Azure Storage

Question 1

Lowest storage cost

Answer 1

Archive
Several hours to retrieve
Blob in archive storage, the blob data is offline and can’t be read overwritten, or modified. To read or download a blob you have to rehydrate it to an online tier.

Question 2

Example usage of archive access tier

Answer 2

1. Long-term backup, secondary backup, archival dataset
2. Orginal data that must be preserved even after it has been processed into final usable form
3. Compliance and archival data that needs to be stored for a long time and is hardly ever accessed.

Question 3

Hot access tier

Answer 3

Is recommended for data that accessed and modified frequently

Question 4

Cool access tier

Answer 4

1.Short-term backup and disaster recovery
2. Older data not used frequently but expected to be available immediately when accessed