Practice Test

Question 1

Azure Synapse Analytics is a …

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👨‍🦱 💬 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 2

Azure Databricks is a PaaS offering that helps customers build data transformation solutions based on Apache Storm. True or false?

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👨‍🦱 💬 Azure Databricks is based on Apache Spark, not Apache Storm.

Question 3

Big data is typically described by which characteristics?

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👨‍🦱 💬 Big data is typically described using the so called three V’s. Those are Velocity, Volume and Variety.

Question 4

Azure HDInsight is a …

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👨‍🦱 💬 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?

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👨‍🦱 💬 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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