Get Started with Databricks Platform Administration
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of platform administration on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, with a focus on Unity Catalog and centralized governance for data and AI assets. The course follows one numbered sequence of lectures and demos, followed by a hands-on lab. You will explore the Databricks workspace and account console, data-governance principles, Unity Catalog concepts and administrator roles, identity and metastore management, and compute resources including classic compute, serverless compute, and SQL warehouses. You will then implement privileges and fine-grained access control with row filters, column masks, dynamic views, and attribute-based access control (ABAC). By the end, you will be prepared to administer Unity Catalog, manage compute resources, and apply secure, scalable data-governance practices.
Note: For SCORM lecture files, please ensure that you close the SCORM window after completing the content. Do not click the ‘Next Lesson’ button, as doing so may prevent the SCORM module from being marked as complete.
In this course, the content was developed for participants with these skills/knowledge/abilities:
• Familiarity with the Databricks Platform and basic workspace operations (create clusters, run code in notebooks, use basic notebook operations)
• Basic understanding of identity and access management concepts (users, groups, service principals, authentication, authorization)
• Understanding of Unity Catalog fundamentals including the hierarchical object model (metastore, catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models)
• Basic knowledge of data governance principles and access control concepts (permissions, entitlements, administrative responsibilities)
• Beginner familiarity with cloud computing concepts (virtual machines, object storage, identity management, cloud resources)
• Basic understanding of workspace administration concepts including user management and permission assignment
• Knowledge of account-level versus workspace-level administration and the relationship between them
• A basic understanding of cloud computing and SQL concepts, including networking, SQL queries, and database structures such as tables and views
• Familiarity with Python programming, the Jupyter notebook interface, and foundational PySpark operations
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