Data Engineering Fundamentals
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What is the primary focus of a data engineer?

  • Developing predictive models
  • Analyzing and transforming data
  • Extracting insights from data
  • Building and optimizing data infrastructure (correct)

    • What is a key responsibility of a data engineer in terms of data pipelines?

  • Building and maintaining data pipelines (correct)
  • Developing predictive models
  • Transforming data for consumption
  • Analyzing data for insights

    • Who is responsible for preparing the groundwork for data analysis?

  • Data engineers (correct)
  • Data scientists
  • Business analysts
  • IT professionals

    • What is a key task of a data scientist?

    <p>Analyzing and cleaning data</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary task of a data scientist?

    <p>Extracting insights from data</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key difference between a data engineer and a data scientist?

    <p>Data engineers focus on infrastructure, while data scientists focus on analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of data engineering?

    <p>To provide organized, consistent data flow to enable data-driven work</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a common pattern used to achieve data flow in data engineering?

    <p>Data pipeline</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of data analysis is enabled by data engineering?

    <p>Exploratory data analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the sources of data that can be processed in data engineering?

    <p>Vehicle telemetry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the outcome of data engineering?

    <p>Both A and B</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is data engineering important?

    <p>To enable data-driven work</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a data engineer?

    <p>To set up and operate the organization's data infrastructure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of the data engineering process?

    <p>High-quality, consistent information</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is data engineering important?

    <p>Because it empowers businesses to thrive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key aspect of data engineering?

    <p>Data management and security</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of data engineers in maintaining data?

    <p>To ensure the data remains available and usable</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the scope of data engineering?

    <p>Involves the intersection of multiple fields, including data management, security, and software engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of a source system in the data engineering lifecycle?

    <p>To originate data used in the lifecycle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary role of data scientists in an organization?

    <p>To guide decision-makers by interpreting data</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of choosing a storage solution in the data engineering lifecycle?

    <p>It is one of the most complicated stages of the data lifecycle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main benefit of the ELT pattern in data engineering?

    <p>It provides a clean split of responsibilities between data engineers and data analysts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of ETL tools in data engineering?

    <p>To move data between systems and apply transformation rules</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of many data storage solutions?

    <p>They often support complex transformation queries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do big data need special techniques for storage?

    <p>Because they need to be stored efficiently</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of the Data Engineering Lifecycle?

    <p>To shift the conversation toward the data itself and the end goals it must serve</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a storage solution that can be used for big data?

    <p>Amazon AWS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of query engines in data engineering?

    <p>To run queries against data to return answers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is local storage suitable for data?

    <p>When the data is small</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the benefit of using Python in data engineering?

    <p>It is a general programming language that can be used for ETL tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Data Engineering

    • Data engineering is the process of designing and building systems that collect and analyze raw data from multiple sources and formats.
    • It involves creating interfaces and mechanisms for the flow and access of information, making it available and usable for others.

    Data Engineering Cycle

    • The data engineering lifecycle includes:
      • Generation: Source system (origin of the data)
      • Storage: Choosing a storage solution (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, Google Cloud Storage)
      • Other stages: Ingestion, transformation, and serving

    Data Engineering Tools and Skills

    • Data engineers use various tools, including:
      • ETL (extract, transform, load) tools
      • SQL (structured query language)
      • Python (general programming language)
      • Cloud data storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, Google Cloud Storage)
      • Query engines (e.g., Dremio Sonar, Spark, Flink)

    Data Engineers vs. Data Scientists

    • Data engineers:
      • Design and construct data infrastructure
      • Prepare raw data for consumption by data scientists
      • Focus on building and optimizing data infrastructure
    • Data scientists:
      • Analyze data to extract meaning
      • Build models to predict trends and provide insights
      • Focus on extracting meaning from data

    Data Engineering Importance

    • Data engineering is important because it provides organized, consistent data flow to enable data-driven work, such as:
      • Training machine learning models
      • Doing exploratory data analysis
      • Populating fields in an application with outside data

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