Configure and manage storage accounts
Objective configure.manage-storage-accounts sits in Implement and manage storage, which carries 19% of the Azure Administrator exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Microsoft Azure page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A retail company stores transaction data in a storage account and wants the data to survive the complete loss of an entire Azure region, not just a single datacenter component. Which factor should determine their redundancy configuration?
The concept
Redundancy options differ along the one axis that decides disaster scope: how far apart the copies sit. Copies inside a datacenter survive a disk or rack failure, copies across zones survive one datacenter, and only copies in a separate geography survive losing everything in one place.
Why this answer
Protecting against the loss of an entire region requires replicating data to a second, geographically distant region, which is one of the stated factors for choosing a redundancy option.
- This is correct: geographic distance between primary and secondary region protects against regional disasters.
- BCopies kept only within the primary region protect against local hardware or datacenter failures, not the loss of the whole region.
- CSoft delete protects against accidental deletion of blobs, it does not address regional replication.
- DRead access to the primary region is normal operation and does not address surviving loss of that region.
Now you: objective configure.manage-storage-accounts questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An administrator configures a new storage account and wants it to keep meeting its availability and durability targets automatically even during hardware failures or outages. Which built-in capability provides this?
Sample question 2 of 3
A company's storage account currently uses local replication only. Leadership wants protection against the loss of an entire primary region while keeping added cost as low as possible. Which factor should the administrator evaluate first when picking a redundancy option?
Sample question 3 of 3
Which factor determines whether a storage redundancy option protects against a regional disaster?
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