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5Operations and maintenance

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  • 5.1Monitoring and troubleshooting

    Understand response status codes and failure metrics, monitoring Normalized RU Consumption and server-side latency with Azure Monitor, replication monitoring, alerts and resource logs, and monitoring throughput/data distribution across partitions.

  • 5.2Backup and restore

    Understand choosing periodic vs continuous backup, configuring periodic backup, continuous backup and point-in-time restore (PITR), locating a restore point, and restoring a database/container.

  • 5.3Security, data movement, and DevOps

    Understand service-managed vs customer-managed keys (CMK), network access control, control-plane RBAC vs data-plane Entra ID, Key Vault, Always Encrypted, data movement (ADF/Spark/Kafka/Stream Analytics), and DevOps via ARM templates and PowerShell/CLI.