You have an Azure Data Factory pipeline that is triggered hourly. The pipeline has had 100% success for the past seven days. The pipeline execution fails, and two retries that occur 15 minutes apart…

The correct answer is A. From 06:00 to 07:00 on January 10, 2021, there was no data in wwi/BIKES/CARBON. The error message states that the specified path does not exist. Therefore, a possible cause of the error could be that the data for the specified path, which is wwi/BIKES/CARBON/year=2021/month=01/day=10/hour=06, does not exist in the storage account. This could be due to…

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You have an Azure Data Factory pipeline that is triggered hourly. The pipeline has had 100% success for the past seven days. The pipeline execution fails, and two retries that occur 15 minutes apart also fail. The third failure returns the following error. What is a possible cause of the error?

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Options

AFrom 06:00 to 07:00 on January 10, 2021, there was no data in wwi/BIKES/CARBON.
BThe parameter used to generate year=2021/month=01/day=10/hour=06 was incorrect.
CFrom 06:00 to 07:00 on January 10, 2021, the file format of data in wwi/BIKES/CARBON was
DThe pipeline was triggered too early.

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A
70% (30)
B
19% (8)
C
7% (3)
D
5% (2)

Explanation

The error message states that the specified path does not exist. Therefore, a possible cause of the error could be that the data for the specified path, which is wwi/BIKES/CARBON/year=2021/month=01/day=10/hour=06, does not exist in the storage account. This could be due to missing data or incorrect path or container name. Option B is the most likely cause of the error as it suggests that there was no data in the specified path during the given time frame.

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