Monitoring and optimizing an analytics solution. Flashcards
(25 cards)
You want to monitor capacity unit consumption in your Fabric data warehouse. What tools should you use?
Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app
Which dynamic management view provides details about SQL commands running in the data warehouse?
sys.dm_exec_requests
Which view should you use to identify commonly run commands in your data warehouse?
queryinsights.frequently_run_queries
What is the primary function of the Monitor hub in Microsoft Fabric?
It collects and aggregates data from selected Fabric items and processes, providing a common interface for monitoring various activities.
What is the primary function of Activator in Microsoft Fabric?
Activator enables automated processing of events that trigger actions.
What is a key aspect of monitoring best practices?
Identifying what to monitor, collecting and analyzing data regularly, reviewing logs and metrics regularly, taking action when deviations occur, and optimizing performance using monitoring data.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric for data analytics workflows. There are delays in processing due to inefficient monitoring of data ingestion and transformation.
You need to implement a solution for effective monitoring of data workflows.
What should you do?
Configure alerts in the Microsoft Real-Time hub.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric for data engineering tasks. Recently, there have been issues with data pipeline runs failing intermittently, causing delays in data processing.
You need to monitor data pipeline runs to identify the root cause of failures.
What should you do?
Use the Monitoring hub to analyze pipeline run details.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric to manage and monitor various data activities, including data pipelines, dataflows, and semantic models. Recently, issues with data ingestion processes failing intermittently have caused delays in data availability for reporting.
You need to determine the cause of these failures and ensure effective monitoring of data ingestion processes to prevent future disruptions.
What should you do?
Use the Monitor hub to filter activities by status and start time.
An organization has implemented Microsoft Fabric for data transformation processes. However, there have been instances where semantic model refreshes fail without notification, impacting business intelligence reports.
You need to set up alerts to monitor semantic model refresh events and receive notifications upon failures.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which three actions should you take?
Configure a filter
Select Fabric workspace item events in Real-Time hub.
Send an email for alert actions.
An organization uses Microsoft Fabric to manage and analyze large datasets. Recently, issues with data ingestion processes fail intermittently, causing delays in data availability for analysis.
You need to implement a strategy to detect patterns or recurring issues in data ingestion activities.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which two actions should you take?
Configure alerts for future ingestion failures.
Filter activities by status to identify failures.
An organization uses Microsoft Fabric for data workflows, and some data transformations are not completing, causing delays.
The organization needs immediate alerts for data processing issues.
What action should be taken?
Set up notifications for transformation events in Microsoft Fabric.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric for data management and faces delays in data availability due to monitoring issues.
You need a solution to track data ingestion activities effectively.
What should you do?
Configure alerts for Fabric Workspace events in Real-Time hub.
Your company has implemented a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric to handle large-scale data analytics. Recently, users reported slow query performance during peak hours.
You need to implement a solution that optimizes query performance automatically without manual intervention.
What should you recommend?
Enable automatic tuning.
A company implements an eventstream using Microsoft Fabric to process real-time data from various sources. However, frequent runtime errors affect data processing.
The company plans to ensure smooth data processing by identifying and resolving runtime errors.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which three actions should be taken?
Check Data insights for event metrics.
Filter logs by error severity.
Review Runtime logs for error details.
Your company uses Microsoft Fabric to manage data pipelines for large-scale analytics. Recently, several pipeline executions failed due to errors in data transformation, causing delays in reporting and analysis.
You need to implement a mechanism that allows a pipeline to terminate with specific error details when conditions like missing data or internal errors occur.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which three actions should you perform?
Create a new pipeline.
Add a Fail activity to the pipeline.
Configure the Fail activity with custom error details.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse to store and analyze large datasets. Recently, the team noticed increased storage costs due to old files that are no longer needed for current operations.
You need to reduce storage costs by removing unnecessary files while maintaining data integrity.
What should you do?
Use VACUUM command.
Your organization uses a data lakehouse to manage large datasets for analytics. Recently, query performance on a Delta table has degraded due to many small Parquet files.
You need to improve Delta table query efficiency.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which three actions should you perform?
Apply V-Order.
Use the OPTIMIZE command.
Use the VACCUM command.
Your company uses Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse to manage large datasets for analytics. Recently, query performance on a Delta table has degraded due to an increase in small Parquet files.
You need to optimize the Delta table to improve query efficiency.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which two actions should you perform?
Apply V-Order for better data sorting and compression.
Use the OPTIMIZE command to consolidate files.
Your organization has implemented a Microsoft Fabric data warehouse to handle large-scale data ingestion and processing. The current setup involves frequent data loads throughout the day, which sometimes lead to performance bottlenecks.
You need to optimize the data ingestion process to handle large volumes efficiently without causing performance issues.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which two actions should you take?
Divide large INSERT operations into smaller parts.
Group INSERT statements into batches.
Your company uses Microsoft Fabric to manage a data warehouse that supports various analytical workloads. Users report slow query performance, especially during the initial execution of queries.
You need to optimize query performance for the initial execution without relying on automatic statistics.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which two actions should you take?
Manually create statistics for frequently queried tables.
Use Direct Lake mode in Power BI.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric to manage data engineering tasks. The current setup includes a starter pool for Apache Spark jobs, but the team notices that some jobs require more compute resources than the starter pool can provide.
You need to optimize the workspace configuration to efficiently handle larger Spark jobs without significantly increasing session start times.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which two actions should you take?
Create a custom Spark pool with autoscaling.
Enable dynamic allocation of executors.
Your organization uses Microsoft Fabric for data engineering and runs Spark jobs requiring efficient resource utilization.
You need to optimize resource management in the Microsoft Spark environment based on workload demands.
What should you do?
Enable autoscaling
You are using Microsoft Fabric to manage data analytics solutions in your organization. Your team is responsible for optimizing Spark job performance in the workspace.
You need to configure the workspace settings to improve the efficiency of Spark job execution.
Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Which three actions should you perform?
Enable autoscaling for Spark pools.
Reserve maximum cores for jobs.
Use high concurrency mode.
