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Data Engineer Interview at A Top Product-Based Company

The document outlines various scenarios and questions related to data engineering challenges, such as securing data access, managing Delta tables, and building ingestion pipelines. It emphasizes the importance of preparation for data engineering interviews, highlighting the need for hands-on training and scenario-based mock interviews. Prominent Academy offers services to help candidates optimize their skills and readiness for interviews in the data engineering field.

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Data Engineer Interview at A Top Product-Based Company

The document outlines various scenarios and questions related to data engineering challenges, such as securing data access, managing Delta tables, and building ingestion pipelines. It emphasizes the importance of preparation for data engineering interviews, highlighting the need for hands-on training and scenario-based mock interviews. Prominent Academy offers services to help candidates optimize their skills and readiness for interviews in the data engineering field.

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Scenario: Security wants to prevent unauthorized
download of sensitive data.
Questions:
How do you block public access and enforce private
endpoints?
How do you monitor data access patterns for
anomalies?
Can you apply firewall rules to restrict access?

Scenario:
Critical Delta tables need to alert on abnormal
changes in volume or schema.
Questions:
How do you track and alert on Delta table metrics?
Can you set up event-based alerts using triggers or
Log Analytics?
What are best practices for schema evolution
alerts?

Scenario:
Your customer wants 6 months of missing data re-
ingested without duplicates.
Questions:
How would you build a robust backfill strategy?
What deduplication logic would you apply (e.g.,
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Scenario: You serve customers across time zones and need
consistent daily processing.
Questions:
How would you handle time zone normalization in your
pipeline?
How do you align business day definitions across
geographies?
What timezone do you recommend for storage and
processing?

Scenario:
You’re tasked with building a reusable ingestion pipeline for
100+ sources.
Questions:
How do you use control tables or JSON configs to
parameterize your ingestion?
How would you make the pipeline modular and scalable?
How do you manage schema validation across different
source systems?
What error-handling strategies would you embed?

Scenario:
You want to optimize large table loads with minimal latency.
Questions:
How would you implement CDC from SQL to ADLS?
Would you use ADF Mapping Data Flows or Synapse
Pipelines?
How do you manage upserts and deletes efficiently in
Delta Lake?
What’s your strategy to handle schema changes in CDC
pipelines?

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Scenario: You need to combine ETL, ML scoring, and BI
refresh in one pipeline.
Questions:
How would you orchestrate cross-platform dependencies
and retries?
How do you pass data/context between stages securely?
How do you monitor execution across all components?
Would you use ADF, Azure Logic Apps, or something
else?

Scenario:
You want to provide reusable data quality checks across
multiple teams.
Questions:
How would you create a DQ framework reusable in
ADF/Databricks?
What types of validations would you standardize?
Where would you log and report DQ failures?
How would you expose it as a service or API?

Scenario:
You need to share gold datasets securely with external
partners.
Questions:
How would you use Azure Data Share or Delta Sharing?
What are the pros/cons of using Parquet files vs. Delta
for sharing?
How do you enforce row-level or column-level access in
shared data?
How would you monitor and audit usage?

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Scenario: As your data lake grows, managing metadata
becomes increasingly complex.​
Questions:
How would you implement a metadata management
strategy for your data lake?
What tools or services can assist in cataloging and
discovering data assets?
How does metadata management improve data
governance and usability?

Scenario:
Your organization requires real-time monitoring of IoT
sensor data.​
Questions:
How would you set up a pipeline to process and analyze
streaming data in real-time?
What are the considerations for windowing functions in
Azure Stream Analytics?
How can you handle late-arriving events in your
streaming queries?​

Scenario:
A deployed pipeline breaks because a downstream consumer
was relying on a dropped column.
Questions:
How do you implement automated contract enforcement in
pipelines?
How do you prevent accidental schema changes from
breaking consumers?
How would you notify and track contract violations
proactively?
What tools can assist with enforcing schema contracts (e.g.,
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Scenario: Executives want a unified view of pipeline health,
errors, and durations across Synapse, ADF, and Databricks.
Questions:
How would you implement a centralized logging system?
Would you use Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, or a custom
solution?
How do you correlate logs from multiple services in one
view?
How would you enable alerts and trend analysis?

Scenario:
You want to maintain a central registry of certified “gold”
datasets used org-wide.
Questions:
How would you tag and expose gold datasets in Unity
Catalog or Purview?
How do you track version history and changes to gold
datasets?
How do you automate validation for certification
standards?
How do you notify users when gold datasets change?

Scenario:
A production Delta Lake table is corrupted after a faulty
overwrite.
Questions:
How would you restore the table using Delta log and time
travel?
How do you implement checkpointing and backups for Delta
tables?
How do you validate table health and consistency post-
recovery?
How can schema enforcement prevent such incidents?

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