IBM Data Engineering Graded Quiz: Modern Data Ecosystem and role of Data Engineering

The modern data ecosystem encompasses collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data from various sources. Data engineering plays a crucial role in this ecosystem by designing and maintaining the infrastructure required to handle big data, creating data pipelines for efficient data flow, and ensuring data quality and reliability. Data engineers also build and optimize databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to support the organization's data analytics and machine learning initiatives.

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Question 1

A modern data ecosystem includes a network of continually evolving entities. It includes:

 

Options:

 

A.  Data providers, databases, and programming languages

B.  Data sources, enterprise data repository, business stakeholders, and tools, applications, and infrastructure to manage data

C.  Data sources, databases, and programming languages

D.  Social media sources, data repositories, and APIs

 

 

Question 2

Data Engineers work within the data ecosystem to:

 

Options:

 

A.  Provide business intelligence solutions by monitoring data on different business functions

B.  Analyze data for actionable insights

C.  Develop and maintain data architectures

D.  Analyze data for deriving insights

 

Question 3

The goal of data engineering is to make quality data available for fact-finding and decision-making. Which one of these statements captures the process of data engineering?

 

Options:

 

A.  Collecting, processing, and storing data

B.  Collecting, processing, and making data available to users securely

C.  Processing data and making it available to users securely

D.  Collecting, processing, storing, and making data available to users securely

 

Question 4

Data extracted from disparate sources can be stored in:

 

Options:

 

A.  Databases, data warehouses, data lakes, or any other type of data repository

B.  Data Warehouses only

C.  Databases only

D.  Data Lakes only

 

Question 5

From the provided list, select the three emerging technologies that are shaping today’s data ecosystem.

 

Options:

 

A.  Machine Language, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things

B.  Big Data, Internet of Things, and Dashboarding

C.  Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Big Data

D.  Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, and Dashboarding

 

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