Explanation

Images: Azure Data Lake Storage
Scenario: Image data must be stored in a single data store at minimum cost.
Customer data: Azure Blob Storage
Scenario: Customer data must be analyzed using managed Spark clusters.
Spark clusters in HDInsight are compatible with Azure Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.
Azure Storage includes these data services: Azure Blob, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/spark/apache-spark-overview
Topic 3, Case study 2
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 question on this case study.
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Background
Current environment
The company has the following virtual machines (VMs):

Requirements
Storage and processing
You must be able to use a file system view of data stored in a blob.
You must build an architecture that will allow Contoso to use the DB FS filesystem layer over a blob store.
The architecture will need to support data files, libraries, and images. Additionally, it must provide a web-based interface to documents that contain runnable command, visualizations, and narrative text such as a notebook.
CONT_SQL3 requires an initial scale of 35000 IOPS.
CONT_SQL1 and CONT_SQL2 must use the vCore model and should include replicas. The solution must support 8000 IOPS.
The storage should be configured to optimized storage for database OLTP workloads.
Migration
* You must be able to independently scale compute and storage resources.
* You must migrate all SQL Server workloads to Azure. You must identify related machines in the on-premises environment, get disk size data usage information.
* Data from SQL Server must include zone redundant storage.
* You need to ensure that app components can reside on-premises while interacting with components that run in the Azure public cloud.
* SAP data must remain on-premises.
* The Azure Site Recovery (ASR) results should contain per-machine data.
Business requirements
* You must design a regional disaster recovery topology.
* The database backups have regulatory purposes and must be retained for seven years.
* CONT_SQL1 stores customers sales data that requires ETL operations for data analysis. A solution is required that reads data from SQL, performs ETL, and outputs to Power BI. The solution should use managed clusters to minimize costs. To optimize logistics, Contoso needs to analyze customer sales data to see if certain products are tied to specific times in the year.
* The analytics solution for customer sales data must be available during a regional outage.
Security and auditing
* Contoso requires all corporate computers to enable Windows Firewall.
* Azure servers should be able to ping other Contoso Azure servers.
* Employee PII must be encrypted in memory, in motion, and at rest. Any data encrypted by SQL Server must support equality searches, grouping, indexing, and joining on the encrypted data.
* Keys must be secured by using hardware security modules (HSMs).
* CONT_SQL3 must not communicate over the default ports
Cost
* All solutions must minimize cost and resources.
* The organization does not want any unexpected charges.
* The data engineers must set the SQL Data Warehouse compute resources to consume 300 DWUs.
* CONT_SQL2 is not fully utilized during non-peak hours. You must minimize resource costs for during non-peak hours.

Azure resource costs must be minimized where possible.
Data used for Planning Assistance must be stored in a sharded Azure SQL Database.
The SLA for Planning Assistance is 70 percent, and multiday outages are permitted.
Design Azure data storage solutions
Testlet 2
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
You develop data engineering solutions for Graphics Design Institute, a global media company with offices in New York City, Manchester, Singapore, and Melbourne.
The New York office hosts SQL Server databases that stores massive amounts of customer data. The company also stores millions of images on a physical server located in the New York office. More than 2 TB of image data is added each day. The images are transferred from customer devices to the server in New York.
Many images have been placed on this server in an unorganized manner, making it difficult for editors to search images. Images should automatically have object and color tags generated. The tags must be stored in a document database, and be queried by SQL You are hired to design a solution that can store, transform, and visualize customer data.
Requirements
Business
The company identifies the following business requirements:
* You must transfer all images and customer data to cloud storage and remove on-premises servers.
* You must develop an analytical processing solution for transforming customer data.
* You must develop an image object and color tagging solution.
* Capital expenditures must be minimized.
* Cloud resource costs must be minimized.
Technical
The solution has the following technical requirements:
* Tagging data must be uploaded to the cloud from the New York office location.
* Tagging data must be replicated to regions that are geographically close to company office locations.
* Image data must be stored in a single data store at minimum cost.
* Customer data must be analyzed using managed Spark clusters.
* Power BI must be used to visualize transformed customer data.
* All data must be backed up in case disaster recovery is required.
Security and optimization
All cloud data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. The solution must support:
* parallel processing of customer data
* hyper-scale storage of images
* global region data replication of processed image data

Explanation

References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-import

Explanation:
Box 1: dbmanager
Members of the dbmanager role can create new databases.
Box 2: db_accessadmin
Members of the db_accessadmin fixed database role can add or remove access to the database for Windows logins, Windows groups, and SQL Server logins.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-manage-logins

Explanation

Log records: SQL
Social media mentions: Gremlin
You can store the actual graph of followers using Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API to create vertexes for each user and edges that maintain the "A-follows-B" relationships. With the Gremlin API, you can get the followers of a certain user and create more complex queries to suggest people in common. If you add to the graph the Content Categories that people like or enjoy, you can start weaving experiences that include smart content discovery, suggesting content that those people you follow like, or finding people that you might have much in common with.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/social-media-apps