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Certified Data Engineer Associate Practice Test 20

Question 190

A reporting engineer joins sales to customers and requires only sales with a matching customer dimension row.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. Payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.
  2. Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
  3. A sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.
  4. The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

An inner join retains records present on both sides of the join condition.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.

B:

Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.

D:

The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that a sale with a missing customer key is absent from the joined result while matched sales remain.

Question 191

A fraud review must retain every payment, even if no current merchant dimension record exists.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use a left outer join from payments to merchants on the merchant key.
  2. Use a left anti join from source customers to master customers on the business key.
  3. Consider a broadcast join of the genuinely small lookup table.
  4. Use crossJoin only when the intended result is a Cartesian product.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

A left join preserves the full left-side payment population and returns null right-side attributes for unmatched merchants. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

B:

A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key.

C:

Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.

D:

A cross join constructs every pair of rows and can grow explosively for large inputs.

Question 192

A fraud review must retain every payment, even if no current merchant dimension record exists.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. The output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.
  2. The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
  3. The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs.
  4. Payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

A left join preserves the full left-side payment population and returns null right-side attributes for unmatched merchants.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.

B:

The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.

C:

The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs. That finding does not establish that payment count remains unchanged for one-to-one merchant keys and unmatched payments have null merchant fields.

Question 193

A warehouse needs to identify which source customer keys have no match in the accepted master customer table.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use a left semi join based on the eligible-customer key.
  2. Use a left anti join from source customers to master customers on the business key.
  3. Use unionByName to append rows by matching column names rather than positions.
  4. Join on both business-key columns using a conjunctive join predicate.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns.

C:

Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.

D:

A multi-key join constrains rows to the same account and date rather than multiplying cross-date matches.

Question 194

A warehouse needs to identify which source customer keys have no match in the accepted master customer table.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
  2. Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
  3. Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date.
  4. The output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

A left anti join returns only left-side rows without any matching right-side key.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.

B:

Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.

C:

Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date. That finding does not establish that the output contains missing master keys and excludes all already matched keys.

Question 195

A new cohort query needs the rows from transactions that have an eligible customer, without repeating columns from the customer table.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Consider a broadcast join of the genuinely small lookup table.
  2. Use union followed by distinct if duplicate elimination is required for DataFrame rows.
  3. Use a left semi join based on the eligible-customer key.
  4. Use explicit null-safe equality only if the business rule actually treats nulls as matching.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.

B:

PySpark DataFrame union appends rows without guaranteeing deduplication; distinct is a separate operation.

D:

SQL and DataFrame ordinary equality do not match null to null; null-safe comparison has different semantics.

Question 196

A new cohort query needs the rows from transactions that have an eligible customer, without repeating columns from the customer table.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. Only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.
  2. The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
  3. The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication.
  4. The test demonstrates the chosen null policy, including how two null keys are treated.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Left semi joins filter the left DataFrame by existence of a right match without adding right-side columns.

Incorrect Answers

B:

The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.

C:

The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.

D:

The test demonstrates the chosen null policy, including how two null keys are treated. That finding does not establish that only eligible transaction rows remain and the output schema contains the left-side columns.

Question 197

A small reference table of 200 categories is repeatedly joined with a very large clickstream table and shuffle costs dominate the job.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use unionByName to append rows by matching column names rather than positions.
  2. Use crossJoin only when the intended result is a Cartesian product.
  3. Consider a broadcast join of the genuinely small lookup table.
  4. Group by store and date, then aggregate sum(amount) for total revenue.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.

B:

A cross join constructs every pair of rows and can grow explosively for large inputs.

D:

Grouping creates one aggregate per grouping key and sum computes the requested financial measure.

Question 198

A small reference table of 200 categories is repeatedly joined with a very large clickstream table and shuffle costs dominate the job.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
  2. The physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.
  3. The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs.
  4. Two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Broadcasting a sufficiently small dimension can avoid a large shuffle join when memory and thresholds permit.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.

C:

The controlled input produces exactly thirty segment-tier pairs. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.

D:

Two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record. That finding does not establish that the physical plan shows a broadcast join and the query runs within memory constraints.

Question 199

Two DataFrames have identical logical columns but their physical column orders differ after separate ingestion changes.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use union followed by distinct if duplicate elimination is required for DataFrame rows.
  2. Join on both business-key columns using a conjunctive join predicate.
  3. Aggregate countDistinct(device_id) grouped by event date.
  4. Use unionByName to append rows by matching column names rather than positions.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

PySpark DataFrame union appends rows without guaranteeing deduplication; distinct is a separate operation.

B:

A multi-key join constrains rows to the same account and date rather than multiplying cross-date matches.

C:

Counting distinct identifiers avoids treating repeated events from one device as separate devices.

Question 200

Two DataFrames have identical logical columns but their physical column orders differ after separate ingestion changes.

Which acceptance result most directly demonstrates that the intended solution works?

  1. The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication.
  2. Rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.
  3. Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date.
  4. A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Name-based union reduces accidental column swaps when schemas have different field order.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The output has one instance of every identical row after explicit deduplication. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.

C:

Each fact row matches only the dimension record with its key and effective date. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.

D:

A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two. That finding does not establish that rows from both sources retain the correct values under each named column.

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