Certification Exam: Airflow Fundamentals

Certification Exam: Airflow Fundamentals

Demonstrate your mastery of fundamental Apache Airflow concepts to the world, highlighting your proficiency in designing, scheduling, and overseeing data pipelines.

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Overview

Apache Airflow is the leading orchestrator for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. It has quickly become an invaluable asset in any data professional's toolbox.

Earning an Astronomer Certification for Airflow Fundamentals showcases your mastery of Airflow's foundational concepts and ability to make well-informed architectural choices, grasp practical use cases, and craft efficient data pipelines.

Upon successfully passing the exam, you will acquire a digital certification badge that can be proudly showcased on social media (e.g., Linkedin).

Description

To pass the Airflow Fundamentals Certification, you must demonstrate an understanding of Airflow's core concepts, such as architecture, DAGs, the task lifecycle, and the scheduling process. You should be comfortable recommending use cases, architectural needs, settings, and design choices for data pipelines. You should be able to trigger, debug, and retry DAGs (and their associated tasks) and use the correct views in the UI to monitor them.

At a minimum, it's recommended that you have: 

  • At least three months of experience using Airflow
  • Completed the Airflow 101 Astronomer Academy course

    Exam Topics

The exam is designed to assess the following topics:

  • The Airflow UI
  • The Airflow CLI
  • Airflow use-cases
  • Writing, scheduling, and debugging DAGs 
  • DAG dependencies
  • DAG runs
  • Airflow architecture components (e.g., Web Server, Scheduler)
  • Basic Operators (e.g., PythonOperator)
  • XCom Basics
  • Connection Basics
  • Variable Basics
  • Sensor Basics
📢 Note: This exam is based on Airflow version 2.1 and above.

Exam details

  • Exam format: 75 Multiple-choice questions
  • Time allotted: 60 Minutes
  • Passing score: 70% (53 corrects out of 75)
  • Cost: $150 USD
  • Language: English
📢 Note: Once enrolled in the exam, you will have 30 days to complete it. After 30 days, the exam expires and must be purchased again.

Resources

Exam

  • Exam and Badge Details
  • Getting Started
  • Certification Exam
  • Wrap Up

Overview

Apache Airflow is the leading orchestrator for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. It has quickly become an invaluable asset in any data professional's toolbox.

Earning an Astronomer Certification for Airflow Fundamentals showcases your mastery of Airflow's foundational concepts and ability to make well-informed architectural choices, grasp practical use cases, and craft efficient data pipelines.

Upon successfully passing the exam, you will acquire a digital certification badge that can be proudly showcased on social media (e.g., Linkedin).

Description

To pass the Airflow Fundamentals Certification, you must demonstrate an understanding of Airflow's core concepts, such as architecture, DAGs, the task lifecycle, and the scheduling process. You should be comfortable recommending use cases, architectural needs, settings, and design choices for data pipelines. You should be able to trigger, debug, and retry DAGs (and their associated tasks) and use the correct views in the UI to monitor them.

At a minimum, it's recommended that you have: 

  • At least three months of experience using Airflow
  • Completed the Airflow 101 Astronomer Academy course

    Exam Topics

The exam is designed to assess the following topics:

  • The Airflow UI
  • The Airflow CLI
  • Airflow use-cases
  • Writing, scheduling, and debugging DAGs 
  • DAG dependencies
  • DAG runs
  • Airflow architecture components (e.g., Web Server, Scheduler)
  • Basic Operators (e.g., PythonOperator)
  • XCom Basics
  • Connection Basics
  • Variable Basics
  • Sensor Basics
📢 Note: This exam is based on Airflow version 2.1 and above.

Exam details

  • Exam format: 75 Multiple-choice questions
  • Time allotted: 60 Minutes
  • Passing score: 70% (53 corrects out of 75)
  • Cost: $150 USD
  • Language: English
📢 Note: Once enrolled in the exam, you will have 30 days to complete it. After 30 days, the exam expires and must be purchased again.

Resources

Exam

  • Exam and Badge Details
  • Getting Started
  • Certification Exam
  • Wrap Up