Microsoft DP-300 Exam Study Guide Are Good For Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate Certification

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SalesSQLDb1 experiences performance issues that are likely due to out-of-date statistics and frequent blocking queries.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



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.

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. 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?

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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.

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. 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.

14. Topic 2, Contoso Ltd



Case study

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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.







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

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

What should you do?

16. 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.

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

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

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

20. Topic 3, A Datum 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 windowing function should you use to perform the streaming aggregation of the sales data?

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

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



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)?

26. 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?

27. DRAG DROP

Your company analyzes images from security cameras and sends alerts to security teams that respond to unusual activity. The solution uses Azure Databricks.

You need to send Apache Spark level events, Spark Structured Streaming metrics, and application metrics to Azure Monitor.

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

28. 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?

29. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure data factory that has two pipelines named PipelineA and PipelineB.

PipelineA has four activities as shown in the following exhibit.





PipelineB has two activities as shown in the following exhibit.





You create an alert for the data factory that uses Failed pipeline runs metrics for both pipelines and all failure types.

The metric has the following settings:

✑ Operator: Greater than

✑ Aggregation type: Total

✑ Threshold value: 2

✑ Aggregation granularity (Period): 5 minutes

✑ Frequency of evaluation: Every 5 minutes

Data Factory monitoring records the failures shown in the following table.





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

30. You have an Azure Synapse Analytics Apache Spark pool named Pool1.

You plan to load JSON files from an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container into the tables in Pool1. The structure and data types vary by file.

You need to load the files into the tables. The solution must maintain the source data types.

What should you do?

31. 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?

32. You have a Microsoft SQL Server 2019 database named DB1 that uses the following database-level and instance-level features.

✑ Clustered columnstore indexes

✑ Automatic tuning

✑ Change tracking

✑ PolyBase

You plan to migrate DB1 to an Azure SQL database.

What feature should be removed or replaced before DB1 can be migrated?

33. 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.

34. A company plans to use Apache Spark analytics to analyze intrusion detection data.

You need to recommend a solution to analyze network and system activity data for malicious activities and policy violations. The solution must minimize administrative efforts.

What should you recommend?

35. 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: You run the Remove-AzSqlDatabase PowerShell cmdlet for Database1 on Server2. You run the Restore-AzSqlDatabase PowerShell cmdlet for Database1 on Server2.

Does this meet the goal?

36. 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.

37. 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 SQL database named Sales.

You need to implement disaster recovery for Sales to meet the following requirements:

✑ During normal operations, provide at least two readable copies of Sales.

✑ Ensure that Sales remains available if a datacenter fails.

Solution: You deploy an Azure SQL database that uses the General Purpose service tier and geo-replication.

Does this meet the goal?

38. HOTSPOT

From a website analytics system, you receive data extracts about user interactions such as downloads, link clicks, form submissions, and video plays.

The data contains the following columns:





You need to design a star schema to support analytical queries of the data. The star schema will contain four tables including a date dimension.

To which table should you add each column? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

39. You have the following Transact-SQL query.





Which column returned by the query represents the free space in each file?

40. DRAG DROP

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that contains a user named [email protected] and an Azure SQL managed instance named SQLMI1.

You need to ensure that [email protected] can create logins in SQLMI1 that map to Azure AD service principals.

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.

41. 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?

42. You have an Azure SQL database named db1 on a server named server1.

You need to modify the MAXDOP settings for db1.

What should you do?

43. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure SQL database named db1 on a server named server1.

You use Query Performance Insight to monitor db1.

You need to modify the Query Store configuration to ensure that performance monitoring data is available as soon as possible.

Which configuration setting should you modify and which value should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

44. 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.

45. HOTSPOT

You are performing exploratory analysis of bus fare data in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account by using an Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pool.

You execute the Transact-SQL query 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.

46. You plan to perform batch processing in Azure Databricks once daily.

Which type of Databricks cluster should you use?

47. You have an Azure subscription that contains a server named Server1. Server1 hosts two Azure SQL databases named DB1 and DB2.

You plan to deploy a Windows app named App1 that will authenticate to DB2 by using SQL authentication.

You need to ensure that App1 can access DB2.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

✑ App1 must be able to view only DB2.

✑ Administrative effort must be minimized.

What should you create?

48. 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.

49. You have an Azure SQL database that contains a table named factSales.

FactSales contains the columns shown in the following table.





FactSales has 6 billion rows and is loaded nightly by using a batch process.

Which type of compression provides the greatest space reduction for the database?