Question 1

Correct
Which of the following commands can a data engineer use to compact small data files
of a Delta table into larger ones ?

PARTITION BY

ZORDER BY

COMPACT

VACUUM

Your answer is correct

OPTIMIZE

Overall explanation
Delta Lake can improve the speed of read queries from a table. One way to improve
this speed is by compacting small files into larger ones. You trigger compaction by
running the OPTIMIZE command

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/delta-optimize.html

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Question 2
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A data engineer is trying to use Delta time travel to rollback a table to a
previous version, but the data engineer received an error that the data files are
no longer present.

Which of the following commands was run on the table that caused deleting the data
files?

Your answer is correct

VACUUM

OPTIMIZE

ZORDER BY

DEEP CLONE
DELETE

Overall explanation
Running the VACUUM command on a Delta table deletes the unused data files older
than a specified data retention period. As a result, you lose the ability to time
travel back to any version older than that retention threshold.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/delta-vacuum.html

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Question 3
Correct
In Delta Lake tables, which of the following is the primary format for the data
files?

Delta

Your answer is correct

Parquet

JSON

Hive-specific format

Both, Parquet and JSON

Overall explanation
Delta Lake builds upon standard data formats. Delta lake table gets stored on the
storage in one or more data files in Parquet format, along with transaction logs in
JSON format.

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Question 4
Correct
Which of the following locations hosts the Databricks web application ?

Data plane

Your answer is correct

Control plane

Databricks Filesystem

Databricks-managed cluster

Customer Cloud Account

Overall explanation
According to the Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Databricks workspace is
deployed in the control plane along with Databricks services like Databricks web
application (UI), Cluster manager, workflow service, and notebooks.

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Question 5
Correct
In Databricks Repos (Git folders), which of the following operations a data
engineer can use to update the local version of a repo from its remote Git
repository ?

Clone

Commit

Merge

Push

Your answer is correct

Pull

Overall explanation
The git Pull operation is used to fetch and download content from a remote
repository and immediately update the local repository to match that content.

References:

https://docs.databricks.com/repos/index.html
https://github.com/git-guides/git-pull

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Question 6
Correct
According to the Databricks Lakehouse architecture, which of the following is
located in the customer's cloud account?

Databricks web application

Notebooks

Repos

Your answer is correct

Cluster virtual machines

Workflows

Overall explanation
When the customer sets up a Spark cluster, the cluster virtual machines are
deployed in the data plane in the customer's cloud account.

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Question 7
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Which of the following best describes Databricks Lakehouse?

Your answer is correct

Single, flexible, high-performance system that supports data, analytics, and
machine learning workloads.

Reliable data management system with transactional guarantees for organization’s

structured data.

Platform that helps reduce the costs of storing organization’s open-format data
files in the cloud.

Platform for developing increasingly complex machine learning workloads using a

simple, SQL-based solution.
Platform that scales data lake workloads for organizations without investing on-
premises hardware.

Overall explanation
Databricks Lakehouse is a unified analytics platform that combines the best
elements of data lakes and data warehouses. So, in the Lakehouse, you can work on
data engineering, analytics, and AI, all in one platform.

Reference: https://www.databricks.com/glossary/data-lakehouse

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Question 8
Correct
If the default notebook language is SQL, which of the following options a data
engineer can use to run a Python code in this SQL Notebook ?

They need first to import the python module in a cell

This is not possible! They need to change the default language of the notebook to
Python

Databricks detects cells language automatically, so they can write Python syntax in
any cell

They can add %language magic command at the start of a cell to force language
detection.

Your answer is correct

They can add %python at the start of a cell.

Overall explanation
By default, cells use the default language of the notebook. You can override the
default language in a cell by using the language magic command at the beginning of
a cell. The supported magic commands are: %python, %sql, %scala, and %r.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/notebooks-code.html

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Question 9
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Which of the following tasks is not supported by Databricks Repos (Git folders),
and must be performed in your Git provider ?

Clone, push to, or pull from a remote Git repository.

Create and manage branches for development work.

Create notebooks, and edit notebooks and other files.

Visually compare differences upon commit.

Your answer is correct

Delete branches

Overall explanation
The following tasks are not supported by Databricks Repos, and must be performed in
your Git provider:

Create a pull request

Delete branches

Merge and rebase branches *

* NOTE: Recently, merge and rebase branches have become supported in Databricks
Repos. However, this may still not be updated in the current exam version.

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Question 10
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Which of the following statements is Not true about Delta Lake ?

Delta Lake provides ACID transaction guarantees

Delta Lake provides scalable data and metadata handling

Delta Lake provides audit history and time travel

Your answer is correct

Delta Lake builds upon standard data formats: Parquet + XML
Delta Lake supports unified streaming and batch data processing

Overall explanation
It is not true that Delta Lake builds upon XML format. It builds upon Parquet and
JSON formats

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Question 11
Correct
How long is the default retention period of the VACUUM command ?

0 days

Your answer is correct

7 days

30 days

90 days

365 days

Overall explanation
By default, the retention threshold of the VACUUM command is 7 days. This means
that VACUUM operation will prevent you from deleting files less than 7 days old,
just to ensure that no long-running operations are still referencing any of the
files to be deleted.

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Question 12
Incorrect
The data engineering team has a Delta table called employees that contains the
employees personal information including their gross salaries.
Which of the following code blocks will keep in the table only the employees having
a salary greater than 3000 ?

Your answer is incorrect

DELETE FROM employees WHERE salary > 3000;

SELECT CASE WHEN salary <= 3000 THEN DELETE ELSE UPDATE END FROM employees;

UPDATE employees WHERE salary > 3000 WHEN MATCHED SELECT;

UPDATE employees WHERE salary <= 3000 WHEN MATCHED DELETE;

Correct answer
DELETE FROM employees WHERE salary <= 3000;

Overall explanation
In order to keep only the employees having a salary greater than 3000, we must
delete the employees having salary less than or equal 3000. To do so, use the
DELETE statement:

DELETE FROM table_name WHERE condition;

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Question 13
Correct
A data engineer wants to create a relational object by pulling data from two
tables. The relational object must be used by other data engineers in other
sessions on the same cluster only. In order to save on storage costs, the date
engineer wants to avoid copying and storing physical data.

Which of the following relational objects should the data engineer create?

Temporary view

External table

Managed table

Your answer is correct

Global Temporary view

View

Overall explanation
In order to avoid copying and storing physical data, the data engineer must create
a view object. A view in databricks is a virtual table that has no physical data.
It’s just a saved SQL query against actual tables.

The view type should be Global Temporary view that can be accessed in other
sessions on the same cluster. Global Temporary views are tied to a cluster
temporary database called global_temp.

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Question 14
Correct
A data engineer has developed a code block to completely reprocess data based on
the following if-condition in Python:

if process_mode = "init" and not is_table_exist:

print("Start processing ...")

This if-condition is returning an invalid syntax error.

Which of the following changes should be made to the code block to fix this error ?

if process_mode = "init" & not is_table_exist:

print("Start processing ...")
if process_mode = "init" and not is_table_exist = True:
print("Start processing ...")
if process_mode = "init" and is_table_exist = False:
print("Start processing ...")
if (process_mode = "init") and (not is_table_exist):
print("Start processing ...")
Your answer is correct
if process_mode == "init" and not is_table_exist:
print("Start processing ...")
Overall explanation
Python if statement looks like this in its simplest form:

if <expr>:
<statement>

Python supports the usual logical conditions from mathematics:

Equals: a == b

Not Equals: a != b
<, <=, >, >=

To combine conditional statements, you can use the following logical operators:

and

or

The negation operator in Python is: not

Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_conditions.asp

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Question 15
Incorrect
Fill in the below blank to successfully create a table in Databricks using data
from an existing PostgreSQL database:

CREATE TABLE employees

USING ____________
OPTIONS (
url "jdbc:postgresql:dbserver",
dbtable "employees"
)
Correct answer
org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc

Your answer is incorrect

postgresql

DELTA

dbserver

cloudfiles

Overall explanation
Using the JDBC library, Spark SQL can extract data from any existing relational
database that supports JDBC. Examples include mysql, postgres, SQLite, and more.

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Question 16
Correct
Which of the following commands can a data engineer use to create a new table along
with a comment ?

Your answer is correct

CREATE TABLE payments
COMMENT "This table contains sensitive information"
AS SELECT * FROM bank_transactions
CREATE TABLE payments
COMMENT("This table contains sensitive information")
AS SELECT * FROM bank_transactions
CREATE TABLE payments
AS SELECT * FROM bank_transactions
COMMENT "This table contains sensitive information"
CREATE TABLE payments
AS SELECT * FROM bank_transactions
COMMENT("This table contains sensitive information")
COMMENT("This table contains sensitive information")
CREATE TABLE payments
AS SELECT * FROM bank_transactions
Overall explanation
The CREATE TABLE clause supports adding a descriptive comment for the table. This
allows for easier discovery of table contents.

Syntax:

CREATE TABLE table_name

COMMENT "here is a comment"
AS query

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-
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Question 17
Correct
A junior data engineer usually uses INSERT INTO command to write data into a Delta
table. A senior data engineer suggested using another command that avoids writing
of duplicate records.

Which of the following commands is the one suggested by the senior data engineer ?

Your answer is correct

MERGE INTO
APPLY CHANGES INTO

UPDATE

COPY INTO

INSERT OR OVERWRITE

Overall explanation
MERGE INTO allows to merge a set of updates, insertions, and deletions based on a
source table into a target Delta table. With MERGE INTO, you can avoid inserting
the duplicate records when writing into Delta tables.

References:

https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/delta-merge-into.html

https://docs.databricks.com/delta/merge.html#data-deduplication-when-writing-into-
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Question 18
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A data engineer is designing a Delta Live Tables pipeline. The source system
generates files containing changes captured in the source data. Each change event
has metadata indicating whether the specified record was inserted, updated, or
deleted. In addition to a timestamp column indicating the order in which the
changes happened. The data engineer needs to update a target table based on these
change events.

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

MERGE INTO

Your answer is correct

APPLY CHANGES INTO

UPDATE

COPY INTO

cloud_files

Overall explanation
The events described in the question represent Change Data Capture (CDC) feed. CDC
is logged at the source as events that contain both the data of the records along
with metadata information:

Operation column indicating whether the specified record was inserted, updated, or
deleted

Sequence column that is usually a timestamp indicating the order in which the
changes happened

You can use the APPLY CHANGES INTO statement to use Delta Live Tables CDC
functionality

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Question 19
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In PySpark, which of the following commands can you use to query the Delta table
employees created in Spark SQL?

pyspark.sql.read(SELECT * FROM employees)

spark.sql("employees")

spark.format(“sql”).read("employees")

Your answer is correct

spark.table("employees")

Spark SQL tables can not be accessed from PySpark

Overall explanation
spark.table() function returns the specified Spark SQL table as a PySpark DataFrame

Reference:

https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.0/api/python/_modules/pyspark/sql/
session.html#SparkSession.table

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Question 20
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Which of the following code blocks can a data engineer use to create a user defined
function (UDF) ?

CREATE FUNCTION plus_one(value INTEGER)

RETURN value +1

CREATE UDF plus_one(value INTEGER)

RETURNS INTEGER

RETURN value +1;

CREATE UDF plus_one(value INTEGER)

RETURN value +1;

Your answer is correct

CREATE FUNCTION plus_one(value INTEGER)

RETURNS INTEGER

RETURN value +1;

CREATE FUNCTION plus_one(value INTEGER)

RETURNS INTEGER

value +1;

Overall explanation
The correct syntax to create a UDF is:

CREATE [OR REPLACE] FUNCTION function_name ( [ parameter_name data_type [, ...] ] )

RETURNS data_type
RETURN { expression | query }

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Question 21
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When dropping a Delta table, which of the following explains why only the table's
metadata will be deleted, while the data files will be kept in the storage ?

The table is deep cloned

Your answer is correct

The table is external

The user running the command has no permission to delete the data files

The table is managed

Delta prevents deleting files less than retention threshold, just to ensure that no
long-running operations are still referencing any of the files to be deleted

Overall explanation
External (unmanaged) tables are tables whose data is stored in an external storage
path by using a LOCATION clause.

When you run DROP TABLE on an external table, only the table's metadata is deleted,
while the underlying data files are kept.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/lakehouse/data-objects.html#what-is-an-
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Question 22
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Given the two tables students_course_1 and students_course_2. Which of the
following commands can a data engineer use to get all the students from the above
two tables without duplicate records ?

SELECT * FROM students_course_1

CROSS JOIN
SELECT * FROM students_course_2
Your answer is correct
SELECT * FROM students_course_1
UNION
SELECT * FROM students_course_2
SELECT * FROM students_course_1
INTERSECT
SELECT * FROM students_course_2
SELECT * FROM students_course_1
OUTER JOIN
SELECT * FROM students_course_2
SELECT * FROM students_course_1
INNER JOIN
SELECT * FROM students_course_2
Overall explanation
With UNION, you can return the result of subquery1 plus the rows of subquery2

Syntax:

subquery1
UNION [ ALL | DISTINCT ]
subquery2

If ALL is specified duplicate rows are preserved.

If DISTINCT is specified the result does not contain any duplicate rows. This is
the default.

Note that both subqueries must have the same number of columns and share a least
common type for each respective column.

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Question 23
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Given the following command:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS hr_db ;

In which of the following locations will the hr_db database be located?

Your answer is correct

dbfs:/user/hive/warehouse

dbfs:/user/hive/db_hr

dbfs:/user/hive/databases/db_hr.db

dbfs:/user/hive/databases

dbfs:/user/hive
Overall explanation
Since we are creating the database here without specifying a LOCATION clause, the
database will be created in the default warehouse directory under
dbfs:/user/hive/warehouse

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Question 24
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Given the following table faculties

Fill in the below blank to get the students enrolled in less than 3 courses from
the array column students

SELECT
faculty_id,
students,
___________ AS few_courses_students
FROM faculties

TRANSFORM (students, total_courses < 3)

TRANSFORM (students, i -> i.total_courses < 3)

FILTER (students, total_courses < 3)

Your answer is correct

FILTER (students, i -> i.total_courses < 3)

CASE WHEN students.total_courses < 3 THEN students

ELSE NULL

END

Overall explanation
filter(input_array, lamda_function) is a higher order function that returns an
output array from an input array by extracting elements for which the predicate of
a lambda function holds.

Example:

Extracting odd numbers from an input array of integers:

SELECT filter(array(1, 2, 3, 4), i -> i % 2 == 1);

output: [1, 3]

References:

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Question 25
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Given the following Structured Streaming query:

(spark.table("orders")
.withColumn("total_after_tax", col("total")+col("tax"))
.writeStream
.option("checkpointLocation", checkpointPath)
.outputMode("append")
.______________
.table("new_orders")
)

Fill in the blank to make the query executes a micro-batch to process data every 2
minutes

trigger(once=”2 minutes”)

Your answer is correct

trigger(processingTime=”2 minutes")

processingTime(”2 minutes")

trigger(”2 minutes")
trigger()

Overall explanation
In Spark Structured Streaming, in order to process data in micro-batches at the
user-specified intervals, you can use processingTime keyword. It allows to specify
a time duration as a string.

Reference:
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Question 26
Incorrect
Which of the following is used by Auto Loader to load data incrementally?

DEEP CLONE

Multi-hop architecture

COPY INTO

Correct answer
Spark Structured Streaming

Your answer is incorrect

Databricks SQL

Overall explanation
Auto Loader is based on Spark Structured Streaming. It provides a Structured
Streaming source called cloudFiles.

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Question 27
Correct
Which of the following statements best describes Auto Loader ?

Auto loader allows applying Change Data Capture (CDC) feed to update tables based
on changes captured in source data.

Your answer is correct

Auto loader monitors a source location, in which files accumulate, to identify and
ingest only new arriving files with each command run. While the files that have
already been ingested in previous runs are skipped.

Auto loader allows cloning a source Delta table to a target destination at a

specific version.

Auto loader defines data quality expectations on the contents of a dataset, and
reports the records that violate these expectations in metrics.

Auto loader enables efficient insert, update, deletes, and rollback capabilities by
adding a storage layer that provides better data reliability to data lakes.

Overall explanation
Auto Loader incrementally and efficiently processes new data files as they arrive
in cloud storage.

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Question 28
Incorrect
A data engineer has defined the following data quality constraint in a Delta Live
Tables pipeline:

CONSTRAINT valid_id EXPECT (id IS NOT NULL) _____________

Fill in the above blank so records violating this constraint will be added to the
target table, and reported in metrics

ON VIOLATION ADD ROW

Your answer is incorrect

ON VIOLATION FAIL UPDATE

ON VIOLATION SUCCESS UPDATE

ON VIOLATION NULL

Correct answer
There is no need to add ON VIOLATION clause. By default, records violating the
constraint will be kept, and reported as invalid in the event log

Overall explanation
By default, records that violate the expectation are added to the target dataset
along with valid records, but violations will be reported in the event log

Reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/workflows/delta-live-tables/
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Question 29
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The data engineer team has a DLT pipeline that updates all the tables once and then
stops. The compute resources of the pipeline continue running to allow for quick
testing.

Which of the following best describes the execution modes of this DLT pipeline ?

The DLT pipeline executes in Continuous Pipeline mode under Production mode.

The DLT pipeline executes in Continuous Pipeline mode under Development mode.

The DLT pipeline executes in Triggered Pipeline mode under Production mode.

Your answer is correct

The DLT pipeline executes in Triggered Pipeline mode under Development mode.

More information is needed to determine the correct response

Overall explanation
Triggered pipelines update each table with whatever data is currently available and
then they shut down.

In Development mode, the Delta Live Tables system ease the development process by

Reusing a cluster to avoid the overhead of restarts. The cluster runs for two hours
when development mode is enabled.
Disabling pipeline retries so you can immediately detect and fix errors.

Reference:

https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/delta-live-tables/delta-live-tables-
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Question 30
Correct
Which of the following will utilize Gold tables as their source?

Silver tables

Auto loader

Bronze tables

Your answer is correct

Dashboards

Streaming jobs

Overall explanation
Gold tables provide business level aggregates often used for reporting and
dashboarding, or even for Machine learning

Reference:

https://www.databricks.com/glossary/medallion-architecture

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Question 31
Correct
Which of the following code blocks can a data engineer use to query the existing
streaming table events ?

spark.readStream("events")

spark.read
 .table("events")

Your answer is correct

spark.readStream

.table("events")

spark.readStream()

.table("events")

spark.stream

.read("events")

Overall explanation
Delta Lake is deeply integrated with Spark Structured Streaming. You can load
tables as a stream using:

spark.readStream.table(table_name)

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Question 32
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In multi-hop architecture, which of the following statements best describes the
Bronze layer ?

It maintains data that powers analytics, machine learning, and production

applications

Your answer is correct

It maintains raw data ingested from various sources

It represents a filtered, cleaned, and enriched version of data

It provides business-level aggregated version of data

It provides a more refined view of the data.

Overall explanation
Bronze tables contain data in its rawest format ingested from various sources
(e.g., JSON files, Operational Databaes, Kakfa stream, ...)
Reference:

https://www.databricks.com/glossary/medallion-architecture

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Question 33
Correct
Given the following Structured Streaming query

(spark.readStream
.format("cloudFiles")
.option("cloudFiles.format", "json")
.load(ordersLocation)
.writeStream
.option("checkpointLocation", checkpointPath)
.table("uncleanedOrders")
)

Which of the following best describe the purpose of this query in a multi-hop
architecture?

Your answer is correct

The query is performing raw data ingestion into a Bronze table

The query is performing a hop from a Bronze table to a Silver table

The query is performing a hop from Silver table to a Gold table

The query is performing data transfer from a Gold table into a production
application

This query is performing data quality controls prior to Silver layer

Overall explanation
The query here is using Autoloader (cloudFiles) to load raw json data from
ordersLocation into the Bronze table uncleanedOrders

References:

https://www.databricks.com/glossary/medallion-architecture

https://docs.databricks.com/ingestion/auto-loader/index.html
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Question 34
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A data engineer has the following query in a Delta Live Tables pipeline:

CREATE LIVE TABLE aggregated_sales

AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM cleaned_sales
GROUP BY store_id

The pipeline is failing to start due to an error in this query

Which of the following changes should be made to this query to successfully start
the DLT pipeline ?

CREATE STREAMING TABLE aggregated_sales

AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM LIVE.cleaned_sales
GROUP BY store_id
CREATE TABLE aggregated_sales
AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM LIVE.cleaned_sales
GROUP BY store_id
Your answer is correct
CREATE LIVE TABLE aggregated_sales
AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM LIVE.cleaned_sales
GROUP BY store_id
CREATE STREAMING LIVE TABLE aggregated_sales
AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM cleaned_sales
GROUP BY store_id
CREATE STREAMING LIVE TABLE aggregated_sales
AS
SELECT store_id, sum(total)
FROM STREAM(cleaned_sales)
GROUP BY store_id
Overall explanation
In DLT pipelines, we use the CREATE LIVE TABLE syntax to create a table with SQL.
To query another live table, prepend the LIVE. keyword to the table name.
CREATE LIVE TABLE aggregated_sales

AS

SELECT store_id, sum(total)

FROM LIVE.cleaned_sales

GROUP BY store_id

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/delta-live-tables/delta-live-
tables-sql-ref.html

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Question 35
Correct
A data engineer has defined the following data quality constraint in a Delta Live
Tables pipeline:

CONSTRAINT valid_id EXPECT (id IS NOT NULL) _____________

Fill in the above blank so records violating this constraint will be dropped, and
reported in metrics

Your answer is correct

ON VIOLATION DROP ROW

ON VIOLATION FAIL UPDATE

ON VIOLATION DELETE ROW

ON VIOLATION DISCARD ROW

There is no need to add ON VIOLATION clause. By default, records violating the

constraint will be discarded, and reported as invalid in the event log

Overall explanation
With ON VIOLATION DROP ROW, records that violate the expectation are dropped, and
violations are reported in the event log

Reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/workflows/delta-live-tables/
delta-live-tables-expectations

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Question 36
Correct
Which of the following compute resources is available in Databricks SQL ?

Single-node clusters

Multi-nodes clusters

On-premises clusters

Your answer is correct

SQL warehouses

SQL engines

Overall explanation
Compute resources are infrastructure resources that provide processing capabilities
in the cloud. A SQL warehouse is a compute resource that lets you run SQL commands
on data objects within Databricks SQL.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/admin/sql-endpoints.html

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Question 37
Correct
Which of the following is the benefit of using the Auto Stop feature of Databricks
SQL warehouses ?

Improves the performance of the warehouse by automatically stopping ideal services

Your answer is correct

Minimizes the total running time of the warehouse

Provides higher security by automatically stopping unused ports of the warehouse

Increases the availability of the warehouse by automatically stopping long-running

SQL queries

Databricks SQL does not have Auto Stop feature

Overall explanation
The Auto Stop feature stops the warehouse if it’s idle for a specified number of
minutes.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/admin/sql-endpoints.html

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Question 38
Correct
Which of the following alert destinations is Not supported in Databricks SQL ?

Slack

Webhook

Your answer is correct

SMS

Microsoft Teams

Email

Overall explanation
SMS is not supported as an alert destination in Databricks SQL . While, email,
webhook, Slack, and Microsoft Teams are supported alert destinations in Databricks
SQL.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/admin/alert-destinations.html

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Question 39
Correct
A data engineering team has a long-running multi-tasks Job. The team members need
to be notified when the run of this job completes.

Which of the following approaches can be used to send emails to the team members
when the job completes ?

They can use Job API to programmatically send emails according to each task status
Your answer is correct
They can configure email notifications settings in the job page

There is no way to notify users when the job completes

Only Job owner can be configured to be notified when the job completes

They can configure email notifications settings per notebook in the task page

Overall explanation
Databricks Jobs supports email notifications to be notified in the case of job
start, success, or failure. Simply, click Edit email notifications from the details
panel in the Job page. From there, you can add one or more email addresses.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/jobs/jobs.html#alerts-job

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Question 40
Correct
A data engineer wants to increase the cluster size of an existing Databricks SQL
warehouse.

Which of the following is the benefit of increasing the cluster size of Databricks
SQL warehouses ?

Your answer is correct

Improves the latency of the queries execution

Speeds up the start up time of the SQL warehouse

Reduces cost since large clusters use Spot instances

The cluster size of SQL warehouses is not configurable. Instead, they can increase
the number of clusters

The cluster size can not be changed for existing SQL warehouses. Instead, they can
enable the auto-scaling option.

Overall explanation
Cluster Size represents the number of cluster workers and size of compute resources
available to run your queries and dashboards. To reduce query latency, you can
increase the cluster size.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/admin/sql-endpoints.html#cluster-size-1

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Question 41
Correct
Which of the following describes Cron syntax in Databricks Jobs ?

It’s an expression to represent the maximum concurrent runs of a job

Your answer is correct

It’s an expression to represent complex job schedule that can be defined
programmatically

It’s an expression to represent the retry policy of a job

It’s an expression to describe the email notification events (start, success,

failure)

It’s an expression to represent the run timeout of a job

Overall explanation
To define a schedule for a Databricks job, you can either interactively specify the
period and starting time, or write a Cron Syntax expression. The Cron Syntax allows
to represent complex job schedule that can be defined programmatically

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/jobs/jobs.html#schedule-a-job

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Question 42
Incorrect
The data engineer team has a DLT pipeline that updates all the tables at defined
intervals until manually stopped. The compute resources terminate when the pipeline
is stopped.

Which of the following best describes the execution modes of this DLT pipeline ?

Correct answer
The DLT pipeline executes in Continuous Pipeline mode under Production mode.

Your answer is incorrect

The DLT pipeline executes in Continuous Pipeline mode under Development mode.

The DLT pipeline executes in Triggered Pipeline mode under Production mode.

The DLT pipeline executes in Triggered Pipeline mode under Development mode.

More information is needed to determine the correct response

Overall explanation
Continuous pipelines update tables continuously as input data changes. Once an
update is started, it continues to run until the pipeline is shut down.

In Production mode, the Delta Live Tables system:

Terminates the cluster immediately when the pipeline is stopped.

Restarts the cluster for recoverable errors (e.g., memory leak or stale
credentials).

Retries execution in case of specific errors (e.g., a failure to start a cluster)

Reference:

https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/delta-live-tables/delta-live-tables-
concepts.html

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Question 43
Correct
Which part of the Databricks Platform can a data engineer use to grant permissions
on tables to users ?

Data Studio

Cluster event log

Workflows
DBFS

Your answer is correct

Data Explorer

Overall explanation
Data Explorer in Databricks SQL allows you to manage data object permissions. This
includes granting privileges on tables and databases to users or groups of users.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/security/access-control/data-acl.html#data-
explorer

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Question 44
Correct
Which of the following commands can a data engineer use to grant full permissions
to the HR team on the table employees ?

GRANT FULL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE employees TO hr_team

GRANT FULL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE hr_team TO employees

Your answer is correct

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE employees TO hr_team

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE hr_team TO employees

GRANT SELECT, MODIFY, CREATE, READ_METADATA ON TABLE employees TO hr_team

Overall explanation
ALL PRIVILEGES is used to grant full permissions on an object to a user or group of
users. It is translated into all the below privileges:

SELECT

CREATE

MODIFY

USAGE

READ_METADATA

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/security/access-control/table-acls/object-
privileges.html#privileges
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Question 45
Correct
A data engineer uses the following SQL query:

GRANT MODIFY ON TABLE employees TO hr_team

Which of the following describes the ability given by the MODIFY privilege ?

It gives the ability to add data from the table

It gives the ability to delete data from the table

It gives the ability to modify data in the table

Your answer is correct

All the above abilities are given by the MODIFY privilege

None of these options correctly describe the ability given by the MODIFY privilege

Overall explanation
The MODIFY privilege gives the ability to add, delete, and modify data to or from
an object.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/security/access-control/table-acls/object-
privileges.html#privileges

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