Microsoft Developing Windows Azure and Web Services Set 1

You need to recommend a data access technology to the contractor to retrieve data from the new data source. Which data access technology should you recommend?

Errors occasionally occur when saving data using the FlightInfoContext ADO.NET Entity Framework context. Updates to the data are being lost when an error occurs. You need to ensure that data is still saved when an error occurs by retrying the operation. No more than five retries should be performed. Which code segment should you use as the body of the SaveChanges() method in the FlightInfoContext.es file?

You are adding a new REST service endpoint to the FlightDataController controller. It returns flights from the consolidated data sources only for flights that are late. You need to write a LINQ to Entities query to extract the required data. Which code segment should you use?

Data provided by Consolidated Messenger is cached in the HttpContext.Cache object. You need to ensure that the cache is correctly updated when new data arrives. What should you do?

You need to load flight information provided by Consolidated Messenger. Which should you use?

You are adding a new REST service endpoint to the FlightDataController controller that returns the total number of seats for each airline. You need to write a LINQ to Entities query to extract the required data. Which code segment should you use?

You need to load flight information provided by Consolidated Messenger. What should you use?

Historical flight information data will be stored in Windows Azure Table Storage using the FlightInfo class as the table entity. There are millions of entries in the table. Queries for historical flight information specify a set of airlines to search and whether the query should return only late flights. Results should be ordered by flight name. You need to specify which properties of the FlightInfo class should be used at the partition and row keys to ensure that query results are returned as quickly as possible. What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)

Transformed historical flight information provided by the RemoteDataStream() method must be written to the response stream as a series of XML elements named Flight within a root element named Flights. Each Flight element has a child element named FlightName that contains the flight name that starts with the two-letter airline prefix. You need to implement the StreamHistoricalFlights() method so that it minimizes the amount of memory allocated. Which code segment should you use as the body of the StreamHistoricalFlights() method in the HistoricalDataLoader.es file?

Errors occasionally occur when saving data using the FlightlnfoContext ADO.NET Entity Framework context. Updates to the data are being lost when an error occurs. You need to ensure that data is still saved when an error occurs by retrying the operation. No more than five retries should be performed. With which code segment should you replace the body of the SaveChanges() method in the FlightInfoContext.es file?