Airflow grand quiz

With Airflow you can

• Schedule pipelines

• Define complex task dependencies

• Set up on-failure notifications

• Trigger external APIs

Draw main Airflow components [at the next step you would need to describe them]

Describe main Airflow components and their purpose

Which parameters are used to define connections?

A mechanism for tasks to talk to each other is called

• XComs

• Variables

• Connections

• Hooks

A mechanism to schedule DAGs in equal amount of time is called (a)  

It's always better to use @daily preset instead of a cron expression

• Yes

• No

It's a good practice to construct pipelines which are not aware of Airflow

• Yes

• No

It's a good practice to separate DAGs from python functions

• Yes

• No

If your functions are separated from DAG and placed inside /dags/lib folder, it might be a good idea to name Exceptions from those functions as an AirflowExceptions

• Yes

• No