Topic 1, Litware. Inc. Case Study

Overview

Litware. Inc. is a manufacturing company that has offices throughout North America. The analytics team at Litware contains data engineers, analytics engineers, data analysts, and data scientists.

Existing Environment

litware has been using a Microsoft Power Bl tenant for three years. Litware has NOT enabled any Fabric capacities and features.

Fabric Environment

Litware has data that must be analyzed as shown in the following table.

The Product data contains a single table and the following columns.

The customer satisfaction data contains the following tables:

• Survey

• Question

• Response

For each survey submitted, the following occurs:

• One row is added to the Survey table.

• One row is added to the Response table for each question in the survey.

The Question table contains the text of each survey question. The third question in each survey response is an overall satisfaction score. Customers can submit a survey after each purchase.

User Problems

The analytics team has large volumes of data, some of which is semi-structured. The team wants to use Fabric to create a new data store.

Product data is often classified into three pricing groups: high, medium, and low. This logic is implemented in several databases and semantic models, but the logic does NOT always match across

implementations.

Planned Changes

Litware plans to enable Fabric features in the existing tenant. The analytics team will create a new data store as a proof of concept (PoC). The remaining Litware users will only get access to the Fabric features once the PoC is complete. The PoC will be completed by using a Fabric trial capacity.

The following three workspaces will be created:

• AnalyticsPOC: Will contain the data store, semantic models, reports, pipelines, dataflows, and notebooks used to populate the data store

• DataEngPOC: Will contain all the pipelines, dataflows, and notebooks used to populate Onelake

• DataSciPOC: Will contain all the notebooks and reports created by the data scientists

The following will be created in the AnalyticsPOC workspace:

• A data store (type to be decided)

• A custom semantic model

• A default semantic model

• Interactive reports

The data engineers will create data pipelines to load data to OneLake either hourly or daily depending on the data source. The analytics engineers will create processes to ingest transform, and load the data to the data store in the AnalyticsPOC workspace daily. Whenever possible, the data engineers will use low-code tools for data ingestion. The choice of which data cleansing and transformation tools to use will be at the data engineers’ discretion.

All the semantic models and reports in the Analytics POC workspace will use the data store as the sole data source.

Technical Requirements

The data store must support the following:

• Read access by using T-SQL or Python

• Semi-structured and unstructured data

• Row-level security (RLS) for users executing T-SQL queries

Files loaded by the data engineers to OneLake will be stored in the Parquet format and will meet Delta Lake specifications.

Data will be loaded without transformation in one area of the AnalyticsPOC data store. The data will then be cleansed, merged, and transformed into a dimensional model.

The data load process must ensure that the raw and cleansed data is updated completely before populating the dimensional model.

The dimensional model must contain a date dimension. There is no existing data source for the date dimension. The Litware fiscal year matches the calendar year. The date dimension must always contain dates from 2010 through the end of the current year.

The product pricing group logic must be maintained by the analytics engineers in a single location. The pricing group data must be made available in the data store for T-SQL queries and in the default semantic model.

The following logic must be used:

• List prices that are less than or equal to 50 are in the low pricing group.

• List prices that are greater than 50 and less than or equal to 1,000 are in the medium pricing group.

• List pnces that are greater than 1,000 are in the high pricing group.

Security Requirements

Only Fabric administrators and the analytics team must be able to see the Fabric items created as part of the PoC. Litware identifies the following security requirements for the Fabric items in the AnalyticsPOC workspace:

• Fabric administrators will be the workspace administrators.

• The data engineers must be able to read from and write to the data store. No access must be granted to datasets or reports.

• The analytics engineers must be able to read from, write to, and create schemas in the data store. They also must be able to create and share semantic models with the data analysts and view and modify all reports in the workspace.

• The data scientists must be able to read from the data store, but not write to it. They will access the data by using a Spark notebook.

• The data analysts must have read access to only the dimensional model objects in the data store. They also must have access to create Power Bl reports by using the semantic models created by the analytics engineers.

• The date dimension must be available to all users of the data store.

• The principle of least privilege must be followed.

Both the default and custom semantic models must include only tables or views from the dimensional model in the data store.

Litware already has the following Microsoft Entra security groups:

• FabricAdmins: Fabric administrators

• AnalyticsTeam: All the members of the analytics team

• DataAnalysts: The data analysts on the analytics team

• DataScientists: The data scientists on the analytics team

• Data Engineers: The data engineers on the analytics team

• Analytics Engineers: The analytics engineers on the analytics team

Report Requirements

The data analysis must create a customer satisfaction report that meets the following requirements:

• Enables a user to select a product to filter customer survey responses to only those who have purchased that product

• Displays the average overall satisfaction score of all the surveys submitted during the last 12 months up to a selected date

• Shows data as soon as the data is updated in the data store

• Ensures that the report and the semantic model only contain data from the current and previous year

• Ensures that the report respects any table-level security specified in the source data store

• Minimizes the execution time of report queries

HOTSPOT

You to need assign permissions for the data store in the AnalyticsPOC workspace. The solution must meet the security requirements.

Which additional permissions should you assign when you share the data store? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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HOTSPOT

You need to create a DAX measure to calculate the average overall satisfaction score.

How should you complete the DAX code? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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HOTSPOT

You need to resolve the issue with the pricing group classification.

How should you complete the T-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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What should you recommend using to ingest the customer data into the data store in the AnatyticsPOC workspace?

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Which type of data store should you recommend in the AnalyticsPOC workspace?

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Topic 2, Misc. Questions

You have a Fabric warehouse that contains a table named Staging.Sales. Staging.Sales contains the following columns.

You need to write a T-SQL query that will return data for the year 2023 that displays ProductID and ProductName arxl has a summarized Amount that is higher than 10,000.

Which query should you use?

A)

B)

C)

D)

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HOTSPOT

You have a data warehouse that contains a table named Stage. Customers. Stage-Customers contains all the customer record updates from a customer relationship management (CRM) system. There can be multiple updates per customer

You need to write a T-SQL query that will return the customer ID, name, postal code, and the last updated time of the most recent row for each customer ID.

How should you complete the code? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area, NOTE Each correct selection is worth one point.

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HOTSPOT

You have a Fabric tenant.

You plan to create a Fabric notebook that will use Spark DataFrames to generate Microsoft Power Bl visuals.

You run the following code.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You are the administrator of a Fabric workspace that contains a lakehouse named Lakehouse1.

Lakehouse1 contains the following tables:

• Table1: A Delta table created by using a shortcut

• Table2: An external table created by using Spark

• Table3: A managed table

You plan to connect to Lakehouse1 by using its SQL endpoint.

What will you be able to do after connecting to Lakehouse1?

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You have a Fabric tenant that contains a warehouse.

You use a dataflow to load a new dataset from OneLake to the warehouse.

You need to add a Power Query step to identify the maximum values for the numeric columns.

Which function should you include in the step?

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