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Certified Data Engineer Associate Questions 57–64 (page: 9)

Updated On: 7-Apr-2026

A data engineer has been given a new record of data:

id STRING = `a1'
rank INTEGER = 6
rating FLOAT = 9.4

Which SQL commands can be used to append the new record to an existing Delta table my_table?

  1. INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (`a1', 6, 9.4)
  2. INSERT VALUES (`a1', 6, 9.4) INTO my_table
  3. UPDATE my_table VALUES (`a1', 6, 9.4)
  4. UPDATE VALUES (`a1', 6, 9.4) my_table

Answer(s): A



A data engineer has realized that the data files associated with a Delta table are incredibly small. They want to compact the small files to form larger files to improve performance.

Which keyword can be used to compact the small files?

  1. OPTIMIZE
  2. VACUUM
  3. COMPACTION
  4. REPARTITION

Answer(s): A



A data engineer wants to create a data entity from a couple of tables. The data entity must be used by other data engineers in other sessions. It also must be saved to a physical location.

Which of the following data entities should the data engineer create?

  1. Table
  2. Function
  3. View
  4. Temporary view

Answer(s): A



A data analyst has created a Delta table sales that is used by the entire data analysis team. They want help from the data engineering team to implement a series of tests to ensure the data is clean. However, the data engineering team uses Python for its tests rather than SQL.

Which command could the data engineering team use to access sales in PySpark?

  1. SELECT * FROM sales
  2. spark.table("sales")
  3. spark.sql("sales")
  4. spark.delta.table("sales")

Answer(s): B



A data engineer has created a new database using the following command:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS customer360;

In which location will the customer360 database be located?

  1. dbfs:/user/hive/database/customer360
  2. dbfs:/user/hive/warehouse
  3. dbfs:/user/hive/customer360
  4. dbfs:/user/hive/database

Answer(s): B



A data engineer needs to create a table in Databricks using data from a CSV file at location /path/to/csv.

They run the following command:



Which of the following lines of code fills in the above blank to successfully complete the task?

  1. FROM "path/to/csv"
  2. USING CSV
  3. FROM CSV
  4. USING DELTA

Answer(s): B



What is a benefit of creating an external table from Parquet rather than CSV when using a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT statement?

  1. Parquet files can be partitioned
  2. Parquet files will become Delta tables
  3. Parquet files have a well-defined schema
  4. Parquet files have the ability to be optimized

Answer(s): C



Which SQL keyword can be used to convert a table from a long format to a wide format?

  1. TRANSFORM
  2. PIVOT
  3. SUM
  4. CONVERT

Answer(s): B



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