Case Study 1 - Contoso
Existing Environment
Azure Environment
Contoso has an Azure subscription in North Europe that contains the corporate infrastructure.
The current infrastructure contains a Microsoft SQL Server 2017 database. The database contains the following tables.

The FeedbackJsoncolumn has a full-text index and stores JSON documents in the following format.

The support staff at Contoso never has the UNMASKpermission.
Problem Statements
Contoso is deploying a new Azure SQL database that will become the authoritative data store for the following:
* AI workloads
* Vector search
* Modernized API access
* Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
Sometimes the ingestion pipeline fails due to malformed JSON and duplicate payloads.
The engineers at Contoso report that the following dashboard query runs slowly.

You review the execution plan and discover that the plan shows a clustered index scan.
VehicleIncidentReportsoften contains details about the weather, traffic conditions, and location. Analysts report that it is difficult to find similar incidents based on these details.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Contoso wants to modernize Fleet Intelligence Platform to support AI-powered semantic search over incident reports.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements:
* Restrict the support staff from viewing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, which is full email addresses and phone numbers.
* Enforce row-level filtering so that analysts see only incidents for the fleets to which they are assigned. The analysts can be assigned to multiple fleets.
Database Performance and Requirements
Contoso identifies the following telemetry requirements:
* Telemetry data must be stored in a partitioned table.
* Telemetry data must provide predictable performance for ingestion and retention operations.
* latitude, longitude, and accuracyJSON properties must be filtered by using an index seek.
Contoso identifies the following maintenance data requirements:
* Ensure that any changes to a row in the MaintenanceEventstable updates the corresponding value in the LastModifiedUtccolumn to the time of the change.
* Avoid recursive updates.
AI Search, Embeddings, and Vector Indexing
Contoso plans to implement semantic search over incident data to meet the following requirements:
* Embeddings must be stored in dedicated Azure SQL Database tables.
* Embeddings must be generated from rich natural language fields.
* Chunking must preserve semantic coherence.
* Hybrid search must combine the following:
- Vector similarity
- Keyword filtering or boosting
Development Requirements
The development team at Contoso will use Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot and will retrieve live metadata from the databases.
Contoso identifies the following requirements for querying data in the FeedbackJsoncolumn of the CustomerFeedbacktable:
* Extract the customer feedback text from the JSON document.
* Filter rows where the JSON text contains a keyword.
* Calculate a fuzzy similarity score between the feedback text and a known issue description.
* Order the results by similarity score, with the highest score first.
You need to generate embeddings to resolve the issues identified by the analysts. Which column should you use?

Drag and Drop Question
You have an Azure SQL database named SalesDB. SalesDB contains a table named dbo.Articles. dbo.Articles contains the following columns:
- ArticleId
- Title
- Body
- LastModifiedUtc
- EmbeddingVector
You have an application that generates embeddings from the concatenation of Title and Body and stores the results in EmbeddingVector.
You plan to implement an incremental embedding maintenance method that will use change data capture (CDC) to update embeddings only for rows that change, without scanning the entire table.
You need to ensure that only the columns required to generate the embeddings are captured.
The solution must support querying net changes.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL script? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You have an SDK-style SQL database project stored in a Git repository. The project targets an Azure SQL database.
The CI build fails with unresolved reference errors when the project references system objects.
You need to update the SQL database project to ensure that dotnet build validates successfully by including the correct system objects in the database model for Azure SQL Database.
Solution: Add the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dacpacs.Master NuGet package to the project.
Does this meet the goal?

Drag and Drop Question
You have a database named DB1. The schema is stored in a GitHub repository as an SDK-style SQL database project.
You use a feature branch workflow to deploy changes to DB1.
You need to update the local feature branch with the latest changes to main, and then create a pull request to merge the feature branch into main for review.
How should you complete the GitHub CLI script? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure SQL database that contains a table named Tickets_Embeddings.
Tickets_Embeddings contains a VECTOR(1536) column.
Embeddings are generated by using text-embedding-ada-002 and the /openai/v1/embeddings endpoint.
After a review of the current environment, the following changes are requested:
- The AI architect has recommended switching to text-embedding-3-small.
- The security team requires authentication by using Microsoft Entra
managed identities only. Storing API keys in an application is
prohibited.
Which two actions should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.