Exam AZ-220 topic 4 question 10 discussion

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Question #: 10
Topic #: 4

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You have an Azure Stream Analytics job that receives input from an Azure IoT hub and sends the outputs to Azure Blob storage. The job has compatibility level
1.1 and six streaming units.
You have the following query for the job.

You plan to increase the streaming unit count to 12.
You need to optimize the job to take advantage of the additional streaming units and increase the throughput.
Solution: You change the compatibility level of the job to 1.2.
Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
Max number of Streaming Units with one step and with no partitions is 6.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-parallelization

by Ashwinee at March 28, 2021, 1:30 p.m.

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berkejf

Highly Voted 4 years, 1 month ago

should be Yes, compatibility 1.2 does not require to include PARTITION BY PartitionId clause

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tita_tovenaar

4 years ago

correct, answer is yes

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Ashwinee

Highly Voted 4 years, 3 months ago

but compatibility 1.2 doesnt require partion by keyword

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Badoic

Most Recent 2 years, 2 months ago

No, because the suggested solution does not explicitly mentions that the partition key is to be set as an "input property". https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-parallelization, first Note

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trickerk

3 years, 10 months ago

Answer should be YES https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-parallelization#examples-of-scaling

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