Data Engineer · Mid-level · Theory

You're designing a sales data mart for BI. Would you choose a star or a snowflake schema, and how would you decide what one row in the fact table represents?

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This checks whether the candidate understands dimensional modeling in practice: how a star differs from a snowflake and what trade-off lies behind that, and whether they start the design with the fact table's grain rather than a list of columns.

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The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

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