Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate

Last checked October 22, 2026 against the official Databricks exam page.

1. Question 1Governance, Evaluation and Operations

   Which Unity Catalog capability controls who can read the tables that feed an agent's retrieval index?

   1. APrivileges granted on catalogs, schemas and tables, enforced for every query made against the data
   2. BThe table's comment field, which lists the names of the people who may read it in the table's description text
   3. CThe file size of the table's data files, which limits who can open the table in the workspace at all
   4. DThe chart colour used in the table's dashboard for each team that reads the table's data each week
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   Correct answer: A

   Unity Catalog privileges on catalogs, schemas and tables are enforced for every query. Comments, file sizes and chart colours do not control read access.

2. Question 2Context Assembly and Memory

   An agent must keep track of a long conversation without exceeding the model's context window. Which approach fits best?

   1. ADeleting the whole conversation after each answer, so that the context is always empty for the next request
   2. BSending the entire conversation history on every request, however long it grows, since the model can cope
   3. CSummarising older turns and keeping recent turns verbatim, with key facts stored as structured memory
   4. DAsking the user to repeat their earlier questions each time, so that the agent never needs any memory
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   Correct answer: C

   Summarising older turns and keeping recent turns, with structured memory of key facts, fits the window. Full history grows without bound, deleting it loses continuity, and repetition offloads the work to the user.

3. Question 3Context Design and Retrieval

   An agent must answer questions from thousands of internal documents that change daily. Which design gives it current, grounded context?

   1. AFine-tuning the foundation model on a snapshot of the documents once each year, with no further updates to the model
   2. BRetrieval-augmented generation over a Delta table of chunked documents, indexed with Mosaic AI Vector Search and synced as the source changes
   3. CPasting every document into the prompt on every request, regardless of how many tokens the documents contain
   4. DStoring the documents as screenshots in a folder, so that the model reads the images directly at query time
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   Correct answer: B

   Retrieval over chunked documents, indexed and synced with the source, keeps context current and grounded. Yearly fine-tuning goes stale, full-prompt pasting exceeds token budgets, and screenshots are not an efficient retrieval design.

4. Question 4Governance, Evaluation and Operations

   Which practice supports tracing a wrong agent answer back to the data that informed it?

   1. ARecording only the final answer, without the retrieved sources or the prompt that was used to produce it
   2. BDeleting the trace logs once an answer has been reviewed by the business owner, to keep storage costs low
   3. CLineage and tracing of the retrieval and generation steps, linked to source documents and their versions
   4. DStoring the traces in a personal notebook on one laptop, which is kept by the team member who built the agent
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   Correct answer: C

   Tracing retrieval and generation steps, linked to source versions, lets the team trace a wrong answer to its data. Deleting traces, recording only answers and personal notebooks each remove that ability.

5. Question 5Context Assembly and Memory

   Which element of a prompt tells the agent how to behave and which tools it may use?

   1. AThe user's typing speed, which the agent uses to decide how long each answer should be in words
   2. BThe system instructions, which define the agent's role, rules and the tools available to it
   3. CThe colour theme of the chat interface, which determines how the agent formats its responses visually
   4. DThe file name of the first document retrieved, which the agent uses to choose a tool at run time
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   Correct answer: B

   System instructions define role, rules and tool availability. Typing speed, interface colour and file names do not set behaviour.