that breakdown?medium
- How should the team set up this evaluation?medium
- Which experiment isolates the failing stage?medium
- Which built-in judge can the team run now?medium
- What should the engineer configure?medium
- What should the engineer change?hard
- Which table should the engineer query?medium
Common questions
What can I practice for Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate?
45 independent single-answer practice questions covering selected topics: Design Applications, Data Preparation, Application Development, Assembling and Deploying Apps, Governance, Evaluation and Monitoring. Each includes an explanation and source link.
Is this an official certification or exam dump?
No. AI CertArena writes independent practice scenarios. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the exam providers, and we do not publish live exam questions.
Does my practice score predict an exam pass?
No. Your score is the percentage correct in this practice set, including skipped questions. Our 80% practice goal is a study target, not an official cut score or calibrated pass prediction.
How should I use this practice bank?
Try a short set, review the explanation for every miss, and repeat those questions later. Use the official exam guide to check topics that this starter bank does not yet cover.
Can I save and share my progress?
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