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DP-203 · Question #248

You are working on Azure Data Lake Store Gen1. Suddenly, you realize the need to know the schema of the external data. Which of the following plug-in would you use to know the external data schema?

The correct answer is E. infer_storage_schema. infer_storage_schema is the plug-in that helps infer the schema based on the external file contents; when the external data schema is unknown. Option A is incorrect. The ipv4_lookup plugin checks for an IPv4 value in a lookup table and returns the matched rows. Option B is incorr

Submitted by mateo_ar· Mar 30, 2026Develop data processing

Question

You are working on Azure Data Lake Store Gen1. Suddenly, you realize the need to know the schema of the external data. Which of the following plug-in would you use to know the external data schema?

Options

  • AIpv4_lookup
  • BMysql_request
  • CPivot
  • DNarrow
  • Einfer_storage_schema

How the community answered

(45 responses)
  • A
    11% (5)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)
  • E
    82% (37)

Explanation

infer_storage_schema is the plug-in that helps infer the schema based on the external file contents; when the external data schema is unknown. Option A is incorrect. The ipv4_lookup plugin checks for an IPv4 value in a lookup table and returns the matched rows. Option B is incorrect. The mysql_request plugin transfers a SQL query to a MySQL Server network endpoint and returns the 1st row set in the result. Option C is incorrect. Pivot plug-in is used to rotate a table by changing the unique values from 1 column in the input table into a number of different columns in the output table and perform aggregations wherever needed on any remaining column values that are desired in the final Option D is incorrect. This plug-in is used to unpivot a wide table into a table with only three Option E is correct. infer_storage_schema plug-in can be used to infer the schema of external data and return it as a CSL schema string. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/management/external-tables- azurestorage-azuredatalake https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/inferstorageschemaplugin

Topics

#infer_storage_schema#ADLS Gen1#external data schema#Kusto plugin

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