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AI-102 · Question #436

You have the following data sources: - Finance: On-premises Microsoft SQL Server database - Sales: Azure Cosmos DB using the Core (SQL) API - Logs: Azure Table storage - HR: Azure SQL database You…

The correct answer is C. Create a mirror of the data in Finance in an Azure SQL database. To search all data using Azure AI Search, the on-premises SQL Server data must be made accessible to Azure AI Search indexers.

Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 30, 2026

Question

You have the following data sources: - Finance: On-premises Microsoft SQL Server database - Sales: Azure Cosmos DB using the Core (SQL) API - Logs: Azure Table storage - HR: Azure SQL database You need to ensure that you can search all the data by using the Azure AI Search REST API. What should you do?

Options

  • AMigrate the data in HR to Azure Blob storage.
  • BMigrate the data in HR to the on-premises SQL server.
  • CCreate a mirror of the data in Finance in an Azure SQL database.
  • DIngest the data in Logs into Azure Data Explorer.

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  • C
    55% (26)
  • D
    6% (3)

Why each option

To search all data using Azure AI Search, the on-premises SQL Server data must be made accessible to Azure AI Search indexers.

AMigrate the data in HR to Azure Blob storage.

Migrating HR data to Azure Blob storage does not address the issue of the unsupported on-premises SQL Server for Finance data, as HR data is already in a supported source (Azure SQL DB).

BMigrate the data in HR to the on-premises SQL server.

Migrating HR data to the on-premises SQL Server would move it from an already supported source (Azure SQL DB) to an unsupported source for direct Azure AI Search indexing.

CCreate a mirror of the data in Finance in an Azure SQL database.Correct

Azure AI Search indexers can directly pull data from Azure SQL Database, but not directly from on-premises SQL Server. Creating a mirror of the on-premises Finance data in an Azure SQL database makes it a compatible data source for Azure AI Search to index and search.

DIngest the data in Logs into Azure Data Explorer.

Ingesting Logs data into Azure Data Explorer does not resolve the issue with the on-premises SQL Server, and Azure Data Explorer is not a direct data source for standard Azure AI Search indexers.

Concept tested: Azure AI Search supported data sources for indexers

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-create-indexers

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#Azure AI Search#Search indexers#Azure SQL Database#Hybrid data solutions

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