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1. What is storage-compute separation?

Senior
  1. A.AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  2. B.GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  3. C.a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  4. D.decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently

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2. Which term means: "decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently"?

Senior
  1. A.AWS EMR
  2. B.Azure Synapse
  3. C.storage-compute separation
  4. D.GCP BigQuery

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3. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.storage-compute separation — AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  2. B.storage-compute separation — a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  3. C.storage-compute separation — decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently
  4. D.storage-compute separation — GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse

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4. What is Databricks?

Junior
  1. A.a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  2. B.GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  3. C.decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently
  4. D.Azure's unified analytics warehouse service

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5. Which term means: "a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine"?

Junior
  1. A.storage-compute separation
  2. B.AWS EMR
  3. C.GCP BigQuery
  4. D.Databricks

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6. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Databricks — GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  2. B.Databricks — AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  3. C.Databricks — a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  4. D.Databricks — Azure's unified analytics warehouse service

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7. What is AWS EMR?

Junior
  1. A.a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  2. B.GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  3. C.AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  4. D.decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently

Answer + AI explanation with Pro

8. Which term means: "AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2"?

Junior
  1. A.Azure Synapse
  2. B.AWS EMR
  3. C.storage-compute separation
  4. D.GCP BigQuery

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9. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.AWS EMR — GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  2. B.AWS EMR — a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  3. C.AWS EMR — AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  4. D.AWS EMR — Azure's unified analytics warehouse service

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10. What is GCP BigQuery?

Junior
  1. A.AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  2. B.Azure's unified analytics warehouse service
  3. C.a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  4. D.GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse

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11. Which term means: "GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse"?

Junior
  1. A.GCP BigQuery
  2. B.Databricks
  3. C.Azure Synapse
  4. D.storage-compute separation

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12. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.GCP BigQuery — GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  2. B.GCP BigQuery — AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  3. C.GCP BigQuery — decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently
  4. D.GCP BigQuery — Azure's unified analytics warehouse service

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13. What is Azure Synapse?

Junior
  1. A.Azure's unified analytics warehouse service
  2. B.decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently
  3. C.GCP's serverless columnar data warehouse
  4. D.AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2

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14. Which term means: "Azure's unified analytics warehouse service"?

Junior
  1. A.Databricks
  2. B.Azure Synapse
  3. C.AWS EMR
  4. D.GCP BigQuery

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15. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Azure Synapse — Azure's unified analytics warehouse service
  2. B.Azure Synapse — AWS managed Hadoop/Spark on EC2
  3. C.Azure Synapse — a lakehouse platform with Delta Lake, notebooks and the Photon engine
  4. D.Azure Synapse — decoupling object storage from transient compute to scale and pay independently

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