Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
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You need to design an analytical storage solution for the transactional data. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to design a data ingestion and storage solution for the Twitter feeds. The solution must meet the customer sentiment analytics requirements.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area
NOTE: Each correct selection b worth one point.
You are designing a streaming data solution that will ingest variable volumes of data.
You need to ensure that you can change the partition count after creation.
Which service should you use to ingest the data?
You need to implement the surrogate key for the retail store table. The solution must meet the sales transaction
dataset requirements.
What should you create?
You need to implement an Azure Synapse Analytics database object for storing the sales transactions data. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to design a data retention solution for the Twitter feed data records. The solution must meet the customer sentiment analytics requirements.
Which Azure Storage functionality should you include in the solution?
You need to implement versioned changes to the integration pipelines. The solution must meet the data integration requirements.
In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
You are designing an application that will use an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 account to store petabytes of license plate photos from toll booths. The account will use zone-redundant storage (ZRS).
You identify the following usage patterns:
• The data will be accessed several times a day during the first 30 days after the data is created. The data must meet an availability SU of 99.9%.
• After 90 days, the data will be accessed infrequently but must be available within 30 seconds.
• After 365 days, the data will be accessed infrequently but must be available within five minutes.
You have an Azure data factory.
You execute a pipeline that contains an activity named Activity1. Activity1 produces the following output.
For each of the following statements select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You are designing a slowly changing dimension (SCD) for supplier data in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
You plan to keep a record of changes to the available fields.
The supplier data contains the following columns.
Which three additional columns should you add to the data to create a Type 2 SCD? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
In Azure Data Factory, you have a schedule trigger that is scheduled in Pacific Time.
Pacific Time observes daylight saving time.
The trigger has the following JSON file.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have two Azure Data Factory instances named ADFdev and ADFprod. ADFdev connects to an Azure DevOps Git repository.
You publish changes from the main branch of the Git repository to ADFdev.
You need to deploy the artifacts from ADFdev to ADFprod.
What should you do first?
You need to design the partitions for the product sales transactions. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure event hub named retailhub that has 16 partitions. Transactions are posted to retailhub. Each transaction includes the transaction ID, the individual line items, and the payment details. The transaction ID is used as the partition key.
You are designing an Azure Stream Analytics job to identify potentially fraudulent transactions at a retail store. The job will use retailhub as the input. The job will output the transaction ID, the individual line items, the payment details, a fraud score, and a fraud indicator.
You plan to send the output to an Azure event hub named fraudhub.
You need to ensure that the fraud detection solution is highly scalable and processes transactions as quickly as possible.
How should you structure the output of the Stream Analytics job? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You are designing a dimension table for a data warehouse. The table will track the value of the dimension attributes over time and preserve the history of the data by adding new rows as the data changes.
Which type of slowly changing dimension (SCD) should use?
You have an Azure Data Factory instance named ADF1 and two Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces named WS1 and WS2.
ADF1 contains the following pipelines:
P1: Uses a copy activity to copy data from a nonpartitioned table in a dedicated SQL pool of WS1 to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account
P2: Uses a copy activity to copy data from text-delimited files in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account to a nonpartitioned table in a dedicated SQL pool of WS2
You need to configure P1 and P2 to maximize parallelism and performance.
Which dataset settings should you configure for the copy activity if each pipeline? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure data factory named ADM.
You currently publish all pipeline authoring changes directly to ADF1.
You need to implement version control for the changes made to pipeline artifacts The solution must ensure that you can apply version control to the resources currently defined in the Azure Data Factory Studio for AOFl
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to ensure that the Twitter feed data can be analyzed in the dedicated SQL pool. The solution must meet the customer sentiment analytics requirements.
Which three Transaction-SQL DDL commands should you run in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate commands from the list of commands to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
NOTE: More than one order of answer choices is correct. You will receive credit for any of the correct orders you select.
You are implementing Azure Stream Analytics windowing functions.
Which windowing function should you use for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.
The storage1 account contains a container named container1. The container1 container contains the following files.
In the Built-in serverless SQL pool, you run the following script
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that contains a table named Sales.Orders. Sales.Orders contains a column named SalesRep.
You plan to implement row-level security (RLS) for Sales.Orders.
You need to create the security policy that will be used to implement RLS. The solution must ensure that sales representatives only see rows for which the value of the SalesRep column matches their username.
How should you complete the code? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You are designing an Azure Stream Analytics solution that will analyze Twitter data.
You need to count the tweets in each 10-second window. The solution must ensure that each tweet is counted only once.
Solution: You use a tumbling window, and you set the window size to 10 seconds.
Does this meet the goal?
You are designing a statistical analysis solution that will use custom proprietary1 Python functions on near real-time data from Azure Event Hubs.
You need to recommend which Azure service to use to perform the statistical analysis. The solution must minimize latency.
What should you recommend?
You have an Azure Stream Analytics job that is a Stream Analytics project solution in Microsoft Visual Studio. The job accepts data generated by IoT devices in the JSON format.
You need to modify the job to accept data generated by the IoT devices in the Protobuf format.
Which three actions should you perform from Visual Studio on sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
You use Azure Data Factory to create data pipelines.
You are evaluating whether to integrate Data Factory and GitHub for source and version control What are two advantages of the integration? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage account that contains a staging zone.
You need to design a daily process to ingest incremental data from the staging zone, transform the data by executing an R script, and then insert the transformed data into a data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.
Solution: You schedule an Azure Databricks job that executes an R notebook, and then inserts the data into the data warehouse.
Does this meet the goal?
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics job that uses Scala.
You need to view the status of the job.
What should you do?
You have the following table named Employees.
You need to calculate the employee_type value based on the hire_date value.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named Pool1 and a database named DB1. DB1 contains a fact table named Table1.
You need to identify the extent of the data skew in Table1.
What should you do in Synapse Studio?
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace.
You plan to deploy a lake database by using a database template in Azure Synapse.
Which two elements ate included in the template? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point
What should you recommend to prevent users outside the Litware on-premises network from accessing the analytical data store?
What should you do to improve high availability of the real-time data processing solution?
What should you recommend using to secure sensitive customer contact information?
Which Azure Data Factory components should you recommend using together to import the daily inventory data from the SQL server to Azure Data Lake Storage? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure subscription.
You plan to build a data warehouse in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named pool1 that will contain staging tables and a dimensional model. Pool1 will contain the following tables.
You need to design the table storage for pool1. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Maximize the performance of data loading operations to Staging.WebSessions.
Minimize query times for reporting queries against the dimensional model.
Which type of table distribution should you use for each table? To answer, drag the appropriate table distribution types to the correct tables. Each table distribution type may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that uses a third normal form schema.
You plan to migrate the data in the database to a star schema in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQI pool.
You need to design the dimension tables. The solution must optimize read operations.
What should you include in the solution? to answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage account that contains a staging zone.
You need to design a dairy process to ingest incremental data from the staging zone, transform the data by executing an R script, and then insert the transformed data into a data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.
Solution: You use an Azure Data Factory schedule trigger to execute a pipeline that copies the data to a staging table in the data warehouse, and then uses a stored procedure to execute the R script.
Does this meet the goal?
You are building an Azure Analytics query that will receive input data from Azure IoT Hub and write the results to Azure Blob storage.
You need to calculate the difference in readings per sensor per hour.
How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to create a partitioned table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have an Azure subscription that contains a Microsoft Purview account.
You need to search the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog to identify assets that have an assetType property of Table or View
Which query should you run?
You plan to create an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
You need to minimize the time it takes to identify queries that return confidential information as defined by the company's data privacy regulations and the users who executed the queues.
Which two components should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
From a website analytics system, you receive data extracts about user interactions such as downloads, link clicks, form submissions, and video plays.
The data contains the following columns.
You need to design a star schema to support analytical queries of the data. The star schema will contain four tables including a date dimension.
To which table should you add each column? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You are monitoring an Azure Stream Analytics job by using metrics in Azure.
You discover that during the last 12 hours, the average watermark delay is consistently greater than the configured late arrival tolerance.
What is a possible cause of this behavior?
You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure Data Factory data pipeline named Pipeline1, a Log Analytics workspace named LA1, and a storage account named account1.
You need to retain pipeline-run data for 90 days. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• The pipeline-run data must be removed automatically after 90 days.
• Ongoing costs must be minimized.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to design a data storage structure for the product sales transactions. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to integrate the on-premises data sources and Azure Synapse Analytics. The solution must meet the data integration requirements.
Which type of integration runtime should you use?