Question 670
At Brookside Manufacturing, the plant software team is implementing a work-order system upgrade under requirements for planned downtime and production traceability. After the proposed change, the release reviewer requires evidence for: Two systems update a shared customer address concurrently and the last sync wins without a conflict policy. Which result BEST proves the intended fix is effective?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A deliberate concurrent update resolves according to policy and emits an auditable conflict record. This directly tests whether the reported failure has been corrected: Two systems update a shared customer address concurrently and the last sync wins without a conflict policy. The intended action was Define source-of-truth ownership or timestamp/version conflict handling before applying upserts. The observed Brookside Manufacturing outcome is stronger evidence than a completed ticket or a saved configuration alone.
Incorrect Answers
Changing an email address keeps the same contact identity and does not create an unwanted duplicate. Such evidence would validate a different change: A sync pipeline uses contact email as its unique key even though a person can change email and multiple contacts can share a mailbox. It follows the separate remedy Choose a stable immutable external identifier as the Dataverse alternate key rather than a mutable display attribute. The Brookside Manufacturing scenario instead reports Two systems update a shared customer address concurrently and the last sync wins without a conflict policy. The decisive observation must be: A deliberate concurrent update resolves according to policy and emits an auditable conflict record.
A sync after a small update retrieves only changed records and correctly advances its checkpoint. Such evidence would validate a different change: An integration polls the full Accounts table each hour to find changes and spends most of its quota on unchanged rows. It follows the separate remedy Enable and use Dataverse change tracking with a retained change token for incremental synchronization. The Brookside Manufacturing scenario instead reports Two systems update a shared customer address concurrently and the last sync wins without a conflict policy. The decisive observation must be: A deliberate concurrent update resolves according to policy and emits an auditable conflict record.
A source deletion is reflected by the agreed downstream retention rule without orphaned active rows. Such evidence would validate a different change: A source system deletes a customer record but the synchronization process imports only additions and updates. It follows the separate remedy Handle documented change-tracking delete tombstones and map them to authorized target deletion or archival policy. The Brookside Manufacturing scenario instead reports Two systems update a shared customer address concurrently and the last sync wins without a conflict policy. The decisive observation must be: A deliberate concurrent update resolves according to policy and emits an auditable conflict record.