There are CPU and Data I/O spikes for the PaaS prototype. Business Critical 4-vCore is needed.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/reserved-capacity-overview
Topic 2, Litware
Existing Environment
Network Environment
The manufacturing and research datacenters connect to the primary datacenter by using a VPN.
The primary datacenter has an ExpressRoute connection that uses both Microsoft peering and private peering. The private peering connects to an Azure virtual network named HubVNet.
Identity Environment
Litware has a hybrid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) deployment that uses a domain named litwareinc.com. All Azure subscriptions are associated to the litwareinc.com Azure AD tenant.
Database Environment
The sales department has the following database workload:
An on-premises named SERVER1 hosts an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and two 1-TB databases.
A logical server named SalesSrv01A contains a geo-replicated Azure SQL database named SalesSQLDb1. SalesSQLDb1 is in an elastic pool named SalesSQLDb1Pool. SalesSQLDb1 uses database firewall rules and contained database users.
An application named SalesSQLDb1App1 uses SalesSQLDb1.
The manufacturing office contains two on-premises SQL Server 2016 servers named SERVER2 and SERVER3. The servers are nodes in the same Always On availability group. The availability group contains a database named ManufacturingSQLDb1 Database administrators have two Azure virtual machines in HubVnet named VM1 and VM2 that run Windows Server 2019 and are used to manage all the Azure databases.
Licensing Agreement
Litware is a Microsoft Volume Licensing customer that has License Mobility through Software Assurance.
Current Problems
SalesSQLDb1 experiences performance issues that are likely due to out-of-date statistics and frequent blocking queries.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Litware plans to implement the following changes:
Implement 30 new databases in Azure, which will be used by time-sensitive manufacturing apps that have varying usage patterns. Each database will be approximately 20 GB.
Create a new Azure SQL database named ResearchDB1 on a logical server named ResearchSrv01. ResearchDB1 will contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data.
Develop an app named ResearchApp1 that will be used by the research department to populate and access ResearchDB1.
Migrate ManufacturingSQLDb1 to the Azure virtual machine platform.
Migrate the SERVER1 databases to the Azure SQL Database platform.
Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements:
Maintenance tasks must be automated.
The 30 new databases must scale automatically.
The use of an on-premises infrastructure must be minimized.
Azure Hybrid Use Benefits must be leveraged for Azure SQL Database deployments.
All SQL Server and Azure SQL Database metrics related to CPU and storage usage and limits must be analyzed by using Azure built-in functionality.
Security and Compliance Requirements
Litware identifies the following security and compliance requirements:
Store encryption keys in Azure Key Vault.
Retain backups of the PII data for two months.
Encrypt the PII data at rest, in transit, and in use.
Use the principle of least privilege whenever possible.
Authenticate database users by using Active Directory credentials.
Protect Azure SQL Database instances by using database-level firewall rules.
Ensure that all databases hosted in Azure are accessible from VM1 and VM2 without relying on public endpoints.
Business Requirements
Litware identifies the following business requirements:
Meet an SLA of 99.99% availability for all Azure deployments.
Minimize downtime during the migration of the SERVER1 databases.
Use the Azure Hybrid Use Benefits when migrating workloads to Azure.
Once all requirements are met, minimize costs whenever possible.

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Explanation:
In SQL Server, you can also minimize locking contention while protecting transactions from dirty reads of
uncommitted data modifications using either:
* The READ COMMITTED isolation level with the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT database option set to
ON.
* The SNAPSHOT isolation level.
If READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT is set to ON (the default on SQL Azure Database), the Database Engine
uses row versioning to present each statement with a transactionally consistent snapshot of the data as it
existed at the start of the statement. Locks are not used to protect the data from updates by other transactions.
Incorrect Answers:
A: When the PARAMETERIZATION database option is set to SIMPLE, the SQL Server query optimizer may
choose to parameterize the queries. This means that any literal values that are contained in a query are
substituted with parameters. This process is referred to as simple parameterization. When SIMPLE
parameterization is in effect, you cannot control which queries are parameterized and which queries are not.
B: You can specify that all queries in a database be parameterized by setting the PARAMETERIZATION
database option to FORCED. This process is referred to as forced parameterization.
C: Delayed transaction durability is accomplished using asynchronous log writes to disk. Transaction log
records are kept in a buffer and written to disk when the buffer fills or a buffer flushing event takes place.
Delayed transaction durability reduces both latency and contention within the system.
Some of the cases in which you could benefit from using delayed transaction durability are:
* You can tolerate some data loss.
* You are experiencing a bottleneck on transaction log writes.
* Your workloads have a high contention rate.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-transaction-isolation-level-transact-sql

Azure SQL Database single database supports Data Sync.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/features-comparison