DA0-002 Data Acquisition and Preparation Practice Question
Which TWO are valid data acquisition methods? (Select two.)
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Web scraping
Web scraping and API calls are direct methods to acquire data from external sources. Data profiling and data normalization are data preparation techniques, not acquisition. Data encryption is a security measure.
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Web scraping
Why this is correct
Web scraping extracts data from websites and is a common acquisition method.
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Data normalization
Why it's wrong here
Data normalization is a data transformation technique, not acquisition.
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API calls
Why this is correct
API calls allow programmatic access to external data sources, a valid acquisition method.
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Data encryption
Why it's wrong here
Data encryption is a security measure, not a method of acquiring data.
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Data profiling
Why it's wrong here
Data profiling is an analysis activity to understand data structure, not a method of acquisition.
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