DP-900 - Describe an Analytics Workload on Azure (29% of the exam) - Section 4.2

Describe considerations for real-time data analytics including stream processing and event ingestion.

Describe Azure Stream Analytics as the engine for real-time query processing over streams ingested by Azure Event Hubs or Azure IoT Hub. Distinguish the hot path (immediate, low-latency results for real-time dashboards) from the cold path (batch storage for later analysis).

Azure Stream AnalyticsAzure Event HubsAzure IoT Hubreal-time dashboardshot and cold paths

Practice question for this objective

Free sampleDescribe an Analytics Workload on Azureeasy

A manufacturer wants to ingest a continuous stream of telemetry readings emitted by thousands of Internet-of-Things sensors on its factory floor. Which Azure service is purpose-built to ingest event data from IoT devices for stream processing?

  • AAzure Data Lake Store Gen2, a scalable storage service most often used as the destination for batch processing scenarios.
  • BMicrosoft Power BI, a tool used to generate real-time data visualizations in interactive reports and dashboards.
  • CAzure SQL Database, a relational store used to persist processed stream results in a table for later querying.
  • DAzure IoT Hub, a data ingestion service similar to Event Hubs but optimized to manage event data from Internet-of-Things devices. Correct
Azure IoT Hub is the IoT-device-optimized ingestion source for stream processing, paralleling Event Hubs for general events. Azure IoT Hub is the ingestion service described as similar to Event Hubs but optimized to manage event data coming from Internet-of-Things devices.

Why A is wrong: ADLS Gen2 is a storage service that can act as a source or sink, but it is not the IoT-device ingestion service; it is described mainly for batch storage.

Why B is wrong: Power BI is listed as a sink for visualization, not a service for ingesting device telemetry.

Why C is wrong: Azure SQL Database is listed as a sink for persisting processed results, not as an ingestion source for IoT telemetry.

Why D is correct: Correct. Azure IoT Hub is the ingestion service described as similar to Event Hubs but optimized to manage event data coming from Internet-of-Things devices.

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Exam traps in Describe an Analytics Workload on Azure

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the DP-900 bank for this domain.

  • Manual re-keying of each record by an analyst into the store

    Why it is wrong: Ingestion is performed by automated load processes, not by analysts re-keying records by hand.

  • Azure IoT Hub, the ingestion service tuned for connected device telemetry

    Why it is wrong: IoT Hub is similar but optimised specifically for event data from Internet-of-things devices, not general application events.

  • Azure IoT Hub, which is the same kind of service but specifically optimized for telemetry from Internet-of-Things devices.

    Why it is wrong: IoT Hub is optimized for IoT device telemetry; for general application events without devices, Event Hubs is the fit described in the grounding.

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