Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate DP-700 Practice Question
You are a Power BI administrator for an organization that recently upgraded to Microsoft Fabric. Several teams report that their Fabric notebooks automatically shut down after 30 minutes of inactivity, interrupting long-running jobs. You need to change the workspace configuration so that interactive Spark sessions will remain active for up to 3 hours when they are idle.
Which workspace setting should you modify, and what value should you set, to meet the requirement?
Update the workspace's Spark session idle time setting to 180 minutes.
Change the tenant-level Spark compute timeout to Unlimited in the Admin portal.
Disable the Auto-Shutdown on Completion option for interactive clusters in the workspace.
Increase the workspace's driver memory limit to 5120 MB.
In Fabric, each workspace inherits Spark session configuration settings from the Admin portal unless they are overridden at the workspace level. The maximum idle-session timeout for interactive Spark workloads is controlled by the setting named "Spark session idle time" (sometimes surfaced as "Interactive session timeout"). By default, this value is 30 minutes. Increasing it to 180 minutes (3 hours) prevents Fabric from shutting down the kernel after only 30 minutes of user inactivity. Other settings such as driver-memory, executor cores, or auto-shutdown after job completion do not influence the idle timeout behavior, and changing tenant-wide defaults in the Admin portal would not target just the affected workspace.
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