Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 30
Scenario: You have started at a new job within a company which has a Data Lake Storage Gen2 account. You have been tasked with moving of files from Amazon S3 to Azure Data Lake Storage.
Which tool should you choose?
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A
Azure Data Factory
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B
Azure Data Studio
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C
Azure Storage Explorer
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D
Azure Portal
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E
Azure Data Catalog
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Azure Data Factory provides a performant, robust, and cost-effective mechanism to migrate data at scale from Amazon S3 to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
The picture above illustrates how you can achieve great data movement speeds through different levels of parallelism:
A single copy activity can take advantage of scalable compute resources: when using Azure Integration Runtime, you can specify up to 256 DIUs for each copy activity in a serverless manner; when using self-hosted Integration Runtime, you can manually scale up the machine or scale out to multiple machines (up to 4 nodes), and a single copy activity will partition its file set across all nodes.
A single copy activity reads from and writes to the data store using multiple threads.
ADF control flow can start multiple copy activities in parallel, for example using For Each loop.
A. Azure Data Factory is the correct choice for moving files from Amazon S3 to Azure Data Lake Storage. It is a cloud-based data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation.
B. Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool that is used for managing and developing databases, querying data, and developing applications. It is not the recommended tool for transferring files between Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage.
C. Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that allows you to easily work with Azure storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux. While it can be used to interact with Azure Data Lake Storage, it is not the most efficient tool for moving files from Amazon S3 to Azure Data Lake Storage.
D. Azure Portal is a management tool that provides a unified interface for managing Azure resources, but it is not specifically designed for moving files between different storage services like Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage.
E. Azure Data Catalog is not the appropriate tool for moving files from Amazon S3 to Azure Data Lake Storage. It is a cloud-based service that serves as a central repository for metadata about data sources, making it easier to discover, understand, and consume data sources.
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