1. What is an example of how Spark can bring value to watsonx.

data's lakehouse
environment?
Select one:
A. Spark provides a governance layer that enables policy controls across all watsonx.data
users.
B. Spark can provide Presto with a native data store, avoiding the need for object storage.
C. Spark can run data cleansing and transformation workloads.
D. Spark includes a graphical user interface that doubles as watsonx.data's user interface.

2. Which one of the following statements best describes a data lakehouse?

Select one:
A. A data lakehouse is a database system specifically designed for high volume transactional
workloads; analytics workloads do not perform well on it.
B. A data lakehouse is a new data architecture that brings together the best characteristics of
a data warehouse and data lake.
C. A data lakehouse is the exact same thing as a data warehouse, it's just a more modern
name for the architecture.
D. A data lakehouse is used to clean and transform data so that it can be fed into a separate
data lake environment on which all analytics is performed.
3. What acronym represents the transactional capabilities supported by the Iceberg
table format?
Select one:
A. ACID
B. IOTX
C. BASE
D. CNST
4. As a vector database, Milvus is commonly used in a generative artificial intelligence
(AI) use case where responses to user prompts are generated based on the most
relevant information found in a corpus of reference material. What is this use case
called?
Select one:
A. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
B. Query-utilized acceleration of knowledge (QUAK)
C. Generated response systems (GRS)
D. Fetch additive queries (FAQ)
5. Which one of the following statements is true regarding the introduction of a
watsonx.data lakehouse into an organization's existing data ecosystem?
Select one:
A. The data lakehouse can be used to cleanse and transform data before being loaded into
legacy Hadoop-based data lakes.
B. Data can be tiered across different data stores, with 'cold' data in the data warehouse,
'warm' data in the data lakehouse, and 'hot' data in the data lake.
 C. The data lakehouse can be used to optimize and augment an existing data warehouse and
data lake.
D. Any existing data warehouse and data lake can be decommissioned, as the data lakehouse
can take over all of their workloads.
6. What are the high-level components of watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. Single query engine, shared metadata store, and open data formats on object storage
B. Multiple query engines, shared metadata store, and open data formats on object storage
C. Multiple query engines, built-in governance catalog, and proprietary data formats on an
optimized storage appliance
D. Single query engine, built-in governance catalog, and proprietary data formats on an
optimized storage appliance
7. What module provides the ability to query structured data from within a Spark
program?
Select one:
A. SQLspark
B. QueryS
C. Spark Query
D. Spark SQL
8. What product can be integrated with watsonx.data to provide policy and rules-
based governance?
Select one:
A. IBM Knowledge Catalog
B. IBM Change Data Capture
C. IBM DataStage
D. IBM Turbonomic
9. What types of data can be stored in a data lake?
Select one:
A. Structured data only
B. Semi-structured and structured data only
C. Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
D. Unstructured data only
10. What type of storage is associated with data lakehouses like watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. Object storage
B. Block storage
C. Page storage
D. File storage
11. Which one of the following is NOT a use case for watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. High-concurrency online transaction processing (OLTP)
 B. Datastore for Generative AI
C. Data warehouse optimization
D. Data lake modernization
12. Watsonx.data leverages multiple query engines, providing a "fit-for-purpose"
approach to workloads. What are the query engines native to watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. Presto and Spark
B. Derby and CouchDB
C. Spark and Derby
D. CouchDB and Presto
13. What is Iceberg?
Select one:
A. A metadata catalog originally created for Hadoop-based data lakes.
B. An open-source query engine that supports various data sources, including object storage.
C. An open table format designed for managing and processing very large datasets.
D. An open data file format that specifies how data is physically stored on disk.
14. Watsonx.data leverages open-source components infused and integrated with IBM
innovation. What are just a few examples of these open-source components?
Select one:
A. Parquet, Sqoop, ORC, and FreeMarker
B. Spark, Derby, Presto, and Jolt
C. Flex, Iceberg, Pivot, and Hive
D. Presto, Parquet, Avro, and Milvus
15. Which one of the following areas of the watsonx.data user interface would you
use to build and run SQL statements?
Select one:
A. Data manager
B. SQL desktop
C. Query workspace
D. Infrastructure manager
16. What, if any, is the relationship of catalogs to buckets in watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. There is a one-to-one mapping of catalogs to buckets.
B. They are independent components and have no relationship.
C. Multiple buckets can reside within a single catalog.
D. A bucket can be referenced by multiple catalogs.
17. On which public cloud vendors (hyperscalars) is watsonx.data software-as-a-
service (SaaS) available?
Select one:
A. IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure
B. Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and IBM Cloud
 C. IBM Cloud and Amazon Web Services
D. Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud
18. What term is used to refer to a data lake that lacks data quality and data
governance practices where users become wary of the quality, lineage, and
correctness of the data?
Select one:
A. Data swamp
B. Data bog
C. Data dump
D. Data marsh
19. What are the deployment option(s) available for watsonx.data?
Select one:
A. In the cloud only, as a managed software-as-a-service offering
B. In the cloud only, with self-managed containerized software
C. On-premises only with installable software
D. On-premises and in the cloud, with managed and self-managed offerings
20. What are some of the components that can be added and managed on the
Infrastructure Manager page of the watsonx.data user interface?
Select one:
A. Engines and clusters
B. Servers and user groups
C. Buckets and databases
D. Workflows and catalogs
21. Which one of the following is a characteristic of a data warehouse?
Select one:
A. Uses low-cost object storage as its primary storage type
B. Built to store structured data
C. Very low effort involved in bringing data into the data warehouse
D. Only supported on cloud-based infrastructure
22. Which one of the following is NOT a component of the IBM watsonx AI and data
platform?
Select one:
A. IBM watsonx.data
B. IBM watsonx.ml
C. IBM watsonx.governance
D. IBM watsonx.ai
23. Which one of the following data file formats uses a columnar storage model?
Select one:
A. CSV
B. Parquet
C. JSON
 D. Avro
24. Which one of the following sets of data source connectors is supported by Presto?
(Note that this is not an exclusive list of what is supported.)
Select one:
A. CouchDB, SQL Server, Db2, and CometDB
B. MongoDB, CrunchStore, MaxDB, and Informix
C. Kafka, Dbase, StageDB, and SingleStore
D. Snowflake, Netezza, PostgreSQL, and Teradata
25. What is the free, entry-level version of watsonx.data called?
Select one:
A. Developer Edition
B. Try-and-Buy Edition
C. Community Edition
D. Trial Edition