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Data Governance & Quality Questions

Practice questions for Data Governance & Quality topic in Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. 22 questions covering this domain.

22 questions6 easy11 medium5 hard
Q1
easy

What happens when a Unity Catalog managed table is dropped with `DROP TABLE`?

Q2
medium

A data engineer needs to grant a group of analysts `SELECT` access to all tables in a schema named `analytics` in the `prod` catalog. They also need t...

Q3
medium

A data engineer needs to register an existing Parquet dataset stored in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 path as a queryable table in Unity Catalog wit...

Q4
easy

In Unity Catalog, what is the three-level namespace used to reference a table?

Q5
hard

A data engineer discovers that sensitive PII data in a `customers` table is visible to all analysts in their workspace because a previous admin grante...

Q6
medium

A data engineer needs to audit which users have been granted privileges on a specific Delta table `prod.sales.orders` in Unity Catalog. Which SQL comm...

Q7
easy

In Unity Catalog, what is the purpose of a volume?

Q8
easy

A data engineer needs to insert, update, and delete rows in a Unity Catalog table. They already have `SELECT` on the table. Which additional privilege...

Q9
medium

A data engineer creates a Delta table in Unity Catalog and wants to add a NOT NULL constraint to the `order_id` column after the table has been create...

Q10
medium

A data engineer needs to give a service principal `etl_pipeline_sp` write access to ingest data into a managed volume `landing_vol` in schema `ingesti...

Q11
hard

A data engineering team has a Unity Catalog table `prod.finance.transactions` containing sensitive customer data. The security team requires that: (1)...

Q12
medium

A Unity Catalog metastore admin wants to understand the full lineage of a Delta table: which upstream tables it reads from and which downstream tables...

Q13
hard

A data engineer sets up a Delta table with a CHECK constraint: `ALTER TABLE orders ADD CONSTRAINT positive_amount CHECK (amount > 0)`. Later, a data p...

Q14
hard

A data steward opens a lineage graph for a table in Workspace B, but the upstream notebook that created the data was run in Workspace A. What should t...

Q15
easy

What is the standard Unity Catalog namespace used to reference a table or volume?

Q16
medium

A user wants to add a governed tag to a Unity Catalog table. Which privileges are required at minimum?

Q17
medium

What does the `BROWSE` privilege on a catalog allow a user to do?

Q18
medium

A company has two Databricks workspaces attached to the same Unity Catalog metastore. They want users in Workspace B to access tables owned in Workspa...

Q19
hard

Two workspaces are attached to the same Unity Catalog metastore. A steward opens the lineage graph in Workspace B for a table produced by a notebook r...

Q20
easy

What is the standard Unity Catalog namespace used to reference governed data objects such as tables and volumes?

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