Practice Exam Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate - Question 40

Why option B is not the answer for this question?

Question 40

A data analyst has noticed that their Databricks SQL queries are running too slowly. They claim that this issue is affecting all of their sequentially run queries. They ask the data engineering team for help. The data engineering team notices that each of the queries uses the same SQL endpoint, but the SQL endpoint is not used by any other user. Which of the following approaches can the data engineering team use to improve the latency of the data analyst’s queries?

A. They can turn on the Serverless feature for the SQL endpoint.

B. They can increase the maximum bound of the SQL endpoint’s scaling range.

C. They can increase the cluster size of the SQL endpoint.

D. They can turn on the Auto Stop feature for the SQL endpoint.

E. They can turn on the Serverless feature for the SQL endpoint and change the Spot Instance Policy to “Reliability Optimized.”

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• At here we have two things to decide which is the right choice:

1. There has got no other user sharing the same cluster
2. The queries are sequentially running.

• D is not right choice.
• We see that three answers A, B, E have the same idea aiming to scale out the number of clusters. The choices will solve the bottle-neck when sharing the clusters for many users. They are not right for their problem.
• Their queries are sequentially running so they need more powerful cluster to run.

=> In my opinion, the C is the best option in the case.