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1. What best defines real-time analytics?

Analyzing historical data in large batches

Running reports once data is fully archived

Querying fresh data seconds after it is generated

Visualizing static dashboards

2. Which workload typically breaks traditional batch-oriented data warehouses?

Monthly financial reporting

Low-volume transactional workloads

High-velocity data with immediate insight requirements

Static reference data analysis

3. Why is data freshness critical in real-time analytics use cases?

Because storage costs are lower

Because historical data is less valuable

Because insights lose value as data becomes stale

Because schemas cannot change

4. Which type of use case benefits most from real-time analytics?

Annual compliance audits

Operational monitoring and anomaly detection

Document archiving

Payroll processing

5. What does low-latency ingestion mean?

Data is compressed before storage

Data is written slowly but queried quickly

Data becomes queryable almost immediately after ingestion

Data is ingested only during off-peak hours

6. Which challenge is common when analytics systems rely on batch processing?

Too much schema flexibility

Delayed insights

Excessively fast queries

Too many indexes

7. What role does SQL play in modern analytics platforms?

It is outdated and rarely used

It is limited to transactional workloads

It provides a familiar, expressive way to query data

It only works on small datasets

8. Which statement best describes real-time analytics platforms?

Optimized for static datasets only

Designed to handle continuously changing data

Limited to single-node deployments

Require manual intervention for every query

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