DP-600 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Correct Answer: ACD

Explanation: For users to create and publish custom Direct Lake semantic models using external tools, following the principle of least privilege, the actions to be included are enabling XMLA Endpoints (A), editing data models in Power BI service (C), and setting XMLA Endpoint to Read-Write in the capacity settings (D). References = More information can be found in the Admin portal of the Power BI service documentation, detailing tenant and capacity settings.

Correct Answer: D

Correct Answer: C

Explanation: To ensure all rows appear in the Python visual within a Power BI report, option C, adding a unique field to each row, is the correct solution. This will prevent automatic grouping by unique values and allow for all instances of data to be represented in the visual. References = For more on Power BI Python visuals and how they handle data, please refer to the Power BI documentation.

Correct Answer: AD

Explanation: To reduce memory usage and refresh time, splitting the OrderDateTime into separate date and time columns (A) can help optimize the model because date/time data types can be more memory-intensive than separate date and time columns. Moreover, replacing TotalSalesAmount with a measure (D) instead of a calculated column ensures that the calculation is performed at query time, which can reduce the size of the model as the value is not stored but calculated on the fly. References = The best practices for optimizing Power BI models are detailed in the Power BI documentation, which recommends using measures for calculations that don't need to be stored and adjusting data types to improve performance.

Correct Answer:

A replica of dbo.Sales is created in the test schema by copying the metadata only. - No Additional schema changes to dbo.FactSales will also apply to test.FactSales. - No Additional data changes to dbo.FactSales will also apply to test.FactSales. - Yes The CREATE TABLE AS CLONE statement creates a copy of an existing table, including its data and any associated data structures, like indexes. Therefore, the statement does not merely copy metadata; it also copies the data. However, subsequent schema changes to the original table do not automatically propagate to the cloned table. Any data changes in the original table after the clone operation will not be reflected in the clone unless explicitly updated. References = CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) in SQL Data Warehouse

Correct Answer:

When creating a shortcut to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account in a lakehouse, you should use the abfss (Azure Blob File System Secure) connection string and the dfs (Data Lake File System) endpoint. The abfss is used for secure

access to Azure Data Lake Storage, and the dfs endpoint indicates that the Data Lake Storage Gen2 capabilities are to be used.

Correct Answer:

Add the pickupDate column: .withColumn("pickupDate",

df["pickupDateTime"].cast("date"))

Filter the DataFrame: .filter("fareAmount > 0 AND fareAmount < 100")

In PySpark, you can add a new column to a DataFrame using the .withColumn method, where the first argument is the new column name and the second argument is the expression to generate the content of the new column. Here, we use

the .cast("date") function to extract only the date part from a timestamp. To filter the DataFrame, you use the .filter method with a condition that selects rows where fareAmount is greater than 0 and less than 100, thus ensuring only positive

values less than 100 are included.

Correct Answer:

GRANT ALTER ON SCHEMA::schemaA TO User1;

The ALTER permission allows a user to modify the schema of an object, and granting ALTER on a schema will allow the user to perform operations like TRUNCATE TABLE on any object within that schema. It is the correct permission to

grant to User1 for truncating tables in schemaA.

References =

GRANT Schema Permissions

Permissions That Can Be Granted on a Schema

Correct Answer:

The Spark engine will read only the 'SalesOrderNumber', 'OrderDate', 'CustomerName', 'UnitPrice' columns from Sales_raw.csv. - Yes Removing the partition will reduce the execution time of the query. - No Adding inferSchema='true' to the options will increase the execution time of the query. - Yes

The code specifies the selection of certain columns, which means only those columns will be read into the DataFrame. Partitions in Spark are a way to optimize the execution of queries by organizing the data into parts that can be processed in parallel. Removing the partition could potentially increase the execution time because Spark would no longer be able to process the data in parallel efficiently. The inferSchema option allows Spark to automatically detect the column data types, which can increase the execution time of the initial read operation because it requires Spark to read through the data to infer the schema.

Correct Answer:

The measure should use the AVERAGE function to calculate the average value.

It should reference the Response Value column from the 'Survey' table.

The 'Number of months' should be used to define the period for the average calculation.

To calculate the average overall satisfaction score using DAX, you would need to use the AVERAGE function on the response values related to satisfaction questions. The DATESINPERIOD function will help in calculating the rolling average

over the last 12 months.