A news aggregation startup wants to collect headlines from multiple news websites. Some sites offer public JSON APIs, while others only provide HTML pages. The startup needs a single pipeline to ingest both types. Which approach should the developer take?

Only use the sites that provide APIs and ignore the others.

Request that all sites provide an API before integrating them.

Write a single web scraper that works for all sites, including those with APIs.

Use API clients for sites with APIs and web scrapers for sites without, normalizing all output to a common JSON schema.

Which of the following is a common method for extracting data from a website that provides a regularly updated list of articles?

Using a file transfer protocol (FTP) client

Querying the website's internal database

What is the primary role of a data repository in an organization?

To provide real-time data visualization dashboards

To generate automated reports for management

To enforce data security policies across all systems

To serve as a centralized location for storing and managing data

A data science team needs to share a collection of Jupyter notebooks, trained model files, and configuration scripts with new team members. The team wants version control and a centralized location that all members can access. Which solution best meets these requirements?

A Git repository hosted on a shared server.

A shared network folder with read-only permissions.

A single compressed archive stored on a USB drive.

A series of email attachments sent to each team member.

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A news aggregation startup wants to collect headlines from multiple news websites. Some sites offer public JSON APIs, while others only provide HTML pages. The startup needs a single pipeline to ingest both types. Which approach should the developer take?
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22foundation · easy
Which of the following is a common method for extracting data from a website that provides a regularly updated list of articles?
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What is the primary role of a data repository in an organization?
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Which type of database is specifically optimized for analyzing large volumes of data with complex queries that aggregate across many rows?
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25application · easy
A data science team needs to share a collection of Jupyter notebooks, trained model files, and configuration scripts with new team members. The team wants version control and a centralized location that all members can access. Which solution best meets these requirements?
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