Monitor and Troubleshoot an Azure Cosmos DB Solution DP-420 Practice Questions (Page 7)

Questions 31–35

1. 31expert · medium

   A global e-commerce company has a Cosmos DB account with multiple write regions. They have a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that requires writes to be replicated to all regions within 5 seconds. They want to monitor this continuously and be alerted if the SLA is at risk. Which combination of metric and alert threshold should they use?

   • AMonitor 'Server Side Latency' for write requests and alert when it exceeds 5 seconds
   • BMonitor 'Max Replication Lag Across All Regions' and alert when it exceeds 5 seconds
   • CMonitor 'Total Requests' and alert when the write request rate exceeds a threshold
   • DMonitor 'Replication Latency' and alert when it exceeds 5 seconds
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2. 32foundation · easy

   You are analyzing the failure metrics for an Azure Cosmos DB container. The metric shows a significant number of 410 (Gone) responses. What is the most common cause of this status code?

   • AThe partition key was not provided in the request.
   • BThe container does not exist in the database account.
   • CThe client SDK is attempting to use a stale replica that has been removed from the partition.
   • DThe request was throttled due to exceeding the provisioned throughput.
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4. 33expert · medium

   A company runs a mission-critical application on Cosmos DB. They notice a spike in 429 responses, but the Normalized RU Consumption metric shows only 60% utilization. They also see an increase in 408 timeouts. What is the most likely cause of the 429 responses?

   • AThe SDK is not retrying requests, causing 429s to surface
   • BA hot partition is causing throttling on that partition even though overall RU utilization is low
   • CThe account is experiencing a regional outage
   • DThe client is using a weak consistency level
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5. 34foundation · easy

   You have enabled resource logs for an Azure Cosmos DB account and want to query the logs to find all operations that returned a 429 status code. What should you use?

   • AAzure Activity Log with a filter for 429.
   • BAzure Storage Explorer to view the logs.
   • CLog Analytics workspace with a KQL query.
   • DAzure Monitor Metrics Explorer.
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6. 35foundation · easy

   An Azure Cosmos DB operation returns HTTP status code 400. What is the most likely cause of this response?

   • AThe client lacks permission to perform the operation.
   • BThe requested resource was not found in the container.
   • CThe request was malformed or contained invalid data.
   • DThe request was throttled due to exceeding provisioned throughput.
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