DP-203 Certification Practice Question #43

Question

You have an Azure Databricks workspace named workspace1 in the Standard pricing tier. Workspace1 contains an all-purpose cluster named cluster1.
You need to reduce the time it takes for cluster1 to start and scale up. The solution must minimize costs.
What should you do first?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Learn explicitly recommends cluster pools when the goal is to reduce cluster startup and autoscaling times. Pools maintain prewarmed compute that can be attached quickly, which directly addresses the latency problem without forcing an upgrade to a more expensive workspace tier. Because the question also says to minimize costs, creating a pool is the best first step: it targets the performance issue directly while avoiding Premium-tier charges.

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