MC_AzureSqlDatabaseFundamentals_Session_8_1

What is crucial for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Azure SQL Database deployments?

• Ignoring performance issues

• Creating new databases

• Monitoring and optimizing performance

• Installing additional software

Where can you access metrics, alerts, and dashboards related to your database's performance in Azure Portal?

• Monitoring tab

• Database tab

• Settings tab

• Security tab

What should you do to monitor and optimize CPU Utilization?

• Restart the server

• Optimize queries, add indexes, or scale up the database tier

• Delete the database

• Ignore CPU usage

What is the purpose of monitoring memory usage in Azure SQL Database?

• Ensure enough memory available for query processing and caching

• Reduce storage usage

• Monitor CPU utilization

• Optimize network performance

What should you do to prevent running out of storage space and potential data loss?

• Ignore storage usage

• Regularly review storage usage trends and consider implementing data archiving or purging strategies

• Delete old data

• Increase storage without monitoring

What should you do to analyze query execution times, waits, and resource usage?

• Optimize queries by reviewing execution plans, adding or modifying indexes, and rewriting queries for better performance

• Add more servers

• Ignore query performance

• Restart the server

What is the purpose of monitoring database throughput?

• Monitor CPU temperature

• Monitor network speed

• Monitor disk space

• Ensure that the database can handle the required workload without performance degradation

What should you do to detect and mitigate deadlocks in Azure SQL Database?

• Analyze deadlock graphs to identify the root cause and implement appropriate locking strategies

• Add more memory

• Restart the server

• Ignore deadlocks

What should you do to track index usage statistics in Azure SQL Database?

• Delete all indexes

• Add more indexes

• Review the index usage statistics to identify unused or underutilized indexes that can be safely removed

• Ignore index usage

What is the purpose of monitoring error and warning messages in Azure SQL Database?

• Increase errors

• Ignore error and warning messages

• Proactively identify potential issues and prevent service interruptions

• Disable all warnings