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You need repeatable CI/CD for notebooks and jobs across dev to prod, with controlled job definitions and minimal drift. Which deployment approach is most robust?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 2×Her production pipeline fails at 2 a.m. in the morning. You are the on‑call engineer. What is the first thing you will do?🟡 Medium · Behavioral · Asked 1×Can you describe the architecture of your data pipelines? How do you develop, deploy, and productionize them, and what infrastructure do you use?🟡 Medium · System Design · Asked 1×What intermediate tool do we use for build validation in CI/CD when creating changes as a pull request?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you implemented CI/CD in a project? Can you explain how CI/CD was implemented and what you did?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you implemented CI/CD in a project? Can you explain how CI/CD was implemented and what you did?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×How does a CI/CD pipeline work? How do you create one, and what does it look like?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×How does a CI/CD pipeline work? How do you create one, and what does it look like?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Are you familiar with Git, Jenkins, dbt, typical CI/CD pipelines, and Python, and how to deploy objects from development to production?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Do you normally deploy dbt code/models from one environment to another? For example, working in a dev instance of Databricks and then moving to production. How do you manage environment variables, connections, and passwords to keep them secure and easy to manage?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×In a workflow automation scenario, code is picked from a repository stored in an S3 location and then execution starts. Suppose a developer has just pushed changes. Can you walk through the steps that make the code available in the target environment?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×In a workflow automation scenario, code is picked from a repository stored in an S3 location and then execution starts. Suppose a developer has just pushed changes. Can you walk through the steps that make the code available in the target environment?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×In data engineering projects, after developing pipelines, do we deploy them at the end?🟢 Easy · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you done any CI/CD processing in your project?🟢 Easy · Behavioral · Asked 1×Have you done any CI/CD processing in your project?🟢 Easy · Behavioral · Asked 1×Let me give you a scenario: we have a critical pipeline that goes through multiple observability platforms. How do we monitor it? Is there a ticketing mechanism? How do we handle risks?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×What tools have you used to monitor system and pipeline health?🟢 Easy · Conceptual · Asked 1×Describe how you would deploy an AWS ecosystem.🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Did you handle pipeline failures?🟡 Medium · Behavioral · Asked 1×When are automated tests typically executed in a CI/CD pipeline?🟢 Easy · Conceptual · Asked 1×Do you schedule jobs in your pipeline? Which tools do you use?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Will you define sequence parallel run?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×What tags can be used for scheduling a pipeline? Be brief.🟢 Easy · Conceptual · Asked 1×Can you explain the pipeline we were talking about?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Can you explain the pipeline we were talking about?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you built any jobs or production deployments using CACD?🟢 Easy · Behavioral · Asked 1×Your team wants repeatable library code for transformations across jobs and clusters. What packaging and deployment approach is most maintainable on Databricks?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Do you have any dedicated infrastructure to provision secrets?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you managed secrets in a secret manager? Do you have any dedicated infrastructure for that?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×Have you ever used a tech monitoring tool? If so, describe a real‑life scenario where you used it.🟡 Medium · Behavioral · Asked 1×How do you move code from lower environments to higher environments (dev, staging, prod) in GitHub? What practices do you follow to maintain code across environments?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×How do you move code from lower environments to higher environments (dev, staging, prod) in GitHub? What practices do you follow to maintain code across environments?🟡 Medium · Conceptual · Asked 1×

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