Provision and manage containers in the Azure portal
Objective provision.manage-containers sits in Deploy and manage Azure compute resources, which carries 24% 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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An administrator is provisioning a new storage account in the Azure portal before creating containers to hold blob data for an application. Which naming requirement must the account name satisfy?
The concept
Storage account naming rules govern what account names are valid before containers can be created inside the account.
Why this answer
Storage account names must be 3 to 24 characters long, contain only numbers and lowercase letters, and be unique across all of Azure since the name forms part of the account's globally accessible endpoint.
- This matches the documented rule exactly: 3 to 24 characters, lowercase letters and numbers only, unique across Azure.
- BThis length range and character set do not match the documented rule, and uniqueness is required across Azure, not just the resource group.
- CThis resembles rules for other Azure resource names, but storage account names cannot use underscores and are not merely subscription-unique.
- DThis resembles container naming conventions loosely, but storage account names cannot use periods and must be unique globally, not just per region.
Now you: objective provision.manage-containers questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A company runs VMs inside a virtual network and needs those VMs to reach blob containers in a storage account. Administrators want the storage account restricted so only resources inside that virtual network can access it, without using a public internet path. Which configuration accomplishes this?
Sample question 2 of 3
A development team needs a storage account to hold blob containers for an application with high transaction rates that reads and writes many small objects and requires consistently low storage latency. Which account type should the administrator provision?
Sample question 3 of 3
An administrator must let virtual machines inside one virtual network reach a storage account's blob containers directly, while blocking access from outside that virtual network, without deploying a VPN, ExpressRoute, or a second virtual network. Which configuration meets this requirement?
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