Question 1

An e-commerce company is designing the database architecture for their new product catalog.

The database is expected to grow rapidly and may exceed 50 TB within the first year. The application requires extremely fast storage scaling and the ability to nearly instantaneously scale out read workloads to multiple compute nodes during holiday sales.

Which Azure SQL Database service tier should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Identify the storage limit constraint (>50 TB) and match it to the only Azure SQL tier that supports it.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AZ-305 question?

Accepted Answer

Selecting Business Critical because of the 'fast storage' requirement, failing to realize it has a strict 4 TB storage limit.

How to approach this question

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Practice the full Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 3

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