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Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment Questions

Practice questions for Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment topic in Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate. 37 questions covering this domain.

37 questions12 easy16 medium9 hard
Q1
medium

A platform team needs to restrict which compute settings users can choose when they create clusters. Which feature should they use?

Q2
hard

A cost-conscious team plans to use spot instances for workers on a classic compute resource. What should they do for the driver node?

Q3
medium

A developer runs a small non-distributed workload and wants a compute type that uses only the driver node. Which option should be chosen?

Q4
hard

A cluster must access Unity Catalog data. Which combination satisfies the documented compute requirements?

Q5
medium

A team wants a cluster to shut down automatically after a period of inactivity to reduce cost. Which compute setting should they configure?

Q6
easy

A workspace admin wants a multi-user compute option with data isolation among users for most Unity Catalog workloads. Which compute access mode should...

Q7
easy

A team is configuring compute for recurring production job workloads and wants to reduce upgrade risk by staying on a stable runtime line. Which Datab...

Q8
medium

A security team wants libraries for Unity Catalog-enabled standard access mode compute on Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS and above to come from the recom...

Q9
hard

A team wants to deliver cluster logs to a Unity Catalog volume. Which permissions must the compute owner or assigned user have on that volume?

Q10
medium

A team enables Azure Private Link for the Databricks workspace. Which traffic flow does this control?

Q11
medium

An admin must restrict outbound network access from a Databricks workspace to specific Azure resources in a VNet. Which deployment option supports thi...

Q12
medium

A workspace admin must enforce that only certain VM sizes are allowed when users create clusters. Which feature should they configure?

Q13
easy

Which Azure Databricks SQL compute option provides instant startup and elastic scaling without managing clusters?

Q14
easy

Which Azure Databricks compute feature lets you maintain a set of pre-warmed cloud VM instances to reduce cluster startup time?

Q15
easy

What does enabling Photon on a cluster or SQL warehouse do?

Q16
hard

A team wants to send Azure Databricks audit logs to a centralized SIEM solution. Which Azure mechanism should they use?

Q17
medium

Which compute access mode supports machine-learning shared workloads using GPU init libraries that aren't supported on Standard mode?

Q18
hard

A workspace must read data from an ADLS Gen2 storage account using a managed identity (no secrets) and Unity Catalog. Which UC object provides this?

Q19
medium

A workspace admin wants to run a shell script on every cluster node every time a cluster starts in order to install a custom OS-level dependency. Whic...

Q20
easy

Which Azure Databricks compute type is specifically designed for running scheduled jobs and is billed at a lower DBU rate than all-purpose clusters?

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