Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate DP-700 Practice Question
You are creating a Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipeline that copies data from an on-premises SQL Server table to a Lakehouse in Delta format. The source table contains an indexed LastUpdated datetime column. After a one-time historical load, the pipeline must run every hour and ingest only the rows whose LastUpdated value is greater than the maximum value processed in the previous successful run. The solution must manage the watermark automatically without any custom activities or code.
What should you do?
Enable the Incremental copy option in the Copy Data activity and configure the LastUpdated column as the watermark.
Replace the Copy Data activity with a Dataflow Gen2 configured for a full refresh of the table at each hourly run.
Run a pre-copy SQL script that truncates the destination table, then load the entire source table each time.
Pass the pipeline trigger time as a parameter to the source query and store the previous run time in Azure Key Vault by using a Web activity.
In Microsoft Fabric, the Copy Data activity has an Incremental copy option. When you enable this option and specify LastUpdated as the watermark column, the service automatically stores the highest value processed on each run and uses it to filter the source on subsequent runs. No extra Lookup, Web, or Data Flow activities are required, so the requirement for automatic watermark management without custom code is fulfilled.
A Dataflow Gen2 can also perform incremental refresh, but it would replace-rather than use-the requested pipeline Copy Data activity. The remaining options trigger full reloads or depend on manually passing and storing timestamps, which do not meet the stated requirement.
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