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5.3. Keyword Mapping & Distractor Identification
| If you see this keyword... | Look for this answer... | Common Distractor |
|---|---|---|
| "Nodes and edges" / "Relationships" | Cosmos DB Gremlin API | SQL API |
| "Orchestrate data movement" / "Pipeline" | Azure Data Factory | Databricks |
| "Apache Spark" | Databricks or Synapse Spark | SQL Database |
| "Single-page overview" / "Executive summary" | Power BI Dashboard | Power BI Report |
| "Hierarchical namespace" | Data Lake Gen2 | Blob Storage |
| "SMB" / "File share" / "Legacy file paths" | Azure Files | Blob Storage |
| "Globally distributed" + "Low latency" | Cosmos DB | Azure SQL |
| "Columnar" + "Analytics" + "Fast reads" | Parquet format | JSON, Avro |
| "Data lineage" / "Tracking movement" | Microsoft Purview | Azure Monitor |
| "DBA can't see plaintext" | Always Encrypted | TDE |
| "Encrypt at rest" / "Automatic" | TDE | Always Encrypted |
| "Hybrid relational-object" | PostgreSQL | MySQL |
| "Small footprint" / "IoT at edge" | Azure SQL Edge | SQL Database |
| "Drill up/down" | Hierarchy | Dimension |
| "Aggregate measures by..." | Dimensions | Facts |
| "Correlation between two numeric" | Scatter plot | Line chart |
| "Proportions of a whole" | Pie chart | Bar chart |
| "Single value metric" | Card | Table |