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To prepare for the DP-203 certification exam, candidates must have a solid understanding of Azure data technologies, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Candidates must also have experience in designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems. Microsoft offers a variety of resources to help candidates prepare for the DP-203 certification exam, including online training courses, practice tests, and study guides.
Microsoft DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure exam is designed to test the skills and knowledge required to design and implement data solutions using various Azure services. DP-203 exam is intended for professionals who work with data engineers, data architects, and business intelligence developers. DP-203 exam is a part of the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate certification.
NEW QUESTION # 142
You need to implement an Azure Synapse Analytics database object for storing the sales transactions data.
The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.
What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Box 1: Create table
Scenario: Load the sales transaction dataset to Azure Synapse Analytics Box 2: RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES Scenario: Partition data that contains sales transaction records. Partitions must be designed to provide efficient loads by month. Boundary values must belong to the partition on the right.
RANGE RIGHT: Specifies the boundary value belongs to the partition on the right (higher values).
FOR VALUES ( boundary_value [,...n] ): Specifies the boundary values for the partition.
Scenario: Load the sales transaction dataset to Azure Synapse Analytics.
Contoso identifies the following requirements for the sales transaction dataset:
Partition data that contains sales transaction records. Partitions must be designed to provide efficient loads by month. Boundary values must belong to the partition on the right.
Ensure that queries joining and filtering sales transaction records based on product ID complete as quickly as possible.
Implement a surrogate key to account for changes to the retail store addresses.
Ensure that data storage costs and performance are predictable.
Minimize how long it takes to remove old records.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-table-azure-sql-data-warehouse
NEW QUESTION # 143
You use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 to store data that data scientists and data engineers will query by using Azure Databricks interactive notebooks. Users will have access only to the Data Lake Storage folders that relate to the projects on which they work.
You need to recommend which authentication methods to use for Databricks and Data Lake Storage to provide the users with the appropriate access. The solution must minimize administrative effort and development effort.
Which authentication method should you recommend for each Azure service? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/data/data-sources/azure/adls-gen2/azure-datalake-gen2-sas-access
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/credential-passthrough/adls-passthrough
NEW QUESTION # 144
You have an Azure event hub named retailhub that has 16 partitions. Transactions are posted to retailhub. Each transaction includes the transaction ID, the individual line items, and the payment details. The transaction ID is used as the partition key.
You are designing an Azure Stream Analytics job to identify potentially fraudulent transactions at a retail store. The job will use retailhub as the input. The job will output the transaction ID, the individual line items, the payment details, a fraud score, and a fraud indicator.
You plan to send the output to an Azure event hub named fraudhub.
You need to ensure that the fraud detection solution is highly scalable and processes transactions as quickly as possible.
How should you structure the output of the Stream Analytics job? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-features#partitions
NEW QUESTION # 145
You are developing a solution using a Lambda architecture on Microsoft Azure.
The data at test layer must meet the following requirements:
Data storage:
*Serve as a repository (or high volumes of large files in various formats.
*Implement optimized storage for big data analytics workloads.
*Ensure that data can be organized using a hierarchical structure.
Batch processing:
*Use a managed solution for in-memory computation processing.
*Natively support Scala, Python, and R programming languages.
*Provide the ability to resize and terminate the cluster automatically.
Analytical data store:
*Support parallel processing.
*Use columnar storage.
*Support SQL-based languages.
You need to identify the correct technologies to build the Lambda architecture.
Which technologies should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Data storage: Azure Data Lake Store
A key mechanism that allows Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 to provide file system performance at object storage scale and prices is the addition of a hierarchical namespace. This allows the collection of objects/files within an account to be organized into a hierarchy of directories and nested subdirectories in the same way that the file system on your computer is organized. With the hierarchical namespace enabled, a storage account becomes capable of providing the scalability and cost-effectiveness of object storage, with file system semantics that are familiar to analytics engines and frameworks.
Batch processing: HD Insight Spark
Aparch Spark is an open-source, parallel-processing framework that supports in-memory processing to boost the performance of big-data analysis applications.
HDInsight is a managed Hadoop service. Use it deploy and manage Hadoop clusters in Azure. For batch processing, you can use Spark, Hive, Hive LLAP, MapReduce.
Languages: R, Python, Java, Scala, SQL
Analytic data store: SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP).
SQL Data Warehouse stores data into relational tables with columnar storage.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-namespace
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/data-guide/technology-choices/batch-processing
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-overview-what-is
NEW QUESTION # 146
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container.
Data is ingested into the container, and then transformed by a data integration application. The data is NOT modified after that. Users can read files in the container but cannot modify the files.
You need to design a data archiving solution that meets the following requirements:
* New data is accessed frequently and must be available as quickly as possible.
* Data that is older than five years is accessed infrequently but must be available within one second when requested.
* Data that is older than seven years is NOT accessed. After seven years, the data must be persisted at the lowest cost possible.
* Costs must be minimized while maintaining the required availability.
How should you manage the data? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Box 1: Move to cool storage
Box 2: Move to archive storage
Archive - Optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements, on the order of hours.
The following table shows a comparison of premium performance block blob storage, and the hot, cool, and archive access tiers.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-storage-tiers Explanation:
Box 1: Replicated
Replicated tables are ideal for small star-schema dimension tables, because the fact table is often distributed on a column that is not compatible with the connected dimension tables. If this case applies to your schema, consider changing small dimension tables currently implemented as round-robin to replicated.
Box 2: Replicated
Box 3: Replicated
Box 4: Hash-distributed
For Fact tables use hash-distribution with clustered columnstore index. Performance improves when two hash tables are joined on the same distribution column.
Reference:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/reduce-data-movement-and-make-your-queries-more-efficient-with-th
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/replicated-tables-now-generally-available-in-azure-sql-data-warehouse/
NEW QUESTION # 147
You build an Azure Data Factory pipeline to move data from an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container to a database in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
Data in the container is stored in the following folder structure.
/in/{YYYY}/{MM}/{DD}/{HH}/{mm}
The earliest folder is /in/2021/01/01/00/00. The latest folder is /in/2021/01/15/01/45.
You need to configure a pipeline trigger to meet the following requirements:
* Existing data must be loaded.
* Data must be loaded every 30 minutes.
* Late-arriving data of up to two minutes must he included in the load for the time at which the data should have arrived.
How should you configure the pipeline trigger? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Box 1: Tumbling window
To be able to use the Delay parameter we select Tumbling window.
Box 2:
Recurrence: 30 minutes, not 32 minutes
Delay: 2 minutes.
The amount of time to delay the start of data processing for the window. The pipeline run is started after the expected execution time plus the amount of delay. The delay defines how long the trigger waits past the due time before triggering a new run. The delay doesn't alter the window startTime.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/how-to-create-tumbling-window-trigger
NEW QUESTION # 148
You plan to create an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account
You need to recommend a storage solution that meets the following requirements:
* Provides the highest degree of data resiliency
* Ensures that content remains available for writes if a primary data center fails What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 149
In Azure Data Factory, you have a schedule trigger that is scheduled in Pacific Time.
Pacific Time observes daylight saving time.
The trigger has the following JSON file.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 150
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics Apache Spark pool named Pool1.
You plan to load JSON files from an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container into the tables in Pool1. The structure and data types vary by file.
You need to load the files into the tables. The solution must maintain the source data types.
What should you do?
- A. Use a Get Metadata activity in Azure Data Factory.
- B. Load the data by using the OPEHROwset Transact-SQL command in an Azure Synapse Anarytics serverless SQL pool.
- C. Load the data by using PySpark.
- D. Use a Conditional Split transformation in an Azure Synapse data flow.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Serverless SQL pool can automatically synchronize metadata from Apache Spark. A serverless SQL pool database will be created for each database existing in serverless Apache Spark pools.
Serverless SQL pool enables you to query data in your data lake. It offers a T-SQL query surface area that accommodates semi-structured and unstructured data queries.
To support a smooth experience for in place querying of data that's located in Azure Storage files, serverless SQL pool uses the OPENROWSET function with additional capabilities.
The easiest way to see to the content of your JSON file is to provide the file URL to the OPENROWSET function, specify csv FORMAT.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/query-json-files
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/query-data-storage
NEW QUESTION # 151
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics SQL pool named Pool1 on a logical Microsoft SQL server named Server1.
You need to implement Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on Pool1 by using a custom key named key1.
Which five actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated
Step 1: Assign a managed identity to Server1
You will need an existing Managed Instance as a prerequisite.
Step 2: Create an Azure key vault and grant the managed identity permissions to the vault Create Resource and setup Azure Key Vault.
Step 3: Add key1 to the Azure key vault
The recommended way is to import an existing key from a .pfx file or get an existing key from the vault.
Alternatively, generate a new key directly in Azure Key Vault.
Step 4: Configure key1 as the TDE protector for Server1
Provide TDE Protector key
Step 5: Enable TDE on Pool1
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/managed-instance/scripts/transparent-data-encryption-byok-pow
NEW QUESTION # 152
You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure Databricks workspace named databricks1 and an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace named synapse1. The synapse1 workspace contains an Apache Spark pool named pool1.
You need to share an Apache Hive catalog of pool1 with databricks1.
What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 153
A company plans to use Apache Spark analytics to analyze intrusion detection data.
You need to recommend a solution to analyze network and system activity data for malicious activities and policy violations. The solution must minimize administrative efforts.
What should you recommend?
- A. Azure HDInsight
- B. Azure Data Factory
- C. Azure Data Lake Storage
- D. Azure Databricks
Answer: D
Explanation:
Three common analytics use cases with Microsoft Azure Databricks
Recommendation engines, churn analysis, and intrusion detection are common scenarios that many organizations are solving across multiple industries. They require machine learning, streaming analytics, and utilize massive amounts of data processing that can be difficult to scale without the right tools.
Recommendation engines, churn analysis, and intrusion detection are common scenarios that many organizations are solving across multiple industries. They require machine learning, streaming analytics, and utilize massive amounts of data processing that can be difficult to scale without the right tools.
Note: Recommendation engines, churn analysis, and intrusion detection are common scenarios that many organizations are solving across multiple industries. They require machine learning, streaming analytics, and utilize massive amounts of data processing that can be difficult to scale without the right tools.
Reference:
https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/three-critical-analytics-use-cases-with-microsoft-azure-databricks/
NEW QUESTION # 154
You haw an Azure data factory named ADF1.
You currently publish all pipeline authoring changes directly to ADF1.
You need to implement version control for the changes made to pipeline artifacts. The solution must ensure that you can apply version control to the resources currently defined m the UX Authoring canvas for ADF1.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
- A. Create a Git repository
- B. From the Azure Data Factor Studio, run Publish All.
- C. From the UX Authoring canvas, select Publish
- D. Create a GitHub action
- E. Create an Azure Data Factory trigger
- F. From the UX Authoring canvas, select Set up code repository
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/source-control
NEW QUESTION # 155
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You plan to create an Azure Databricks workspace that has a tiered structure. The workspace will contain the following three workloads:
* A workload for data engineers who will use Python and SQL.
* A workload for jobs that will run notebooks that use Python, Scala, and SOL.
* A workload that data scientists will use to perform ad hoc analysis in Scala and R.
The enterprise architecture team at your company identifies the following standards for Databricks environments:
* The data engineers must share a cluster.
* The job cluster will be managed by using a request process whereby data scientists and data engineers provide packaged notebooks for deployment to the cluster.
* All the data scientists must be assigned their own cluster that terminates automatically after 120 minutes of inactivity. Currently, there are three data scientists.
You need to create the Databricks clusters for the workloads.
Solution: You create a High Concurrency cluster for each data scientist, a High Concurrency cluster for the data engineers, and a Standard cluster for the jobs.
Does this meet the goal?
- A. No
- B. Yes
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Need a High Concurrency cluster for the jobs.
Standard clusters are recommended for a single user. Standard can run workloads developed in any language:
Python, R, Scala, and SQL.
A high concurrency cluster is a managed cloud resource. The key benefits of high concurrency clusters are that they provide Apache Spark-native fine-grained sharing for maximum resource utilization and minimum query latencies.
Reference:
https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/clusters/configure.html
NEW QUESTION # 156
You are responsible for providing access to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.
Your user account has contributor access to the storage account, and you have the application ID and access key.
You plan to use PolyBase to load data into an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.
You need to configure PolyBase to connect the data warehouse to storage account.
Which three components should you create in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate components from the list of components to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
1 - a database scoped credential
2 - an external data source
3 - an external file formate
NEW QUESTION # 157
You have an Azure Data Factory version 2 (V2) resource named Df1. Df1 contains a linked service.
You have an Azure Key vault named vault1 that contains an encryption key named key1.
You need to encrypt Df1 by using key1.
What should you do first?
- A. Create a self-hosted integration runtime.
- B. Add a private endpoint connection to vault 1.
- C. Remove the linked service from Df1.
- D. Enable Azure role-based access control on vault 1.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Linked services are much like connection strings, which define the connection information needed for Data Factory to connect to external resources.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/enable-customer-managed-key
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/concepts-linked-services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/create-self-hosted-integration-runtime
NEW QUESTION # 158
You need to implement an Azure Databricks cluster that automatically connects to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) integration.
How should you configure the new cluster? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Box 1: High Concurrency
Enable Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough for a high-concurrency cluster.
Incorrect:
Support for Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough on standard clusters is in Public Preview.
Standard clusters with credential passthrough are supported on Databricks Runtime 5.5 and above and are limited to a single user.
Box 2: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 Credential Passthrough
You can authenticate automatically to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 from Azure Databricks clusters using the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity that you use to log into Azure Databricks. When you enable your cluster for Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough, commands that you run on that cluster can read and write data in Azure Data Lake Storage without requiring you to configure service principal credentials for access to storage.
References:
https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/spark/latest/data-sources/azure/adls-passthrough.html
NEW QUESTION # 159
You are developing an Azure Synapse Analytics pipeline that will include a mapping data flow named Dataflow1. Dataflow1 will read customer data from an external source and use a Type 1 slowly changing dimension (SCO) when loading the data into a table named DimCustomer1 in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
You need to ensure that Dataflow1 can perform the following tasks:
* Detect whether the data of a given customer has changed in the DimCustomer table.
* Perform an upsert to the DimCustomer table.
Which type of transformation should you use for each task? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area NOTE; Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
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NEW QUESTION # 160
You are designing a solution that will copy Parquet files stored in an Azure Blob storage account to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.
The data will be loaded daily to the data lake and will use a folder structure of 2026/{Month}/{Day}/.
You need to design a daily Azure Data Factory data load to minimize the data transfer between the two accounts.
Which two configurations should you include in the design? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
- A. Delete the files in the destination before loading new data.
- B. Specify a file naming pattern for the destination.
- C. Filter by the last modified date of the source files.
- D. Delete the source files after they are copied.
Answer: C,D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/connector-azure-data-lake-storage
NEW QUESTION # 161
You are designing a monitoring solution for a fleet of 500 vehicles. Each vehicle has a GPS tracking device that sends data to an Azure event hub once per minute.
You have a CSV file in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container. The file maintains the expected geographical area in which each vehicle should be.
You need to ensure that when a GPS position is outside the expected area, a message is added to another event hub for processing within 30 seconds. The solution must minimize cost.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Box 1: Azure Stream Analytics
Box 2: Hopping
Hopping window functions hop forward in time by a fixed period. It may be easy to think of them as Tumbling windows that can overlap and be emitted more often than the window size. Events can belong to more than one Hopping window result set. To make a Hopping window the same as a Tumbling window, specify the hop size to be the same as the window size.
Box 3: Point within polygon
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-window-functions
NEW QUESTION # 162
You have a SQL pool in Azure Synapse.
You plan to load data from Azure Blob storage to a staging table. Approximately 1 million rows of data will be loaded daily. The table will be truncated before each daily load.
You need to create the staging table. The solution must minimize how long it takes to load the data to the staging table.
How should you configure the table? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-tables-partition
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-tables-distribute
NEW QUESTION # 163
You have Azure Data Factory configured with Azure Repos Git integration. The collaboration branch and the publish branch are set to the default values.
You have a pipeline named pipeline 1.
You build a new version of pipeline1 in a branch named feature 1.
From the Data Factory Studio, you select Publish
The source code of which branch will be built, and which branch will contain the output of the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Answer:
Explanation:
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NEW QUESTION # 164
You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that contains a security group named Group1. You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named dw1 that contains a schema named schema1.
You need to grant Group1 read-only permissions to all the tables and views in schema1. The solution must use the principle of least privilege.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
NOTE: More than one order of answer choices is correct. You will receive credit for any of the correct orders you select.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-share/how-to-share-from-sql
NEW QUESTION # 165
You have an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.
Using PolyBase, you create an external table named [Ext].[Items] to query Parquet files stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 without importing the data to the data warehouse.
The external table has three columns.
You discover that the Parquet files have a fourth column named ItemID.
Which command should you run to add the ItemID column to the external table?
- A. Option A
- B. Option C
- C. Option D
- D. Option B
Answer: B
Explanation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-external-table-transact-sql
NEW QUESTION # 166
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