| Exam Code/Number: | DP-420Join the discussion |
| Exam Name: | Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB |
| Certification: | Microsoft |
| Question Number: | 281 |
| Publish Date: | Sep 02, 2026 |
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Hotspot Question
You have an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account that hosts the containers shown in the following table.
You need to implement a solution for processing changes to author names. The solution must use a change feed and an Azure Function and must meet the following requirements:
- Ensure that when a name change occurs, the authorName field in the
Books container is updated within 30 minutes.
- Minimize costs.
What should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hotspot Question
You plan to create an Azure Cosmos DB database named db1 that will contain two containers.
One of the containers will contain blog posts, and the other will contain users. Each item in the blog post container will include:
- A single blog post
- All the comments associated to the blog post
- The names of the users who created the blog post and added the
comments
You need to design a solution to update usernames in the user container without causing data integrity issues. The solution must minimize administrative and development effort.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You work in the Intel company that has its clients across 4 different countries, with hundreds of thousands of clients for countries 1 and 2, and a few thousand clients for countries 3 and 4.
Requests for every country total approximately 50,000 RU/s every hour of the day. The application team of the company suggests using countryId as the partition key for this container.
Which of the following statements is true?
Hotspot Question
You have an Azure Cosmos DB account named account1 that has a default consistency level of session.
You have an app named App1.
You need to ensure that the read operations of App1 can request either bounded staleness or consistent prefix consistency.
What should you modify for each consistency level? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

The following is a sample of a document in orders.
The orders container uses customerId as the partition key.
You need to provide a report of the total items ordered per month by item type. The solution must meet the following requirements:
- Ensure that the report can run as quickly as possible.
- Minimize the consumption of request units (RUs).
What should you do?
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