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Monitoring and Alerting Questions

Practice questions for Monitoring and Alerting topic in Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional. 20 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

A data engineer wants to monitor the number of records dropped by a `@dp.expect_or_drop` expectation in a Lakeflow SDP pipeline over time. Where can t...

Q2
hard

A data engineer streams incremental data from `system.billing.usage` into a Delta table for near-real-time cost monitoring. The streaming job intermit...

Q3
medium

A FinOps team wants to build a dashboard showing daily Databricks compute spend broken down by workspace and SKU, covering all workspaces in the accou...

Q4
medium

A data engineer wants to identify all SQL queries that ran on a specific SQL warehouse in the past 7 days and took longer than 5 minutes. Which system...

Q5
easy

What is the minimum prerequisite for a Databricks workspace to access system tables?

Q6
hard

A FinOps engineer wants to identify which Lakeflow Jobs in the account consumed the most DBUs in the past 7 days and join this with job run metadata t...

Q7
easy

Which system table records a history of all changes made to a Unity Catalog object's permissions (grants and revocations) for audit purposes?

Q8
hard

A data engineer is streaming from `system.billing.usage` into a Delta table for near-real-time cost monitoring. The stream fails with an error indicat...

Q9
medium

A data engineer wants to build a dashboard showing the P95 query duration for all SQL warehouse queries over the past 30 days, grouped by warehouse. W...

Q10
medium

A data engineering team wants to alert on-call engineers automatically when any Lakeflow Job in the production workspace fails. They want to avoid che...

Q11
easy

Which system table tracks the start and end times of Lakeflow Job runs?

Q12
medium

A workspace that is not enabled for Unity Catalog needs to query the `system` catalog. What is the documented blocker?

Q13
hard

A streaming job reads from `system.billing.usage` with `Trigger.AvailableNow()`, but the run behaves like a one-shot batch and later fails when it fal...

Q14
medium

A team streams `system.query.history` into a Delta table and wants the pipeline to keep working if Databricks adds new columns to the system table. Wh...

Q15
medium

Which privileges must an admin grant so a user can query a system schema such as `system.billing`?

Q16
medium

A FinOps team needs an account-wide view of DBU consumption by workspace and SKU. Which system table should they query?

Q17
hard

A job streams from `system.billing.usage` with `Trigger.AvailableNow()` and then falls more than a week behind. Which explanation best matches Databri...

Q18
medium

An admin wants an analyst to query `system.billing.usage`. Which privileges must be granted?

Q19
medium

A streaming job reads incrementally from `system.billing.usage` and sometimes fails when Databricks expires old records. Which read option is recommen...

Q20
easy

A platform team wants to query Databricks system tables from a workspace. What is the minimum workspace requirement?

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