Q1. You are designing a data warehouse hosted on SQL Azure. The data warehouse currently includes the dimUser and dimDistrict dimension tables and the factSales fact table. The dimUser table contains records for each user permitted to run reports against the warehouse; and the dimDistrict table contains information about sales districts.

The system is accessed by users from certain districts, as well as by area supervisors and users from the corporate headquarters.

You need to design a table structure to ensure that certain users can see sales data for only certain districts. Some users must be permitted to see sales data from multiple districts.

What should you do?

A. Add a district column to the dimUser table.

B. Partition the factSales table on the district column.

C. Create a userDistrict table that contains primary key columns from the dimUser and dimDistrict tables.

D. For each district, create a view of the factSales table that includes a WHERE clause for the district.

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Q2. You develop a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that imports SQL Azure data into a data warehouse every night.

The SQL Azure data contains many misspellings and variations of abbreviations. To import the data, a developer used the Fuzzy Lookup transformation to choose the closest- matching string from a reference table of allowed values. The number of rows in the reference table is very large.

If no acceptable match is found, the Fuzzy Lookup transformation passes a null value. The current setting for the Fuzzy Lookup similarity threshold is 0.50.

Many values are incorrectly matched.

You need to ensure that more accurate matches are made by the Fuzzy Lookup transformation without degrading performance.

What should you do?

A. Decrease the maximum number of matches per lookup.

B. Change the similarity threshold to 0.55.

C. Change the Exhaustive property to True.

D. Increase the maximum number of matches per lookup.

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Q3. You manage a SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) environment.

A new application requires access to the product data that is available in the MDS repository.

You need to design a solution that gives the application access to the product data with the least amount of development effort.

What should you do?

A. Create a Subscription View in MDS.

B. Access the product entity tables in the MDS database directly.

C. Use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to extract the data and put it in a staging database.

D. Use change data capture on the product entity tables.

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Q4. You are designing a data warehouse with two fact tables. The first table contains sales per month and the second table contains orders per day.

Referential integrity must be enforced declaratively.

You need to design a solution that can join a single time dimension to both fact tables. What should you do?

A. Create a time mapping table.

B. Change the level of granularity in both fact tables to be the same.

C. Merge the fact tables.

D. Create a view on the sales table.

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Q5. You are developing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package to load data into a Windows Azure SQL Database database. The package consists of several data flow tasks.

The package has the following auditing requirements:

✑ If a data flow task fails, a Transact-SQL (T-SQL) script must be executed.

✑ The T-SQL script must be executed only once per data flow task that fails, regardless of the nature of the error.

You need to ensure that auditing is configured to meet these requirements. What should you do?

A. Use an event handler for OnError for the package.

B. Use an event handler for OnError for each data flow task.

C. Use an event handler for OnTaskFailed for the package.

D. View the job history for the SQL Server Agent job.

E. View the All Messages subsection of the All Executions report for the package.

F. Store the System::SourceID variable in the custom log table.

G. Store the System::ServerExecutionID variable in the custom log table.

H. Store the System::ExecutionInstanceGUID variable in the custom log table.

I. Enable the SSIS log provider for SQL Server for OnError in the package control flow.

J. Enable the SSIS log provider for SQL Server for OnTaskFailed in the package control flow.

K. Deploy the project by using dtutil.exe with the /COPY DTS option.

L. Deploy the project by using dtutil.exe with the /COPY SQL option.

M. Deploy the .ispac file by using the Integration Services Deployment Wizard.

N. Create a SQL Server Agent job to execute the SSISDB.catalog.va!idate_project stored procedure.

O. Create a SQL Server Agent job to execute the SSISDB.catalog.validate_package stored procedure.

P. Create a SQL Server Agent job to execute the

SSISDB.catalog.create_execution and SSISDB.catalog.start_execution stored procedures.

Q. Create a table to store error information. Create an error output on each data flow destination that writes OnTaskFailed event text to the table.

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Q6. DRAG DROP

You are building a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package to load data from all files that are automatically copied to a directory each night through an external FTP process.

You need to load data from all copied files to a destination table in SQL Server.

Which three steps should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)

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Q7. HOTSPOT

You are designing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package configuration strategy.

The package configuration must meet the following requirements:

✑ Include multiple properties in a configuration.

✑ Force packages to load all settings in the configuration.

✑ Support Encrypting File System (EFS) formats.

You need to select the appropriate configuration. Which configuration type should you use?

To answer, select the appropriate option from the drop-down list in the dialog box.

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Q8. You are creating a SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) model for a company.

The source data for the company is stored in a single table that contains the manager-to- subordinate relationships.

You need to create a hierarchy representing the organizational structure of the company. Which hierarchy type should you use?

A. Organizational

B. Recursive

C. Non-Mandatory Explicit

D. Many-to-Many

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Q9. You develop a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that imports SQL Azure data into a data warehouse every night.

The SQL Azure data contains many misspellings and variations of abbreviations. To import the data, a developer used the Fuzzy Lookup transformation to choose the closest- matching string from a reference table of allowed values. The number of rows in the reference table is very large.

If no acceptable match is found, the Fuzzy Lookup transformation passes a null value.

The current setting for the Fuzzy Lookup similarity threshold is 0.50. Many values are incorrectly matched.

You need to ensure that more accurate matches are made by the Fuzzy Lookup transformation without degrading performance.

What should you do?

A. Change the Exhaustive property to True.

B. Change the similarity threshold to 0.55.

C. Change the similarity threshold to 0.40.

D. Increase the maximum number of matches per lookup.

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Q10. You are reviewing the design of a student dimension table in an existing data warehouse hosted on SQL Azure.

The current dimension design does not allow the retention of historical changes to student attributes such as ParentOccupation.

You need to redesign the dimension to enable the full historical reporting of changes to multiple student attributes including ParentOccupation.

What should you do?

A. Add CurrentValue and PreviousValue columns to the student dimension.

B. Enable Snapshot Isolation on the data warehouse.

C. Add an IsCurrent column to the student dimension.

D. Add StartDate and EndDate columns to the student dimension.

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