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DP-203 Practice Question: Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing
You are monitoring an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool and notice that queries are experiencing excessive wait time due to concurrency slots being exhausted. What is the recommended approach to improve concurrency without increasing cost?
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Classify queries using workload classification and assign lower importance to reduce concurrency slot usage.
By classifying queries with workload classification and assigning lower importance to background or non-critical queries, those queries consume fewer concurrency slots, freeing slots for higher-priority queries without additional cost. Option A is incorrect because workload groups manage resources but do not directly reduce per-query concurrency slot usage; they allocate resources among groups but total concurrency slots remain fixed. Option C is incorrect because scaling up increases cost without necessarily improving concurrency efficiency. Option D is incorrect because table distribution type (e.g., round-robin) affects query performance and data movement, not concurrency slot consumption.
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Create additional workload groups and assign queries to them.
Why it's wrong here
Workload groups manage resources but do not increase concurrency slots.
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Classify queries using workload classification and assign lower importance to reduce concurrency slot usage.
Why this is correct
Lower importance queries use fewer slots, allowing more concurrent queries.
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Scale up the dedicated SQL pool to a higher service level.
Why it's wrong here
Scaling up increases cost, not concurrency slots proportionally.
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Change the distribution type of tables to round-robin.
Why it's wrong here
Distribution type does not affect concurrency slots.
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