DRAG DROP
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You are building a data loading pattern by using a Fabric data pipeline. The source is an Azure SQL database that contains 25 tables. The destination is a lakehouse.
In a warehouse, you create a control table named Control.Object as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)
You need to build a data pipeline that will support the dynamic ingestion of the tables listed in the control table by using a single execution.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
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Correct Answer: Add a Lookup activity to query Control.Object and return the list of schemas and tables.
Add a ForEach activity to iterate over the returned list.
Add a Copy Data activity inside the ForEach to load each table into the lakehouse.
Explanation: The Lookup activity dynamically retrieves the table list from the control table. The ForEach activity enables a single pipeline execution to iterate over all tables. The Copy Data activity performs the actual ingestion for each schema-table pair into Delta tables.
Question 19
HOTSPOT
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You are building a data orchestration pattern by using a Fabric data pipeline named Dynamic Data Copy as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)
Dynamic Data Copy does NOT use parametrization.
You need to configure the ForEach activity to receive the list of tables to be copied.
How should you complete the pipeline expression? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Show Answer
Correct Answer: Lookup Schema and Table
output.value
Explanation: The ForEach activity requires an array. The Lookup activity returns rows as an array in its output.value property, which provides the list of tables to iterate over.
Question 20
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. Company Overview -
Contoso, Ltd. is an online retail company that wants to modernize its analytics platform by moving to Fabric. The company plans to begin using Fabric for marketing analytics.
Overview. IT Structure -
The company’s IT department has a team of data analysts and a team of data engineers that use analytics systems.
The data engineers perform the ingestion, transformation, and loading of data. They prefer to use Python or SQL to transform the data.
The data analysts query data and create semantic models and reports. They are qualified to write queries in Power Query and T-SQL.
Existing Environment. Fabric -
Contoso has an F64 capacity named Cap1. All Fabric users are allowed to create items.
Contoso has two workspaces named WorkspaceA and WorkspaceB that currently use Pro license mode.
Existing Environment. Source Systems
Contoso has a point of sale (POS) system named POS1 that uses an instance of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in the same Microsoft Entra tenant as Fabric. The host virtual machine is on a private virtual network that has public access blocked. POS1 contains all the sales transactions that were processed on the company’s website.
The company has a software as a service (SaaS) online marketing app named MAR1. MAR1 has seven entities. The entities contain data that relates to email open rates and interaction rates, as well as website interactions. The data can be exported from MAR1 by calling REST APIs. Each entity has a different endpoint.
Contoso has been using MAR1 for one year. Data from prior years is stored in Parquet files in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. There are 12 files that range in size from 300 MB to 900 MB and relate to email interactions.
Existing Environment. Product Data
POS1 contains a product list and related data. The data comes from the following three tables:
• Products
• ProductCategories
• ProductSubcategories
In the data, products are related to product subcategories, and subcategories are related to product categories.
Existing Environment. Azure -
Contoso has a Microsoft Entra tenant that has the following mail-enabled security groups:
• DataAnalysts: Contains the data analysts
• DataEngineers: Contains the data engineers
Contoso has an Azure subscription.
The company has an existing Azure DevOps organization and creates a new project for repositories that relate to Fabric.
Existing Environment. User Problems
The VP of marketing at Contoso requires analysis on the effectiveness of different types of email content. It typically takes a week to manually compile and analyze the data. Contoso wants to reduce the time to less than one day by using Fabric.
The data engineering team has successfully exported data from MAR1. The team experiences transient connectivity errors, which causes the data exports to fail.
Requirements. Planned Changes -
Contoso plans to create the following two lakehouses:
• Lakehouse1: Will store both raw and cleansed data from the sources
• Lakehouse2: Will serve data in a dimensional model to users for analytical queries
Additional items will be added to facilitate data ingestion and transformation.
Contoso plans to use Azure Repos for source control in Fabric.
Requirements. Technical Requirements
The new lakehouses must follow a medallion architecture by using the following three layers: bronze, silver, and gold. There will be extensive data cleansing required to populate the MAR1 data in the silver layer, including deduplication, the handling of missing values, and the standardizing of capitalization.
Each layer must be fully populated before moving on to the next layer. If any step in populating the lakehouses fails, an email must be sent to the data engineers.
Data imports must run simultaneously, when possible.
The use of email data from the Amazon S3 bucket must meet the following requirements:
• Minimize egress costs associated with cross-cloud data access.
• Prevent saving a copy of the raw data in the lakehouses.
Items that relate to data ingestion must meet the following requirements:
• The items must be source controlled alongside other workspace items.
• Ingested data must land in the bronze layer of Lakehouse1 in the Delta format.
• No changes other than changes to the file formats must be implemented before the data lands in the bronze layer.
• Development effort must be minimized and a built-in connection must be used to import the source data.
• In the event of a connectivity error, the ingestion processes must attempt the connection again.
Lakehouses, data pipelines, and notebooks must be stored in WorkspaceA. Semantic models, reports, and dataflows must be stored in WorkspaceB.
Once a week, old files that are no longer referenced by a Delta table log must be removed.
Requirements. Data Transformation
In the POS1 product data, ProductID values are unique. The product dimension in the gold layer must include only active products from product list. Active products are identified by an IsActive value of 1.
Some product categories and subcategories are NOT assigned to any product. They are NOT analytically relevant and must be omitted from the product dimension in the gold layer.
Requirements. Data Security -
Security in Fabric must meet the following requirements:
• The data engineers must have read and write access to all the lakehouses, including the underlying files.
• The data analysts must only have read access to the Delta tables in the gold layer.
• The data analysts must NOT have access to the data in the bronze and silver layers.
• The data engineers must be able to commit changes to source control in WorkspaceA.
You need to recommend a solution to resolve the MAR1 connectivity issues. The solution must minimize development effort.
What should you recommend?
A. Add a ForEach activity to the data pipeline.
B. Configure retries for the Copy data activity.
C. Call a notebook from the data pipeline.
D. Configure Fault tolerance for the Copy data activity.
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: The issue is transient connectivity errors during data export from a SaaS source. The requirement is to minimize development effort and automatically attempt the connection again when errors occur. Configuring retries on the Copy data activity directly addresses transient failures by retrying the operation without adding custom logic. Other options add complexity or serve different purposes (looping, custom code, or tolerating bad rows), and do not specifically solve connectivity retries as simply.
Question 21
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 -
Litware, Inc. is a publishing company that has an online bookstore and several retail bookstores worldwide. Litware also manages an online advertising business for the authors it represents.
Existing Environment. Fabric Environment
Litware has a Fabric workspace named Workspace1. High concurrency is enabled for Workspace1.
The company has a data engineering team that uses Python for data processing.
Existing Environment. Data Processing
The retail bookstores send sales data at the end of each business day, while the online bookstore constantly provides logs and sales data to a central enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Litware implements a medallion architecture by using the following three layers: bronze, silver, and gold. The sales data is ingested from the ERP system as Parquet files that land in the Files folder in a lakehouse. Notebooks are used to transform the files in a Delta table for the bronze and silver layers. The gold layer is in a warehouse that has V-Order disabled.
Litware has image files of book covers in Azure Blob Storage. The files are loaded into the Files folder.
Existing Environment. Sales Data
Month-end sales data is processed on the first calendar day of each month. Data that is older than one month never changes.
In the source system, the sales data refreshes every six hours starting at midnight each day.
The sales data is captured in a Dataflow Gen1 dataflow. When the dataflow runs, new and historical data is captured. The dataflow captures the following fields of the source:
• Sales Date
• Author
• Price
• Units
• SKU
A table named AuthorSales stores the sales data that relates to each author. The table contains a column named AuthorEmail. Authors authenticate to a guest Fabric tenant by using their email address.
Existing Environment. Security Groups
Litware has the following security groups:
• Sales
• Fabric Admins
• Streaming Admins
Existing Environment. Performance Issues
Business users perform ad-hoc queries against the warehouse. The business users indicate that reports against the warehouse sometimes run for two hours and fail to load as expected. Upon further investigation, the data engineering team receives the following error message when the reports fail to load: “The SQL query failed while running.”
The data engineering team wants to debug the issue and find queries that cause more than one failure.
When the authors have new book releases, there is often an increase in sales activity. This increase slows the data ingestion process.
The company’s sales team reports that during the last month, the sales data has NOT been up-to-date when they arrive at work in the morning.
Requirements. Planned Changes -
Litware recently signed a contract to receive book reviews. The provider of the reviews exposes the data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets.
Litware plans to manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for the authors. The SEO data will be streamed from a REST API.
Requirements. Version Control -
Litware plans to implement a version control solution in Fabric that will use GitHub integration and follow the principle of least privilege.
Requirements. Governance Requirements
To control data platform costs, the data platform must use only Fabric services and items. Additional Azure resources must NOT be provisioned.
Requirements. Data Requirements -
Litware identifies the following data requirements:
• Process the SEO data in near-real-time (NRT).
• Make the book reviews available in the lakehouse without making a copy of the data.
• When a new book cover image arrives in the Files folder, process the image as soon as possible.
What should you recommend that the data engineering team use to ingest the SEO data?
A. a streaming dataflow
B. a streaming dataset
C. a notebook that uses Apache Spark Structured Streaming
D. an eventstream
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: The requirement is to process SEO data from a REST API in near-real-time using only Microsoft Fabric services. Eventstream is the Fabric-native, purpose-built item for real-time ingestion and routing of streaming data and best aligns with near-real-time processing and governance constraints. A Spark Structured Streaming notebook could technically ingest REST data, but it requires custom code and continuous compute and is not the preferred ingestion mechanism for streaming APIs in Fabric. Therefore, Eventstream is the correct recommendation.
Question 22
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 -
Litware, Inc. is a publishing company that has an online bookstore and several retail bookstores worldwide. Litware also manages an online advertising business for the authors it represents.
Existing Environment. Fabric Environment
Litware has a Fabric workspace named Workspace1. High concurrency is enabled for Workspace1.
The company has a data engineering team that uses Python for data processing.
Existing Environment. Data Processing
The retail bookstores send sales data at the end of each business day, while the online bookstore constantly provides logs and sales data to a central enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Litware implements a medallion architecture by using the following three layers: bronze, silver, and gold. The sales data is ingested from the ERP system as Parquet files that land in the Files folder in a lakehouse. Notebooks are used to transform the files in a Delta table for the bronze and silver layers. The gold layer is in a warehouse that has V-Order disabled.
Litware has image files of book covers in Azure Blob Storage. The files are loaded into the Files folder.
Existing Environment. Sales Data
Month-end sales data is processed on the first calendar day of each month. Data that is older than one month never changes.
In the source system, the sales data refreshes every six hours starting at midnight each day.
The sales data is captured in a Dataflow Gen1 dataflow. When the dataflow runs, new and historical data is captured. The dataflow captures the following fields of the source:
• Sales Date
• Author
• Price
• Units
• SKU
A table named AuthorSales stores the sales data that relates to each author. The table contains a column named AuthorEmail. Authors authenticate to a guest Fabric tenant by using their email address.
Existing Environment. Security Groups
Litware has the following security groups:
• Sales
• Fabric Admins
• Streaming Admins
Existing Environment. Performance Issues
Business users perform ad-hoc queries against the warehouse. The business users indicate that reports against the warehouse sometimes run for two hours and fail to load as expected. Upon further investigation, the data engineering team receives the following error message when the reports fail to load: “The SQL query failed while running.”
The data engineering team wants to debug the issue and find queries that cause more than one failure.
When the authors have new book releases, there is often an increase in sales activity. This increase slows the data ingestion process.
The company’s sales team reports that during the last month, the sales data has NOT been up-to-date when they arrive at work in the morning.
Requirements. Planned Changes -
Litware recently signed a contract to receive book reviews. The provider of the reviews exposes the data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets.
Litware plans to manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for the authors. The SEO data will be streamed from a REST API.
Requirements. Version Control -
Litware plans to implement a version control solution in Fabric that will use GitHub integration and follow the principle of least privilege.
Requirements. Governance Requirements
To control data platform costs, the data platform must use only Fabric services and items. Additional Azure resources must NOT be provisioned.
Requirements. Data Requirements -
Litware identifies the following data requirements:
• Process the SEO data in near-real-time (NRT).
• Make the book reviews available in the lakehouse without making a copy of the data.
• When a new book cover image arrives in the Files folder, process the image as soon as possible.
What should you do to optimize the query experience for the business users?
A. Enable V-Order.
B. Create and update statistics.
C. Run the VACUUM command.
D. Introduce primary keys.
Show Answer
Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Business users experience long-running queries and failures in the Fabric warehouse. The most effective way to optimize query execution in this scenario is to create and update statistics so the SQL query optimizer can generate efficient execution plans. Enabling V-Order affects storage layout and is not reversible once disabled, VACUUM is for storage cleanup, and primary keys improve data integrity rather than query performance.
Question 23
You have a Fabric workspace that contains a semantic model named Model1.
You need to monitor the refresh history of Model1 and visualize the refresh history in a chart.
What should you use?
A. the refresh history from the settings of Model1
B. a notebook
C. a Dataflow Gen2 dataflow
D. a data pipeline
Show Answer
Correct Answer: B
Explanation: The requirement is not only to monitor but also to visualize the refresh history in a chart. The refresh history page in the semantic model settings only shows a tabular log and does not provide charting. A Fabric notebook can retrieve refresh history (for example via REST API or system views) and create a visual chart, which meets both monitoring and visualization requirements. Dataflows Gen2 and data pipelines are not designed for semantic model refresh history visualization.
Question 24
HOTSPOT
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You plan to process the following three datasets by using Fabric:
Dataset1: This dataset will be added to Fabric and will have a unique primary key between the source and the destination. The unique primary key will be an integer and will start from 1 and have an increment of 1.
Dataset2: This dataset contains semi-structured data that uses bulk data transfer. The dataset must be handled in one process between the source and the destination. The data transformation process will include the use of custom visuals to understand and work with the dataset in development mode.
Dataset3: This dataset is in a lakehouse. The data will be bulk loaded. The data transformation process will include row-based windowing functions during the loading process.
You need to identify which type of item to use for the datasets. The solution must minimize development effort and use built-in functionality, when possible.
What should you identify for each dataset? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct Answer: Dataset1: A T-SQL statement
Dataset2: A notebook
Dataset3: Dataflow Gen2 dataflow
Explanation: Dataset1 requires creating an auto-incrementing integer primary key, which is natively supported with T-SQL (IDENTITY) and minimal effort.
Dataset2 involves semi-structured bulk processing with custom visuals during development, best handled interactively in a notebook.
Dataset3 is bulk loaded from a lakehouse and transformed using built-in, low-code capabilities; Dataflow Gen2 provides native lakehouse integration while minimizing development effort.
Question 25
You have a Fabric workspace that contains a warehouse named Warehouse1.
While monitoring Warehouse1, you discover that query performance has degraded during the last 60 minutes.
You need to isolate all the queries that were run during the last 60 minutes. The results must include the username of the users that submitted the queries and the query statements.
What should you use?
A. the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app
B. views from the queryinsights schema
C. Query activity
D. the sys.dm_exec_requests dynamic management view
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: To isolate all queries run in the last 60 minutes and include both the submitting username and full query text, you should use the views in the queryinsights schema (for example, queryinsights.exec_requests_history). These views persist historical query execution data and can be filtered by time using a WHERE clause. The Capacity Metrics app is high-level only, Query activity is a UI view with limited time filtering, and sys.dm_exec_requests shows only currently running queries, not historical ones.
Question 27
You have a Fabric warehouse named DW1 that contains a Type 2 slowly changing dimension (SCD) dimension table named DimCustomer. DimCustomer contains 100 columns and 20 million rows. The columns are of various data types, including int, varchar, date, and varbinary.
You need to identify incoming changes to the table and update the records when there is a change. The solution must minimize resource consumption.
What should you use to identify changes to attributes?
A. a hash function to compare the attributes in the source table.
B. a direct attributes comparison across the attributes in the DimCustomer table.
C. a direct attributes comparison for the attributes in the source table.
D. a hash function to compare the attributes in the DimCustomer table.
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: To detect changes in a very wide (100 columns) and large (20 million rows) Type 2 SCD table while minimizing resource consumption, using a hash function is the most efficient approach. Computing a single hash over the relevant business attributes in the incoming source data and comparing it to a stored hash avoids expensive column-by-column comparisons across many data types. This significantly reduces CPU, I/O, and comparison complexity, which is critical at this scale.
Question 28
HOTSPOT
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You have a Fabric warehouse named DW1 that contains four staging tables named ProductCategory, ProductSubcategory, Product, and SalesOrder. ProductCategory, ProductSubcategory, and Product are used often in analytical queries.
You need to implement a star schema for DW1. The solution must minimize development effort.
Which design approach should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct Answer: Denormalized into a single product dimension table
The unique system generated identifier
Explanation: To minimize development effort in a star schema, the product hierarchy (category, subcategory, product) is flattened into a single product dimension commonly used in analytics. Fact-to-dimension joins should use a stable surrogate key (system-generated identifier) for integrity and performance.
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