Case Study 1 - Contoso
Existing Environment
Azure Environment
Contoso has an Azure subscription in North Europe that contains the corporate infrastructure.
The current infrastructure contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2017 database. The database contains the following tables.

The FeedbackJsoncolumn has a full-text index and stores JSON documents in the following format.

The support staff at Contoso never has the UNMASKpermission.
Problem Statements
Contoso is deploying a new Azure SQL database that will become the authoritative data store for the following:
* AI workloads
* Vector search
* Modernized API access
* Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
Sometimes the ingestion pipeline fails due to malformed JSON and duplicate payloads.
The engineers at Contoso report that the following dashboard query runs slowly.

You review the execution plan and discover that the plan shows a clustered index scan.
VehicleIncidentReportsoften contains details about the weather, traffic conditions, and location. Analysts report that it is difficult to find similar incidents based on these details.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Contoso wants to modernize Fleet Intelligence Platform to support AI-powered semantic search over incident reports.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements:
* Restrict the support staff from viewing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, which is full email addresses and phone numbers.
* Enforce row-level filtering so that analysts see only incidents for the fleets to which they are assigned. The analysts can be assigned to multiple fleets.
Database Performance and Requirements
Contoso identifies the following telemetry requirements:
* Telemetry data must be stored in a partitioned table.
* Telemetry data must provide predictable performance for ingestion and retention operations.
* latitude, longitude, and accuracyJSON properties must be filtered by using an index seek.
Contoso identifies the following maintenance data requirements:
* Ensure that any changes to a row in the MaintenanceEventstable updates the corresponding value in the LastModifiedUtccolumn to the time of the change.
* Avoid recursive updates.
AI Search, Embeddings, and Vector Indexing
Contoso plans to implement semantic search over incident data to meet the following requirements:
* Embeddings must be stored in dedicated Azure SQL Database tables.
* Embeddings must be generated from rich natural language fields.
* Chunking must preserve semantic coherence.
* Hybrid search must combine the following:
- Vector similarity
- Keyword filtering or boosting
Development Requirements
The development team at Contoso will use Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot and will retrieve live metadata from the databases.
Contoso identifies the following requirements for querying data in the FeedbackJsoncolumn of the CustomerFeedbacktable:
* Extract the customer feedback text from the JSON document.
* Filter rows where the JSON text contains a keyword.
* Calculate a fuzzy similarity score between the feedback text and a known issue description.
* Order the results by similarity score, with the highest score first.
You need to enable similarity search to provide the analysts with the ability to retrieve the most relevant health summary reports. The solution must minimize latency. What should you include in the solution?

• A.a computed column that manually compares vector values
• B.a standard nonclustered index on the Embeddings (vector (1536)) column
• C.a full-text index on the Embeddings (vector (1536)) column
• D.a vector index on the Embeddings (vector (1536)) column

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You have an Azure SQL database that stores order data.
A reporting query aggregates monthly revenue per customer runs frequently.
You need to reduce how long it takes to retrieve the calculated values. The solution must NOT alter any underlying table structure.
What should you do?

• A.Create a view by using ORDER BY without TOP, and then create a unique clustered index on the view.
• B.Create a view without using WITH SCHEMABINDING, and then create a nonclustered index on the view.
• C.Create a view by using GROUP BY, and then create a unique clustered index on the view.
• D.Create a view by using WITH SCHEMABINDING, include COUNT_BIG(*), and then create a unique clustered index on the view.

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Case Study 1 - Contoso
Existing Environment
Azure Environment
Contoso has an Azure subscription in North Europe that contains the corporate infrastructure.
The current infrastructure contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2017 database. The database contains the following tables.

The FeedbackJsoncolumn has a full-text index and stores JSON documents in the following format.

The support staff at Contoso never has the UNMASKpermission.
Problem Statements
Contoso is deploying a new Azure SQL database that will become the authoritative data store for the following:
* AI workloads
* Vector search
* Modernized API access
* Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
Sometimes the ingestion pipeline fails due to malformed JSON and duplicate payloads.
The engineers at Contoso report that the following dashboard query runs slowly.

You review the execution plan and discover that the plan shows a clustered index scan.
VehicleIncidentReportsoften contains details about the weather, traffic conditions, and location. Analysts report that it is difficult to find similar incidents based on these details.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Contoso wants to modernize Fleet Intelligence Platform to support AI-powered semantic search over incident reports.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements:
* Restrict the support staff from viewing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, which is full email addresses and phone numbers.
* Enforce row-level filtering so that analysts see only incidents for the fleets to which they are assigned. The analysts can be assigned to multiple fleets.
Database Performance and Requirements
Contoso identifies the following telemetry requirements:
* Telemetry data must be stored in a partitioned table.
* Telemetry data must provide predictable performance for ingestion and retention operations.
* latitude, longitude, and accuracyJSON properties must be filtered by using an index seek.
Contoso identifies the following maintenance data requirements:
* Ensure that any changes to a row in the MaintenanceEventstable updates the corresponding value in the LastModifiedUtccolumn to the time of the change.
* Avoid recursive updates.
AI Search, Embeddings, and Vector Indexing
Contoso plans to implement semantic search over incident data to meet the following requirements:
* Embeddings must be stored in dedicated Azure SQL Database tables.
* Embeddings must be generated from rich natural language fields.
* Chunking must preserve semantic coherence.
* Hybrid search must combine the following:
- Vector similarity
- Keyword filtering or boosting
Development Requirements
The development team at Contoso will use Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot and will retrieve live metadata from the databases.
Contoso identifies the following requirements for querying data in the FeedbackJsoncolumn of the CustomerFeedbacktable:
* Extract the customer feedback text from the JSON document.
* Filter rows where the JSON text contains a keyword.
* Calculate a fuzzy similarity score between the feedback text and a known issue description.
* Order the results by similarity score, with the highest score first.
You need to recommend a solution that will resolve the ingestion pipeline failure issues.
Which two actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A.Enable snapshot isolation on the database.
• B.Use a trigger to automatically rewrite malformed JSON.
• C.Add foreign key constraints on the table.
• D.Create a unique index on a hash of the payload.
• E.Add a check constraint that validates the JSON structure.

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You have an Azure SQL database named SalesDB on a logical server named sales-sql01.
You have an Azure App Service web app named OrderApi that connects to SalesDB by using SQL authentication.
You enable a user-assigned managed identity named OrderApi-Id for OrderApi.
You need to configure OrderApi to connect to SalesDB by using Microsoft Entra authentication.
The managed identity must have read and write permissions to SalesDB.
Which Transact-SQL statements should you run in SalesDB?

• A.
• B.
• C.
• D.

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You have an Azure SQL table that contains the following data.

You need to retrieve data to be used as context for a large language model (LLM). The solution must minimize token usage.
Which formal should you use to send the data to the LLM?

• A.
• B.
• C.
• D.

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