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DP-203 Question #140: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: Increase the number of streaming units (SUs).. Backlogged Input Events: Number of input events that are backlogged. A non-zero value for this metric implies that your job isn't able to keep up with the number of incoming events. If this value is slowly increasing or consistently non-zero, you should scale out your job. You sh

Submitted by paula_co· Mar 30, 2026

Question

You are monitoring an Azure Stream Analytics job. You discover that the Backlogged Input Events metric is increasing slowly and is consistently non-zero. You need to ensure that the job can handle all the events. What should you do?

Options

  • AChange the compatibility level of the Stream Analytics job.
  • BIncrease the number of streaming units (SUs).
  • CRemove any named consumer groups from the connection and use $default.
  • DCreate an additional output stream for the existing input stream.

Explanation

Backlogged Input Events: Number of input events that are backlogged. A non-zero value for this metric implies that your job isn't able to keep up with the number of incoming events. If this value is slowly increasing or consistently non-zero, you should scale out your job. You should increase the Streaming Units. Note: Streaming Units (SUs) represents the computing resources that are allocated to execute a Stream Analytics job. The higher the number of SUs, the more CPU and memory resources are allocated for your job. https://docs.microsoft.com/bs-cyrl-ba/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-monitoring

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