Administer core settings
Manage the platform’s core administration the way an owner of an Azure Databricks deployment does.
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Overview
An Azure workspace is easy to open. Networking and access are the hard part.
Azure Platform Architect is an unproctored online assessment for people who set up Azure Databricks. Twenty multiple-choice questions test deployment, security and cloud integration, from administration and networks to storage. It is a 1-year accreditation badge, not a proctored certification exam, and Databricks lists its Azure pathway as prerequisite.
7Modules
20Questions
1Year valid
8Roles
What it covers
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Set up the network
Configure how Azure Databricks connects to your network so traffic stays where your policies say it should.
Control access and security
Decide who may reach the platform and what they may do, and apply the security settings that enforce it.
Reach storage and Azure services
Attach external storage and integrate other Azure services with the platform.
Course outline
Azure Databricks, placed on your network,
Azure Databricks, placed on your network,
reached only the way you allow.
We design this course ourselves. Databricks issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Databricks.
Azure Databricks is an Azure resource with a split between Microsoft-hosted and customer-hosted parts. You learn what the control plane and compute plane hold, what the managed resource group contains and which resources you can touch.
- Control plane and compute plane on Azure
- The workspace as an Azure resource
- The managed resource group and its contents
- Classic and serverless compute
- Following traffic from user to cluster
You build A diagram of one deployment showing the resources in each subscription and group.
A platform owner creates workspaces and keeps them consistent. You deploy through the portal and through templates, set up account and workspace administration, and decide how many workspaces a company needs and why.
- Deploying with the portal, templates and Terraform
- Workspace layout: one or many
- Account console and workspace administrators
- Workspace settings and feature controls
- Cluster policies and cost tags
You build A workspace layout proposal with deployment templates and an administration model.
By default, clusters live in a network Microsoft manages. You inject the workspace into your own virtual network, plan the subnets and their delegation, and remove public IPs from clusters with secure cluster connectivity.
- Why inject a workspace into your own VNet
- Subnet sizing and delegation
- Network security groups for workspace traffic
- Secure cluster connectivity without public IPs
- Outbound routes through NAT and firewalls
- Peering and reaching on-premises networks
You build A VNet design with subnets, security groups and outbound routing for one workspace.
Security settings only matter if they match who should reach the platform. You tie sign-in to Microsoft Entra ID, provision users automatically, close the public endpoint with Private Link and apply customer-managed keys.
- Sign-in and conditional access with Entra ID
- Automatic user and group provisioning
- Front-end and back-end Private Link
- IP access lists and token controls
- Encryption with customer-managed keys in Key Vault
- Checking who can reach a workspace
You build An access design with sign-in, provisioning and private endpoints, plus a verification checklist.
Your data is in Azure Data Lake Storage, not in the workspace. You grant access through an access connector and managed identity, register external locations in Unity Catalog, and keep permissions as narrow as the work needs.
- Storage accounts, containers and hierarchical namespace
- Access connectors and managed identities
- Storage credentials and external locations
- Firewalls and private endpoints on storage
- Diagnosing a permission failure
You build A storage account connected with a managed identity and an external location behind a firewall.
A workspace sits among many other Azure services. You connect it to secrets, streams, orchestration and reporting tools, and decide how each connection authenticates and what network path it takes.
- Key Vault-backed secret scopes
- Reading events from Event Hubs
- Calling Databricks from Data Factory
- Serving data to Power BI
- Sending diagnostic logs to Azure Monitor
You build An integration map for one workspace with the identity and network path of each link.
You combine the pieces into one deployment: an injected workspace, private access, governed storage, service integrations and encryption. Then you test the design as someone trying to break it.
- Turning requirements into an architecture
- Building the network and storage first
- Deploying the workspace and its integrations
- Testing isolation and failure cases
- Documenting the design for operations
You build A documented, tested Azure Databricks reference deployment.
Issued by
Certifying body · Independent of LUNARTECH
Databricks
Databricks builds the lakehouse platform its credentials test. Certification exams are proctored, stay valid for two years and are retaken to renew, while badges are free. Retakes wait 14 days and are paid. LUNARTECH is independent of Databricks.
How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
Databricks lists related training in Databricks Academy as the prerequisite: the Azure Databricks Data + AI Platform Architect Pathway.
Work through the course.
Seven modules, designed by LUNARTECH, at your own pace.
Earn it with Databricks.
Databricks issues the credential, so you earn it directly with them.
Support
Support at every stage.
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You won’t be working through this alone.
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After the last lesson
Stay in the network.
Your alumni network stays with you: ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
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Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
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In practice
Eight roles.
Eight roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Administration
- 02Network
- 03Access and security
- 04Storage
- 05Integrations
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Most Azure estates already have a network design. Databricks has to fit it, not bypass it.
Network, Access and security, Integrations
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Financial services, Data platforms
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Setup you cannot repeat is setup you cannot audit. Core administration is where repeatability starts.
Administration, Network, Storage
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Data platforms
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Access settings are your first line of defense. The network is the second.
Access and security, Network
Financial services, Public sector
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Workspaces join your virtual network, not a shared default one. Private connections keep data traffic off the internet.
Network, Integrations
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Public sector
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Directory groups map to workspace roles and data access. Access control is only as tidy as the groups behind it.
Access and security, Administration
Financial services, Public sector
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Azure storage and Databricks need linked access from day one. Integrations decide how pipelines reach upstream systems.
Administration, Storage, Integrations
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Data platforms
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You already run Azure, and Databricks adds another resource. Core administration sets up subscriptions and workspaces.
Administration, Network
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Financial services
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Microsoft-centric clients want Databricks to fit their estate. Linked services are where an integration plan gets tested.
Administration, Integrations
Microsoft-centric enterprises, Public sector
- Microsoft-centric enterprises
- Financial services
- Public sector
- Data platforms
Solutions Architect
Most Azure estates already have a network design. Databricks has to fit it, not bypass it.
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No. We design this course ourselves, around what the credential covers. Databricks has no part in it, and you still earn the credential directly with Databricks.
20 questions, online, not proctored, in English. The passing score is 80%, 16 of 20.
Databricks lists related training in Databricks Academy as the prerequisite: the Azure Databricks Data + AI Platform Architect Pathway.
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The course
Build the skills behind Azure Platform Architect.
Show you can configure Azure Databricks with sound security. Start with a free trial, or enroll in a plan and work through the course at your own pace. Databricks issues the credential.
LUNARTECH is independent of the vendors and certifying bodies listed here. Their names, exam titles and marks belong to them, exams are run by them, and credentials are issued by them. Reviewed 5 November 2026. Catalogues change often, so confirm the details on the official page before you book.
