CompTIA Data+ DA0-002 (V2) Practice Question

The command conda env create -f environment.yml reads the YAML file and builds a brand-new Conda environment that contains every package (and exact version) listed in the file. This guarantees that your local environment mirrors the one your colleague used. The env export subcommand does the reverse-it writes an environment specification file instead of consuming one. Using conda install --file expects a plain-text list of package specifications, not a YAML schema, and pip install -r cannot parse Conda's YAML format, so both of those alternatives would either fail or install mismatched packages.