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Databricks Knowledge Check -

Questions and Answer Key


Question 1:
1. What is the significance of the MosaicML acquisition by Databricks?

Answer:
✅ It supported the need for powerful Generative AI models and tools within Databricks.

Question 2:
2. What are three of the main features and benefits Delta Live Tables (DLT) provide to data
engineering on Databricks?

Answer:
✅ Unified batch and streaming support
✅ A declarative ETL framework
✅ Automatic infrastructure management

Question 3:
3. What is the significance of the Well-Architected Lakehouse framework?

Answer:
✅ It extends the cloud well-architected frameworks to the lakehouse, ensuring operational
excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

Question 4:
4. What is the purpose of Databricks Marketplace?

Answer:
✅ To provide an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI products, enabling
collaboration and monetization.

Question 5:
5. What is the primary benefit of Delta Lake's support for ACID transactions?
Answer:
✅ It ensures data reliability and consistency

Question 6:
6. Which three of the following benefits is provided directly by Databricks?

Answer:
✅ It’s available on and across multiple cloud platforms
✅ It provides a unified security and governance approach to all data assets
✅ It’s built on open source and open standards

Question 7:
7. How does Databricks support non-technical users in gaining insights from data using
natural language?

Answer:
✅ Through AI/BI Genie Spaces and Databricks Assistant, which allow users to interact with
data using natural language prompts.

Question 8:
8. What is the mission of Databricks?

Answer:
✅ To democratize data and AI.

Question 9:
9. What is the purpose of Databricks Assistant?

Answer:
✅ To act as a companion for coding and platform needs throughout the platform UI.

Question 10:
10. Databricks platform infrastructure consists of a control plane and a data plane. Which
three of the following resources exist in the control plane?
Answer:
✅ Notebooks
✅ Unity Catalog
✅ Workflows

Question 11:
11. What does Databricks use to handle data governance and security?

Answer:
✅ Unity Catalog

Question 12:
12. Which two statements provide an explanation of data lakehouse architecture and its
benefits?

Answer:
✅ Data lakehouse architecture offers the benefits of both data warehouses and data lakes by
building a data management and formatting layer on top of an open data lake.
✅ The data lakehouse architecture provides a unified platform for all data types with support
for both BI and AI workloads.

Question 13:
13. How does Databricks support data security and governance across different cloud
platforms?

Answer:
✅ Databricks leverages Unity Catalog to provide a unified governance layer for all data and AI
assets housed within the data ecosystem.

Question 14:
14. What is Delta Sharing and its primary benefit?

Answer:
✅ Delta Sharing is an open, cross-platform sharing tool that allows for the sharing of data
without duplication.
Question 15:
15. What is the role of Databricks Workflows?

Answer:
✅ To orchestrate all types of jobs within the platform, providing control flows, triggers, and
monitoring.

Question 16:
16. Which three options are benefits of serverless compute in Databricks?

Answer:
✅ Usage cost transparency
✅ Improved reliability
✅ Simplified user experience

Question 17:
17. How does DatabricksIQ enhance the Databricks Platform?

Answer:
✅ By applying AI to understand data structure, usage, and meaning, helping users boost
productivity, and optimize workloads.

Question 18:
18. Which statement describes the role of Unity Catalog within the Databricks Data
Intelligence Platform?

Answer:
✅ Unity Catalog provides a single interface to manage platform-wide permissions, audits, and
data sharing for all your data and AI governance needs.

Question 19:
19. Which of the following services or capabilities supports data warehousing capabilities
on Databricks?

Answer:
✅ Databricks SQL
Question 20:
20. What are the three key challenges with data ecosystems that businesses face when
leveraging their data for valuable insights?

Answer:
✅ Large data ecosystems incur high management and maintenance costs.
✅ Data is often locked in silos with teams operating independently.
✅ Multiple systems introduce data privacy and control issues.

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