Q27 Cosmos DB Domain 2 · 25–30% of exam

What does DiskANN vector indexing in Cosmos DB optimize for?

  1. A Full-text search across documents
  2. B Approximate Nearest Neighbour (ANN) search over high-dimensional vectors (correct answer)
  3. C Geospatial queries
  4. D Time-series aggregation

Shortcut: DiskANN is a disk-based ANN algorithm that enables efficient vector similarity search (cosine, dot product, Euclidean) on high-dimensional embeddings stored in Cosmos DB.