Cortona MCQ Questions - Microsoft Azure
This section focuses on "Cortona" in Microsoft Azure. These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) should be practiced to improve the Microsoft Azure skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placements, entrance exams and other competitive examinations.
1. Choose the correct option with respect to Cortana Analytics?
A. It helps to store data
B. It can be used to perform analytics operation
C. It can visualize the data
D. All of the above
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Ans : D
Explanation: Cortana analytics besides providing provision for storing and performing analytics, it also helps to visualize the data.
2. Which one of the following is real-time analytics service of Cortana Analytics?
A. Azure Stream Analytics
B. Azure HDInsight
C. Azure Data Lake
D. Azure Event Hub
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Ans : A
Explanation: Azure Stream Analytics is one of the services provided by Cortana Analytics which helps to perform real-time analytics.
3. Which one of the following services of Cortana Analytics helps to capture streaming data?
A. Azure Stream Analytics
B. Azure HDInsight
C. Azure Event Hub
D. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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Ans : C
Explanation: Azure Event Hub is one of the services provided by Cortana Analytics which helps to capture streaming data.
4. Which one of the following Cortana Analytics services helps in data migration?
A. Azure HDInsight
B. Azure Data Factory
C. Azure Data Lake
D. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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Ans : B
Explanation: Azure Data Factory creates pipelines which automates data movement.
5. Choose the correct option with respect to Azure Stream Analytics?
A. It is highly reliable as it prevents data loss
B. It can be integrated with Event Hubs which captures the streaming data and stream analytics perform analytics operation upon them
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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Ans : C
Explanation: Azure Stream Analytics has built in recovery mechanism for preventing data loss and it can be easily integrated with Event HUbs.
6. Upto what limit, can Azure Stream Analytics handle throughput?
A. 1 GB/sec
B. 10 GB/sec
C. 0.1 GB/sec
D. Unlimited
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Ans : A
Explanation: Although Azure stream analytics is capable of handling high throughputs, but is has limit to it. It can handle upto 10 GB/sec.
7. Choose the correct order of steps that pipelines of Azure Data Factory follows?
A. Connect and collect, publish, transform
B. Connect and collect, transform, publish
C. Transform, connect and collect, publish
D. Transfor, publish, connect and collect
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Ans : B
Explanation: First it gets connected to source from where data is to be collected, and then the data gets transformed, after which the final step i.e. publish comes.
8. Which one of the following can process huge amount of data through parallel processing?
A. Azure Cosmos DB
B. Azure Databricks
C. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
D. Power BI
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Ans : C
Explanation: Azure SQL Data Warehouse is highly scalable and can store huge amount of data, upon which it can perform parallel processing.
9. Which one othe following helps to give a single view of extremely critical business data?
A. Azure Databricks
B. Azure HDInsight
C. Power BI
D. Azure Data Lake
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Ans : C
Explanation: Power BI is a business analytics tool that gives single view of most critical business data and interactive visualizations.
10. Which one of the following component of Azure SQL Data Warehouse helps in co-ordinating data movement and data computation?
A. Control node
B. Compute node
C. Storage
D. Data Movement Service
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Ans : A
Explanation: It is the control node who controls the co-ordination of data movement and computations. Compute node after the processing of data sends the result back to the control node.
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