DP-300 Practice Question: Monitor, configure, and optimize database resources
You need to configure alerts for an Azure SQL Database to notify the operations team when the database exceeds 80% DTU consumption for more than 10 minutes. What should you use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Create a metric alert in Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor can create metric alerts based on DTU consumption. Option D is correct. Option A is wrong because SQL Agent cannot send alerts based on DTU. Option B is wrong because Azure SQL Auditing is for compliance. Option C is wrong because Azure Advisor provides recommendations but not real-time alerts.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Configure a SQL Agent alert
Why it's wrong here
SQL Agent is for SQL Server, not for Azure SQL Database metric alerts.
- ✗
Configure Azure SQL Auditing
Why it's wrong here
Auditing is for logging database events, not performance alerts.
- ✗
Use Azure Advisor recommendations
Why it's wrong here
Azure Advisor provides recommendations, not real-time alerts.
- ✓
Create a metric alert in Azure Monitor
Why this is correct
Azure Monitor supports metric alerts for DTU consumption.
Go deeper
Related to this question
Learn chapter
Overview of Azure Data Platform Options
Key term
Azure SQL Performance Tuning
Azure SQL Performance Tuning is the process of optimizing the speed and efficiency of queries and database operations in Microsoft Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance to reduce latency and improve throughput.
Key term
Azure SQL Auditing
Azure SQL Auditing is a feature that tracks and records database events, such as data changes and logins, and writes them to an audit log for security monitoring and compliance.
About these practice questions
One of 906 original DP-300 practice questions on Courseiva, each with a full explanation and wrong-answer analysis — not exam dumps or protected exam content. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This DP-300 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Microsoft certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the DP-300 exam.