Question 1

A social media startup is designing a feature to recommend friends to users based on mutual connections, shared interests, and geographic proximity.

The data model requires traversing complex relationships with multiple degrees of separation (e.g., 'Find friends of friends who like hiking'). The queries must return results in milliseconds.

Which Azure Cosmos DB API should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Identify the data structure: 'complex relationships' and 'friends of friends' indicates a Graph database.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Choosing SQL API because it's the default. Document databases struggle with deep relationship queries.

How to approach this question

Full Answer

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