You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named adls2 that is protected by a virtual network. You are designing a SQL pool in Azure Synapse that will use adls2 as a source. What should you use

The correct answer is D. a managed identity. Managed Identity authentication is required when your storage account is attached to a VNet. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-bulk- load-copy-tsql-examples

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You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named adls2 that is protected by a virtual network. You are designing a SQL pool in Azure Synapse that will use adls2 as a source. What should you use to authenticate to adls2?

Options

Aan Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) user
Ba shared key
Ca shared access signature (SAS)
Da managed identity

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A
11% (4)
B
3% (1)
C
6% (2)
D
80% (28)

Explanation

Managed Identity authentication is required when your storage account is attached to a VNet. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-bulk- load-copy-tsql-examples

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#managed identity#ADLS Gen2#virtual network#authentication

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