Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is Microsoft's primary cloud-native data integration service. ADF offers more than 90 pre-built connectors for on-premises and SaaS sources, supports visual authoring of data pipelines and Mapping Data Flows that execute on managed Spark clusters, and includes built-in scheduling, monitoring dashboards, and automatic retry capabilities. Azure Databricks Jobs focus on code-driven processing rather than visual, low-code orchestration and require separate services for many connectors and scheduling. Azure Synapse Data Explorer targets log analytics workloads and is not an orchestration service. Azure Logic Apps is optimized for event-driven application workflows and does not provide the scale or Spark-based transformations needed for large-volume data ingestion and preparation.