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1. A data organization leader is upset about the data analysis team’s reports being different from the data engineering team’s reports. The leader believes the siloed nature of their organization’s data engineering and data analysis architectures is to blame.

Which of the following describes how a data lakehouse could alleviate this issue?

2. Which of the following describes a scenario in which a data team will want to utilize cluster pools?

3. Which of the following is hosted completely in the control plane of the classic Databricks architecture?

4. Which of the following benefits of using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform is provided by Delta Lake?

5. Which of the following describes the storage organization of a Delta table?

6. Which of the following code blocks will remove the rows where the value in column age is greater than 25 from the existing Delta table my_table and save the updated table?

7. A data engineer has realized that they made a mistake when making a daily update to a table. They need to use Delta time travel to restore the table to a version that is 3 days old. However, when the data engineer attempts to time travel to the older version, they are unable to restore the data because the data files have been deleted.

Which of the following explains why the data files are no longer present?

8. Which of the following Git operations must be performed outside of Databricks Repos?

9. Which of the following data lakehouse features results in improved data quality over a traditional data lake?

10. A data engineer needs to determine whether to use the built-in Databricks Notebooks versioning or version their project using Databricks Repos.

Which of the following is an advantage of using Databricks Repos over the Databricks Notebooks versioning?

11. A data engineer has left the organization. The data team needs to transfer ownership of the data engineer’s Delta tables to a new data engineer. The new data engineer is the lead engineer on the data team.

Assuming the original data engineer no longer has access, which of the following individuals must be the one to transfer ownership of the Delta tables in Data Explorer?

12. A data analyst has created a Delta table sales that is used by the entire data analysis team. They want help from the data engineering team to implement a series of tests to ensure the data is clean. However, the data engineering team uses Python for its tests rather than SQL.

Which of the following commands could the data engineering team use to access sales in PySpark?

13. Which of the following commands will return the location of database customer360?

14. A data engineer wants to create a new table containing the names of customers that live in France.

They have written the following command:

A senior data engineer mentions that it is organization policy to include a table property indicating that the new table includes personally identifiable information (PII).

Which of the following lines of code fills in the above blank to successfully complete the task?

15. Which of the following benefits is provided by the array functions from Spark SQL?

16. Which of the following commands can be used to write data into a Delta table while avoiding the writing of duplicate records?

17. A data engineer needs to apply custom logic to string column city in table stores for a specific use case. In order to apply this custom logic at scale, the data engineer wants to create a SQL user-defined function (UDF).

Which of the following code blocks creates this SQL UDF?

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B)

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D)

E)

18. A data analyst has a series of queries in a SQL program. The data analyst wants this program to run every day. They only want the final query in the program to run on Sundays. They ask for help from the data engineering team to complete this task.

Which of the following approaches could be used by the data engineering team to complete this task?

19. A data engineer runs a statement every day to copy the previous day’s sales into the table transactions. Each day’s sales are in their own file in the location "/transactions/raw".

Today, the data engineer runs the following command to complete this task:

After running the command today, the data engineer notices that the number of records in table transactions has not changed.

Which of the following describes why the statement might not have copied any new records into the table?

20. A data engineer needs to create a table in Databricks using data from their organization’s existing SQLite database.

They run the following command:

Which of the following lines of code fills in the above blank to successfully complete the task?

21. A data engineering team has two tables. The first table march_transactions is a collection of all retail transactions in the month of March. The second table april_transactions is a collection of all retail

transactions in the month of April. There are no duplicate records between the tables.

Which of the following commands should be run to create a new table all_transactions that contains all records from march_transactions and april_transactions without duplicate records?

22. A data engineer only wants to execute the final block of a Python program if the Python variable day_of_week is equal to 1 and the Python variable review_period is True.

Which of the following control flow statements should the data engineer use to begin this conditionally executed code block?

23. A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table. The data engineer wants to delete all table metadata and data.

They run the following command:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table

While the object no longer appears when they run SHOW TABLES, the data files still exist.

Which of the following describes why the data files still exist and the metadata files were deleted?

24. A data engineer wants to create a data entity from a couple of tables. The data entity must be used by other data engineers in other sessions. It also must be saved to a physical location.

Which of the following data entities should the data engineer create?

25. A data engineer is maintaining a data pipeline. Upon data ingestion, the data engineer notices that the source data is starting to have a lower level of quality. The data engineer would like to automate the process of monitoring the quality level.

Which of the following tools can the data engineer use to solve this problem?

26. A Delta Live Table pipeline includes two datasets defined using STREAMING LIVE TABLE. Three datasets are defined against Delta Lake table sources using LIVE TABLE.

The table is configured to run in Production mode using the Continuous Pipeline Mode.

Assuming previously unprocessed data exists and all definitions are valid, what is the expected outcome after clicking Start to update the pipeline?

27. In order for Structured Streaming to reliably track the exact progress of the processing so that it can handle any kind of failure by restarting and/or reprocessing, which of the following two approaches is used by Spark to record the offset range of the data being processed in each trigger?

28. Which of the following describes the relationship between Gold tables and Silver tables?

29. Which of the following describes the relationship between Bronze tables and raw data?

30. Which of the following tools is used by Auto Loader process data incrementally?

31. A data engineer has configured a Structured Streaming job to read from a table, manipulate the data, and then perform a streaming write into a new table.

The cade block used by the data engineer is below:

If the data engineer only wants the query to execute a micro-batch to process data every 5 seconds, which of the following lines of code should the data engineer use to fill in the blank?

32. A dataset has been defined using Delta Live Tables and includes an expectations clause:

CONSTRAINT valid_timestamp EXPECT (timestamp > '2020-01-01') ON VIOLATION DROP ROW

What is the expected behavior when a batch of data containing data that violates these constraints is

processed?

33. Which of the following describes when to use the CREATE STREAMING LIVE TABLE (formerly CREATE INCREMENTAL LIVE TABLE) syntax over the CREATE LIVE TABLE syntax when creating Delta Live Tables (DLT) tables using SQL?

34. A data engineer is designing a data pipeline. The source system generates files in a shared directory that is also used by other processes. As a result, the files should be kept as is and will accumulate in the directory. The data engineer needs to identify which files are new since the previous run in the pipeline, and set up the pipeline to only ingest those new files with each run.

Which of the following tools can the data engineer use to solve this problem?

35. Which of the following Structured Streaming queries is performing a hop from a Silver table to a Gold table?

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B)

C)

D)

E)

36. A data engineer has three tables in a Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipeline. They have configured the pipeline to drop invalid records at each table. They notice that some data is being dropped due to quality concerns at some point in the DLT pipeline. They would like to determine at which table in their pipeline the data is being dropped.

Which of the following approaches can the data engineer take to identify the table that is dropping the records?

37. A data engineer has a single-task Job that runs each morning before they begin working. After identifying an upstream data issue, they need to set up another task to run a new notebook prior to the original task.

Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to set up the new task?

38. An engineering manager wants to monitor the performance of a recent project using a Databricks SQL query. For the first week following the project’s release, the manager wants the query results to be updated every minute. However, the manager is concerned that the compute resources used for the query will be left running and cost the organization a lot of money beyond the first week of the project’s release.

Which of the following approaches can the engineering team use to ensure the query does not cost the organization any money beyond the first week of the project’s release?

39. A data analysis team has noticed that their Databricks SQL queries are running too slowly when connected to their always-on SQL endpoint. They claim that this issue is present when many members of the team are running small queries simultaneously. They ask the data engineering team for help. The data engineering team notices that each of the team’s queries uses the same SQL endpoint.

Which of the following approaches can the data engineering team use to improve the latency of the team’s queries?

40. A data engineer wants to schedule their Databricks SQL dashboard to refresh once per day, but they only want the associated SQL endpoint to be running when it is necessary.

Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to minimize the total running time of the SQL endpoint used in the refresh schedule of their dashboard?