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Question 1
You need to recommend a solution for the development team to retrieve the live metadata. The solution must meet the development requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
Question 2
You need to recommend a solution that will resolve the ingestion pipeline failure issues. Which two actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Question 3
You need to recommend a solution to resolve the slow dashboard query issue. What should you recommend?
Question 4
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric that contains a table named dbo.Orders . dbo.Orders has a clustered index, contains three years of data, and is partitioned by a column named OrderDate by month. You need to remove all the rows for the oldest month. The solution must minimize the impact on other queries that access the data in dbo.Orders . Solution: Identify the partition number for the oldest month, and then run the following Transact-SQL statement. TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.Orders WITH (PARTITIONS (partition number)); Does this meet the goal?
Question 5
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric that contains a table named dbo.Orders . dbo.Orders has a clustered index, contains three years of data, and is partitioned by a column named OrderDate by month. You need to remove all the rows for the oldest month. The solution must minimize the impact on other queries that access the data in dbo.Orders . Solution: Identify the partition scheme for the oldest month, and then run the following Transact-SQL statement. ALTER TABLE dbo.Orders DROP PARTITION SCHEME (partition_ scheme_name ); Does this meet the goal?
Question 6
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric that contains a table named dbo.Orders . dbo.Orders has a clustered index, contains three years of data, and is partitioned by a column named OrderDate by month. You need to remove all the rows for the oldest month. The solution must minimize the impact on other queries that access the data in dbo.Orders . Solution: Run the following Transact-SQL statement. TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.Orders; Does this meet the goal?

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SQL AI Developer Associate

DP-800 Exam Topics and Study Plan

Skills Covered by the Exam

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  • Design and develop database solutions35–40%
  • Secure, optimize, and deploy database solutions35–40%
  • Implement AI capabilities in database solutions25–30%

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