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DP-900 practice questions – Explore roles and responsibilities in the world of data

26th January 2021 By John McCormack Leave a Comment

Which job role manages databases, user permissions, backups and restores as well as optimising performance and availability?

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Which job role designs and implements data ingestion pipelines, data transformation and cleansing tasks, and data stores for analytical workloads?

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Which job role is responsible for designing and building scalable models and designing advanced analytics capabilities via reports and visualisations?

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Although BI developers do write reports and visualisations, they are not specifically by MS Learn. The answer you are looking for is data analyst.

Select all valid tasks undertaken by a Database Administrator?

Please select 2 correct answers

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In some smaller companies, DBAs may be expected to do some non standard tasks including writing reports and designing ETL packages but these are usually done by data analysts and data engineers respectively.

Which client tool is primarily used by SQL Server DBAs?

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Although 3rd party products such as Toad for SQL Server are available, the majority of SQL DBAs use SSMS. Cross platform tools like Azure Data Studio are also gaining prominence. pgAdmin is for PostgreSQL. MySQL Workbench is for MySQL.

Select an example of a cross platform database administration tool?

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ADS currently provides connections to on-premises SQL Server databases, Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and SQL Server Big Data Clusters, amongst others.

What does the S.Q.L. stand for in Transact-SQL?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transact-SQL

Select all valid tasks undertaken by a data engineer?

Please select 4 correct answers

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/explore-roles-responsibilities-world-of-data/4-review-tasks-tools-for-data-engineering
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/explore-roles-responsibilities-world-of-data/4-review-tasks-tools-for-data-engineering

Select only the true statements below.

Please select 3 correct answers

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Which reporting tools might you expect a skilled data analyst to be comfortable with?

Please select 3 correct answers

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SSIS is used for ETL so is the domain of the data engineer.

Select all valid tasks undertaken by a SQL Analyst.

Please select 3 correct answers

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/explore-roles-responsibilities-world-of-data/5-review-tasks-tools-for-data-visualization-reporting

DP-900 practice questions - Explore roles and responsibilities in the world of data
DP-900 practice questions - Explore roles and responsibilities in the world of data

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