Microsoft · DP-750
Configure compute
DP-750 · Lesson 2 of 19 · 9:24
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In this lesson
Prepare for the DP-750 exam (Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate). In this lesson: cores, memory, and node families, autoscaling and automatic termination, spot workers and pools, Photon, Databricks Runtime and LTS versions, the machine learning runtime, compute-scoped libraries from PyPI, Maven, and volumes, the standard access mode allowlist, init scripts, and notebook-scoped libraries. Includes three original practice questions.
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- The Spark UI shows that the nightly job’s large joins spill gigabytes to disk, while the CPUs stay half idle. What should the team change first?
- Contoso Energy’s billing job runs every night in production, and the team wants no surprise changes from a new runtime. Which runtime should the job compute use?
- On a standard access mode cluster, the team tries to install a JDBC driver JAR file from a volume, and the installation is refused. What is missing?