QuestionQ66

Managing Data

A data organization has an engineering team developing data pipelines with the medallion architecture using Delta Live Tables. A data analysis team working on a project uses gold-layer tables from these pipelines but needs to apply additional processing to those tables before conducting its analysis.

Which of the following terms describes this type of work?

  • A Data blending
  • B Last-mile dashboarding
  • C Data testing
  • D Last-mile ETL
  • E Data enhancement
Explanation

Last-mile ETL is the downstream transformation work analysts perform on curated data to prepare it for a specific analytical use. Databricks describes promoting SQL queries written by analysts for last-mile ETL into production data-engineering code.

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