Databricks Updated Databricks-Certified-Data-Analyst-Associate Exam Questions and Answers by milan

The DROP TABLE command removes a table from the metastore and deletes the associated data files. The syntax for this command is DROP TABLE [IF EXISTS] [database_name.]table_name;. The optional IF EXISTS clause prevents an error if the table does not exist. The optional database_name. prefix specifies the database where the table resides. If not specified, the current database is used. Therefore, the correct command to remove the table table_name from the database database_name and all of the data files associated with it is DROP TABLE database_name.table_name;. The other commands are either invalid syntax or would produce undesired results. References: Databricks - DROP TABLE

the accounts.customers table is an EXTERNAL table, which means that it is stored outside the default warehouse directory and is not managed by Databricks. Therefore, when you run the DROP command on this table, it only removes the metadata information from the metastore, but does not delete the actual data files from the file system. This means that you can still access the data using the location path (dbfs:/stakeholders/customers) or create another table pointing to the same location. However, if you try to query the table using its name (accounts.customers), you will get an error because the table no longer exists in the metastore. References: DROP TABLE | Databricks on AWS, Best practices for dropping a managed Delta Lake table - Databricks

 Data engineers are primarily responsible for building, managing, and optimizing data pipelines and architectures. They use Databricks Data Science and Engineering service to perform tasks such as data ingestion, transformation, quality, and governance. Data engineers may use Databricks SQL as a secondary service to query, analyze, and visualize data from the lakehouse, but this is not their main focus. References: Databricks SQL overview, Databricks Data Science and Engineering overview, Data engineering with Databricks

The SQL Editor page is where the analyst can write and execute SQL queries in Databricks SQL. The SQL Editor page has a query pane where the analyst can type or paste SQL statements, and a results pane where the analyst can view the query results in a table or a chart. The analyst can also browse data objects, edit multiple queries, execute a single query or multiple queries, terminate a query, save a query, download a query result, and more from the SQL Editor page. References: Create a query in SQL editor