First 100 Flashcards
Descriptive Analytics tells you
What is most likely to occur in the future
What occurred in the past
Which actions you can perform to affect outcomes
Why something occurred in the past
What occured in the past
Normalization Involves Eliminating relationships between database tables
Normalizing a database reduces data redundancy
Normalization improves data integrity
No
Yes
Yes
An extract, transform, load (ETL) process requires
a matching schema in the data source and the data target
a target data store powerful enough to transform data
data that is fully processed before being loaded to the target data store
that the data target be a relational database
Data that is fully processed before being loaded to the target data store
In batching processing
data is always inserted one row at a time
data is processed in real-time
latency in delivering data processing results is acceptable
processing can only execute serially
Latency in delivering data processing results is acceptable
Transcribing audio files is an example of … analytics
cognitive
descriptive
predictive
prescriptive
cognitive
Choose: Cognitive, Diagnostic, Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive
Why did sales increase last month
How do I allocate my budget to buy different inventory items?
Which people are mentioned in a company’s business documents
Diagnostic
Predictive
Descriptive
The massively parallel processing (MPP) engine of Azure Synapse Analytics
distributes processing across compute nodes
distributes processing across control nodes
redirects client connections across compute nodes
redirects client connections across control nodes
distributes processing across compute nodes
… is an object associated with a table that sorts and stores the data rows in the table based on their key values
A clustered index
A FileTable
A foreign key
A stored procedure
A clustered index
A relational database is appropriate for scenarios that invlove a high volume of
changes to relationships between entities
geographically distributed wires
transactional wires
writes that have varying data structures
transactional writes
Batch processing can output data to a file store
Batch processing can output data to a relational database
Batch processing can output data to a NoSQL database
Yes
No
No
Your company plans to load data from a customer relationship management (CRM) system to a data warehouse by using an extract, load, and transform (ELT) process.
Where does data processing occur for each stage of the ELT process? To answer, drag the appropriate locations to the correct stages. Each location 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.
Choose between An in-memory data integration tool, the CRM system, the data warehouse
Extract: The CRM system
Load: The data warehouse
Transform: An in-memory data integration tool
A visualization that shows a university’s current student enrollment versus the maximum capacity is an example of … analytics
cognitive
descriptive
predictive
prescriptive
Descriptive
Choose between Treemap, Key influencer, Scatter:
A chart of colored, nested rectangles that displays individual data points represented by the size and color of a relative rectangle
A chart that displays the major contributors of a selected result or value
A chart that shows the relationship between two numerical values
Treemap
Key influencer
Scatter
You need to create an Azure Storage account.
Data in the account must replicate outside the Azure region automatically.
Which two types of replication can you use for the storage account?
A. zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
B. read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
C. locally-redundant storage (LRS)
D. geo-redundant storage (GRS)
B. read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
geo-redundant storage (GRS)
PaaS database offerings in Azure require less setup and configuration effort than IaaS
PaaS in Azure provide end users with the ability to control and update the operating system version
All relation and non-relational PaaS offerings in Azure can be paused to reduce costs
Yes
No
No
Which statement is an example of Data Manipulation Language (DML)?
A. REVOKE
B. DISABLE
C. INSERT
D. GRANT
INSERT
You have a SQL query that combines customer data and order data. The query includes calculated columns.
You need to create a database object that would allow other users to rerun the same SQL query.
What should you create?
A. an index
B. a view
C. a scalar function
D. a table
B. A View
A key/value data store is optimized for
enforcing constraints
simple lookups
table joins
transactions
simple lookups
Which data type storage for the following. choose between image files, key/value pair and relationships between employees:
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API
Azure Table Storage
Image files
Key/value pairs
Relationships between employees
What is the correct order
Azure Resource Group –> … –> … –> Folders –> Files
Choose: Azure Storage account, File share, Container
Azure storage account –> File Share
What are two characteristics of real-time data processing? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Data is processed periodically
B. Low latency is expected
C. High latency is acceptable
D. Data is processed as it is created
B. Low Latency is expected
D. Data is processed as it is created
Match the Azure Data Factory components to the appropriate descriptions. Choose between Dataset, Linked service, Mapping data flow, Pipeline
A representation of data structures within data stores
The information used to connect to external resources
A logical grouping of activities that performs a unit of work and can be scheduled
Dataset
Linked service
Pipeline
Match the types of workloads to the appropriate scenarios. Choose between Batch and Streaming:
Data for a product catalog will be loaded every 12 hrs to a data wh
Thousands of data sets per second for online purchases will be loaded to a dwh in real-time
Updates to inventory data will be loaded to a dwh every 1 million transactions
Batch
Streaming
Batch
Your company plans to load data from a customer relationship management (CRM) system to a data warehouse by using an extract, load, and transform (ELT) process.
Where does data processing occur for each stage of the ELT process?
Choose a standalone data analysis tool, the crm system, the dwh
Extract: The CRM system
Load: The dwh
Transform: A standalone data analysis tool
Which statement is an example of Data Manipulation Language (DML)?
A. REVOKE
B. DISABLE
C. CREATE
D. UPDATE
Update
Creating closed caption text for audio files is an example of … analytics
cognitive
descriptive
predictive
prescriptive
Descriptive
A visualization that illustrates a university’s current student enrollment per department is an example of … analytics
cognitive
descriptive
predictive
prescriptive
Descriptive
You need to create an Azure resource to store data in Azure Table storage.
Which command should you run?
A. az storage share create
B. az storage account create
C. az cosmosdb create
D. az storage container create
D. az storage container create
The Azure Cosmos DB … API enables the use of the SELECT statements to retrieve documents from Azure Cosmos DB
Core (SQL)
Gremlin
MongoDB
Table
Core (SQL)
You need to modify a view in a relational database by adding a new column.
Which statement should you use?
A. MERGE
B. ALTER
C. INSERT
D. UPDATE
B. ALTER
ETL can reduce the transfer of sensitive data to destination systems
ETL transforms data by using a compute resource independent of the source system and destination system
ETL minimizes the time it takes to copy large volumes of data to destination systems
No
Yes
No
PostGreSQL on Azure VMs
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
SaaS
PaaS
Which Azure storage solution provides native support for POSIX-compliant access control lists (ACLs)?
A. Azure Table storage
B. Azure Data Lake Storage
C. Azure Queue storage
D. Azure Files
B. Azure Data Lake Storage
Reiational data is stored in
a file system as unstructured data
a hierarchical folder structure
a tabular form of rows and columns
comma-separated value (CSV) files
a tabular form of rows and columns
A block of code that runs in a database is called
a stored procedure
a table
a view
an index
a stored procedure
Choose: Cognitive, Diagnostic, Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive
Why did sales increase last month?
Provide specific guidance on how to allocate current budget to buy different inventory items
Detect images of the company’s logo included in PDF documents
Diagnostic
Prescriptive
Cognitive
Which type of database is Azure Database for PostgreSQL?
A. Platform as a service (PaaS)
B. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
C. Microsoft SQL Server
D. on-premises
A. Platform as a service (PaaS)
Which storage solution supports access control lists (ACLs) at the file and folder level?
A. Azure Data Lake Storage
B. Azure Queue storage
C. Azure Blob storage
D. Azure Cosmos DB
A. Azure Data Lake Storage
A … is a chart of colored rectangles. THe size of the rectangles represent the relative value of each item
Line chart
matrix
scatter
treemap
Treemap
What is a characteristic of batch processing?
A. The data ingested during batch processing must be processed as soon as the data is received.
B. Large datasets must be split into batches of less than 1 GB before the data can be processed.
C. There is a noticeable time delay between ingesting data and obtaining the data processing results.
D. Batch processing can only process data that is structured.
C. There is a noticeable time delay between ingesting data and obtaining the data processing results