QUESTION 43
A data engineer has a Job with multiple tasks that runs nightly. Each of the tasks runs slowly because the clusters take a long time to start.
Which of the following actions can the data engineer perform to improve the start up time for the clusters used for the Job?

QUESTION 44
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?

QUESTION 45
Which of the following describes the storage organization of a Delta table?

QUESTION 46
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 code block used by the data engineer is below:

If the data engineer only wants the query to process all of the available data in as many batches as required, which of the following lines of code should the data engineer use to fill in the blank?

QUESTION 47
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?

QUESTION 48
Which of the following can be used to simplify and unify siloed data architectures that are specialized for specific use cases?

QUESTION 49
Which of the following Git operations must be performed outside of Databricks Repos?

QUESTION 50
A data engineer is running code in a Databricks Repo that is cloned from a central Git repository. A colleague of the data engineer informs them that changes have been made and synced to the central Git repository. The data engineer now needs to sync their Databricks Repo to get the changes from the central Git repository.
Which of the following Git operations does the data engineer need to run to accomplish this task?

QUESTION 51
Which of the following describes a benefit of creating an external table from Parquet rather than CSV when using a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT statement?

QUESTION 52
A data engineer has joined an existing project and they see the following query in the project repository:
CREATE STREAMING LIVE TABLE loyal_customers AS
SELECT customer_id –
FROM STREAM(LIVE.customers)
WHERE loyalty_level = ‘high’;
Which of the following describes why the STREAM function is included in the query?

QUESTION 53
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 Development 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?

QUESTION 54
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?

QUESTION 55
Which of the following is stored in the Databricks customer’s cloud account?

QUESTION 56
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 Development 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?

QUESTION 57
Which of the following data lakehouse features results in improved data quality over a traditional data lake?

QUESTION 58
A data engineer that is new to using Python needs to create a Python function to add two integers together and return the sum?
Which of the following code blocks can the data engineer use to complete this task?

QUESTION 59
Which of the following describes the relationship between Gold tables and Silver tables?

QUESTION 60
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?

QUESTION 61
A new data engineering team team. has been assigned to an ELT project. The new data engineering team will need full privileges on the database customers to fully manage the project.
Which of the following commands can be used to grant full permissions on the database to the new data engineering team?

QUESTION 62
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?

QUESTION 63
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?

QUESTION 64
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?

QUESTION 65
Which of the following must be specified when creating a new Delta Live Tables pipeline?

QUESTION 66
In which of the following file formats is data from Delta Lake tables primarily stored?