An upstream system has been configured to pass the date for a given batch of data to the Databricks Jobs API as a parameter. The notebook to be scheduled will use this parameter to load data with the following code: df = spark.read.format("parquet").load(f"/mnt/source/(date)")
Which code block should be used to create the date Python variable used in the above code block?

A Delta table of weather records is partitioned by date and has the below schema: date DATE, device_id INT, temp FLOAT, latitude FLOAT, longitude FLOAT
To find all the records from within the Arctic Circle, you execute a query with the below filter: latitude > 66.3
Which statement describes how the Delta engine identifies which files to load?

The data engineering team has been tasked with configuring connections to an external database that does not have a supported native connector with Databricks. The external database already has data security configured by group membership. These groups map directly to user groups already created in Databricks that represent various teams within the company.

A new login credential has been created for each group in the external database. The Databricks Utilities Secrets module will be used to make these credentials available to Databricks users.

Assuming that all the credentials are configured correctly on the external database and group membership is properly configured on Databricks, which statement describes how teams can be granted the minimum necessary access to using these credentials?

Which indicators would you look for in the Spark UI’s Storage tab to signal that a cached table is not performing optimally? Assume you are using Spark’s MEMORY_ONLY storage level.

What is the first line of a Databricks Python notebook when viewed in a text editor?

Which statement describes a key benefit of an end-to-end test?

The Databricks CLI is used to trigger a run of an existing job by passing the job_id parameter. The response that the job run request has been submitted successfully includes a field run_id.

Which statement describes what the number alongside this field represents?

The data science team has created and logged a production model using MLflow. The model accepts a list of column names and returns a new column of type DOUBLE.

The following code correctly imports the production model, loads the customers table containing the customer_id key column into a DataFrame, and defines the feature columns needed for the model.

Which code block will output a DataFrame with the schema "customer_id LONG, predictions DOUBLE"?

A nightly batch job is configured to ingest all data files from a cloud object storage container where records are stored in a nested directory structure YYYY/MM/DD. The data for each date represents all records that were processed by the source system on that date, noting that some records may be delayed as they await moderator approval. Each entry represents a user review of a product and has the following schema:

user_id STRING, review_id BIGINT, product_id BIGINT, review_timestamp TIMESTAMP, review_text STRING

The ingestion job is configured to append all data for the previous date to a target table reviews_raw with an identical schema to the source system. The next step in the pipeline is a batch write to propagate all new records inserted into reviews_raw to a table where data is fully deduplicated, validated, and enriched.

Which solution minimizes the compute costs to propagate this batch of data?

Which statement describes Delta Lake optimized writes?

Which statement describes the default execution mode for Databricks Auto Loader?

A Delta Lake table representing metadata about content posts from users has the following schema:

user_id LONG, post_text STRING, post_id STRING, longitude FLOAT, latitude FLOAT, post_time TIMESTAMP, date DATE

Based on the above schema, which column is a good candidate for partitioning the Delta Table?

The data engineering team has configured a job to process customer requests to be forgotten (have their data deleted). All user data that needs to be deleted is stored in Delta Lake tables using default table settings.
The team has decided to process all deletions from the previous week as a batch job at 1am each Sunday. The total duration of this job is less than one hour. Every Monday at 3am, a batch job executes a series of VACUUM commands on all Delta Lake tables throughout the organization.
The compliance officer has recently learned about Delta Lake's time travel functionality. They are concerned that this might allow continued access to deleted data.
Assuming all delete logic is correctly implemented, which statement correctly addresses this concern?

A large company seeks to implement a near real-time solution involving hundreds of pipelines with parallel updates of many tables with extremely high volume and high velocity data.

Which of the following solutions would you implement to achieve this requirement?

Which describes a method of installing a Python package scoped at the notebook level to all nodes in the currently active cluster?

Each configuration below is identical to the extent that each cluster has 400 GB total of RAM 160 total cores and only one Executor per VM.

Given an extremely long-running job for which completion must be guaranteed, which cluster configuration will be able to guarantee completion of the job in light of one or more VM failures?

A Delta Lake table in the Lakehouse named customer_churn_params is used in churn prediction by the machine learning team. The table contains information about customers derived from a number of upstream sources. Currently, the data engineering team populates this table nightly by overwriting the table with the current valid values derived from upstream data sources.

Immediately after each update succeeds, the data engineering team would like to determine the difference between the new version and the previous version of the table.

Given the current implementation, which method can be used?

A data team’s Structured Streaming job is configured to calculate running aggregates for item sales to update a downstream marketing dashboard. The marketing team has introduced a new promotion, and they would like to add a new field to track the number of times this promotion code is used for each item. A junior data engineer suggests updating the existing query as follows. Note that proposed changes are in bold.

Original query:

Proposed query:

Which step must also be completed to put the proposed query into production?

When using CLI or REST API to get results from jobs with multiple tasks, which statement correctly describes the response structure?

The data engineering team is configuring environments for development, testing, and production before beginning migration on a new data pipeline. The team requires extensive testing on both the code and data resulting from code execution, and the team wants to develop and test against data as similar to production data as possible.

A junior data engineer suggests that production data can be mounted to the development and testing environments, allowing pre-production code to execute against production data. Because all users have admin privileges in the development environment, the junior data engineer has offered to configure permissions and mount this data for the team.

Which statement captures best practices for this situation?

A data engineer, User A, has promoted a pipeline to production by using the REST API to programmatically create several jobs. A DevOps engineer, User B, has configured an external orchestration tool to trigger job runs through the REST API. Both users authorized the REST API calls using their personal access tokens.

A workspace admin, User C, inherits responsibility for managing this pipeline. User C uses the Databricks Jobs UI to take "Owner" privileges of each job. Jobs continue to be triggered using the credentials and tooling configured by User B.

An application has been configured to collect and parse run information returned by the REST API. Which statement describes the value returned in the creator_user_name field?

A member of the data engineering team has submitted a short notebook that they wish to schedule as part of a larger data pipeline. Assume that the commands provided below produce the logically correct results when run as presented.

Which command should be removed from the notebook before scheduling it as a job?

Which statement regarding Spark configuration on the Databricks platform is true?

A junior data engineer has configured a workload that posts the following JSON to the Databricks REST API endpoint 2.0/jobs/create.

Assuming that all configurations and referenced resources are available, which statement describes the result of executing this workload three times?

The business reporting team requires that data for their dashboards be updated every hour. The total processing time for the pipeline that extracts, transforms, and loads the data for their pipeline runs in 10 minutes.

Assuming normal operating conditions, which configuration will meet their service-level agreement requirements with the lowest cost?