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AZ-104

Configure and manage storage accounts

This objective 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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Implement and manage storage

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?

Whether data is replicated to a second region that is geographically distantCorrect · your answerThis is correct: geographic distance between primary and secondary region protects against regional disasters.
How many replicated copies of data exist within the primary region aloneCopies kept only within the primary region protect against local hardware or datacenter failures, not the loss of the whole region.
Whether the storage account has soft delete enabled for blob containersSoft delete protects against accidental deletion of blobs, it does not address regional replication.
Whether the application requires read access to data in the primary regionRead access to the primary region is normal operation and does not address surviving loss of that region.

Correct.

Checked against learn.microsoft.com, July 2026

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 A

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.

Source

Whether your data is replicated to a second region that is geographically distant to the primary region, to protect against regional disasters…

Microsoft Learn: Manage VM availability (Azure Storage redundancy section), checked July 2026
#storage-accounts#redundancy#geo-replication

Now you: practice questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

Implement and manage storage

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

Implement and manage storage

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

Implement and manage storage

An administrator scripts creation of a storage account named Finance_Archive2026 for a company, and the deployment is rejected. Which naming rule does the requested name break?

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