A company wants to provide a self-service analytics environment for business users who only need to run SQL queries and create dashboards. They want to minimize the need for users to understand cluster configuration. What should they use?

A Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning cluster

What is the primary purpose of a SQL Warehouse in Databricks?

To orchestrate data pipelines and schedule ETL jobs

To manage user permissions and access control for the Databricks workspace

To store the underlying data files for tables in the lakehouse

To provide a managed compute resource optimized for running SQL queries and BI workloads

After a SQL Warehouse executes a query, what happens to the results?

They are returned to the client that submitted the query

They are permanently stored in the SQL Warehouse's memory

They are written to a new table in the data lake

They are discarded after execution

A user runs a query on a SQL Warehouse. The query reads from a Delta table that has not been modified since the last time the same query was run. What is the most likely behavior?

The query fails because the table is locked.

The query uses Photon to speed up the scan.

The query returns results from the result cache without re-scanning the table.

The query re-scans the entire table to ensure fresh results.

A SQL Warehouse is configured with a maximum of 8 clusters. During a busy period, 10 analysts submit queries at the same time. What is the most likely outcome?

All queries will run concurrently on the 8 clusters without any delay.

Some queries will wait in a queue until a cluster becomes available.

The warehouse will reject the queries and return an error.

The warehouse will automatically exceed its maximum to handle the load.

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Domain 4Objective 2

Explain the Role a SQL Warehouse Plays in Query Execution. DATA-ANALYST-ASSOCIATE Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Section 4: Executing queries using Databricks SQL and Databricks SQL Warehouses domain, which makes up ~22% of our current practice bank. Databricks does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 23 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A company wants to provide a self-service analytics environment for business users who only need to run SQL queries and create dashboards. They want to minimize the need for users to understand cluster configuration. What should they use?
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After a SQL Warehouse executes a query, what happens to the results?
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A user runs a query on a SQL Warehouse. The query reads from a Delta table that has not been modified since the last time the same query was run. What is the most likely behavior?
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