Data engineers want a collaborative Apache Spark notebook environment on Azure for large-scale transformation and ML — which first-party integrated service?
A.Azure Databricks
Spark notebooks + collaboration = Databricks. Correct.
B.Azure SQL Database
Relational OLTP — not a Spark platform.
C.Power BI
BI visualization — not data engineering.
D.Azure Functions
Serverless functions — not interactive analytics compute.
Why this answer
Azure Databricks = managed Spark platform with collaborative notebooks — the go-to for big-data processing, ML, and lakehouse transformations. Synapse Spark pools are the alternative; Databricks is the mature dedicated offering.
Correct answer: A · Last reviewed 2026-11-05
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