DP-700 Implement and Manage an Analytics Solution Practice Question
An organization must comply with strict data residency requirements. They have a Microsoft Fabric tenant in the 'East US' region but need to create a workspace where data is stored and processed in 'North Europe'. How can the administrator achieve this?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often assume that the workspace region is determined by the tenant home region or a global setting, failing to realize that workspace location is tied specifically to the assigned capacity's region.
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
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Create a capacity in North Europe and assign the workspace to it.
Fabric allows for 'Multi-Geo' capabilities where specific capacities can be created in regions different from the home region of the tenant. By assigning a workspace to a capacity located in 'North Europe,' the data for that workspace will reside in that specific geographic location. This is a critical feature for global organizations needing to satisfy regional data sovereignty laws.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Change the tenant's primary region in the Admin portal settings.
Why it's wrong here
The primary region of a tenant is set during the initial setup and cannot be easily changed without a complex migration process. Changing the tenant region would affect all workspaces and users, which is not the targeted solution for a single compliant workspace. Multi-geo capacity management is the correct approach for handling regional diversity within a single tenant.
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Create a capacity in North Europe and assign the workspace to it.
Why this is correct
Administrators can provision Fabric capacities in various Azure regions regardless of where the main tenant resides. Once a capacity is created in 'North Europe,' any workspace assigned to it will store its OneLake data and perform its compute operations within that region. This provides a clear and supported path for meeting data residency and compliance requirements.
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Use a OneLake shortcut to move the data to North Europe.
Why it's wrong here
Shortcuts do not move data; they only provide a reference to data in its original location. If the original data is in East US, the shortcut will still point to East US, failing to meet the residency requirement. Shortcuts are for data access and virtualization rather than for defining the physical geographic storage location of workspace items.
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Enable the 'Global Data Sync' feature in the workspace settings.
Why it's wrong here
There is no 'Global Data Sync' feature in Fabric that handles the relocation of data for residency purposes. Data residency is strictly tied to the capacity's region where the workspace is hosted. Attempting to find such a feature would be a distraction from the correct administrative workflow of regional capacity assignment and workspace configuration.
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