Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty

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The Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification validates your expertise in designing, building, testing, and optimizing Azure Cosmos DB solutions

100 min
70% to pass
60 bank questions
5 domains
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Sample Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty exam question

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MasterMaintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution

An organization stores sensitive customer attributes in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit by the platform, but specific sensitive fields must also be unreadable to database administrators. Which additional control is required?

Exam facts at a glance

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Time limit
100 minutes
Passing score
70%
Domains
5
Questions in our bank
60
Level
ASSOCIATE
Measured complexity
2.0 / 10
Question mix
22 single · 21 multi · 17 interactive

Where the hard questions actually are

We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.

Exam complexity score2.0/10Gentle · measured across 60 bank questions
  • Design and implement data distribution5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive

  • Design and implement data models23 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle

    39% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive

  • Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution16 questions · complexity 1.9/10 · Gentle

    31% multi-select · 0% scenario · 31% interactive

  • Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution11 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 27% interactive

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