Refined Microsoft DP-203 Test Questions Online

NEW QUESTION 1

You have an enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics named DW1 on a server named Server1. You need to verify whether the size of the transaction log file for each distribution of DW1 is smaller than 160 GB.
What should you do?

• A. On the master database, execute a query against the sys.dm_pdw_nodes_os_performance_counters dynamic management view.
• B. From Azure Monitor in the Azure portal, execute a query against the logs of DW1.
• C. On DW1, execute a query against the sys.database_files dynamic management view.
• D. Execute a query against the logs of DW1 by using theGet-AzOperationalInsightSearchResult PowerShell cmdlet.

Answer: A

Explanation:
The following query returns the transaction log size on each distribution. If one of the log files is reaching 160 GB, you should consider scaling up your instance or limiting your transaction size.
-- Transaction log size SELECT
instance_name as distribution_db, cntr_value*1.0/1048576 as log_file_size_used_GB, pdw_node_id
FROM sys.dm_pdw_nodes_os_performance_counters WHERE
instance_name like 'Distribution_%'
AND counter_name = 'Log File(s) Used Size (KB)' References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-manage-monitor

NEW QUESTION 2

You are developing a solution using a Lambda architecture on Microsoft Azure. The data at test layer must meet the following requirements:
Data storage:
•Serve as a repository (or high volumes of large files in various formats.
•Implement optimized storage for big data analytics workloads.
•Ensure that data can be organized using a hierarchical structure. Batch processing:
•Use a managed solution for in-memory computation processing.
•Natively support Scala, Python, and R programming languages.
•Provide the ability to resize and terminate the cluster automatically. Analytical data store:
•Support parallel processing.
•Use columnar storage.
•Support SQL-based languages.
You need to identify the correct technologies to build the Lambda architecture.
Which technologies should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:
Data storage: Azure Data Lake Store
A key mechanism that allows Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 to provide file system performance at object storage scale and prices is the addition of a hierarchical namespace. This allows the collection of objects/files within an account to be organized into a hierarchy of directories and nested subdirectories in the same way that the file system on your computer is organized. With the hierarchical namespace enabled, a storage account becomes capable of providing the scalability and cost-effectiveness of object storage, with file system semantics that are familiar to analytics engines and frameworks.
Batch processing: HD Insight Spark
Aparch Spark is an open-source, parallel-processing framework that supports in-memory processing to boost the performance of big-data analysis applications.
HDInsight is a managed Hadoop service. Use it deploy and manage Hadoop clusters in Azure. For batch processing, you can use Spark, Hive, Hive LLAP, MapReduce.
Languages: R, Python, Java, Scala, SQL Analytic data store: SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP).
SQL Data Warehouse stores data into relational tables with columnar storage. References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-namespace https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/data-guide/technology-choices/batch-processing https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-overview-what-is

NEW QUESTION 3

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 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?

• A. Yes
• B. No

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4

You are building an Azure Analytics query that will receive input data from Azure IoT Hub and write the results to Azure Blob storage.
You need to calculate the difference in readings per sensor per hour.
How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:
Box 1: LAG
The LAG analytic operator allows one to look up a “previous” event in an event stream, within certain constraints. It is very useful for computing the rate of growth of a variable, detecting when a variable crosses a threshold, or when a condition starts or stops being true.
Box 2: LIMIT DURATION
Example: Compute the rate of growth, per sensor: SELECT sensorId,
growth = reading
LAG(reading) OVER (PARTITION BY sensorId LIMIT DURATION(hour, 1)) FROM input
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream-analytics-query/lag-azure-stream-analytics

NEW QUESTION 5

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. Yes
• B. No

Answer: B

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 6

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 are designing an Azure Stream Analytics solution that will analyze Twitter data.
You need to count the tweets in each 10-second window. The solution must ensure that each tweet is counted only once.
Does this meet the goal?

• A. Yes
• B. No

Answer: A

Explanation:
Tumbling windows are a series of fixed-sized, non-overlapping and contiguous time intervals. The following diagram illustrates a stream with a series of events and how they are mapped into 10-second tumbling windows.

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream-analytics-query/tumbling-window-azure-stream-analytics

NEW QUESTION 7

You are creating an Azure Data Factory data flow that will ingest data from a CSV file, cast columns to specified types of data, and insert the data into a table in an Azure Synapse Analytic dedicated SQL pool. The CSV file contains three columns named username, comment, and date.
The data flow already contains the following:
A source transformation.
A Derived Column transformation to set the appropriate types of data.
A sink transformation to land the data in the pool.
You need to ensure that the data flow meets the following requirements:
All valid rows must be written to the destination table.
Truncation errors in the comment column must be avoided proactively.
Any rows containing comment values that will cause truncation errors upon insert must be written to a file in blob storage.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. To the data flow, add a sink transformation to write the rows to a file in blob storage.
• B. To the data flow, add a Conditional Split transformation to separate the rows that will cause truncation errors.
• C. To the data flow, add a filter transformation to filter out rows that will cause truncation errors.
• D. Add a select transformation to select only the rows that will cause truncation errors.

Answer: AB

Explanation:
B: Example:
* 1. This conditional split transformation defines the maximum length of "title" to be five. Any row that is less than or equal to five will go into the GoodRows stream. Any row that is larger than five will go into the BadRows stream.

* 2. This conditional split transformation defines the maximum length of "title" to be five. Any row that is less than or equal to five will go into the GoodRows stream. Any row that is larger than five will go into the BadRows stream.
A:
* 3. Now we need to log the rows that failed. Add a sink transformation to the BadRows stream for logging. Here, we'll "auto-map" all of the fields so that we have logging of the complete transaction record. This is a text-delimited CSV file output to a single file in Blob Storage. We'll call the log file "badrows.csv".

* 4. The completed data flow is shown below. We are now able to split off error rows to avoid the SQL truncation errors and put those entries into a log file. Meanwhile, successful rows can continue to write to our target database.

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/how-to-data-flow-error-rows

NEW QUESTION 8

What should you recommend using to secure sensitive customer contact information?

• A. data labels
• B. column-level security
• C. row-level security
• D. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Answer: B

Explanation:
Scenario: All cloud data must be encrypted at rest and in transit.
Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data stored in specific database columns from access (for example, credit card numbers, national identification numbers, or data on a need to know basis). This includes database administrators or other privileged users who are authorized to access the database to perform management tasks, but have no business need to access the particular data in the encrypted columns. The data is always encrypted, which means the encrypted data is decrypted only for processing by client applications with access to the encryption key.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-security-overview

NEW QUESTION 9

You have a self-hosted integration runtime in Azure Data Factory.
The current status of the integration runtime has the following configurations:
Status: Running
Type: Self-Hosted
Version: 4.4.7292.1
Running / Registered Node(s): 1/1
High Availability Enabled: False
Linked Count: 0
Queue Length: 0
Average Queue Duration. 0.00s
The integration runtime has the following node details:
Name: X-M
Status: Running
Version: 4.4.7292.1
Available Memory: 7697MB
CPU Utilization: 6%
Network (In/Out): 1.21KBps/0.83KBps
Concurrent Jobs (Running/Limit): 2/14
Role: Dispatcher/Worker
Credential Status: In Sync
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.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:
Box 1: fail until the node comes back online We see: High Availability Enabled: False
Note: Higher availability of the self-hosted integration runtime so that it's no longer the single point of failure in your big data solution or cloud data integration with Data Factory.
Box 2: lowered We see:
Concurrent Jobs (Running/Limit): 2/14 CPU Utilization: 6%
Note: When the processor and available RAM aren't well utilized, but the execution of concurrent jobs reaches a node's limits, scale up by increasing the number of concurrent jobs that a node can run
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/create-self-hosted-integration-runtime

NEW QUESTION 10

You are designing an Azure Databricks interactive cluster. The cluster will be used infrequently and will be configured for auto-termination.
You need to ensure that the cluster configuration is retained indefinitely after the cluster is terminated. The solution must minimize costs.
What should you do?

• A. Clone the cluster after it is terminated.
• B. Terminate the cluster manually when processing completes.
• C. Create an Azure runbook that starts the cluster every 90 days.
• D. Pin the cluster.

Answer: D

Explanation:
To keep an interactive cluster configuration even after it has been terminated for more than 30 days, an administrator can pin a cluster to the cluster list.
References:
https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/clusters/clusters-manage.html#automatic-termination

NEW QUESTION 11

You develop data engineering solutions for a company.
A project requires the deployment of data to Azure Data Lake Storage.
You need to implement role-based access control (RBAC) so that project members can manage the Azure Data Lake Storage resources.
Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Assign Azure AD security groups to Azure Data Lake Storage.
• B. Configure end-user authentication for the Azure Data Lake Storage account.
• C. Configure service-to-service authentication for the Azure Data Lake Storage account.
• D. Create security groups in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and add project members.
• E. Configure access control lists (ACL) for the Azure Data Lake Storage account.

Answer: ADE

Explanation:
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-store-secure-data

NEW QUESTION 12

You have an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that contains a large fact table. The table contains 50 columns and 5 billion rows and is a heap.
Most queries against the table aggregate values from approximately 100 million rows and return only two columns.
You discover that the queries against the fact table are very slow. Which type of index should you add to provide the fastest query times?

• A. nonclustered columnstore
• B. clustered columnstore
• C. nonclustered
• D. clustered

Answer: B

Explanation:
Clustered columnstore indexes are one of the most efficient ways you can store your data in dedicated SQL pool.
Columnstore tables won't benefit a query unless the table has more than 60 million rows. Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/best-practices-dedicated-sql-pool

NEW QUESTION 13

You store files in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container. The container has the storage policy 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.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:

NEW QUESTION 14

You are designing a statistical analysis solution that will use custom proprietary1 Python functions on near real-time data from Azure Event Hubs.
You need to recommend which Azure service to use to perform the statistical analysis. The solution must minimize latency.
What should you recommend?

• A. Azure Stream Analytics
• B. Azure SQL Database
• C. Azure Databricks
• D. Azure Synapse Analytics

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15

You plan to ingest streaming social media data by using Azure Stream Analytics. The data will be stored in files in Azure Data Lake Storage, and then consumed by using Azure Datiabricks and PolyBase in Azure Synapse Analytics.
You need to recommend a Stream Analytics data output format to ensure that the queries from Databricks and PolyBase against the files encounter the fewest possible errors. The solution must ensure that the tiles can be queried quickly and that the data type information is retained.
What should you recommend?

• A. Parquet
• B. Avro
• C. CSV
• D. JSON

Answer: B

Explanation:
The Avro format is great for data and message preservation.Avro schema with its support for evolution is essential for making the data robust for streaming architectures like Kafka, and with the metadata that schema provides, you can reason on the data. Having a schema provides robustness in providing meta-data about the data stored in Avro records which are self- documenting the data.References: http://cloudurable.com/blog/avro/index.html

NEW QUESTION 16

You have a SQL pool in Azure Synapse.
A user reports that queries against the pool take longer than expected to complete. You need to add monitoring to the underlying storage to help diagnose the issue.
Which two metrics should you monitor? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Cache used percentage
• B. DWU Limit
• C. Snapshot Storage Size
• D. Active queries
• E. Cache hit percentage

Answer: AE

Explanation:
A: Cache used is the sum of all bytes in the local SSD cache across all nodes and cache capacity is the sum of the storage capacity of the local SSD cache across all nodes.
E: Cache hits is the sum of all columnstore segments hits in the local SSD cache and cache miss is the columnstore segments misses in the local SSD cache summed across all nodes
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-concept-resou

NEW QUESTION 17

You are creating dimensions for a data warehouse in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. You create a table by using the Transact-SQL statement 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.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:
Box 1: Type 2
A Type 2 SCD supports versioning of dimension members. Often the source system doesn't store versions, so the data warehouse load process detects and manages changes in a dimension table. In this case, the dimension table must use a surrogate key to provide a unique reference to a version of the dimension member. It also includes columns that define the date range validity of the version (for example, StartDate and EndDate) and possibly a flag column (for example, IsCurrent) to easily filter by current dimension members.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/populate-slowly-changing-dimensions-azure-synapse-analytics

NEW QUESTION 18

You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account that contains a JSON file for customers. The file contains two attributes named FirstName and LastName.
You need to copy the data from the JSON file to an Azure Synapse Analytics table by using Azure Databricks. A new column must be created that concatenates the FirstName and LastName values.
You create the following components:
A destination table in Azure Synapse
An Azure Blob storage container
A service principal
Which five actions should you perform in sequence next in is Databricks notebook? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:
Step 1: Read the file into a data frame.
You can load the json files as a data frame in Azure Databricks. Step 2: Perform transformations on the data frame.
Step 3:Specify a temporary folder to stage the data
Specify a temporary folder to use while moving data between Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse. Step 4: Write the results to a table in Azure Synapse.
You upload the transformed data frame into Azure Synapse. You use the Azure Synapse connector for Azure Databricks to directly upload a dataframe as a table in a Azure Synapse.
Step 5: Drop the data frame
Clean up resources. You can terminate the cluster. From the Azure Databricks workspace, select Clusters on the left. For the cluster to terminate, under Actions, point to the ellipsis (...) and select the Terminate icon.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-databricks/databricks-extract-load-sql-data-warehouse

NEW QUESTION 19

You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that uses a third normal form schema.
You plan to migrate the data in the database to a star schema in an A?\ire Synapse Analytics dedicated SQI pool.
You need to design the dimension tables. The solution must optimize read operations.
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.

• A. Mastered
• B. Not Mastered

Answer: A

Explanation:

NEW QUESTION 20
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