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Certified Data Engineer Associate Practice Test 22

Question 210

A sales dashboard requires gross revenue grouped by store and business day from an orders DataFrame.

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

  1. A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.
  2. Two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record.
  3. For durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.
  4. Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

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

Incorrect Answers

A:

A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two. That finding does not establish that two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record.

C:

For durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes. That finding does not establish that two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record.

D:

Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse. That finding does not establish that two rows for the same store and day contribute one summed revenue record.

Question 211

A security team needs the number of distinct device identifiers per day rather than the number of raw events.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use approx_count_distinct on the user key with an appropriate accuracy parameter.
  2. Apply row_number over a customer-key window ordered by descending timestamp and keep rank one.
  3. Keep aggregation in Spark SQL or DataFrame groupBy instead of driver-side collection.
  4. Aggregate countDistinct(device_id) grouped by event date.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Counting distinct identifiers avoids treating repeated events from one device as separate devices. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Approximate distinct aggregates can reduce resource costs when exact cardinality is not required.

B:

A deterministic latest-record window supports deduplication by business key with explicit ordering.

C:

Distributed aggregates avoid materializing large source datasets in driver memory.

Question 212

A security team needs the number of distinct device identifiers per day rather than the number of raw events.

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

  1. The result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance.
  2. A day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.
  3. The retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.
  4. The calculation completes with distributed stages and bounded driver memory.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

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

Incorrect Answers

A:

The result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance. That finding does not establish that a day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.

C:

The retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule. That finding does not establish that a day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.

D:

The calculation completes with distributed stages and bounded driver memory. That finding does not establish that a day with five events from two devices yields a distinct-device count of two.

Question 213

A marketing team wants a fast approximate unique-user count on a huge events DataFrame and accepts estimation error.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use approx_count_distinct on the user key with an appropriate accuracy parameter.
  2. Use avg or mean over the shipment duration column grouped by route.
  3. Apply dropDuplicates over the full columns or the exact duplicate-identification subset.
  4. Measure and tune spark.sql.shuffle.partitions for the observed shuffle workload.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Approximate distinct aggregates can reduce resource costs when exact cardinality is not required. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

B:

An arithmetic mean answers the per-shipment average question; sum answers a different aggregate.

C:

DataFrame deduplication removes repeated records according to the chosen identity columns.

D:

Shuffle partition count controls post-shuffle task granularity; excessive partitions add overhead, while too few can create huge tasks.

Question 214

A marketing team wants a fast approximate unique-user count on a huge events DataFrame and accepts estimation error.

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

  1. For durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.
  2. Exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.
  3. The result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance.
  4. The revised stage has a reasonable task count and lower wall time without excessive spill.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Approximate distinct aggregates can reduce resource costs when exact cardinality is not required.

Incorrect Answers

A:

For durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes. That finding does not establish that the result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance.

B:

Exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation. That finding does not establish that the result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance.

D:

The revised stage has a reasonable task count and lower wall time without excessive spill. That finding does not establish that the result is close to a sampled exact distinct count within the accepted accuracy tolerance.

Question 215

A fulfillment report needs average shipment duration by route rather than the total duration of all shipments.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Use avg or mean over the shipment duration column grouped by route.
  2. Apply row_number over a customer-key window ordered by descending timestamp and keep rank one.
  3. Deduplicate on the intended event or order-line identity, not on a broader customer identifier.
  4. Profile memory use and adjust executor or driver memory together with data layout and partitions as appropriate.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

An arithmetic mean answers the per-shipment average question; sum answers a different aggregate. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

B:

A deterministic latest-record window supports deduplication by business key with explicit ordering.

C:

The key choice determines the unit of uniqueness and must reflect the data grain.

D:

Memory settings and partition sizes interact; changing partition count alone is not a complete memory fix.

Question 216

A fulfillment report needs average shipment duration by route rather than the total duration of all shipments.

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

  1. The retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.
  2. Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse.
  3. The representative stage completes without OOM and resource usage stays within configured limits.
  4. For durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

An arithmetic mean answers the per-shipment average question; sum answers a different aggregate.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule. That finding does not establish that for durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.

B:

Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse. That finding does not establish that for durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.

C:

The representative stage completes without OOM and resource usage stays within configured limits. That finding does not establish that for durations of 10 and 20 minutes the reported route average is 15 minutes.

Question 217

A customer dimension contains multiple updates for one customer and Silver should retain the latest row per customer based on a reliable event timestamp.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Apply dropDuplicates over the full columns or the exact duplicate-identification subset.
  2. Apply row_number over a customer-key window ordered by descending timestamp and keep rank one.
  3. Keep aggregation in Spark SQL or DataFrame groupBy instead of driver-side collection.
  4. Review spark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold and the actual plan before deciding a broadcast strategy.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

A deterministic latest-record window supports deduplication by business key with explicit ordering. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

DataFrame deduplication removes repeated records according to the chosen identity columns.

C:

Distributed aggregates avoid materializing large source datasets in driver memory.

D:

The threshold affects automatic broadcast eligibility and can change join execution plans.

Question 218

A customer dimension contains multiple updates for one customer and Silver should retain the latest row per customer based on a reliable event timestamp.

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

  1. Exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.
  2. The calculation completes with distributed stages and bounded driver memory.
  3. The physical plan reflects the intended join strategy and measured runtime improves without memory pressure.
  4. The retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

A deterministic latest-record window supports deduplication by business key with explicit ordering.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation. That finding does not establish that the retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.

B:

The calculation completes with distributed stages and bounded driver memory. That finding does not establish that the retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.

C:

The physical plan reflects the intended join strategy and measured runtime improves without memory pressure. That finding does not establish that the retained customer row has the newest timestamp for each key and ties follow the documented tie-break rule.

Question 219

A clickstream DataFrame contains exact duplicate records introduced by upstream retry behavior and should contain one copy of each identical row.

Which implementation decision best addresses this requirement?

  1. Deduplicate on the intended event or order-line identity, not on a broader customer identifier.
  2. Measure and tune spark.sql.shuffle.partitions for the observed shuffle workload.
  3. Apply dropDuplicates over the full columns or the exact duplicate-identification subset.
  4. Cache or persist a suitable reused intermediate DataFrame when memory budget and recomputation savings justify it.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

DataFrame deduplication removes repeated records according to the chosen identity columns. The selected implementation is the one directly aligned with the constraints in the scenario.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The key choice determines the unit of uniqueness and must reflect the data grain.

B:

Shuffle partition count controls post-shuffle task granularity; excessive partitions add overhead, while too few can create huge tasks.

D:

Caching can reuse a computed dataset but consumes executor resources and should be measured.

Question 220

A clickstream DataFrame contains exact duplicate records introduced by upstream retry behavior and should contain one copy of each identical row.

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

  1. Exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.
  2. Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse.
  3. The revised stage has a reasonable task count and lower wall time without excessive spill.
  4. The second computation avoids redundant recomputation and does not create harmful memory eviction.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

DataFrame deduplication removes repeated records according to the chosen identity columns.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Two legitimate orders for the same customer remain while true duplicate order lines collapse. That finding does not establish that exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.

C:

The revised stage has a reasonable task count and lower wall time without excessive spill. That finding does not establish that exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.

D:

The second computation avoids redundant recomputation and does not create harmful memory eviction. That finding does not establish that exact repeated input rows appear once after the transformation.

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