Free practice test

DP-420

Free Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty practice test

10 original Cosmos DB Developer questions, playable right now. No account, no card, no email gate. Every answer opens the full explanation: the concept, why the right option is right, and why each wrong option is wrong, cited to the authoritative documentation behind it.

Sample question 1 of 10

Design and implement data models

Your container has grown and the chosen partition key no longer distributes writes evenly. You need a different partition key on the same data. What does the service require?

Sample question 2 of 10

Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution

One container in a shared throughput database was corrupted. Your team asks for a point-in-time restore of just that container. What does Azure Cosmos DB allow?

Sample question 3 of 10

Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution

You have an application reading with strong consistency through a dedicated gateway. What does the integrated cache do?

Sample question 4 of 10

Design and implement data distribution

A client issues a read and a trigger issues another. What scope does the consistency guarantee cover?

Sample question 5 of 10

Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution

A client reads the change feed on a container holding many partition key values. What ordering holds?

Sample question 6 of 10

Design and implement data models

Your team's multitenant container keyed by /TenantId keeps hitting the logical partition limit, and tenant queries must stay targeted. Which design meets both?

Sample question 7 of 10

Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution

Your team sees 2% of production requests returning 429 with acceptable latency. What action is recommended?

Sample question 8 of 10

Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution

Which properties does the default indexing policy cover on a new container?

Sample question 9 of 10

Design and implement data models

Your team's workload writes far more often than it reads, and related data changes constantly. Which trade does normalizing make?

Sample question 10 of 10

Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution

A restore must land in an account that lives in a different Azure subscription from the source. What does Azure Cosmos DB support?

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What this test covers

These 10 questions are drawn across the published exam blueprint rather than from one chapter: this set touches Design and implement data models, Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution, Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution, Design and implement data distribution, Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution. Every question is original, written from the official objectives, and verified against a cited vendor page before it serves. None are recalled exam content, which is why the explanations can cite their sources.

A 10-question sample tells you where you stand, not whether you are ready. The full experience is numbered practice exams: 40 questions apportioned to the official domain weightings, sat under the real 100-minute clock and scored against the published cut score.

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