EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following must be specified when creating a new Delta Live Tables pipeline?

Question2: A data engineer has a Job with multiple tasks that runs nightly. Each of the tasks runs slowly because the clusters take a long time to start.
Which of the following actions can the data engineer perform to improve the start up time for the clusters used for the Job?

Question3: Which of the following describes a scenario in which a data team will want to utilize cluster pools?

Question4: 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?

Question5: A data analyst has created a Delta table sales that is used by the entire data analysis team. They want help from the data engineering team to implement a series of tests to ensure the data is clean. However, the data engineering team uses Python for its tests rather than SQL.
Which of the following commands could the data engineering team use to access sales in PySpark?

Question6: A data engineer is working with two tables. Each of these tables is displayed below in its entirety.

The data engineer runs the following query to join these tables together:

Which of the following will be returned by the above query?

Question7: A data engineer needs to use a Delta table as part of a data pipeline, but they do not know if they have the appropriate permissions.
In which of the following locations can the data engineer review their permissions on the table?

Question8: 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 Development 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?

Question9: Which of the following is a benefit of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform embracing open source technologies?

Question10: Which of the following Git operations must be performed outside of Databricks Repos?

Question11: Which of the following is hosted completely in the control plane of the classic Databricks architecture?

Question12: A data engineer and data analyst are working together on a data pipeline. The data engineer is working on the raw, bronze, and silver layers of the pipeline using Python, and the data analyst is working on the gold layer of the pipeline using SQL. The raw source of the pipeline is a streaming input. They now want to migrate their pipeline to use Delta Live Tables.
Which of the following changes will need to be made to the pipeline when migrating to Delta Live Tables?

Question13: A data engineer has developed a data pipeline to ingest data from a JSON source using Auto Loader, but the engineer has not provided any type inference or schema hints in their pipeline. Upon reviewing the data, the data engineer has noticed that all of the columns in the target table are of the string type despite some of the fields only including float or boolean values.
Which of the following describes why Auto Loader inferred all of the columns to be of the string type?

Question14: A data engineer only wants to execute the final block of a Python program if the Python variable day_of_week is equal to 1 and the Python variable review_period is True.
Which of the following control flow statements should the data engineer use to begin this conditionally executed code block?

Question15: Which of the following benefits of using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform is provided by Delta Lake?

Question16: In which of the following file formats is data from Delta Lake tables primarily stored?

Question17: Which of the following describes the relationship between Gold tables and Silver tables?

Question18: A data engineer needs to create a table in Databricks using data from a CSV file at location /path/to/csv.
They run the following command:

Which of the following lines of code fills in the above blank to successfully complete the task?

Question19: A data engineer has a single-task Job that runs each morning before they begin working. After identifying an upstream data issue, they need to set up another task to run a new notebook prior to the original task.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to set up the new task?

Question20: A data engineer wants to create a relational object by pulling data from two tables. The relational object does not need to be used by other data engineers in other sessions. In order to save on storage costs, the data engineer wants to avoid copying and storing physical data.
Which of the following relational objects should the data engineer create?

Question21: A data engineer has been given a new record of data:
id STRING = 'a1'
rank INTEGER = 6
rating FLOAT = 9.4
Which of the following SQL commands can be used to append the new record to an existing Delta table my_table?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: Which of the following describes the type of workloads that are always compatible with Auto Loader?

Question25: 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?

Question26: Which of the following tools is used by Auto Loader process data incrementally?

Question27: A data engineer has realized that the data files associated with a Delta table are incredibly small. They want to compact the small files to form larger files to improve performance.
Which of the following keywords can be used to compact the small files?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A data engineer has a Python variable table_name that they would like to use in a SQL query. They want to construct a Python code block that will run the query using table_name.
They have the following incomplete code block:
____(f"SELECT customer_id, spend FROM {table_name}")
Which of the following can be used to fill in the blank to successfully complete the task?

Question30: An engineering manager uses a Databricks SQL query to monitor ingestion latency for each data source. The manager checks the results of the query every day, but they are manually rerunning the query each day and waiting for the results.
Which of the following approaches can the manager use to ensure the results of the query are updated each day?

Question31: Which of the following describes a scenario in which a data engineer will want to use a single-node cluster?

Question32: Which of the following commands can be used to write data into a Delta table while avoiding the writing of duplicate records?

Question33: A data engineer has a Python notebook in Databricks, but they need to use SQL to accomplish a specific task within a cell. They still want all of the other cells to use Python without making any changes to those cells.
Which of the following describes how the data engineer can use SQL within a cell of their Python notebook?

Question34: Which of the following statements regarding the relationship between Silver tables and Bronze tables is always true?

Question35: A single Job runs two notebooks as two separate tasks. A data engineer has noticed that one of the notebooks is running slowly in the Job's current run. The data engineer asks a tech lead for help in identifying why this might be the case.
Which of the following approaches can the tech lead use to identify why the notebook is running slowly as part of the Job?

Question36: A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table and runs the following command:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table;
After running this command, the engineer notices that the data files and metadata files have been deleted from the file system.
Which of the following describes why all of these files were deleted?

Question37: A data engineer wants to schedule their Databricks SQL dashboard to refresh every hour, but they only want the associated SQL endpoint to be running when it is necessary. The dashboard has multiple queries on multiple datasets associated with it. The data that feeds the dashboard is automatically processed using a Databricks Job.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to minimize the total running time of the SQL endpoint used in the refresh schedule of their dashboard?

Question38: A data engineer wants to schedule their Databricks SQL dashboard to refresh once per day, but they only want the associated SQL endpoint to be running when it is necessary.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to minimize the total running time of the SQL endpoint used in the refresh schedule of their dashboard?

Question39: A data engineer is running code in a Databricks Repo that is cloned from a central Git repository. A colleague of the data engineer informs them that changes have been made and synced to the central Git repository. The data engineer now needs to sync their Databricks Repo to get the changes from the central Git repository.
Which of the following Git operations does the data engineer need to run to accomplish this task?

Question40: A data engineer has been using a Databricks SQL dashboard to monitor the cleanliness of the input data to a data analytics dashboard for a retail use case. The job has a Databricks SQL query that returns the number of store-level records where sales is equal to zero. The data engineer wants their entire team to be notified via a messaging webhook whenever this value is greater than 0.
Which of the following approaches can the data engineer use to notify their entire team via a messaging webhook whenever the number of stores with $0 in sales is greater than zero?

Question41: A data engineer has left the organization. The data team needs to transfer ownership of the data engineer's Delta tables to a new data engineer. The new data engineer is the lead engineer on the data team.
Assuming the original data engineer no longer has access, which of the following individuals must be the one to transfer ownership of the Delta tables in Data Explorer?

Question42: In which of the following scenarios should a data engineer use the MERGE INTO command instead of the INSERT INTO command?

Question43: A data architect has determined that a table of the following format is necessary:

Which of the following code blocks uses SQL DDL commands to create an empty Delta table in the above format regardless of whether a table already exists with this name?