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DP-700 · Question #2

You need to ensure that usage of the data in the Amazon S3 bucket meets the technical requirements. What should you do?

The correct answer is D. Create a shortcut and ensure that caching is enabled for the workspace. To ensure efficient usage of data from an Amazon S3 bucket, create a shortcut to the S3 data and enable caching for the workspace.

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Question

You need to ensure that usage of the data in the Amazon S3 bucket meets the technical requirements. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate a workspace identity and enable high concurrency for the notebooks.
  • BCreate a shortcut and ensure that caching is disabled for the workspace.
  • CCreate a workspace identity and use the identity in a data pipeline.
  • DCreate a shortcut and ensure that caching is enabled for the workspace.

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    10% (5)
  • D
    83% (40)

Why each option

To ensure efficient usage of data from an Amazon S3 bucket, create a shortcut to the S3 data and enable caching for the workspace.

ACreate a workspace identity and enable high concurrency for the notebooks.

Creating a workspace identity is for authentication, and enabling high concurrency for notebooks is for Spark job execution, neither of which directly addresses the core method for integrating and optimizing external S3 data usage.

BCreate a shortcut and ensure that caching is disabled for the workspace.

Disabling caching would generally degrade performance for repeated access to external data via shortcuts, contradicting the goal of efficient data usage.

CCreate a workspace identity and use the identity in a data pipeline.

While a workspace identity can be used for authentication in a data pipeline, it does not represent the primary mechanism for integrating external S3 data into a lakehouse for interactive usage and analysis as effectively as a shortcut with caching.

DCreate a shortcut and ensure that caching is enabled for the workspace.Correct

Creating a shortcut allows Microsoft Fabric lakehouses to directly access data stored in Amazon S3 without needing to ingest it. Enabling caching for the workspace ensures that frequently accessed external data via shortcuts is stored temporarily for faster retrieval, thereby optimizing performance and efficient data usage.

Concept tested: Lakehouse Shortcuts with Caching

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-lake/create-s3-shortcut

Topics

#OneLake shortcuts#Data integration#Caching#Performance optimization

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