AZ Storage Accounts

Question 1

What are Azure Storage Accounts?

Answer 1

Provide a namespace in which to store data objects such as BLOBS, Files, Tables, queues and VHDs

Question 2

What are the Azure Storage access tiers?

Answer 2

* Hot - Frequent Access * Cool - Infrequent Access (at least 30 days) * Archive - Rarely accessed (at least 180 days)

Question 3

What are the Storage Account types available?

Answer 3

* General-Purpose V2 * General-Purpose V1 * BlockBlobStorage * FileStorage * BlobStorage

Question 4

What is the relationship between Storage Accounts, Containers and Blobs?

Answer 4

1. Storage accounts have Containers 2. Containers have Blobs

Question 5

What services does the General-Purpose V1 Storage account type support?

Answer 5

* Blob * File * Queue * Table * Disk

Question 6

What services does the General-Purpose V2 Storage account type support?

Answer 6

* Blob * File * Queue * Table * Disk * Data Lake Gen2

Question 7

What services does the BlobStorage Storage account type support?

Answer 7

* Block Blob * Append Blob

Question 8

What services does the FileStorage Storage account type support?

Answer 8

File

Question 9

What services does the BlockBlobStorage Storage account type support?

Answer 9

* Block Blob * Append Blob

Question 10

Append Blob

Answer 10

* Block Blobs optimized for append operations * No delete or update of existing blocks

Question 11

Block Blobs

Answer 11

Blobs managed in separate blocks (with block Ids) for efficient uploading and management

Question 12

Page Blobs

Answer 12

Frequent read/write OS and Data disks for VMs and databases

Question 13

Blob types supported by Azure

Answer 13

* Block Blobs * Append blobs * Page Blobs

Question 14

Blob Container

Answer 14

* Similar to directory in a file system * Organizes a set of Blobs (unlimited)

Question 15

What is Blob storage designed for?

Answer 15

Serving images or documents directly to a browser. Storing files for distributed access. Streaming video and audio. Writing to log files. Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving. Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Question 16

Blob Storage

Answer 16

Storage for massive amounts of unstructured data

Question 17

Access Options for a Storage Account

Answer 17

* Specific VNet/IP Range * Firewall to whitelist IP addresses * Access Keys * Shared Access Signatures(SAS) - Granular permissions defined by a URI

Question 18

Azure queue storage

Answer 18

Scalable storage for cloud messages (up to 64kb) between decoupled application components. Used to create a backlog of work to process asynchronously

Question 19

Azure Table Storage

Answer 19

NoSQL datastore for large amounts of structured data Made up of entities (property sets) similar to a DB row

Question 20

Azure File Shares

Answer 20

* Cloud-based file shares * Server Message Block protocol * Replace or supplement on-prem servers * Cloud-based, shared file access anywhere

Question 21

What are the Storage Account redundancy options?

Answer 21

Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) - Keeps 3 copies of the data within a data center Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) - Data stored in different zones within your specified region (E;G WestUS, etc.) Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) - Data stored in different regions Read-Access-Geo-Redundant Storage(RA-GRS) - Can read from other regions