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Microsoft DP-203 certification exam is designed to assess the skills and knowledge of data engineers who use Microsoft Azure to build and manage big data and analytics solutions. DP-203 exam validates the candidate's ability to design and implement data storage, data processing, and data integration solutions using Azure services such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Data Factory. DP-203 exam also tests the candidate's knowledge of data security, compliance, and governance in Azure.
NEW QUESTION # 149
You are monitoring an Azure Stream Analytics job.
The Backlogged Input Events count has been 20 for the last hour.
You need to reduce the Backlogged Input Events count.
What should you do?
- A. Increase the streaming units for the job.
- B. Drop late arriving events from the job.
- C. Add an Azure Storage account to the job.
- D. Stop the job.
Answer: A
Explanation:
General symptoms of the job hitting system resource limits include:
If the backlog event metric keeps increasing, it's an indicator that the system resource is constrained (either because of output sink throttling, or high CPU).
Note: Backlogged Input Events: Number of input events that are backlogged. A non-zero value for this metric implies that your job isn't able to keep up with the number of incoming events. If this value is slowly increasing or consistently non-zero, you should scale out your job: adjust Streaming Units.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-scale-jobs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-monitoring
NEW QUESTION # 150
You are designing a monitoring solution for a fleet of 500 vehicles. Each vehicle has a GPS tracking device that sends data to an Azure event hub once per minute.
You have a CSV file in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container. The file maintains the expected geographical area in which each vehicle should be.
You need to ensure that when a GPS position is outside the expected area, a message is added to another event hub for processing within 30 seconds. The solution must minimize cost.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-window-functions
NEW QUESTION # 151
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You plan to create an Azure Databricks workspace that has a tiered structure. The workspace will contain the following three workloads:
* A workload for data engineers who will use Python and SQL.
* A workload for jobs that will run notebooks that use Python, Scala, and SOL.
* A workload that data scientists will use to perform ad hoc analysis in Scala and R.
The enterprise architecture team at your company identifies the following standards for Databricks environments:
* The data engineers must share a cluster.
* The job cluster will be managed by using a request process whereby data scientists and data engineers provide packaged notebooks for deployment to the cluster.
* All the data scientists must be assigned their own cluster that terminates automatically after 120 minutes of inactivity. Currently, there are three data scientists.
You need to create the Databricks clusters for the workloads.
Solution: You create a Standard cluster for each data scientist, a High Concurrency cluster for the data engineers, and a Standard cluster for the jobs.
Does this meet the goal?
- A. No
- B. Yes
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
We would need a High Concurrency cluster for the jobs.
Note:
Standard clusters are recommended for a single user. Standard can run workloads developed in any language:
Python, R, Scala, and SQL.
A high concurrency cluster is a managed cloud resource. The key benefits of high concurrency clusters are that they provide Apache Spark-native fine-grained sharing for maximum resource utilization and minimum query latencies.
Reference:
https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/clusters/configure.html
NEW QUESTION # 152
A company plans to use Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to create the new data pipeline process. The process must meet the following requirements:
Ingest:
* Access multiple data sources.
* Provide the ability to orchestrate workflow.
* Provide the capability to run SQL Server Integration Services packages.
Store:
* Optimize storage for big data workloads.
* Provide encryption of data at rest.
* Operate with no size limits.
Prepare and Train:
* Provide a fully-managed and interactive workspace for exploration and visualization.
* Provide the ability to program in R, SQL, Python, Scala, and Java.
* Provide seamless user authentication with Azure Active Directory.
Model & Serve:
* Implement native columnar storage.
* Support for the SQL language
* Provide support for structured streaming.
You need to build the data integration pipeline.
Which technologies should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
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NEW QUESTION # 153
You have an Azure Data Factory instance that contains two pipelines named Pipeline1 and Pipeline2.
Pipeline1 has the activities shown in the following exhibit.
Pipeline2 has the activities shown in the following exhibit.
You execute Pipeline2, and Stored procedure1 in Pipeline1 fails.
What is the status of the pipeline runs?
- A. Pipeline1 succeeded and Pipeline2 failed.
- B. Pipeline1 failed and Pipeline2 succeeded.
- C. Pipeline1 and Pipeline2 failed.
- D. Pipeline1 and Pipeline2 succeeded.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation
Activities are linked together via dependencies. A dependency has a condition of one of the following:
Succeeded, Failed, Skipped, or Completed.
Consider Pipeline1:
If we have a pipeline with two activities where Activity2 has a failure dependency on Activity1, the pipeline will not fail just because Activity1 failed. If Activity1 fails and Activity2 succeeds, the pipeline will succeed.
This scenario is treated as a try-catch block by Data Factory.
Waterfall chart Description automatically generated with medium confidence
The failure dependency means this pipeline reports success.
Note:
If we have a pipeline containing Activity1 and Activity2, and Activity2 has a success dependency on Activity1, it will only execute if Activity1 is successful. In this scenario, if Activity1 fails, the pipeline will fail.
Reference:
https://datasavvy.me/category/azure-data-factory/
NEW QUESTION # 154
You have a table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table was created by using the following Transact-SQL statement.
You need to alter the table to meet the following requirements:
* Ensure that users can identify the current manager of employees.
* Support creating an employee reporting hierarchy for your entire company.
* Provide fast lookup of the managers' attributes such as name and job title.
Which column should you add to the table?
- A. [ManagerEmployeeID] [int] NULL
- B. [ManagerName] [varchar](200) NULL
- C. [ManagerEmployeeKey] [int] NULL
- D. [ManagerEmployeeID] [smallint] NULL
Answer: A
Explanation:
Use the same definition as the EmployeeID column.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/tabular-models/hierarchies-ssas-tabular
NEW QUESTION # 155
Which Azure Data Factory components should you recommend using together to import the daily inventory data from the SQL server to Azure Data Lake Storage? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 156
You implement an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.
You have a large fact table that is 10 terabytes (TB) in size.
Incoming queries use the primary key SaleKey column to retrieve data as displayed in the following table:
You need to distribute the large fact table across multiple nodes to optimize performance of the table.
Which technology should you use?
- A. hash distributed table with clustered index
- B. round robin distributed table with clustered index
- C. heap table with distribution replicate
- D. hash distributed table with clustered Columnstore index
- E. round robin distributed table with clustered Columnstore index
Answer: D
Explanation:
Hash-distributed tables improve query performance on large fact tables.
Columnstore indexes can achieve up to 100x better performance on analytics and data warehousing workloads and up to 10x better data compression than traditional rowstore indexes.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-tables-distribute
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/indexes/columnstore-indexes-query-performance
NEW QUESTION # 157
You need to design a data retention solution for the Twitter feed data records. The solution must meet the customer sentiment analytics requirements.
Which Azure Storage functionality should you include in the solution?
- A. change feed
- B. time-based retention
- C. soft delete
- D. lifecycle management
Answer: C
Explanation:
Scenario: Purge Twitter feed data records that are older than two years.
Data sets have unique lifecycles. Early in the lifecycle, people access some data often. But the need for access often drops drastically as the data ages. Some data remains idle in the cloud and is rarely accessed once stored.
Some data sets expire days or months after creation, while other data sets are actively read and modified throughout their lifetimes. Azure Storage lifecycle management offers a rule-based policy that you can use to transition blob data to the appropriate access tiers or to expire data at the end of the data lifecycle.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/lifecycle-management-overview
NEW QUESTION # 158
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage account that contains one CSV file per hour for January 1, 2020, through January 31, 2023. The files are partitioned by using the following folder structure.
csv/system1/2025/{month)/{filename).csv
You need to query the files by using an Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pool The solution must return the row count of each file created during the last three months of 2022.
How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 159
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named account1 that stores logs as shown in the following table.
You do not expect that the logs will be accessed during the retention periods.
You need to recommend a solution for account1 that meets the following requirements:
Automatically deletes the logs at the end of each retention period
Minimizes storage costs
What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview
NEW QUESTION # 160
You have an on-premises data warehouse that includes the following fact tables. Both tables have the following columns: DateKey, ProductKey, RegionKey. There are 120 unique product keys and 65 unique region keys.
Queries that use the data warehouse take a long time to complete.
You plan to migrate the solution to use Azure Synapse Analytics. You need to ensure that the Azure-based solution optimizes query performance and minimizes processing skew.
What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-tables-distribute
NEW QUESTION # 161
In Azure Data Factory, you have a schedule trigger that is scheduled in Pacific Time.
Pacific Time observes daylight saving time.
The trigger has the following JSON file.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 162
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container.
Data is ingested into the container, and then transformed by a data integration application. The data is NOT modified after that. Users can read files in the container but cannot modify the files.
You need to design a data archiving solution that meets the following requirements:
* New data is accessed frequently and must be available as quickly as possible.
* Data that is older than five years is accessed infrequently but must be available within one second when requested.
* Data that is older than seven years is NOT accessed. After seven years, the data must be persisted at the lowest cost possible.
* Costs must be minimized while maintaining the required availability.
How should you manage the data? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Box 1: Move to cool storage
Box 2: Move to archive storage
Archive - Optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements, on the order of hours.
The following table shows a comparison of premium performance block blob storage, and the hot, cool, and archive access tiers.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-storage-tiers Explanation:
Box 1: Replicated
Replicated tables are ideal for small star-schema dimension tables, because the fact table is often distributed on a column that is not compatible with the connected dimension tables. If this case applies to your schema, consider changing small dimension tables currently implemented as round-robin to replicated.
Box 2: Replicated
Box 3: Replicated
Box 4: Hash-distributed
For Fact tables use hash-distribution with clustered columnstore index. Performance improves when two hash tables are joined on the same distribution column.
Reference:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/reduce-data-movement-and-make-your-queries-more-efficient-with- the-general-availability-of-replicated-tables/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/replicated-tables-now-generally-available-in-azure-sql-data-warehouse/
NEW QUESTION # 163
You plan to create a table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
Data in the table will be retained for five years. Once a year, data that is older than five years will be deleted.
You need to ensure that the data is distributed evenly across partitions. The solution must minimize the amount of time required to delete old data.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Box 1: HASH
Box 2: OrderDateKey
In most cases, table partitions are created on a date column.
A way to eliminate rollbacks is to use Metadata Only operations like partition switching for data management.
For example, rather than execute a DELETE statement to delete all rows in a table where the order_date was in October of 2001, you could partition your data early. Then you can switch out the partition with data for an empty partition from another table.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-table-azure-sql-data-warehouse
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/best-practices-dedicated-sql-pool
NEW QUESTION # 164
You have an Azure subscription.
You plan to build a data warehouse in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named pool1 that will contain staging tables and a dimensional model. Pool1 will contain the following tables.
You need to design the table storage for pool1. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Maximize the performance of data loading operations to Staging.WebSessions.
* Minimize query times for reporting queries against the dimensional model.
Which type of table distribution should you use for each table? To answer, drag the appropriate table distribution types to the correct tables. Each table distribution type may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Box 1: Replicated
The best table storage option for a small table is to replicate it across all the Compute nodes.
Box 2: Hash
Hash-distribution improves query performance on large fact tables.
Box 3: Round-robin
Round-robin distribution is useful for improving loading speed.
Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse- tables-distribute
NEW QUESTION # 165
You plan to create a real-time monitoring app that alerts users when a device travels more than 200 meters away from a designated location.
You need to design an Azure Stream Analytics job to process the data for the planned app. The solution must minimize the amount of code developed and the number of technologies used.
What should you include in the Stream Analytics job? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
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Input type: Stream
You can process real-time IoT data streams with Azure Stream Analytics.
Function: Geospatial
With built-in geospatial functions, you can use Azure Stream Analytics to build applications for scenarios such as fleet management, ride sharing, connected cars, and asset tracking.
Note: In a real-world scenario, you could have hundreds of these sensors generating events as a stream.
Ideally, a gateway device would run code to push these events to Azure Event Hubs or Azure IoT Hubs.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-get-started-with-azure-stream-analytics
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/geospatial-scenarios
NEW QUESTION # 166
You use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 to store data that data scientists and data engineers will query by using Azure Databricks interactive notebooks. Users will have access only to the Data Lake Storage folders that relate to the projects on which they work.
You need to recommend which authentication methods to use for Databricks and Data Lake Storage to provide the users with the appropriate access. The solution must minimize administrative effort and development effort.
Which authentication method should you recommend for each Azure service? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Table Description automatically generated
Box 1: Personal access tokens
You can use storage shared access signatures (SAS) to access an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 storage account directly. With SAS, you can restrict access to a storage account using temporary tokens with fine-grained access control.
You can add multiple storage accounts and configure respective SAS token providers in the same Spark session.
Box 2: Azure Active Directory credential passthrough
You can authenticate automatically to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 (ADLS Gen1) and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) from Azure Databricks clusters using the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity that you use to log into Azure Databricks. When you enable your cluster for Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough, commands that you run on that cluster can read and write data in Azure Data Lake Storage without requiring you to configure service principal credentials for access to storage.
After configuring Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough and creating storage containers, you can access data directly in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 using an adl:// path and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using an abfss:// path:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/data/data-sources/azure/adls-gen2/azure-datalake-gen2-sas-acc
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/credential-passthrough/adls-passthrough
NEW QUESTION # 167
You are designing an Azure Data Lake Storage solution that will transform raw JSON files for use in an analytical workload.
You need to recommend a format for the transformed files. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Contain information about the data types of each column in the files.
* Support querying a subset of columns in the files.
* Support read-heavy analytical workloads.
* Minimize the file size.
What should you recommend?
- A. JSON
- B. Apache Avro
- C. CSV
- D. Apache Parquet
Answer: D
Explanation:
Parquet, an open-source file format for Hadoop, stores nested data structures in a flat columnar format.
Compared to a traditional approach where data is stored in a row-oriented approach, Parquet file format is more efficient in terms of storage and performance.
It is especially good for queries that read particular columns from a "wide" (with many columns) table since only needed columns are read, and IO is minimized.
Reference: https://www.clairvoyant.ai/blog/big-data-file-formats
NEW QUESTION # 168
Vou have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
You need to create a copy of the data warehouse and make the copy available for 28 days. The solution must minimize costs.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 169
You have an Azure Data Factory instance that contains two pipelines named Pipeline1 and Pipeline2.
Pipeline1 has the activities shown in the following exhibit.
Pipeline2 has the activities shown in the following exhibit.
You execute Pipeline2, and Stored procedure1 in Pipeline1 fails.
What is the status of the pipeline runs?
- A. Pipeline1 succeeded and Pipeline2 failed.
- B. Pipeline1 failed and Pipeline2 succeeded.
- C. Pipeline1 and Pipeline2 failed.
- D. Pipeline1 and Pipeline2 succeeded.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation
Activities are linked together via dependencies. A dependency has a condition of one of the following:
Succeeded, Failed, Skipped, or Completed.
Consider Pipeline1:
If we have a pipeline with two activities where Activity2 has a failure dependency on Activity1, the pipeline will not fail just because Activity1 failed. If Activity1 fails and Activity2 succeeds, the pipeline will succeed.
This scenario is treated as a try-catch block by Data Factory.
Waterfall chart Description automatically generated with medium confidence
The failure dependency means this pipeline reports success.
Note:
If we have a pipeline containing Activity1 and Activity2, and Activity2 has a success dependency on Activity1, it will only execute if Activity1 is successful. In this scenario, if Activity1 fails, the pipeline will fail.
Reference:
https://datasavvy.me/category/azure-data-factory/
NEW QUESTION # 170
You have an Azure subscription that contains a logical Microsoft SQL server named Server1. Server1 hosts an Azure Synapse Analytics SQL dedicated pool named Pool1.
You need to recommend a Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) solution for Server1. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Track the usage of encryption keys.
Maintain the access of client apps to Pool1 in the event of an Azure datacenter outage that affects the availability of the encryption keys.
What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/security/workspaces-encryption
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general/logging
NEW QUESTION # 171
You have an Azure Data Factory version 2 (V2) resource named Df1. Df1 contains a linked service.
You have an Azure Key vault named vault1 that contains an encryption key named key1.
You need to encrypt Df1 by using key1.
What should you do first?
- A. Remove the linked service from Df1.
- B. Create a self-hosted integration runtime.
- C. Add a private endpoint connection to vaul 1.
- D. Enable Azure role-based access control on vault 1.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Linked services are much like connection strings, which define the connection information needed for Data Factory to connect to external resources.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/enable-customer-managed-key
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/concepts-linked-services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/create-self-hosted-integration-runtime
NEW QUESTION # 172
You have an Azure SQL database named Database1 and two Azure event hubs named HubA and HubB. The data consumed from each source is shown in the following table.
You need to implement Azure Stream Analytics to calculate the average fare per mile by driver.
How should you configure the Stream Analytics input for each source? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-use-reference-data
NEW QUESTION # 173
You are designing an Azure Stream Analytics solution that receives instant messaging data from an Azure Event Hub.
You need to ensure that the output from the Stream Analytics job counts the number of messages per time zone every 15 seconds.
How should you complete the Stream Analytics query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-window-functions
NEW QUESTION # 174
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