DP-420 Exam Dumps - Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Questions and Answers

you can migrate data from various data sources to Azure Cosmos DB using different tools and methods. The choice of the migration tool depends on factors such as the data source, the Azure Cosmos DB API, the size of data, and the expected migration duration1. Some of the common migration tools are:

Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration tool: This is an open source tool that can import data to Azure Cosmos DB from sources such as JSON files, MongoDB, SQL Server, CSV files, and Azure Cosmos DB collections. This tool supports the SQL API and the Table API of Azure Cosmos DB2.

Azure Data Factory: This is a cloud-based data integration service that can copy data from various sources to Azure Cosmos DB using connectors. This tool supports the SQL API, MongoDB API, Cassandra API, Gremlin API, and Table API of Azure CosmosDB3.

Azure Cosmos DB live data migrator: This is a command-line tool that can migrate data from one Azure Cosmos DB container to another container within the same or different account. This tool supports live migration with minimal downtime and works with any Azure Cosmos DB API4.

For your scenario, if you want to migrate data from a third-party application that is exposed through an OData endpoint to a container in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, you should use Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory has an OData connector that can read data from an OData source and write it to an Azure Cosmos DB sink using the SQL API5. You can create a copy activity in Azure Data Factory that specifies the OData source and the Azure Cosmos DB sink, and run it on demand or on a schedule.

The cost of a point read for a 1 KB item is 1 RU. The cost of other operations depends on factors such as item size, indexing policy, consistency level,and query complexity1. To minimize the consumption of RUs, you can optimize these factors according to your application needs.

For your scenario, one possible way to minimize the consumption of RUs associated to the reads by App1 is to change the consistency level of read requests to consistentprefix. Consistent prefix is a lower consistency level than session, which is the default consistency level for Azure Cosmos DB. Lower consistency levelsconsume fewer RUs than higher consistency levels2. Consistent prefix guarantees that reads never see out-of-order writes and that monotonic reads are preserved1. This may be suitable for your application if you can tolerate some eventual consistency.

Scenario: Develop an app named App2 that will run from the retail stores and query the data in account2. App2 must be limited to a single DNS endpoint when accessing account2.

By using Azure Private Link, you can connect to an Azure Cosmos account via a private endpoint. The private endpoint is a set of private IP addresses in a subnet within your virtual network.

When you're using Private Link with an Azure Cosmos account through a direct mode connection, you can use only the TCP protocol. The HTTP protocol is not currently supported.

The partition key is what will determine how data is routed in the various partitions by Cosmos DB and needs to make sense in the context of your specific scenario. The IoT Device ID is generally the "natural" partition key for IoT applications.

Scenario: The iotdb database will contain two containers named con-iot1 and con-iot2.

Ensure that Azure Cosmos DB costs for IoT-related processing are predictable.

Bounded staleness is frequently chosen by globally distributed applications that expect low write latencies but require total global order guarantee. Bounded staleness is great for applications featuring group collaboration and sharing, stock ticker, publish-subscribe/queueing etc.

Scenario: Application updates in con-product frequently cause HTTP status code 429 "Too many requests". You discover that the 429 status code relates to excessive request unit (RU) consumption during the updates.

leaseCollectionPrefix: when set, the value is added as a prefix to the leases created in the Lease collection for this Function. Using a prefix allows two separate Azure Functions to share the same Lease collection by using different prefixes.

Scenario: Use Azure Functions to send notifications about product updates to different recipients.

Trigger the execution of two Azure functions following every update to any document in the con-product container.

App1 queries the con-product and con-productVendor containers.

Note: Request unit is a performance currency abstracting the system resources such as CPU, IOPS, and memory that are required to perform the database operations supported by Azure Cosmos DB.

Scenario:

Develop an app named App1 that will run from all locations and query the data in account1.

Once multi-region writes are configured, maximize the performance of App1 queries against the data in account1.

Whenever there are multiple solutions for a requirement, select the solution that provides the best performance, as long as there are no additional costs associated.