Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question

Azure Data Factory is Microsoft's fully managed, serverless data-integration platform. It can connect to on-premises SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, and more than 100 other sources, orchestrating both batch and streaming pipelines. Its Mapping Data Flows feature lets you build transformations in a drag-and-drop, code-free designer, while integration runtimes handle movement and transformation without requiring you to provision or patch infrastructure. Azure Data Factory also includes triggers, activity monitoring, and lineage views. Azure Stream Analytics focuses solely on real-time stream processing, not broad ETL orchestration. Azure Logic Apps is optimized for workflow automation rather than large-scale data movement and transformation. Azure Functions with Durable Functions would require custom code and runtime management, lacking the native connectors, visual data-flow tooling, and monitoring demanded by the scenario.