DP-800 Exam Dumps - Microsoft Certified: SQL AI Developer Questions and Answers

Yes, this meets the goal. Microsoft documents that on a partitioned table , you can use TRUNCATE TABLE ... WITH (PARTITIONS (...)) to remove data from a specific partition, and that this is an efficient maintenance operation that targets only that data subset rather than the whole table. Microsoft’s partitioning guidance explicitly lists truncating a single partition as an example of a fast partition-level maintenance or retention operation.

That matches the requirement to remove the oldest month while minimizing impact on other queries. Because the table is already partitioned by month on OrderDate , identifying the partition number for that oldest month and truncating only that partition is the correct low-impact approach, assuming the table and indexes are aligned as required for partition truncation.

The requirement is very specific: prevent ddl_Audit from firing during the next deployment , but leave the trigger object in place . Microsoft documents DISABLE TRIGGER as the statement used to disable a trigger without dropping it. That is exactly the right operation for a temporary suspension of a DDL trigger. For a database-scoped DDL trigger, the syntax is on the database scope, for example DISABLE TRIGGER ddl_Audit ON DATABASE;.

The other options do not meet the requirement as directly:

ALTER TRIGGER changes the trigger definition, not simply disables execution.

ALTER DATABASE is not the direct statement for disabling a specific DDL trigger.

ALTER SERVER AUDIT SPECIFICATION and ALTER DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION are audit-feature statements, not trigger-control statements.

So the correct Transact-SQL statement is DISABLE TRIGGER .

The correct insertion at line 22 is FOR JSON PATH, WITHOUT_ARRAY_WRAPPER .

The request body for the Azure OpenAI chat completions call must be a single JSON object containing the messages array with both the system/user content and the retrieved chunks. Microsoft documents that FOR JSON PATH is the preferred way to shape JSON output, especially when you want precise control over nested property names like messages[0].role and messages[1] .content.

The key detail is WITHOUT_ARRAY_WRAPPER . By default, FOR JSON returns results enclosed in square brackets as a JSON array. Microsoft documents that WITHOUT_ARRAY_WRAPPER removes those brackets so a single JSON object is produced instead. That is exactly what is needed here for @payload, because the stored procedure is building one request body, not an array of request bodies.

GitHub documents that repository custom instructions for Copilot Chat can be disabled for your own use in the editor settings, and that doing so does not affect other users . In VS Code, this is controlled through settings related to instruction files, where you can disable the use of repository instruction files for your own environment.

The other options are incorrect:

B is not a documented mechanism for disabling repository-level Copilot instructions.

C would remove the repository instruction file itself and therefore affect everyone using that repository, which violates the requirement.

Data API builder supports reading the database connection string from an environment variable by using the syntax:

@env( ' MSSQL_CONNECTION_STRING ' )

Microsoft’s DAB documentation explicitly shows that @env( ' MSSQL_CONNECTION_STRING ' ) tells Data API builder to read the connection string from an environment variable at runtime.

That fits this scenario because Azure Container Apps secrets are typically exposed to the container as environment variables . Microsoft’s Azure Container Apps documentation states that environment variables can reference secrets, and DAB’s Azure Container Apps deployment guidance shows a secret being mapped into an environment variable that DAB then reads.

Why the other options are wrong:

A and D incorrectly point the connection string to DAB_CONFIG_BASE64, which is the config payload secret, not the SQL connection string.

C uses secretref: syntax inside dab init, but DAB expects the connection string parameter in the config to use the environment-variable reference syntax @env(...). The secretref: pattern is for Azure Container Apps environment variable configuration, not for the DAB CLI connection-string argument itself.

So the correct command is:

dab init --database-type mssql --connection-string " @env( ' MSSQL_CONNECTION_STRING ' ) " --host-mode Production --config dab-config.json

Serialize the order-level JSON : FOR JSON PATH

Generate a nested lines array : JSON_QUERY

Extract a single scalar value from the JSON text : JSON_VALUE

The correct mapping is based on how SQL Server and Azure SQL JSON functions are designed to shape relational data into JSON for AI and RAG scenarios.

To serialize the order-level JSON , use FOR JSON PATH . Microsoft documents that FOR JSON PATH gives you full control over the JSON output shape and formats the result as an array of JSON objects . It is the standard way to turn relational query results into the JSON structure needed by downstream consumers such as APIs and LLM-based RAG services. It also supports nested output through subqueries and aliases.

To generate a nested lines array , use JSON_QUERY . Microsoft explains that JSON_QUERY returns a JSON object or array from JSON text, and it is used when you want to preserve a JSON fragment instead of treating it as plain text. In this scenario, the nested lines property must be emitted as a proper JSON array inside each order document, so JSON_QUERY is the correct command to embed that array in the final JSON shape.

To extract a single scalar value from the JSON text , use JSON_VALUE . Microsoft explicitly states that JSON_VALUE extracts a scalar value from a JSON string, while JSON_QUERY is for objects or arrays. So whenever the requirement is to pull out one property such as an order number, currency code, or customer ID from JSON text, JSON_VALUE is the correct function.

The unused commands are not the best fit here:

OPENJSON is primarily for parsing JSON into rows and columns, not for shaping relational tables into nested output.

JSON_MODIFY is for updating JSON text, not generating the required output structure.

So the drag-and-drop answers are:

Serialize the order-level JSON → FOR JSON PATH

Generate a nested lines array → JSON_QUERY

Extract a single scalar value from the JSON text → JSON_VALUE

The scenario says Query Store already shows two persisted execution plans for the same query, and the older plan performed much better than the newer one during the last hour. Microsoft documents that sp_query_store_force_plan is used to force a particular plan for a particular query in Query Store . That makes it the fastest way to restore the previously good plan without changing application code , which is exactly what the question requires.

Why the other options are not the best fit:

sp_query_store_set_hints is for adding or updating Query Store hints to influence compilation behavior, but when you already know the exact older good plan, Microsoft points to plan forcing as the direct remedy.

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE clears cached plans broadly and is disruptive; it does not guarantee a return to the known good plan.

ALTER DATABASE is too general and does not directly restore the prior execution plan.

So the right Transact-SQL command is:

EXEC sp_query_store_force_plan

using the relevant @query_id and @plan_id from Query Store for the older, better-performing plan. Microsoft also notes that when a plan is forced, SQL Server tries to use that plan whenever it encounters the query again.

The best use case for RAG is answering user questions based on company-specific knowledge . Microsoft defines RAG as a pattern that augments a language model with a retrieval system that provides grounding data at inference time, which is exactly what you need when responses must be based on the latest transactional and reference data , must avoid retraining/fine-tuning , and should be able to include citations or references to source data.

The other options do not fit as well:

summarizing free-form user input does not inherently require retrieval from DB1,

training a custom model contradicts the requirement to avoid retraining/fine-tuning,

generating marketing slogans is a creative generation task, not a grounding-and-citation scenario. RAG is specifically strong when answers must come from your organization’s own changing knowledge.

The correct answer is Option B because the requirement is to call an Azure OpenAI REST endpoint from SQL Server 2025 while providing the highest level of security , and the instance already has a managed identity enabled . For Microsoft’s SQL AI features, the preferred secure pattern is to use a database scoped credential with IDENTITY = ' Managed Identity ' instead of storing an API key. Microsoft documents that SQL Server 2025 supports managed identity for external AI endpoints, and for Azure OpenAI the credential secret uses the Cognitive Services resource identifier: { " resourceid " : " https://cognitiveservices.azure.com " } .

So line 02 should be:

WITH IDENTITY = ' Managed Identity ' ,

SECRET = ' { " resourceid " : " https://cognitiveservices.azure.com " } ' ;

Why the other options are incorrect:

A and D use HTTP header or query-string credentials with an API key , which is less secure than managed identity because a secret key must be stored and rotated manually. Microsoft recommends managed identity where supported to avoid embedded secrets.

C mixes Managed Identity with an api-key secret, which is not the correct pattern for Azure OpenAI managed-identity authentication.

E uses an invalid identity value for this scenario. The accepted credential identities for external REST endpoint calls include HTTPEndpointHeaders , HTTPEndpointQueryString , Managed Identity , and Shared Access Signature .

Because the endpoint is Azure OpenAI and the question explicitly asks for the highest security , managed identity with the Cognitive Services resource ID is the Microsoft-aligned answer.

The best recommendation is B because the slow query filters on FleetId and returns LastUpdatedUtc , EngineStatus , and BatteryHealth . A nonclustered index with FleetId as the key column allows the optimizer to perform an index seek instead of a clustered index scan, and including the other selected columns makes the index covering , which reduces extra lookups and I/O. Microsoft’s SQL Server indexing guidance states that a nonclustered index with included columns can significantly improve performance when all query columns are available in the index, because the optimizer can satisfy the query directly from the index.

The query is:

SELECT VehicleId, LastUpdatedUtc, EngineStatus, BatteryHealth

FROM dbo.VehicleHealthSummary

WHERE FleetId = @FleetId

ORDER BY LastUpdatedUtc DESC;

Among the given choices, FleetId is the most important search argument because it appears in the WHERE predicate. Microsoft’s index design guidance recommends putting columns used for searching in the key and using nonkey included columns to cover the rest of the query efficiently.

Why the other options are weaker:

A is not appropriate because changing the clustered index to LastUpdatedUtc would not target the main filter predicate on FleetId, and a table can have only one clustered index.

C makes LastUpdatedUtc the key, which is poor for a query whose primary filter is FleetId.

D is not the right answer here because the query requirement does not specify only recent rows, and filtered indexes are meant for a well-defined subset; this option also uses a time-based expression that is not aligned to the stated query pattern.

Strictly speaking, the most optimal design for both filtering and ordering would usually be a composite key like (FleetId, LastUpdatedUtc), but since that is not one of the available options, B is the correct exam answer.