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AZ-900 · Question 39 · Domain 2.6: Azure Database and Analytics Services

A data engineering team needs a collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform to process massive amounts of data. Which Azure service is specifically built on Apache Spark and optimized for Azure?

Answer options:

A.

Azure SQL Managed Instance

B.

Azure Databricks

C.

Azure Cosmos DB

D.

Azure Data Factory

How to approach this question

Match 'Apache Spark' and 'collaborative analytics' to the correct service.

Full Answer

B.Azure Databricks✓ Correct
Azure Databricks is a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform. It offers two environments for developing data intensive applications: Azure Databricks SQL Analytics and Azure Databricks Workspace (which provides an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers using Apache Spark).

Common mistakes

Confusing Databricks with Data Factory. Data Factory moves the data; Databricks processes it using Spark.

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