Microsoft 70-461 Sample Question

Question No:3

You work as a database developer at ABC.com. ABC.com has a SQL Server 2012 database
named SalesDB that has a table named WeeklySales. The WeeklySales table records the sales amount for each of ABC.com's 20 sales representitives.
You need to write a Transact-SQL query that ranks the sales representatives by the average sales amount for the past year. You want the sales representatives with the same average sales amount to have the same rank with the subsequent rank being skipped.

Which ranking function should you use?

A. The RANK( ) OVER function.
B. The NTILE( ) OVER function
C. The DENSE_RANK( ) OVER function
D. The ROW_NUMBER( ) OVER function
E. The FORMAT function.

Answer: C