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DP-900 · Question #79

What is the role of a pipeline in a data factory in the management of activities?

The correct answer is A. A pipeline allows the management of activities as a set. A pipeline itself is a group of activities that performs a task altogether in an Azure data factory. It means pipeline allows the management of activities as a set, not individually. One can not deploy and schedule activities independently, but as a pipeline only. Option A is…

Submitted by satoshi_tk· Mar 30, 2026Describe an analytics workload on Azure

Question

What is the role of a pipeline in a data factory in the management of activities?

Options

  • AA pipeline allows the management of activities as a set
  • BA pipeline allows the management of activities individually
  • CA pipeline allows the management of activities individually and as a set both
  • DThere is no role of pipeline in the management of activities

How the community answered

(49 responses)
  • A
    94% (46)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    4% (2)

Explanation

A pipeline itself is a group of activities that performs a task altogether in an Azure data factory. It means pipeline allows the management of activities as a set, not individually. One can not deploy and schedule activities independently, but as a pipeline only. Option A is correct. A pipeline is a group of activities, grouped as per logic and performs a task altogether in a data factory. The pipeline allows the management of activities as a set. Option B is incorrect. A pipeline is a group of activities and does not allow the management of activities individually. Option C is incorrect. A pipeline allows the management of activities as a set only, not Option D is incorrect. A pipeline allows the management of activities as a set. documentation below from Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/concepts-pipelines-activities

Topics

#Azure Data Factory#pipeline#activity management#data orchestration

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