DP-203 Exam Questions
311 real DP-203 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 2 of 7.
- Question #72Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You develop data engineering solutions for a company. A project requires the deployment of data to Azure Data Lake Storage. You need to implement role-based access control (RBAC) s...
RBACAzure AD security groupsADLS access controlACL - Question #73Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You are designing an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. You need to ensure that you can audit access to Personally Identifiable information (PII). What should you include...
sensitivity classificationsPII auditingdata governanceSynapse SQL pool - Question #74Design and implement data storage
You are designing a sales transactions table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table will contain approximately 60 million rows per month and will be partitione...
round-robin distributiontable partitioningrow distribution calculationcolumnstore index - Question #75Design and implement data storage
You are designing a dimension table for a data warehouse. The table will track the value of the dimension attributes over time and preserve the history of the data by adding new ro...
SCD Type 2slowly changing dimensiondimension table designhistory tracking - Question #76Design and implement data storage
You are designing an inventory updates table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table will have a clustered columnstore index and will include the following colu...
partition strategycolumnstore indexquery optimizationSynapse dedicated pool - Question #77Design and implement data storage
You are designing a slowly changing dimension (SCD) for supplier data in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. You plan to keep a record of changes to the available fields...
SCD Type 2surrogate keyeffective datesdimension table - Question #78Design and implement data storage
You plan to implement an Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage account. You need to ensure that the data lake will remain available if a data center fails in the primary Azure region. The s...
zone-redundant storagestorage replicationADLS availabilitydisaster recovery - Question #79Develop data processing
You plan to ingest streaming social media data by using Azure Stream Analytics. The data will be stored in files in Azure Data Lake Storage, and then consumed by using Azure Datiab...
Parquet formatStream Analytics outputfile format selectionPolyBase compatibility - Question #80Design and implement data storage
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container that contains 100 TB of data. You need to ensure that the data in the container is available for read workloads in a secondary re...
geo-redundant storagestorage replicationsecondary region readscost optimization - Question #81Develop data processing
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool1. Pool1 contains a partitioned fact table named dbo.Sales and a staging table named stg.Sales that has the matching table and...
partition switchingstaging tabledata loadingSynapse SQL pool - Question #82Design and implement data storage
You are designing a partition strategy for a fact table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table has the following specifications: - Contain sales data for 20,00...
partition count optimizationcolumnstore index compressionhash distributionrowgroup sizing - Question #83Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pool named Pool1 and an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named storage1. The AllowedBlobpublicAccess porperty is disabled for...
database scoped credentialsserverless SQL poolexternal data sourceADLS access - Question #84Design and implement data storage
You plan to implement an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container that will contain CSV files. The size of the files will vary based on the number of events that occur per hour. File...
Avro formatbatch processing optimizationfile format selectionADLS Gen2 - Question #85Develop data processing
You have an Azure Factory instance named DF1 that contains a pipeline named PL1.PL1 includes a tumbling window trigger. You create five clones of PL1. You configure each clone pipe...
Azure Data FactoryTriggersPipelinesScheduling - Question #86Develop data processing
You are planning a streaming data solution that will use Azure Databricks. The solution will stream sales transaction data from an online store. The solution has the following spec...
Structured Streamingappend output modeDatabricks streamingimmutable events - Question #87Develop data processing
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Synapse SQL pooldata loadingADLS integrationELT pattern - Question #88Develop data processing
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Synapse SQL pooldata loadingADLS integrationELT pattern - Question #89Develop data processing
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Azure Synapse PipelinesGet Metadata ActivityData IngestionData Transformation - Question #90Develop data processing
You have a C# application that process data from an Azure IoT hub and performs complex transformations. You need to replace the application with a real-time solution. The solution...
Stream Analyticsreal-time processingIoT Hubcustom code reuse - Question #91Develop data processing
You have several Azure Data Factory pipelines that contain a mix of the following types of activities. * Wrangling data flow * Notebook * Copy * jar Which two Azure services should...
Azure Data Factorypipeline debuggingWrangling data flowSynapse Analytics - Question #92Develop data processing
You use Azure Stream Analytics to receive Twitter data from Azure Event Hubs and to output the data to an Azure Blob storage account. You need to output the count of tweets during...
Stream Analyticswindowing functionsTumbling windowevent counting - Question #93Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an Azure Stream Analytics query. The query returns a result set that contains 10,000 distinct values for a column named clusterID. You monitor the Stream Analytics job and...
Stream Analyticsquery parallelizationPARTITION BYstreaming units - Question #94Design and implement data storage
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 d...
Azure Data Factoryincremental copyParquetADLS Gen2 - Question #95Develop data processing
A company purchases IoT devices to monitor manufacturing machinery. The company uses an Azure IoT Hub to communicate with the IoT devices. The company must be able to monitor the d...
IoT HubStream Analyticsreal-time monitoringevent processing - Question #96Design and Implement Data Storage - specifically designing distributed table strategies in Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pools to optimize both data loading and query performance.
Drag and Drop Question You have an Azure subscription. You plan to build a data warehouse in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named pool1 that will contain staging tab...
Azure Synapse AnalyticsDedicated SQL PoolTable DistributionData Warehouse Design - Question #97Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You are designing an Azure Databricks interactive cluster. The cluster will be used infrequently and will be configured for auto-termination. You need to ensure that the cluster co...
Azure Databrickscluster managementauto-terminationcluster pinning - Question #98Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics job that uses Scala. You need to view the status of the job. What should you do?
Synapse AnalyticsSpark monitoringjob statusSynapse Studio - Question #99Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You configure monitoring for a Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse implementation. The implementation uses PolyBase to load data from comma-separated value (CSV) files stored in Azu...
PolyBaseexternal tableserror monitoringschema validation - Question #100Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. You need to ensure that workloads can use filter predicates and column projections to filter data at the time the data is read from disk. Whic...
ADLS Gen2query accelerationstorage policypredicate pushdown - Question #101Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics named DW1 on a server named Server1. You need to verify whether the size of the transaction log file for each distr...
Synapse Analyticstransaction logDMVdistribution monitoring - Question #102Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have a SQL pool in Azure Synapse. A user reports that queries against the pool take longer than expected to complete. You need to add monitoring to the underlying storage to he...
Synapse SQL poolcache metricsperformance monitoringstorage optimization - Question #103Design and implement data storage
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Azure Storagefile format selectioncompressiondata layout - Question #104Design and implement data storage
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Azure Storagefile format selectioncompressiondata layout - Question #105Design and implement data storage
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 q...
Azure Storagefile format selectioncompressiondata layout - Question #107Develop data processing
You have 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 pipe...
Azure Data FactoryGit integrationversion controlCI/CD - Question #114Transform and process data using Apache Spark SQL - specifically reshaping tabular data using PIVOT, type conversion with CAST, and string collation with COLLATE, commonly tested in Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) or Databricks certifications.
Drag and Drop Question You have an Apache Spark DataFrame named temperatures. A sample of the data is shown in the following table. You need to produce the following table by using...
Spark SQLPIVOTDataFrame transformationsData reshaping - Question #117Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named Pool1. Pool1 contains a table named table1. You load 5 TB of data intotable1. You need to ensure that columnstore compr...
Synapse Analyticscolumnstore compressionindex rebuildSQL pool - Question #120Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and processing
Drag and Drop Question You plan to monitor an Azure data factory by using the Monitor & Manage app. You need to identify the status and duration of activities that reference a tabl...
Azure Data FactoryMonitoringUser PropertiesPipeline Activities - Question #124Design and Implement Data Storage / Manage and Develop Data Processing with Azure Synapse Analytics
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...
Azure Synapse AnalyticsPolyBaseExternal TablesAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 - Question #125Design and implement data storage
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Azure Storagefile format selectioncompressiondata layout - Question #126Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
A company has a real-time data analysis solution that is hosted on Microsoft Azure. The solution uses Azure Event Hub to ingest data and an Azure Stream Analytics cloud job to anal...
Stream Analyticsperformance optimizationstreaming unitsinput partitioning - Question #127Develop data processing
You need to trigger an Azure Data Factory pipeline when a file arrives in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container. Which resource provider should you enable?
Azure Data Factoryevent-based triggerEventGridADLS Gen2 - Question #128Develop data processing
You plan to perform batch processing in Azure Databricks once daily. Which type of Databricks cluster should you use?
Azure Databrickscluster typesbatch processingautomated cluster - Question #129Develop data processing
You have an Azure Data Factory instance that contains two pipelines named Pipeline1 and Pipeline2. Pipeline1 has the activities shown in the following exhibit. Pipeline2 has the ac...
ADF pipelinesExecute Pipeline activitypipeline failure propagationpipeline run status - Question #130Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have an Azure Data Factory that contains 10 pipelines. You need to label each pipeline with its main purpose of either ingest, transform, or load. The labels must be available...
ADF annotationspipeline monitoringpipeline metadataData Factory filtering - Question #131Develop data processing
You are designing a statistical analysis solution that will use custom proprietary Python functions on near real-time data from Azure Event Hubs. You need to recommend which Azure...
Azure Databricksreal-time analyticsEvent Hubscustom Python functions - Question #132Design and implement data storage
You need to implement a Type 3 slowly changing dimension (SCD) for product category data in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. You have a table that was created by usin...
Type 3 SCDslowly changing dimensionSynapse dedicated SQL pooldata warehouse modeling - Question #133Develop data processing
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Azure Stream Analyticstumbling windowwindowing functionsevent time processing - Question #134Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
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...
ADF encryptioncustomer-managed keyAzure Key Vaultdata factory security - Question #135Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You have a data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics. You need to ensure that the data in the data warehouse is encrypted at rest. What should you enable?
Transparent Data EncryptionTDEencryption at restSynapse Analytics