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PipelinesStart here. 13 questions · ~104 min
Choose Kafka vs FlinkEasy

Design a streaming pipeline and justify when Kafka, Flink, or both should be used for ingestion, stateful processing, replay, and low-latency delivery.

Stream ProcessingOrchestrationDependenciesAltruist
Backfill Without Duplicate RecordsHard

Approach for rerunning failed pipeline ranges and correcting data safely with idempotent writes and quality checks.

IdempotencyBackfillingQualityAltruist
Design an ETL Pipeline for Large DatasetsMedium

Design an ETL pipeline to process 10TB of data daily from multiple sources into a data warehouse with strict data quality checks.

InfrastructureETLData ModelingAltruist
Fault Tolerance in Data PipelinesHard

Approach for building fault tolerance into a distributed data pipeline, including retries, idempotency, and recovery controls.

InfrastructureIdempotencyQualityAltruist
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SQL & Data Manipulation20 questions + 3 drills · ~190 min
RANK vs DENSE_RANK in LeaderboardsEasy

Explain how RANK() and DENSE_RANK() handle ties differently in ordered SQL results such as leaderboards.

Window FunctionsRankingData WranglingAltruist
Normalization vs Denormalization TradeoffsMedium

Explain normalization, why it improves data integrity, and when denormalization is a practical performance tradeoff.

schema designperformanceData ModelingAltruist
Star vs Snowflake for Sales AnalyticsMedium

Compare star and snowflake schemas for warehouse design, including trade-offs in normalization, query simplicity, and analytics performance.

JoinsData WranglingGroup ByAltruist
Window Ranking in Ticket QueuesMedium

Explain SQL window functions and when to use ROW_NUMBER() versus DENSE_RANK() for ranked ticket analysis.

Window FunctionsRankingrow_numberAltruist
SQL Month-over-Month GrowthMedium
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Calculate monthly GoFundMe campaign counts and month-over-month growth using CTEs, date functions, joins, and aggregation.

Date Functionssql queryGoFundMeWWPP MediaEquipmentShare
Top Credit Score Applicants by StateMedium
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Identify the highest-credit-score 5% of applicants within each state using percentiles and window ranking.

Window FunctionsJoinsRankingAmerican Credit Acceptance
Re-activate Lapsed CustomersMedium
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Use a customer purchase aggregation to find previously active Repsol customers with no completed purchase in the last 30 days.

Window FunctionsDate FunctionsJoinsRepsol
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