Week 1: Practice Quiz
Question 1
Which emerging technology has made it possible for every enterprise to have access to limitless storage
and high-performance computing?
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Internet of Things
Question 2
Which of the data roles is responsible for extracting, integrating, and organizing data into data
repositories?
Data Scientist
Business Intelligence Analyst
Data Analyst
Data Engineer
Question 3
The field of data engineering concerns itself with the mechanics for the flow and access of data. Which
one of the following statements captures the goal of data engineering?
Design pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data into data repositories
Architect data stores for the storage of processed data
Maintain distributed systems for large-scale processing of data
Make quality data available for fact-finding and business decision-making
Week 1: Graded Quiz
Question 1
A modern data ecosystem includes a network of continually evolving entities. It includes:
Social media sources, data repositories, and APIs
Data sources, databases, and programming languages
Data sources, enterprise data repository, business stakeholders, and tools, applications, and
infrastructure to manage data
Data providers, databases, and programming languages
Question 2
Data Engineers work within the data ecosystem to:
Develop and maintain data architectures
Provide business intelligence solutions by monitoring data on different business functions
Analyze data for actionable insights
Analyze data for deriving insights
Question 3
The goal of data engineering is to make quality data available for fact-finding and decision-making.
Which one of these statements captures the process of data engineering?
Collecting, processing, and storing data
Processing data and making it available to users securely
Collecting, processing, storing, and making data available to users securely
Collecting, processing, and making data available to users securely
Question 4
Data extracted from disparate sources can be stored in:
Data Warehouses only
Data Lakes only
Databases, data warehouses, data lakes, or any other type of data repository
Databases only
Question 5
From the provided list, select the three emerging technologies that are shaping today’s data ecosystem.
Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Big Data
Machine Language, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things
Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, and Dashboarding
Big Data, Internet of Things, and Dashboarding
Week 1: Practice Quiz
Question 1
Which one of these skills is essential to the role of a Data Engineer?
Proficiency in creating Deep Learning models
To inspect analytics-ready data for deriving insights
Proficiency in Statistics
To setup and manage the infrastructure required for the ingestion, processing, and storage of
data
Question 2
What, according to Sarah Flinch, needs to be tracked and analyzed in order to keep business updated on
the overall sentiment of the consumers?
Blogging sites
Social media posts, customer reviews and ratings on eCommerce platforms, and product
reviews on blogging sites
eCommerce platforms
Social media sites
Week 1: Graded Quiz
Question 1
Which one of these functional skills is essential to the role of a Data Engineer?
Inspect analytics-ready data for deriving insights
Proficiency in Mathematics
Proficiency in working with ETL Tools
The ability to work with the software development lifecycle
Question 2
Oracle Exadata, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud, IBM Netezza Performance Server, and Amazon RedShift
are some of the popular __________________ in use today.
Big Data Platforms
NoSQL Databases
Data Warehouses
ETL Tools
Question 3
Data Engineers manage the infrastructure required for the ingestion, processing, and storage of data.
True
False
