Data Engineer Interview Questions
Databricks
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15 questions available
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Total
15
Easy
6
Medium
6
Hard
3
easy
14
Question: How does Delta Lake ensure ACID compliance on Databricks?
ELT
medium
17
Question: If you have a Databricks notebook that uses a library installed on the cluster and you clone that notebook to a different workspace, will the cloned notebook automatically have access to the same library?
Notebook
Clusters
Scenario Based
medium
8
Question: You create a cluster with autoscaling enabled. If your workload suddenly drops to zero, will the cluster immediately terminate all worker nodes?
Clusters
Scenario Based
medium
8
Question: What’s the difference in behavior between using %run and dbutils.notebook.run() in a Databricks notebook?
Notebook
Scenario Based
hard
13
Question: You've set up a Delta Live Table pipeline. If you modify the source data while the pipeline is running, what will happen to the pipeline's execution?
Scenario Based
Delta Live Tables
hard
9
Question: You're using Delta Lake's schema enforcement. You have a pipeline that occasionally receives data with a new column. How can you handle this situation gracefully without breaking the pipeline, while still maintaining data quality?
Scenario Based
Delta Lake
Data Quality