Design and implement cloud-native applications with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB (DP-420T00)

1. Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
   1. What Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is
   2. How Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL works
   3. When to use Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
   4. Knowledge check
2. Explore Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
   1. Explore resources
   2. Review basic operations
   3. Knowledge check
3. Plan Resource Requirements
   1. Understand throughput
   2. Evaluate throughput requirements
   3. Evaluate data storage requirements
   4. Understand time-to-live
   5. Plan data retention with time-to-live
   6. Knowledge check
4. Configure Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
   1. Understand serverless deployment
   2. Compare serverless and provisioned throughput
   3. Understand autoscale throughput
   4. Compare autoscale and standard throughput
   5. Migrate between standard and autoscale throughput
   6. Knowledge check
5. Move Data Into and Out of Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
   1. Move data with Azure Data Factory
   2. Move data with a Kafka connector
   3. Move data with Stream Analytics
   4. Move data with the Azure Cosmos DB Spark connector
   5. Knowledge check
6. Use the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL SDK
   1. Understand the SDK
   2. Import the SDK from a package manager
   3. Connect to an online account
   4. Implement a singleton client
   5. Configure the connectivity mode
   6. Knowledge check
7. Configure the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL SDK
   1. Enable offline development
   2. Handle connection errors
   3. Implement threading and parallelism
   4. Configure logging
   5. Knowledge check
8. Implement Point Operations
   1. Understand point operations
   2. Create documents
   3. Read a document
   4. Update documents
   5. Configure time-to-live for a document
   6. Delete documents
   7. Knowledge check
9. Perform Cross-Document Transactional Operations
   1. Create a transactional batch with the SDK
   2. Review batch operation results
   3. Implement optimistic concurrency control
   4. Knowledge check
10. Process Bulk Data
    1. Create bulk operations with the SDK
    2. Review bulk-operation considerations
    3. Implement bulk-operation best practices
    4. Knowledge check
11. Query Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
    1. Understand the NoSQL query language
    2. Create NoSQL queries
    3. Project query results
    4. Implement type checking in queries
    5. Use built-in functions
    6. Execute queries with the SDK
    7. Knowledge check
12. Author Complex Queries
    1. Create cross-product queries
    2. Implement correlated subqueries
    3. Use variables in queries
    4. Paginate query results
    5. Knowledge check
13. Build Generative AI Applications with Azure Cosmos DB
    1. Configure vector search and storage in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
    2. Generate embeddings with Azure OpenAI Service
    3. Build Python generative AI applications with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
    4. Perform vector searches from a generative AI application
    5. Integrate LangChain orchestration into a Python application
    6. Knowledge check
14. Define Indexes
    1. Understand indexes
    2. Understand indexing policies
    3. Review indexing policy strategies
    4. Knowledge check
15. Customize Indexes
    1. Customize an indexing policy
    2. Evaluate composite indexes
    3. Knowledge check
16. Consume a Change Feed with the SDK
    1. Understand SDK change-feed features
    2. Implement a delegate for the change-feed processor
    3. Implement the change-feed processor
    4. Implement the change-feed estimator
    5. Knowledge check
17. Handle Change-Feed Events with Azure Functions
    1. Understand Azure Functions bindings for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
    2. Configure function bindings
    3. Develop a function
    4. Knowledge check
18. Search Data with Azure AI Search
    1. Create an indexer for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL data
    2. Implement a change-detection policy
    3. Manage a data-deletion detection policy
    4. Knowledge check
19. Implement a Non-Relational Data Model
    1. Compare NoSQL and relational databases
    2. Identify application access patterns
    3. Determine when to embed or reference data
    4. Choose a partition key
    5. Model small lookup entities
    6. Knowledge check
20. Design a Data-Partitioning Strategy
    1. Denormalize data in the model
    2. Manage referential integrity with change feeds
    3. Combine multiple entities in one container
    4. Denormalize aggregates in one container
    5. Finalize the data model
    6. Knowledge check
21. Configure Replication and Manage Failovers
    1. Understand replication
    2. Distribute data across regions
    3. Evaluate global data-distribution costs
    4. Define automatic failover policies
    5. Perform manual failovers
    6. Configure the SDK region
    7. Knowledge check
22. Use Consistency Models
    1. Understand consistency models
    2. Configure the default consistency model in the portal
    3. Change the consistency model with the SDK
    4. Use session tokens
    5. Knowledge check
23. Configure Multi-Region Writes
    1. Understand multi-region writes
    2. Configure multi-region support in the SDK
    3. Understand conflict-resolution policies
    4. Create a custom conflict-resolution policy
    5. Knowledge check
24. Customize an Indexing Policy
    1. Understand index usage
    2. Review read-heavy indexing patterns
    3. Review write-heavy indexing patterns
25. Measure Index Performance
    1. Enable indexing metrics
    2. Analyze indexing metric results
    3. Measure query cost
    4. Measure point-operation cost
    5. Knowledge check
26. Implement Integrated Cache
    1. Review workloads that benefit from caching
    2. Enable integrated cache
    3. Configure cache staleness
    4. Knowledge check
27. Measure Performance
    1. Understand Azure Monitor
    2. Measure throughput
    3. Observe rate-limiting events
    4. Query logs
    5. Knowledge check
28. Monitor Responses and Events
    1. Review common response codes
    2. Understand transient errors
    3. Review rate-limiting errors
    4. Configure alerts
    5. Audit security
    6. Knowledge check
29. Implement Backup and Restore
    1. Evaluate periodic backup
    2. Configure continuous backup and recovery
    3. Perform a point-in-time recovery
30. Implement Security
    1. Implement network-level access control
    2. Review data-encryption options
    3. Use role-based access control
    4. Access account resources with Microsoft Entra ID
    5. Understand Always Encrypted
    6. Knowledge check
31. Write Management Scripts
    1. Create resources
    2. Manage indexing policies
    3. Configure database- or container-provisioned throughput
    4. Migrate between standard and autoscale throughput
    5. Change region failover priority
    6. Initiate failovers
32. Create Resource Templates
    1. Understand Azure Resource Manager resources
    2. Author Azure Resource Manager templates
    3. Configure database and container resources
    4. Configure throughput with an Azure Resource Manager template
    5. Manage indexing policies with Azure Resource Manager templates
    6. Knowledge check
33. Build Multi-Item Transactions
    1. Understand transactions in the JavaScript SDK
    2. Author stored procedures
    3. Roll back transactions
    4. Create stored procedures with the JavaScript SDK
    5. Knowledge check
34. Extend Query and Transaction Functionality
    1. Create user-defined functions
    2. Create user-defined functions with the SDK
    3. Add triggers to an operation
    4. Create and use triggers with the SDK
    5. Knowledge check

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