Microsoft DP-300 Dumps V13.02 – Updated DP-300 Dumps Questions For Preparation

1. Topic 1, Litware

Existing Environment

Network Environment

The manufacturing and research datacenters connect to the primary datacenter by using a VPN.

The primary datacenter has an ExpressRoute connection that uses both Microsoft peering and private peering. The private peering connects to an Azure virtual network named HubVNet.

Identity Environment

Litware has a hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) deployment that uses a domain named litwareinc.com. All Azure subscriptions are associated to the litwareinc.com Azure AD tenant.

Database Environment

The sales department has the following database workload:

- An on-premises named SERVER1 hosts an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and two 1-TB databases.

- A logical server named SalesSrv01A contains a geo-replicated Azure SQL database named SalesSQLDb1. SalesSQLDb1 is in an elastic pool named SalesSQLDb1Pool. SalesSQLDb1 uses database firewall rules and contained database users.

- An application named SalesSQLDb1App1 uses SalesSQLDb1.

The manufacturing office contains two on-premises SQL Server 2016 servers named SERVER2 and SERVER3. The servers are nodes in the same Always On availability group. The availability group contains a database named ManufacturingSQLDb1

Database administrators have two Azure virtual machines in HubVnet named VM1 and VM2 that run Windows Server 2019 and are used to manage all the Azure databases.

Licensing Agreement

Litware is a Microsoft Volume Licensing customer that has License Mobility through Software Assurance.

Current Problems

SalesSQLDb1 experiences performance issues that are likely due to out-of-date statistics and frequent blocking queries.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

- Implement 30 new databases in Azure, which will be used by time-sensitive manufacturing apps that have varying usage patterns. Each database will be approximately 20 GB.

- Create a new Azure SQL database named ResearchDB1 on a logical server named ResearchSrv01. ResearchDB1 will contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data.

- Develop an app named ResearchApp1 that will be used by the research department to populate and access ResearchDB1.

- Migrate ManufacturingSQLDb1 to the Azure virtual machine platform.

- Migrate the SERVER1 databases to the Azure SQL Database platform.

Technical Requirements

Litware identifies the following technical requirements:

- Maintenance tasks must be automated.

- The 30 new databases must scale automatically.

- The use of an on-premises infrastructure must be minimized.

- Azure Hybrid Use Benefits must be leveraged for Azure SQL Database deployments.

- All SQL Server and Azure SQL Database metrics related to CPU and storage usage and limits must be analyzed by using Azure built-in functionality.

Security and Compliance Requirements

Litware identifies the following security and compliance requirements:

- Store encryption keys in Azure Key Vault.

- Retain backups of the PII data for two months.

- Encrypt the PII data at rest, in transit, and in use.

- Use the principle of least privilege whenever possible.

- Authenticate database users by using Active Directory credentials.

- Protect Azure SQL Database instances by using database-level firewall rules.

- Ensure that all databases hosted in Azure are accessible from VM1 and VM2 without relying on public endpoints.

Business Requirements

Litware identifies the following business requirements:

- Meet an SLA of 99.99% availability for all Azure deployments.

- Minimize downtime during the migration of the SERVER1 databases.

- Use the Azure Hybrid Use Benefits when migrating workloads to Azure.

- Once all requirements are met, minimize costs whenever possible.

You are evaluating the business goals.

Which feature should you use to provide customers with the required level of access based on their service agreement?

2. You need to recommend a solution to ensure that the customers can create the database objects. The solution must meet the business goals.

What should you include in the recommendation?

3. DRAG DROP

You create all of the tables and views for ResearchDB1.

You need to implement security for ResearchDB1. The solution must meet the security and compliance requirements.

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.

4. DRAG DROP

You need to configure user authentication for the SERVER1 databases. The solution must meet the security and compliance requirements.

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.

5. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a configuration for ManufacturingSQLDb1 after the migration to Azure. The solution must meet the business requirements.

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.

6. You need to identify the cause of the performance issues on SalesSQLDb1.

Which two dynamic management views should you use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

7. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend the appropriate purchasing model and deployment option for the 30 new databases. The solution must meet the technical requirements and the business requirements.

What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

8. You need to provide an implementation plan to configure data retention for ResearchDB1.

The solution must meet the security and compliance requirements.

What should you include in the plan?

9. DRAG DROP

You need to implement statistics maintenance for SalesSQLDb1. The solution must meet the technical requirements.

Which four 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.

10. HOTSPOT

You need to implement the monitoring of SalesSQLDb1. The solution must meet the technical requirements.

How should you collect and stream metrics? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

11. You need to implement authentication for ResearchDB1. The solution must meet the security and compliance requirements.

What should you run as part of the implementation?

12. HOTSPOT

You are planning the migration of the SERVER1 databases. The solution must meet the business requirements.

What should you include in the migration plan? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

13. What should you do after a failover of SalesSQLDb1 to ensure that the database remains accessible to SalesSQLDb1App1?

14. Topic 2, Contoso Ltd

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Existing Environment

Contoso, Ltd. is a financial data company that has 100 employees. The company delivers financial data to customers.

Active Directory

Contoso has a hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) deployment that syncs to on-premises Active Directory.

Database Environment

Contoso has SQL Server 2017 on Azure virtual machines shown in the following table.

SQL1 and SQL2 are in an Always On availability group and are actively queried. SQL3 runs jobs, provides historical data, and handles the delivery of data to customers.

The on-premises datacenter contains a PostgreSQL server that has a 50-TB database.

Current Business Model

Contoso uses Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to create flat files for customers. The customers receive the files by using FTP.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Contoso plans to move to a model in which they deliver data to customer databases that run as platform as a service (PaaS) offerings. When a customer establishes a service agreement with Contoso, a separate resource group that contains an Azure SQL database will be provisioned for the customer. The database will have a complete copy of the financial data. The data to which each customer will have access will depend on the service agreement tier. The customers can change tiers by changing their service agreement.

The estimated size of each PaaS database is 1 TB.

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Move the PostgreSQL database to Azure Database for PostgreSQL during the next six months.

Upgrade SQL1, SQL2, and SQL3 to SQL Server 2019 during the next few months.

Start onboarding customers to the new PaaS solution within six months.

Business Goals

Contoso identifies the following business requirements:

Use built-in Azure features whenever possible.

Minimize development effort whenever possible.

Minimize the compute costs of the PaaS solutions.

Provide all the customers with their own copy of the database by using the PaaS solution. Provide the customers with different table and row access based on the customer’s service agreement.

In the event of an Azure regional outage, ensure that the customers can access the PaaS solution with minimal downtime. The solution must provide automatic failover.

Ensure that users of the PaaS solution can create their own database objects but he prevented from modifying any of the existing database objects supplied by Contoso.

Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

Users of the PaaS solution must be able to sign in by using their own corporate Azure AD credentials or have Azure AD credentials supplied to them by Contoso. The solution must avoid using the internal Azure AD of Contoso to minimize guest users.

All customers must have their own resource group, Azure SQL server, and Azure SQL database. The deployment of resources for each customer must be done in a consistent fashion.

Users must be able to review the queries issued against the PaaS databases and identify any new objects created.

Downtime during the PostgreSQL database migration must be minimized.

Monitoring Requirements

Contoso identifies the following monitoring requirements:

Notify administrators when a PaaS database has a higher than average CPU usage.

Use a single dashboard to review security and audit data for all the PaaS databases.

Use a single dashboard to monitor query performance and bottlenecks across all the PaaS databases.

Monitor the PaaS databases to identify poorly performing queries and resolve query performance issues automatically whenever possible.

PaaS Prototype

During prototyping of the PaaS solution in Azure, you record the compute utilization of a customer’s Azure SQL database as shown in the following exhibit.

Role Assignments

For each customer’s Azure SQL Database server, you plan to assign the roles shown in the following exhibit.

HOTSPOT

You are evaluating the role assignments.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

15. What should you use to migrate the PostgreSQL database?

16. Which audit log destination should you use to meet the monitoring requirements?

17. Based on the PaaS prototype, which Azure SQL Database compute tier should you use?

18. What should you implement to meet the disaster recovery requirements for the PaaS solution?

19. You need to implement a solution to notify the administrators. The solution must meet the monitoring requirements.

What should you do?

20. Topic 3, ADatum Corporation

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

ADatum Corporation is a retailer that sells products through two sales channels: retail stores and a website.

Existing Environment

ADatum has one database server that has Microsoft SQL Server 2016 installed. The server hosts three mission-critical databases named SALESDB, DOCDB, and REPORTINGDB.

SALESDB collects data from the stores and the website.

DOCDB stores documents that connect to the sales data in SALESDB. The documents are stored in two different JSON formats based on the sales channel.

REPORTINGDB stores reporting data and contains several columnstore indexes. A daily process creates reporting data in REPORTINGDB from the data in SALESDB. The process is implemented as a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that runs a stored procedure from SALESDB.

Requirements

Planned Changes

ADatum plans to move the current data infrastructure to Azure.

The new infrastructure has the following requirements:

✑ Migrate SALESDB and REPORTINGDB to an Azure SQL database.

✑ Migrate DOCDB to Azure Cosmos DB.

✑ The sales data, including the documents in JSON format, must be gathered as it arrives and analyzed online by using Azure Stream Analytics. The analytics process will perform aggregations that must be done continuously, without gaps, and without overlapping.

✑ As they arrive, all the sales documents in JSON format must be transformed into one consistent format.

✑ Azure Data Factory will replace the SSIS process of copying the data from SALESDB to REPORTINGDB.

Technical Requirements

The new Azure data infrastructure must meet the following technical requirements:

✑ Data in SALESDB must encrypted by using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). The encryption must use your own key.

✑ SALESDB must be restorable to any given minute within the past three weeks.

✑ Real-time processing must be monitored to ensure that workloads are sized properly based on actual usage patterns.

✑ Missing indexes must be created automatically for REPORTINGDB.

✑ Disk IO, CPU, and memory usage must be monitored for SALESDB.

Which counter should you monitor for real-time processing to meet the technical requirements?

21. Which windowing function should you use to perform the streaming aggregation of the sales data?

22. Topic 4, Contoso Ltd Clothing Store

You need to implement the surrogate key for the retail store table. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.

What should you create?

23. HOTSPOT

You need to design an analytical storage solution for the transactional data. The solution must meet the sales transaction dataset requirements.

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.

24. 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?

25. Topic 5, Misc. Questions

HOTSPOT

You have SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine that contains a database named Db1.

You need to enable automatic tuning for Db1.

How should you complete the statements? To answer, select the appropriate answer in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

26. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database named DB1 that contains two tables named Table1 and Table2. Both tables contain a column named a Column1. Column1 is used for joins by an application named App1.

You need to protect the contents of Column1 at rest, in transit, and in use.

How should you protect the contents of Column1? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

27. You have an Azure SQL database named DB1.

You need to display the estimated execution plan of a query by using the query editor in the Azure portal.

What should you do first?

28. You have an Azure Stream Analytics job.

You need to ensure that the job has enough streaming units provisioned.

You configure monitoring of the SU % Utilization metric.

Which two additional metrics should you monitor? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

29. DRAG DROP

You have a new Azure SQL database named DB1 on an Azure SQL server named AzSQL1.

The only user who was created is the server administrator.

You need to create a contained database user in DB1 who will use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for authentication.

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.

30. You plan to move two 100-GB databases to Azure.

You need to dynamically scale resources consumption based on workloads. The solution must minimize

downtime during scaling operations.

What should you use?

31. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database named DB 1 in the General Purpose service tier.

You need to monitor DB 1 by using SQL Insights.

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.

32. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named Pool1 and an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named Account1.

You plan to access the files in Account1 by using an external table.

You need to create a data source in Pool1 that you can reference when you create the external table.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

33. 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 have two Azure SQL Database servers named Server1 and Server2. Each server contains an Azure SQL database named Database1.

You need to restore Database1 from Server1 to Server2. The solution must replace the existing Database1 on Server2.

Solution: From Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you rename Database1 on Server2 as Database2. From the Azure portal, you create a new database on Server2 by restoring the backup of Database1 from Server1, and then you delete Database2.

Does this meet the goal?

34. HOTSPOT

You have two Azure virtual machines named VM1 and VM2 that run Windows Server 2019. VM1 and VM2 each host a default Microsoft SQL Server 2019 instance. VM1 contains a database named DB1 that is backed up to a file named D:DB1.bak.

You plan to deploy an Always On availability group that will have the following configurations:

✑ VM1 will host the primary replica of DB1.

✑ VM2 will host a secondary replica of DB1.

You need to prepare the secondary database on VM2 for the availability group.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

35. You have two on-premises Microsoft SQL Server 2019 instances named SQL1 and SQL2.

You need to migrate the databases hosted on SQL 1 to Azure.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

The service that hosts the migrated databases must be able to communicate with SQL2 by using linked server connections.

Administrative effort must be minimized.

What should you use to host the databases?

36. You have an Azure virtual machine named VM1 on a virtual network named VNet1. Outbound traffic from VM1 to the internet is blocked.

You have an Azure SQL database named SqlDb1 on a logical server named SqlSrv1.

You need to implement connectivity between VM1 and SqlDb1 to meet the following requirements:

✑ Ensure that VM1 cannot connect to any Azure SQL Server other than SqlSrv1.

✑ Restrict network connectivity to SqlSrv1.

What should you create on VNet1?

37. You have an Azure Data Factory pipeline that is triggered hourly.

The pipeline has had 100% success for the past seven days.

The pipeline execution fails, and two retries that occur 15 minutes apart also fail. The third failure returns the following error.

What is a possible cause of the error?

38. You have an instance of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine named SQL1.

You need to monitor SQL1 and query the metrics by using Kusto query language. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

Where should you store the metrics?

39. You have an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server 2019 server that hosts a database named DB1.

You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure SQL managed instance named SQLMI1 and a virtual network named VNET1. SQLMI1 resides on VNET1. The on-premises network connects to VNET1 by using an ExpressRoute connection.

You plan to migrate DB1 to SQLMI1 by using Azure Database Migration Service.

You need to configure VNET1 to support the migration.

What should you do?

40. You are developing an application that uses Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.

You need to recommend a solution to grant permissions to a specific application for a limited time period.

What should you include in the recommendation?

41. You have an Azure data solution that contains an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics named DW1.

Several users execute adhoc queries to DW1 concurrently.

You regularly perform automated data loads to DW1.

You need to ensure that the automated data loads have enough memory available to complete quickly and successfully when the adhoc queries run.

What should you do?

42. You have an Azure SQL database named DB1. You run a query while connected to DB1.

You review the actual execution plan for the query, and you add an index to a table referenced by the query.

You need to compare the previous actual execution plan for the query to the Live Query Statistics.

What should you do first in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)?

43. HOTSPOT

You have a 50-TB Microsoft SQL Server database named DB1.

You need to reduce the time it takes to perform database consistency checks of DB1.

Which Transact-SQL command should you run? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

44. DRAG DROP

You have SQL Server 2019 on an Azure virtual machine that contains an SSISDB database.

A recent failure causes the master database to be lost.

You discover that all Microsoft SQL Server integration Services (SSIS) packages fail to run on the virtual machine.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence to resolve the issue? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct.

45. You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool named Pool1 and a database named DB1. DB1 contains a fact table named Table.

You need to identify the extent of the data skew in Table1.

What should you do in Synapse Studio?

46. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database named DB1 that contains a table named Orders. The Orders table contains a row for each sales order. Each sales order includes the name of the user who placed the order.

You need to implement row-level security (RLS). The solution must ensure that the users can view only their respective sales orders.

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.

47. You are planning disaster recovery for the failover group of an Azure SQL Database managed instance.

Your company’s SLA requires that the database in the failover group become available as quickly as possible if a major outage occurs.

You set the Read/Write failover policy to Automatic.

What are two results of the configuration? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

48. You have a Microsoft SQL Server 2019 instance in an on-premises datacenter. The instance contains a 4-TB database named DB1.

You plan to migrate DB1 to an Azure SQL Database managed instance.

What should you use to minimize downtime and data loss during the migration?

49. You have an Azure SQL Database managed instance.

The instance starts experiencing performance issues.

You need to identify which query is causing the issue and retrieve the execution plan for the query. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you use?

50. DRAG DROP

You have an Azure SQL database named DB1. DB1 contains a table that has a column named Col1.

You need to encrypt the data in Col1.

Which four actions should you perform for DB1 in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

51. You have an Azure SQL database. The database contains a table that uses a columnstore index and is accessed infrequently.

You enable columnstore archival compression.

What are two possible results of the configuration? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

52. You have a new Azure SQL database. The database contains a column that stores confidential information.

You need to track each time values from the column are returned in a query. The tracking information must be stored for 365 days from the date the query was executed.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

53. Your on-premises network contains a server that hosts a 60-TB database named DB 1.

The network has a 10-Mbps internet connection.

You need to migrate DB 1 to Azure. The solution must minimize how long it takes to migrate the database.

What should you use?

54. You have an Azure SQL managed instance named MI1.

You need to implement automatic tuning for the databases of MI1.

What should you do?

55. You are designing an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics that will contain a table named Customers. Customers will contain credit card information.

You need to recommend a solution to provide salespeople with the ability to view all the entries in Customers.

The solution must prevent all the salespeople from viewing or inferring the credit card information.

What should you include in the recommendation?

56. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database.

You are reviewing a slow performing query as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

57. You have an Azure SQL Database server named sqlsrv1 that hosts 10 Azure SQL databases.

The databases perform slower than expected.

You need to identify whether the performance issue relates to the use of tempdb on sqlsrv1.

What should you do?

58. HOTSPOT

You configure version control for an Azure Data Factory instance as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

59. 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 have an Azure Data Lake Storage account that contains a staging zone.

You need to design a daily process to ingest incremental data from the staging zone, transform the data by executing an R script, and then insert the transformed data into a data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics.

Solution: You schedule an Azure Databricks job that executes an R notebook, and then inserts the data into the data warehouse.

Does this meet the goal?

60. You plan to build a structured streaming solution in Azure Databricks. The solution will count new events in fiveminute intervals and report only events that arrive during the interval.

The output will be sent to a Delta Lake table.

Which output mode should you use?

61. You have a on-premises Microsoft SQL Server named SQL1 that hosts five databases.

You need to migrate the databases to an Azure SQL managed instance. The solution must minimize downtime and prevent data loss.

What should you use?

62. DRAG DROP

You have a database named db1.

The log for db1 contains the following entry.

You need to ensure That db1 can process transactions.

63. You need to recommend an availability strategy for an Azure SQL database.

The strategy must meet the following requirements:

✑ Support failovers that do not require client applications to change their connection strings.

✑ Replicate the database to a secondary Azure region.

✑ Support failover to the secondary region.

What should you include in the recommendation?

64. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL Database managed instance named sqldbmi1 that contains a database name Sales.

You need to initiate a backup of Sales.

How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

65. 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 have SQL Server 2019 on an Azure virtual machine.

You are troubleshooting performance issues for a query in a SQL Server instance.

To gather more information, you query sys.dm_exec_requests and discover that the wait type is PAGELATCH_UP and the wait_resource is 2:3:905856.

You need to improve system performance.

Solution: You create additional tempdb files.

Does this meet the goal?

66. 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 have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that contains a table named Table1.

You have files that are ingested and loaded into an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container named container1.

You plan to insert data from the files into Table1 and transform the data. Each row of data in the files will produce one row in the serving layer of Table1.

You need to ensure that when the source data files are loaded to container1, the DateTime is stored as an additional column in Table1.

Solution: You use an Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pool to create an external table that has an additional DateTime column.

Does this meet the goal?

67. You have 40 Azure SQL databases, each for a different customer. All the databases reside on the same Azure SQL Database server.

You need to ensure that each customer can only connect to and access their respective database.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

68. You have an Azure SQL managed instance.

You need to gather the last execution of a query plan and its runtime statistics. The solution must minimize the impact on currently running queries.

What should you do?

69. HOTSPOT

You configure a long-term retention policy for an Azure SQL database as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

The first weekly backup occurred on January 4, 2020.

The dates for the first 10 weekly backups are:

✑ January 4, 2020

✑ January 11, 2020

✑ January 18, 2020

✑ January 25, 2020

✑ February 1, 2020

✑ February 8, 2020

✑ February 15, 2020

✑ February 22, 2020

✑ February 29, 2020

✑ March 7, 2020

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

70. DRAG DROP

You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.

You need to back up db1 to mysqlbackups, and then restore the backup to a new database named db2 that is hosted on SQL1. The solution must ensure that db1 is backed up to a stripe set.

Which three Transact-SQL statements should you execute in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate statements from the list of statements to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

71. You have an Azure SQL Database managed instance named SQLMI1. A Microsoft SQL Server Agent job runs on SQLMI1.

You need to ensure that an automatic email notification is sent once the job completes.

What should you include in the solution?

72. You have 10 Azure virtual machines that have SQL Server installed.

You need to implement a backup strategy to ensure that you can restore specific databases to other SQL

Server instances. The solution must provide centralized management of the backups.

What should you include in the backup strategy?

73. HOTSPOT

You have SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine that contains a database named DB1.

The database reports a CHECKSUM error.

You need to recover the database.

How should you complete the statements? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

74. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database named DB1.

The automatic tuning options for DB1 are configured as shown in the following exhibit.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

75. You create five Azure SQL Database instances on the same logical server.

In each database, you create a user for an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) user named User1.

User1 attempts to connect to the logical server by using Azure Data Studio and receives a login error.

You need to ensure that when User1 connects to the logical server by using Azure Data Studio, User1 can see all the databases.

What should you do?

76. You receive numerous alerts from Azure Monitor for an Azure SQL database.

You need to reduce the number of alerts. You must only receive alerts if there is a significant change in usage patterns for an extended period.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

77. DRAG DROP

You are building an Azure virtual machine.

You allocate two 1-TiB, P30 premium storage disks to the virtual machine. Each disk provides 5,000 IOPS.

You plan to migrate an on-premises instance of Microsoft SQL Server to the virtual machine. The instance has a database that contains a 1.2-TiB data file. The database requires 10,000 IOPS.

You need to configure storage for the virtual machine to support the database.

Which three objects should you create in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate objects from the list of objects to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

78. HOTSPOT

You have a database on a SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines instance.

The current state of Query Store for the database is shown in the following exhibit.

79. You have SQL Server on Azure virtual machines in an availability group.

You have a database named DB1 that is NOT in the availability group.

You create a full database backup of DB1.

You need to add DB1 to the availability group.

Which restore option should you use on the secondary replica?

80. You have an Azure Data Factory pipeline that performs an incremental load of source data to an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.

Data to be loaded is identified by a column named LastUpdatedDate in the source table.

You plan to execute the pipeline every four hours.

You need to ensure that the pipeline execution meets the following requirements:

Automatically retries the execution when the pipeline run fails due to concurrency or throttling limits.

Supports backfilling existing data in the table.

Which type of trigger should you use?

81. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database.

You have a query and the associated execution plan as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

82. You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.

You need to configure a connection between VM1 and MIL.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

• The connection must be encrypted.

• Network latency must be minimized.

What should you implement?

83. You have an Azure subscription that uses a domain named contoso.com.

You have two Azure VMs named DBServer1 and DBServer2. Each of them hosts a default SQL Server instance. DBServer1 is in the East US Azure region and contains a database named DatabaseA. DBServer2 is in the West US Azure region.

DBServer1 has a high volume of data changes and low latency requirements for data writes.

You need to configure a new availability group for DatabaseA. The secondary replica will reside on DBServer2.

What should you do?

84. You are designing a streaming data solution that will ingest variable volumes of data.

You need to ensure that you can change the partition count after creation.

Which service should you use to ingest the data?

85. You are designing a dimension table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.

You need to create a surrogate key for the table. The solution must provide the fastest query performance.

What should you use for the surrogate key?

86. You have an Azure SQL managed instance named SQLMI1 that hosts 10 databases.

You need to implement alerts by using Azure Monitor.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

✑ Minimize costs.

✑ Aggregate Intelligent Insights telemetry from each database.

What should you do?

87. You are designing a date dimension table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The date dimension table will be used by all the fact tables.

Which distribution type should you recommend to minimize data movement?

88. 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 have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that contains a table named Table1.

You have files that are ingested and loaded into an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container named container1.

You plan to insert data from the files into Table1 and transform the data. Each row of data in the files will produce one row in the serving layer of Table1.

You need to ensure that when the source data files are loaded to container1, the DateTime is stored as an additional column in Table1.

Solution: In an Azure Synapse Analytics pipeline, you use a Get Metadata activity that retrieves the DateTime of the files.

Does this meet the goal?

89. You have an Azure SQL managed instance that hosts multiple databases.

You need to configure alerts for each database based on the diagnostics telemetry of the database.

What should you use?

90. You have several Azure SQL databases on the same Azure SQL Database server in a resource group named ResourceGroup1.

You must be alerted when CPU usage exceeds 80 percent for any database. The solution must apply to any additional databases that are created on the Azure SQL server.

Which resource type should you use to create the alert?

91. You are designing a security model for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that will support multiple companies.

You need to ensure that users from each company can view only the data of their respective company.

Which two objects should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.