Exam DP-750 Topic 1 Question 14 Discussion
Actual exam question for Microsoft's DP-750 exam
Question #: 14
Topic #: 1
Question #: 14
Topic #: 1
You have an Azure Databricks workspace that is enabled for Unity Catalog.
You need to recommend a pipeline that ingests files from cloud storage, performs cleansing and enrichment transformations, and writes created Delta tables for analytics. The solution must minimize development effort and provide built-in monitoring and automatic retries.
What should you include in the recommendation?
You need to recommend a pipeline that ingests files from cloud storage, performs cleansing and enrichment transformations, and writes created Delta tables for analytics. The solution must minimize development effort and provide built-in monitoring and automatic retries.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Suggested Answer: C Vote an answer
The correct answer is C - a Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) pipeline.
SDP is tailor-made for exactly this pattern: ingest from cloud storage, transform through cleansing and enrichment stages, and publish Delta tables to Unity Catalog. What sets it apart from the other options is built- in monitoring (the pipeline graph shows row counts, expectation metrics, and run history) and automatic retries (failed tasks retry automatically based on pipeline settings, without manual re-run triggers).
Option A (Structured Streaming job) gives you the streaming engine but nothing else - monitoring, alerting, and retry logic all have to be built from scratch. Option B (scheduled notebook job) is a batch approach that requires manual monitoring and lacks the declarative lineage tracking SDP provides. Option D (Azure Data Factory with data flows) works but adds a separate Azure service to manage, introduces ADF licensing costs, and doesn't integrate natively with Unity Catalog governance.
Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/delta-live-tables/what-is-delta-live-tables
SDP is tailor-made for exactly this pattern: ingest from cloud storage, transform through cleansing and enrichment stages, and publish Delta tables to Unity Catalog. What sets it apart from the other options is built- in monitoring (the pipeline graph shows row counts, expectation metrics, and run history) and automatic retries (failed tasks retry automatically based on pipeline settings, without manual re-run triggers).
Option A (Structured Streaming job) gives you the streaming engine but nothing else - monitoring, alerting, and retry logic all have to be built from scratch. Option B (scheduled notebook job) is a batch approach that requires manual monitoring and lacks the declarative lineage tracking SDP provides. Option D (Azure Data Factory with data flows) works but adds a separate Azure service to manage, introduces ADF licensing costs, and doesn't integrate natively with Unity Catalog governance.
Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/delta-live-tables/what-is-delta-live-tables
by Theobald at Jun 12, 2026, 12:12 AM
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