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dbt Certification Exam Traps: Models, Tests & Deployment Gotchas

Avoid the most common dbt certification mistakes. Master materialization choices, incremental model traps, Jinja scoping, and dbt Cloud deployment gotchas.

# dbt Certification Exam Traps: Models, Tests & Deployment Gotchas Most dbt certification candidates who don't pass aren't failing because they don't know dbt. They fail because dbt has subtle behaviors that are counterintuitive until you've been burned by them in production. The exam deliberately tests these edge cases — the situations where your instinct gives you the wrong answer. …
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