CompTIA DY0-001 Actual Questions

→ Non-technical business stakeholders value outcome-oriented visuals (charts, dashboards) and the purpose/justification for the modeling work. These artifacts directly communicate impact without overwhelming technical complexity.

Why the other options are incorrect:

C & D: Too technical for a non-technical audience.

E: Useful, but may be too detailed depending on the level of abstraction desired.

F: Data dictionary is better suited for technical handoff — not executive review.

Official References:

CompTIA DataX (DY0-001) Study Guide – Section 5.5:“Business-oriented presentations should emphasize clear visualizations, insights, and executive summaries of model goals.”

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→ Senior executives and the C-suite are primarily interested in decision-support insights rather than technical or academic depth. Thus, appropriate content includes:

C. Final recommendations: Executives need clear actions or decisions.

D. High-level results: Summarized performance, trends, or KPIs without technical jargon.

Why the other options are incorrect:

A: Literature reviews are too detailed and academic.

B: Code is technical and not relevant to business strategy.

E: Statistical tests may overwhelm a non-technical audience.

F: Sharing security keys violates cybersecurity protocols.

Official References:

CompTIA DataX (DY0-001) Official Study Guide – Section 5.5 (Communication & Visualization):“Executive presentations should include concise, actionable insights and high-level summaries to support strategic decision-making.”

Harvard Business Review – Data Storytelling:“Executives value clear insights, visual summaries, and recommendations. Avoid technical deep dives unless specifically requested.”

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When running a model on a distributed system, encountering memory constraint errors indicates that the current nodes in the cluster do not have enough memory to handle the model. The most scalable and immediate solution is:

→ Adding Nodes to a Cluster Deployment – This increases the total available memory and compute power. In distributed computing environments like Apache Spark or Hadoop, horizontal scaling via node addition is a standard remedy for resource bottlenecks, including memory limitations.

Why the other options are incorrect:

A. Containerizing doesn’t inherently solve memory issues unless paired with resource upgrades.

B. Cloud migration may offer more resources, but without scaling configuration, memory limits may persist.

C. Edge deployment is for low-latency, local processing – often with less memory, not more.

Official References:

CompTIA DataX (DY0-001) Official Study Guide – Section 5.2 (Infrastructure & Scaling):“To resolve memory limitations in distributed systems, scaling out by adding nodes is the most direct and cost-effective method.”

Data Engineering Fundamentals (Cloud/Distributed Systems):“Cluster resource constraints (e.g., memory) can be mitigated by increasing node count, enabling parallel execution and expanded memory pools.”

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→ Pooling layers are used in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to reduce the spatial dimensions (width and height) of the feature maps. This helps in downsampling, reducing computational complexity, and controlling overfitting by summarizing the features (e.g., max pooling or average pooling).

Why the other options are incorrect:

B: Input layers receive raw data and do not perform downsampling.

C: Output layers generate the final prediction.

D: Hidden layers process data but do not specifically perform downsampling unless designed to do so (e.g., convolutional or pooling sublayers).

Official References:

CompTIA DataX (DY0-001) Study Guide – Section 4.3:“Pooling layers are used to downsample feature maps and are critical in CNNs for reducing dimensions.”

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