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Start Monitor and Optimize an Analytics Solution PracticeYour organization uses a Fabric workspace for multi-tenant analytical workloads. You need to ensure that a specific department's heavy queries do not impact the performance of other users. What should you configure?
Explanation: In Microsoft Fabric, you do not assign workloads to different workspaces via Capacity settings to prevent performance impact. Instead, you use 'Workload Management' settings within the Capacity settings to configure 'Workload scaling' or 'Query memory limits' to throttle or prioritize specific operations. Alternatively, you would move the workspace to a different Fabric Capacity (SKU) to isolate compute resources. The option A as written is technically imprecise regarding how Fabric handles multi-tenancy performance isolation.
Refer to the exhibit. You have implemented a policy to control resource usage in your Fabric capacity. If a user attempts to trigger a 6th parallel job, what will occur?
Explanation: Microsoft Fabric capacity management handles concurrency through 'Autoscale' and 'Smoothing' mechanisms. There is no 'Deny' effect policy for parallel job execution in Fabric. When capacity is exceeded, Fabric uses a queuing mechanism (throttling) to manage execution, not immediate rejection.
A data analyst reports that a specific SQL Analytics Endpoint query is running much slower than usual. You suspect that the issue is related to outdated statistics on the underlying Delta tables. Which Dynamic Management View (DMV) or command should you use to check the last time statistics were updated for the table?
Explanation: In Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse SQL Analytics Endpoints, statistics management follows Spark/Delta Lake patterns rather than traditional SQL Server DMVs. To check statistics or table metadata details in Fabric, you use commands like `DESCRIBE STATS` or `DESCRIBE DETAIL`, while `sys.dm_db_stats_properties` is a SQL Server DMV that is not applicable or supported in the Fabric SQL Analytics Endpoint context.
You are auditing the activities within a Fabric workspace to identify who deleted a critical Lakehouse and which IP address they used. Which THREE sources or tools can provide this information? (Choose three.)
Explanation: While the Fabric Admin portal provides high-level monitoring, it does not contain an 'Operation ID' search tool for auditing specific item deletions. The correct sources for this information are the Microsoft Purview Audit logs, the Microsoft Fabric Activity API, and the Office 365 Management Activity API (which is the underlying mechanism for the logs).
You have a KQL Database in Fabric receiving telemetry data from IoT devices. You notice that queries against the 'DeviceEvents' table are slower than expected. You want to see the execution plan and resource usage for a specific KQL query. Which command should you prepend to your KQL query to get these insights?
Explanation: In KQL, the 'explain' operator is used to return the query plan. However, the explanation provided claims that 'explain' is for metadata and that a 'different specific operator' is required for performance statistics, which is confusing and incorrect. Furthermore, the 'explain' operator does not provide resource usage (CPU/memory) statistics; those are typically found in the 'QueryCompletion' table or via the 'set' command (e.g., 'set truncationmaxsize').
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