Q33 Cosmos DB Domain 2 · 25–30% of exam

What is a Cosmos DB analytical store and which feature does it enable?

  1. A A replica for disaster recovery
  2. B A column-oriented copy of operational data enabling HTAP analytics via Azure Synapse Link without impacting transactional performance (correct answer)
  3. C An archive tier for cold data
  4. D A secondary index on non-partition key fields

Shortcut: Analytical store (enabled via Azure Synapse Link) automatically syncs data to a column-oriented store, enabling analytical queries via Synapse Analytics without RU cost or impacting the transactional workload.