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Question #: 97
Topic #: 1
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A data architect has heard about Delta Lake’s built-in versioning and time travel capabilities. For auditing purposes, they have a requirement to maintain a full record of all valid street addresses as they appear in the customers table.

The architect is interested in implementing a Type 1 table, overwriting existing records with new values and relying on Delta Lake time travel to support long-term auditing. A data engineer on the project feels that a Type 2 table will provide better performance and scalability.

Which piece of information is critical to this decision?

  • A. Data corruption can occur if a query fails in a partially completed state because Type 2 tables require setting multiple fields in a single update.
  • B. Shallow clones can be combined with Type 1 tables to accelerate historic queries for long-term versioning.
  • C. Delta Lake time travel cannot be used to query previous versions of these tables because Type 1 changes modify data files in place.
  • D. Delta Lake time travel does not scale well in cost or latency to provide a long-term versioning solution.
  • E. Delta Lake only supports Type 0 tables; once records are inserted to a Delta Lake table, they cannot be modified.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
by 60ties at Nov. 15, 2023, 1:44 p.m.

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_lene_
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Selected Answer: D
Vacuuming restricts time travel capability
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Sriramiyer92
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
Also performing a Vaccum Op on Data will not suite well with the requirement in the long run.
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vish9
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
D makes sense
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KB_Ai_Champ
3 months, 4 weeks ago
its C time travel cant be performed on type 1
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vctrhugo
1 year ago
Selected Answer: D
Delta Lake’s time travel feature allows you to access previous versions of the data, which can be useful for auditing purposes. However, if you’re planning to use time travel as a long-term versioning solution, it’s important to know that it may not scale well in terms of cost or latency. This is because every time you perform a write operation, a new version of the data is created, which can consume significant storage over time. Additionally, querying older versions of the data may require scanning through many files, which can increase query latency.
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60ties
1 year, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D makes more sense
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