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Databricks Intelligence Platform Questions

Practice questions for Databricks Intelligence Platform topic in Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. 20 questions covering this domain.

20 questions8 easy8 medium4 hard
Q1
easy

What are the two types of clusters available in Databricks?

Q2
medium

A Databricks account has three workspaces deployed in the same region. An administrator wants to apply a single governance policy for all data assets ...

Q3
medium

A data engineer needs to run an automated ETL notebook every night. To minimize cost, which compute configuration should they use?

Q4
easy

What is a Databricks workspace?

Q5
hard

A data engineer notices that queries against Unity Catalog tables fail with an authorization error on a cluster running Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS. T...

Q6
hard

A data engineer is migrating from a legacy Hive metastore to Unity Catalog. After the migration, the engineer notices that notebooks running on cluste...

Q7
medium

A data engineer wants to use the Databricks CLI to deploy resources to a Databricks workspace. Which component must the engineer configure first to au...

Q8
easy

In the Databricks Lakehouse architecture, where does the Delta Lake storage layer store the transaction log for a Delta table?

Q9
medium

A data engineer is new to Databricks and needs to understand the relationship between a Databricks account and its workspaces. Which statement correct...

Q10
easy

Which Databricks compute resource is purpose-built for SQL analytics workloads and provides features such as query result caching, data skipping, and ...

Q11
medium

A platform team launches many short-lived job clusters every hour and wants faster startup without keeping full clusters running all day. Which Databr...

Q12
hard

An engineer enables Photon on a streaming workload that uses watermarks and stream-stream joins. Why should they not expect Photon to accelerate the s...

Q13
medium

A workload must use RDD APIs and GPU instances for custom processing. Which compute choice is most appropriate?

Q14
easy

Which description of Photon is accurate?

Q15
easy

A team wants one shared compute resource for collaborative SQL and Python data engineering work and does not need GPU access, RDD APIs, or privileged ...

Q16
easy

A team launches many short-lived job clusters every hour and wants faster startup without keeping full clusters running between jobs. Which Databricks...

Q17
hard

A jobs cluster is attached to an instance pool that uses spot instances for both driver and workers. Runs occasionally restart after capacity reclamat...

Q18
medium

An engineer creates classic compute in the UI and leaves Access mode set to Auto. They choose a Databricks Runtime ML version. Which access mode will ...

Q19
medium

Photon is enabled on a SQL query, but one part of the query uses an unsupported operation. What should the engineer expect during execution?

Q20
easy

A platform team wants one classic compute resource that multiple engineers can share for everyday ETL notebooks and SQL exploration. They do not need ...

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