DBS05-AZ100.md

DBS05-AZ100 - Creating a Microsoft Azure Cosmos Db (SQL API)

Cloud Service Provider

• Microsoft Azure

Difficulty

• Level 100 (Introductory)

Project's Author(s)

• Edward Haigh

Objectives

You need to complete the following:

• Create an Azure Cosmos SQL API Database
• Create a Container
• Create 3 random items in the same Container
• Query the database to return all the items

You need to answer the following:

• What is a Container?
• What is an Item?
• What querying lanuguage does cosmos use?
• What is the maximum size of a document?
• What is an RU?
• What is a partition key?
• What is the _ts property on an item?
• What does the _etag item property do?
• List the consistancy models for cosmos?
• List 2 other Azure services that integrate with Cosmos?

References

• Azure Cosmos Documentation
• Create an Azure Comos Database in the Azure Portal
• Cosmos Query Playground
• Query Cosmos

Costs

• For free for 30 days
• $1-5/month estimates on the serverless tier in a non-production environment with 1GB storage
• $20+/month on other tiers

Estimated time to complete

• 30-45 minutes

Tips

• Knowledge of basic SQL commands will give an advantage