Which scenario is best suited for batch data processing?

Sending an alert when the temperature sensor exceeds a threshold immediately

Detecting fraudulent credit card transactions within milliseconds of the purchase

Updating a live dashboard that shows real-time website visitor counts

Generating a nightly sales summary report from the day's transactions

Which scenario is best suited for streaming data processing?

Processing a large dataset of historical weather records for a research study

Compiling a monthly financial report from all transactions of the month

Analyzing social media posts to identify trending topics as they emerge

Generating a daily backup of a database

A retail company analyzes sales data to identify daily sales trends. They currently run a nightly job that aggregates the day's transactions and produces a report each morning. The marketing team now wants to react to sudden spikes in sales within minutes to adjust promotions. Which approach should the company adopt?

Keep the nightly batch job and add a second batch run at midday.

Replace the nightly batch job with a streaming solution that processes transactions as they occur.

Use the nightly batch job for the report and also run ad-hoc SQL queries directly against the transaction database.

Increase the frequency of the nightly job to run every hour.

What is the primary role of Azure Event Hubs in a real-time data analytics solution?

To ingest and process large volumes of streaming data

To run interactive SQL queries on historical data

To store data for long-term archival

To create visual dashboards for business users

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Which scenario is best suited for batch data processing?

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Which Azure service is designed for fast and scalable real-time data analytics on large volumes of time-series data?

What is the primary role of Azure Event Hubs in a real-time data analytics solution?

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