Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
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You have an Azure Cosmos DB container named container! that has a provisioned throughput and two physical partitions. You monitor the following metrics for container1
• Normalized RU consumption
• The percentage of requests that have an HTTP status code of 429
You need to confirm that container1 is configured to maximize resource utilization.
What are the optimal values for each metric? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You plan to create an Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API account that will use customer-managed keys stored in Azure Key Vault.
You need to configure an access policy in Key Vault to allow Azure Cosmos DB access to the keys.
Which three permissions should you enable in the access policy? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You have a container named container1 in an Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API account.
The following is a sample of a document in container1.
{
" studentId " : " 631282 " ,
" firstName " : " James " ,
" lastName " : " Smith " ,
" enrollmentYear " : 1990,
" isActivelyEnrolled " : true,
" address " : {
" street " : " " ,
" city " : " " ,
" stateProvince " : " " ,
" postal " : " " ,
}
}
The container1 container has the following indexing policy.
{
" indexingMode " : " consistent " ,
" includePaths " : [
{
" path " : " /* "
},
{
" path " : " /address/city/? "
}
],
" excludePaths " : [
{
" path " : " /address/* "
},
{
" path " : " /firstName/? "
}
]
}
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an application that queries an Azure Cosmos 06 for NoSQL account.
You discover that the following two queries run frequently,

You need to minimize the request units (RUs) consumed by reads and writes. What should you create?