Horizontal Partitioning - Sharding: Data is partitioned horizontally to distribute rows across a scaled out data tier. With this approach, the schema is identical on all participating databases. This approach is also called
"sharding". Sharding can be performed and managed using (1) the elastic database tools libraries or (2) self- sharding. An elastic query is used to query or compile reports across many shards.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-elastic-query-overview

A: Typically, analytics engines such as HDInsight and Azure Data Lake Analytics has a per-five overhead. If you store your data as many small files, this can negatively affect performance. In general, organize your data into larger sized files for better performance (256MB to 100GB in size). Some engines and applications might have trouble efficiently processing files that are greater than 100GB in size.
C: For Hive workloads, partition pruning of time-series data can help some queries read only a subset of the data which improves performance.
Those pipelines that ingest time-series data, often place their files with a very structured naming for files and folders. Below is a very common example we see for data is structured by date:
\DataSet\YYYY\MM\DD\datafile_YYYY_MM_DD.tsv
Notice that the datetime information appears both as folders and in the filename.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-performance-tuning-guidance Design for data security and compliance Testlet 1 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.
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Overview
Litware, Inc. owns and operates 300 convenience stores across the US. The company sells a variety of packaged foods and drinks, as well as a variety of prepared foods, such as sandwiches and pizzas.
Litware has a loyalty club whereby members can get daily discounts on specific items by providing their membership number at checkout.
Litware employs business analysts who prefer to analyze data by using Microsoft Power BI, and data scientists who prefer analyzing data in Azure Databricks notebooks.
Requirements. Business Goals
Litware wants to create a new analytics environment in Azure to meet the following requirements:
* See inventory levels across the stores. Data must be updated as close to real time as possible.
* Execute ad hoc analytical queries on historical data to identify whether the loyalty club discounts increase sales of the discounted products.
* Every four hours, notify store employees about how many prepared food items to produce based on historical demand from the sales data.
Requirements. Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements:
* Minimize the number of different Azure services needed to achieve the business goals.
* Use platform as a service (PaaS) offerings whenever possible and avoid having to provision virtual machines that must be managed by Litware.
* Ensure that the analytical data store is accessible only to the company's on-premises network and Azure services.
* Use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication whenever possible.
* Use the principle of least privilege when designing security.
* Stage inventory data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 before loading the data into the analytical data store. Litware wants to remove transient data from Data Lake Storage once the data is no longer in use.
Files that have a modified date that is older than 14 days must be removed.
* Limit the business analysts' access to customer contact information, such as phone numbers, because this type of data is not analytically relevant.
* Ensure that you can quickly restore a copy of the analytical data store within one hour in the event of corruption or accidental deletion.
Requirements. Planned Environment
Litware plans to implement the following environment:
* The application development team will create an Azure event hub to receive real-time sales data, including store number, date, time, product ID, customer loyalty number, price, and discount amount, from the point of sale (POS) system and output the data to data storage in Azure.
* Customer data, including name, contact information, and loyalty number, comes from Salesforce, a SaaS application, and can be imported into Azure once every eight hours. Row modified dates are not trusted in the source table.
* Product data, including product ID, name, and category, comes from Salesforce and can be imported into Azure once every eight hours. Row modified dates are not trusted in the source table.
* Daily inventory data comes from a Microsoft SQL server located on a private network.
* Litware currently has 5 TB of historical sales data and 100 GB of customer data. The company expects approximately 100 GB of new data per month for the next year.
* Litware will build a custom application named FoodPrep to provide store employees with the calculation results of how many prepared food items to produce every four hours.
* Litware does not plan to implement Azure ExpressRoute or a VPN between the on-premises network and Azure.

When you create an Azure virtual machine (VM), you must create a virtual network (VNet) or use an existing VNet. You also need to decide how your VMs are intended to be accessed on the VNet.
Incorrect Answers:
C: Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications.
D: A VPN gateway is a specific type of virtual network gateway that is used to send encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and an on-premises location over the public Internet.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/network-overview

Scenario: The analytics solution for customer sales data must be available during a regional outage.
To create your own regional disaster recovery topology for databricks, follow these requirements:
1. Provision multiple Azure Databricks workspaces in separate Azure regions
2. Use Geo-redundant storage.
3. Once the secondary region is created, you must migrate the users, user folders, notebooks, cluster configuration, jobs configuration, libraries, storage, init scripts, and reconfigure access control.
Note: Geo-redundant storage (GRS) is designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999% (16 9's) durability of objects over a given year by replicating your data to a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from the primary region. If your storage account has GRS enabled, then your data is durable even in the case of a complete regional outage or a disaster in which the primary region isn't recoverable.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs

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