EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following describes the relationship between Gold tables and Silver tables?

Question2: A data analysis team has noticed that their Databricks SQL queries are running too slowly when connected to their always-on SQL endpoint. They claim that this issue is present when many members of the team are running small queries simultaneously. They ask the data engineering team for help. The data engineering team notices that each of the team's queries uses the same SQL endpoint.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineering team use to improve the latency of the team's queries?

Question3: Which of the following code blocks will remove the rows where the value in column age is greater than 25 from the existing Delta table my_table and save the updated table?

Question4: In order for Structured Streaming to reliably track the exact progress of the processing so that it can handle any kind of failure by restarting and/or reprocessing, which of the following two approaches is used by Spark to record the offset range of the data being processed in each trigger?

Question5: A data engineer runs a statement every day to copy the previous day's sales into the table transactions. Each day's sales are in their own file in the location "/transactions/raw".
Today, the data engineer runs the following command to complete this task:

After running the command today, the data engineer notices that the number of records in table transactions has not changed.
Which of the following describes why the statement might not have copied any new records into the table?

Question6: A data engineer needs to determine whether to use the built-in Databricks Notebooks versioning or version their project using Databricks Repos.
Which of the following is an advantage of using Databricks Repos over the Databricks Notebooks versioning?

Question7: A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table. The data engineer wants to delete all table metadata and data.
They run the following command:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table
While the object no longer appears when they run SHOW TABLES, the data files still exist.
Which of the following describes why the data files still exist and the metadata files were deleted?

Question8: A data analyst has a series of queries in a SQL program. The data analyst wants this program to run every day.
They only want the final query in the program to run on Sundays. They ask for help from the data engineering team to complete this task.
Which of the following approaches could be used by the data engineering team to complete this task?

Question9: A data engineer has configured a Structured Streaming job to read from a table, manipulate the data, and then perform a streaming write into a new table.
The cade block used by the data engineer is below:

If the data engineer only wants the query to execute a micro-batch to process data every 5 seconds, which of the following lines of code should the data engineer use to fill in the blank?

Question10: Which of the following Structured Streaming queries is performing a hop from a Silver table to a Gold table?

Question11: A Delta Live Table pipeline includes two datasets defined using STREAMING LIVE TABLE. Three datasets are defined against Delta Lake table sources using LIVE TABLE.
The table is configured to run in Production mode using the Continuous Pipeline Mode.
Assuming previously unprocessed data exists and all definitions are valid, what is the expected outcome after clicking Start to update the pipeline?

Question12: A data engineer has been using a Databricks SQL dashboard to monitor the cleanliness of the input data to an ELT job. The ELT job has its Databricks SQL query that returns the number of input records containing unexpected NULL values. The data engineer wants their entire team to be notified via a messaging webhook whenever this value reaches 100.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to notify their entire team via a messaging webhook whenever the number of NULL values reaches 100?

Question13: Which of the following is hosted completely in the control plane of the classic Databricks architecture?

Question14: Which of the following describes when to use the CREATE STREAMING LIVE TABLE (formerly CREATE INCREMENTAL LIVE TABLE) syntax over the CREATE LIVE TABLE syntax when creating Delta Live Tables (DLT) tables using SQL?

Question15: A new data engineering team has been assigned to work on a project. The team will need access to database customers in order to see what tables already exist. The team has its own group team.
Which of the following commands can be used to grant the necessary permission on the entire database to the new team?