Q21 Service Bus Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam Priority · Real Exam

What does enabling partitioning on a Service Bus queue achieve?

  1. A Guaranteed global ordering
  2. B Higher throughput and availability by spreading the entity across multiple message brokers (correct answer)
  3. C Automatic dead-lettering
  4. D Lower cost

Shortcut: Partitioned entities distribute messages across brokers, increasing throughput and resilience. The trade-off is that ordering is only guaranteed within a partition key or session.