Disable high concurrency so bronze and silver notebook runs get isolated Spark sessions

Configure Microsoft Fabric workspace settings
Answer Correct answer: A - Disabling high concurrency stops notebook workloads from sharing one Spark session, isolating the bronze and silver layer runs.

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Existing Environment. Data Processing The retail bookstores send sales data at the end of each business day, while the online bookstore constantly provides logs and sales data to a central enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Litware implements a medallion architecture by using the following three layers: bronze, silver, and gold. The sales data is ingested from the ERP system as Parquet files that land in the Files folder in a lakehouse. Notebooks are used to transform the files in a Delta table for the bronze and silver layers. The gold layer is in a warehouse that has V-Order disabled. Litware has image files of book covers in Azure Blob Storage. The files are loaded into the Files folder. Existing Environment. Sales Data Month-end sales data is processed on the first calendar day of each month. Data that is older than one month never changes. In the source system, the sales data refreshes every six hours starting at midnight each day. The sales data is captured in a Dataflow Gen1 dataflow. When the dataflow runs, new and historical data is captured. The dataflow captures the following fields of the source: • Sales Date • Author • Price • Units • SKU A table named AuthorSales stores the sales data that relates to each author. The table contains a column named AuthorEmail. Authors authenticate to a guest Fabric tenant by using their email address. Existing Environment. Security Groups Litware has the following security groups: • Sales • Fabric Admins • Streaming Admins Existing Environment. Performance Issues Business users perform ad-hoc queries against the warehouse. The business users indicate that reports against the warehouse sometimes run for two hours and fail to load as expected. Upon further investigation, the data engineering team receives the following error message when the reports fail to load: “The SQL query failed while running.” The data engineering team wants to debug the issue and find queries that cause more than one failure. When the authors have new book releases, there is often an increase in sales activity. This increase slows the data ingestion process. The company’s sales team reports that during the last month, the sales data has NOT been up-to-date when they arrive at work in the morning. Requirements. Planned Changes - Litware recently signed a contract to receive book reviews. The provider of the reviews exposes the data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Litware plans to manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for the authors. The SEO data will be streamed from a REST API. Requirements. Version Control - Litware plans to implement a version control solution in Fabric that will use GitHub integration and follow the principle of least privilege. Requirements. Governance Requirements To control data platform costs, the data platform must use only Fabric services and items. Additional Azure resources must NOT be provisioned. Requirements. Data Requirements - Litware identifies the following data requirements: • Process the SEO data in near-real-time (NRT). • Make the book reviews available in the lakehouse without making a copy of the data. • When a new book cover image arrives in the Files folder, process the image as soon as possible. You need to ensure that processes for the bronze and silver layers run in isolation. How should you configure the Apache Spark settings?

  1. Disable high concurrency. Correct Answer
  2. Create a custom pool.
  3. Modify the number of executors.
  4. Set the default environment.

Community Votes

A
60%
B
40%

60% of anonymous learners picked answer A. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.

Community Insight

High concurrency shares a single Spark session across notebook workloads; disabling it is the workspace Spark setting that gives the bronze and silver processing separate, isolated sessions.

High concurrency mode lets multiple notebook workloads share one running Spark session. To ensure the bronze and silver layer processes run in isolation in Workspace1, disable the high concurrency setting so each notebook run starts its own session.

Creating a custom pool for isolation; a pool isolates compute capacity, not sessions - only disabling high concurrency guarantees each notebook run gets its own Spark session.

Community Discussion (3 comments)

abdulbasit170 👍 2 Selected: B
B is the correct answer as they want complete isolation of the job runs
abdulbasit170 👍 1 Selected: A
A: is the correct answer.
5e89616 👍 2 Selected: A
The requirement is to run notebook sessions for Bronze and Silver in isolation -> disable high concurrency: High concurrency mode allows users to share the same Spark sessions in Apache Spark for Fabric data engineering and data science workloads. An item like a notebook uses a Spark session for its execution and when enabled allows users to share a single Spark session across multiple notebooks. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/workspace-admin-settings#high-concurrency

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Expert Analysis

Why the Answer Is Correct

High concurrency mode lets compatible Spark workloads share one running Spark session instead of starting a separate session for each workload. Workspace1 has high concurrency enabled, so the bronze and silver notebooks can end up in a shared session. Disabling the high concurrency workspace setting makes every notebook run start its own session, which is exactly the isolation the requirement asks for.

Why the Other Options Are Wrong

Option B (create a custom pool) changes the compute a session runs on but does not prevent session sharing between workloads. Option C (modify the number of executors) tunes resources per session without addressing session sharing. Option D (set the default environment) controls libraries and Spark properties, not session isolation.

Community Comment Notes

The vote split is A 60 / B 40. 5e89616 (2 likes) explains that high concurrency shares a single Spark session across notebooks, so disabling it isolates the bronze and silver runs. abdulbasit170 (2 likes) prefers a custom pool for complete job isolation, but a pool governs compute capacity, not session sharing.

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