Skills Learned
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, and Azure Databricks
Study Guide
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Practice Test

Question 1

Azure Synapse Analytics is a …

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Flexible big data and analytics platform supporting multiple open-source analytics technologies

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Big data analytics platform with a unified workspace experience supporting end-2-end data transformation with the power of SQL and Spark

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Big data analytics platform based on Apache Spark for data transformations and collaboration

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Proprietary big data Microsoft technology based on Apache Spark

✔ That's correct

❌ That's not correct

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure Synapse Analytics is an evolution from an SQL Datawarehouse service which is a Massively Parallel Processing version of SQL Server. In a recent iteration, Azure Synapse also provided the ability to run queries and scripts using Apache Spark and by including Data Factory as an embedded component called Synapse Pipelines, now it is considered to be an end-2-end solution for big data workloads.

Question 4

Azure HDInsight is a …

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Flexible big data and analytics platform supporting multiple open-source analytics technologies

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Big data analytics platform with a unified workspace experience supporting end-2-end data transformation with the power of SQL and Spark

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Big data analytics platform based on Apache Spark for data transformations and collaboration

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Proprietary big data Microsoft technology based on Apache Spark

✔ That's correct

❌ That's not correct

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure HDInsight is a multi-purpose big data & analytics platform with multiple open-source technologies available to fit almost any typical data processing workflow.

Question 5

Contoso company wants to migrate their on-premises big data clusters to Azure. Currently they use Hadoop, Spark and HBase technologies. Which service in Azure should they look at in order to minimize their migration efforts?

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Synapse Analytics

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure SQL Database

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Blob Storage

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure HDInsight

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Databricks

✔ That's correct

❌ That's not correct

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure HDInsight supports Hadoop, Spark and HBase as one of the available cluster types. Which means this service most likely will be able to cover the majority of their requirements or potentially allow for a ‘lift and shift’ approach without any rework.

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