Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate free question 8 / 10 · Domain 7: Developing, Sharing, and Maintaining AI/BI Genie Agents (Genie Spaces)
Users of a Genie Agent ask "who owns the orders table and how big is it?", and Genie cannot answer. What does the concepts page suggest so that such questions can be answered?
- Use views from the information schema, since these details are not included.
- Enable Agent mode, which reads table properties that Chat mode does not see.
- Write the owner and the size into the general text instructions of the agent.
- Grant users MANAGE on the table so Genie can read its ownership details.
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Answer: A
Why this is correct
Genie generates answers from Unity Catalog table metadata, column names and descriptions, and what authors add to the agent. The concepts page notes that some table details, such as the owner and table size, are not included by default. To access this information, it says to use views from the information schema available for all Unity Catalog catalogs, so the author adds those views to the agent.
Why the other options are wrong
"Write the owner and the size into the general text instructions of the agent." … Owner and size change over time, and the page points to a data source for them rather than to text. Instructions guide how Genie interprets questions.
"Enable Agent mode, which reads table properties that Chat mode does not see." … Agent mode runs several SQL queries over the attached sources. Owner and size are details that are not included by default, and the page names the information schema views as the way to reach them.
"Grant users MANAGE on the table so Genie can read its ownership details." … MANAGE lets a user manage privileges and ownership of an object. It does not add table details to the metadata that Genie uses.
What Genie does use
Genie uses table names and descriptions, defined primary and foreign key relationships, and column names and descriptions, plus author-curated knowledge.