Direct questions
These are just simple direct questions. Let's look at an example.
ADF transformation
You are designing the data processing pipeline for a cab company using Azure Data Factory. The company has two fleets of cars: electric and gas. You have to branch the pipeline based on the type of car. Which transformation would you use?
[Options: Join, Split, Conditional Split, New Branch]
Solution
Conditional Split
Explanation
- Conditional Split – This is used to split the input data into multiple streams based on a condition. In our use case, the condition could be the type of car.
- Join – Used to merge two inputs into one based on a
Join
condition, so will not work for our use case. - Split – There is no such transformation in ADF.
- New Branch – To replicate the current source as is to perform a different set of transformations on the same source of data. Hence, this will also not work for our use case.
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