dp-900 Practice Question 1830

Exam: dp-900
Domain: Describe how to work with non-relational data on Azure
Topic: Describe non-relational data workloads
Difficulty: medium
Contoso Ltd is migrating its customer data from a relational database to a document database to improve scalability and performance. The company uses Azure Cosmos DB for this purpose. During testing, they notice that the throughput units (RU/s) are not sufficient to handle the read requests during peak hours. What should the administrator do to address this issue while maintaining high availability and low latency?

Answer Options

A
Change the partition key to distribute data more evenly.
B
Increase the throughput units (RU/s) in Azure Cosmos DB.
C
Add more nodes to the Cosmos DB cluster.
D
Use local secondary indexes to optimize query performance.

Correct Answer

B: Increase the throughput units (RU/s) in Azure Cosmos DB.

Explanation

The correct answer is to increase the throughput units (RU/s) in Azure Cosmos DB. This ensures that the system can handle the increased read requests during peak hours without performance degradation.