Name the four challenges
Identify the four challenges of data and AI that the platform is built around: context, control, cost and choice.
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Overview
Context, control, cost and choice. The four problems this hour sets out to solve.
Databricks Fundamentals is a free course of four short videos, about an hour long, ending in a quiz that earns a badge. It names four data and AI challenges, explains the lakehouse as an open, governed base, and shows why agents need governed data. The badge is not a proctored certification, and the page states no passing score, question count or expiry.
5Modules
1Hours
4Skills
8Roles
What it covers
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Explain the lakehouse
Describe how a lakehouse gives analytics and AI an open, governed foundation.
Link agents to governed data
Understand why trusted AI agents need governed data and business context.
See one shared experience
Recognize how users across an organization explore data, analytics and AI in the same governed place.
Course outline
One open, governed foundation
One open, governed foundation
for your data and your agents.
We design this course ourselves. Databricks issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Databricks.
Databricks organizes its platform around four problems: context, control, cost and choice. You learn what each one means for a company, why they appear together, and how they shape the questions a data team asks.
- Context: data that means something
- Control: knowing who can do what
- Cost: paying for what is used
- Choice: avoiding lock-in
You build A table giving a workplace example for each of the four challenges.
The lakehouse brings analytics and AI onto one base. You see how open formats keep data portable, how governance applies on top, and why one foundation replaces separate warehouse and lake systems.
- Warehouses, lakes and lakehouses compared
- Open formats and why they matter
- Governance on top of open data
- One platform for analytics and AI
You build A diagram contrasting a split warehouse-and-lake setup with a lakehouse for one company.
An agent is only as reliable as the data it reads. You learn why business context and governance decide whether an agent’s answers can be trusted, and what goes wrong when either is missing.
- What an AI agent needs to know
- Business context and shared definitions
- Governance as a precondition for trust
- Failure cases from missing context
You build A short review of one agent answer, showing which context and permissions it needed.
Different people use the platform for different work. You see how analysts, engineers and scientists explore data, analytics and AI in the same governed place, and why that shared space reduces friction.
- How each role uses the platform
- Shared data, separate workspaces
- Permissions that follow the data
- Collaboration without copying
You build A role map showing what three users do on the platform and what they share.
You apply the four challenges to a realistic company. Given its data, teams and goals, you describe where context, control, cost and choice would bite first and how the platform would help.
- Reading a company’s starting position
- Spotting where each challenge appears
- Mapping platform ideas to each problem
- Explaining the case to a non-specialist
You build A short brief that applies the four challenges to one fictional company.
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.
Free badge level. Check Databricks’s official page for what it expects before you begin.
Work through the course.
Five 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.
Support at every stage.
You won’t be working through this alone.
Before you start
Try it first.
A 3-day free trial opens a selection of the content. Your card is only charged once it ends.
While you learn
Mentors within reach.
Stuck on a concept? Reach out to a mentor whenever you need help.
While you learn
One-on-one sessions.
On the yearly plan, one-on-one sessions give you dedicated support.
Any time
A team behind you.
Write to info@lunartech.ai at any point, from your trial onwards. If your employer is funding you, we’ll set it up with them directly.
All the way through
A schedule that fits around your life.
Your own paceFrom anywhereAt any hour
After the last lesson
Stay in the network.
Your alumni network stays with you: ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Career support
Career support, past the last lesson. Coaching, a sharper resume, real interview preparation and the people to know.
Career direction
Tailored coaching helps you decide where to aim and how to get there.
Strong portfolio
Hands-on projects become work you can show, not just claim.
Resume and profile
Personalized refinement, so what you send says what you can actually do.
Interview preparation
Preparation for the questions that decide it, so you walk in ready.
Network and search
Connections with industry leaders, and an alumni network that stays with you.
Reviews
Real stories from the community.
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The programme’s clear, bite-sized content and practical projects dramatically improved my speed from fuzzy idea to MVP and my ability to communicate AI value. I followed the system, and it works.
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As a Data Science graduate, I want to thank you for the effort you put into making videos to support growing data scientists.
I’ve been following your work since taking your machine learning course, and I’m impressed by your practical approach to applying AI.
Why choose us
Built around how you actually learn.
One standard behind every course, from the first lesson to long after the last.
Hands-on practice
Apply every idea to real problems, so it becomes something you have used, not only seen.
Industry-aligned curriculum
We keep courses current with the tools, techniques and skills the field asks for.
Flexible learning
Study at your own pace, from anywhere, at any hour.
Certificate of completion
Finish the course and earn a certificate that shows what you have learned.
Focus on your success
Personalized learning plans and support structures carry you through the hard parts.
Lifetime alumni network
Stay connected after you finish, with ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Your certificate
It doesn’t raise its voice. Neither will you.
Finish a LUNARTECH course and its certificate is issued in your name, under our signature. Databricks’s credential comes from Databricks.
Certificate of completion
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Databricks Fundamentals course
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Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
One membership opens every course, certification, workshop and masterclass in the Academy. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. Databricks issues the credential.
3 days free, then $29.97 a month. Your card is only charged once the trial ends.
Included in every plan
- Every course in the Academy
- Every certification course
- Workshops and masterclasses
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- A 3-day free trial
- Learning at your own pace
- The lifetime alumni network
- Upgrades at any time
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.
- 01Challenges
- 02Lakehouse
- 03Agents
- 04Shared use
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The platform makes more sense with the big picture. Start here before the Associate exam.
Lakehouse, Agents
Data platforms, Enterprise IT
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Analytics and AI now share one governed home. Know how they fit together.
Lakehouse, Shared use
Analytics teams, Enterprise IT
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Context, control, cost and choice shape every plan. They make a useful checklist for decisions.
Challenges, Agents
Enterprise IT, Data platforms
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Models learn from data that sits in one governed place. Trusted agents start from the same data you use.
Lakehouse, Agents
Analytics teams, Data platforms
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The lakehouse idea gives you one pitch for analytics and AI. Shared use across teams is the design goal to explain.
Lakehouse, Shared use
Enterprise IT, Data platforms
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Agents need business context and governed data to be trusted. The lakehouse is where that context comes from.
Agents, Lakehouse
Data platforms, Enterprise IT
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You hear the same data problems from every team you work with. The four challenges give you a shared vocabulary.
Challenges, Agents
Analytics teams, Enterprise IT
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You weigh one open platform against several separate tools. Shared use keeps teams from rebuilding the same pipelines.
Challenges, Shared use
Enterprise IT, Data platforms
- Data platforms
- Analytics teams
- Enterprise IT
Data Engineer
The platform makes more sense with the big picture. Start here before the Associate exam.
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The field
Anyone can use AI.
Anyone can use AI.
Few can engineer it. This is where that starts.
+340%growth in open roles requiring AI skills
Roles and pay
~35,000 open roles right now
Open roles: Built In, Greenhouse, LinkedIn.
Typical salaries: Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Payscale, Indeed, Ravio, JobRise, U.S. BLS. Military: 2026 U.S. basic pay, drone officers with aviation incentive pay.
Updated November 2026.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Need help? These answers cover most of what people ask before they start.
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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.
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The course
Build the skills behind Databricks Fundamentals.
Learn what the Databricks platform does in one free hour. 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.
