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Explain your journey as a data engineer and the projects you have worked on.

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Capgemini
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62

Have you ever faced a situation where you had to push back on a requirement? If so, how did you handle it?

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Accenture
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63

How do you handle conflicts within the team?

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Accenture
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64

How do you handle disagreements with team members?

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Thoughtworks
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65

How do you ensure effective communication between technical and non-technical teams?

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McKinsey
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66

How do you keep yourself updated with new data engineering trends?

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Fragma Data Systems
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67

What are your professional development goals for the next five years?

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Puma
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68

ADF Optimization Techniques?

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Deloitte
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69

Azure Fabric in Cloud Architecture?

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Comcast
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70

Business generates TBs of data daily. How would you design the data pipeline in Azure?

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Cognizant
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71

Data Lakehouse architecture in Azure?

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Persistent Systems
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72

Could you describe a specific cost optimization strategy you implemented in the cloud and its results?

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Walmart
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73

Design an end-to-end data pipeline using Glue, Lambda, EC2, S3, Redshift, and Athena.

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Carelon
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74

Design: Migrate data from multiple sources (Hadoop, S3, Oracle DB) into a final S3 bucket

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PayPal
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75

Explain the purpose and architecture of Azure Synapse Analytics.

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Fractal
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76

How would you design a data pipeline using AWS Glue, S3, and Redshift?

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Wipro
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77

How would you handle security and privacy concerns when working with sensitive data in a cloud environment?

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Amazon
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78

How would you implement VPC peering between two AWS accounts?

Cloud/Toolshard0.8 min read
Persistent Systems
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79

How would you monitor a data pipeline in AWS to ensure SLA compliance?

Cloud/Toolshard0.7 min read
Capco
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80

How would you secure sensitive credentials in Cloud Composer workflows?

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Aarete
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