You're reading from Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide A hands-on reference guide to developing your data engineering skills and preparing for the DP-203 exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816069

Length 574 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Newton Alex

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Azure Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Data Storage

4. Chapter 2: Designing a Data Storage Structure

5. Chapter 3: Designing a Partition Strategy

6. Chapter 4: Designing the Serving Layer

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Physical Data Storage Structures

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Logical Data Structures

9. Chapter 7: Implementing the Serving Layer

10. Part 3: Design and Develop Data Processing (25-30%)

11. Chapter 8: Ingesting and Transforming Data

12. Chapter 9: Designing and Developing a Batch Processing Solution

13. Chapter 10: Designing and Developing a Stream Processing Solution

14. Chapter 11: Managing Batches and Pipelines

15. Part 4: Design and Implement Data Security (10-15%)

16. Chapter 12: Designing Security for Data Policies and Standards

17. Part 5: Monitor and Optimize Data Storage and Data Processing (10-15%)

18. Chapter 13: Monitoring Data Storage and Data Processing

19. Chapter 14: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing

20. Part 6: Practice Exercises

21. Chapter 15: Sample Questions with Solutions

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sample questions from the Design and Implement Data Security section

This section contains sample questions from the data security section of the syllabus. Let's start with a Synapse SQL encryption-based question.

TDE/Always Encrypted

You have configured active geo-replication on an Azure Synapse SQL instance. You are worried that the data might be accessible from the replicated instances or backup files and need to safeguard it. Which security solution do you configure?

Enable Always Encrypted
Enable Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Enable row-level security

Solution

Enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Explanation

TDE encrypts the complete database, including offline access files such as backup files and log files.
Always Encrypted is used to encrypt specific columns of database tables, not the complete database or the offline files.
TLS is for encrypting data in motion. It doesn...

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