- (Exam Topic 3)
You have an enterprise-wide Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account. The data lake is accessible only through an Azure virtual network named VNET1.
You are building a SQL pool in Azure Synapse that will use data from the data lake.
Your company has a sales team. All the members of the sales team are in an Azure Active Directory group named Sales. POSIX controls are used to assign the Sales group access to the files in the data lake.
You plan to load data to the SQL pool every hour.
You need to ensure that the SQL pool can load the sales data from the data lake.
Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each area selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
ADF
The managed identity grants permissions to the dedicated SQL pools in the workspace.
Note: Managed identity for Azure resources is a feature of Azure Active Directory. The feature provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Azure AD Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/security/synapse-workspace-managed-identity
- (Exam Topic 3)
You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named adls2 that is protected by a virtual network. You are designing a SQL pool in Azure Synapse that will use adls2 as a source.
What should you use to authenticate to adls2?
Correct Answer:
B
Managed identity for Azure resources is a feature of Azure Active Directory. The feature provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Azure AD. You can use the Managed Identity capability to authenticate to any service that support Azure AD authentication.
Managed Identity authentication is required when your storage account is attached to a VNet. Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-bulk-load-copy-tsql-exa
- (Exam Topic 3)
You are designing a star schema for a dataset that contains records of online orders. Each record includes an order date, an order due date, and an order ship date.
You need to ensure that the design provides the fastest query times of the records when querying for arbitrary date ranges and aggregating by fiscal calendar attributes.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
BD
- (Exam Topic 3)
You plan to create an Azure Data Factory pipeline that will include a mapping data flow. You have JSON data containing objects that have nested arrays.
You need to transform the JSON-formatted data into a tabular dataset. The dataset must have one tow for each item in the arrays.
Which transformation method should you use in the mapping data flow?
Correct Answer:
B
Use the flatten transformation to take array values inside hierarchical structures such as JSON and unroll them into individual rows. This process is known as denormalization.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-flow-flatten
- (Exam Topic 3)
You build a data warehouse in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.
Analysts write a complex SELECT query that contains multiple JOIN and CASE statements to transform data for use in inventory reports. The inventory reports will use the data and additional WHERE parameters depending on the report. The reports will be produced once daily.
You need to implement a solution to make the dataset available for the reports. The solution must minimize query times.
What should you implement?
Correct Answer:
A
Materialized views for dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse provide a low maintenance method for complex analytical queries to get fast performance without any query change.
Note: When result set caching is enabled, dedicated SQL pool automatically caches query results in the user database for repetitive use. This allows subsequent query executions to get results directly from the persisted cache so recomputation is not needed. Result set caching improves query performance and reduces compute resource usage. In addition, queries using cached results set do not use any concurrency slots and thus do not count against existing concurrency limits.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/performance-tuning-materialized- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/performance-tuning-result-set-cac