AZ-104 - Implement and Manage Storage (20% of the exam) - Section 2.3

Configure Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage including lifecycle management and access tiers.

Configure Azure Files shares over SMB or NFS protocols and choose between Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive blob access tiers based on access frequency and cost trade-offs. Define lifecycle management policies to automatically transition blobs between tiers or delete them after a set period, and use object replication to copy blobs asynchronously to a second storage account.

Azure Files sharesSMB NFSblob access tierslifecycle management policiesobject replication

Practice question for this objective

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An administrator needs to move data directly from an Azure Blob Storage container into an Azure file share. Can a single AzCopy operation copy data between these two services?

AYes Correct
BNo

AzCopy copies to, from, and between storage services, including Blob Storage and Azure Files. AzCopy can target Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files and copy between them, for example copying data from Blob Storage containers to Azure File shares or vice versa.

Why A is correct: Correct. AzCopy can target Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files and copy between them, for example copying data from Blob Storage containers to Azure File shares or vice versa.

Why B is wrong: Answering no is wrong because AzCopy explicitly supports cross-service copies between Blob Storage and Azure Files in either direction.

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Exam traps in Implement and Manage Storage

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the AZ-104 bank for this domain.

Yes
Why it is wrong: Answering Yes would wrongly suggest you can mix identity sources or scope them per share, but the single source applies to every file share in the account.
Archive can be selected as the default account access tier
Why it is wrong: The archive tier is not supported as the default access tier for a storage account.
Yes
Why it is wrong: Saying yes assumes soft delete governs the deletion, but with versioning on, the prior state is preserved as a previous version instead, so the retention period does not apply to that delete.

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