Azure Storage Accounts

Question 1

What is an Azure Storage Account?

Answer 1

A storage entity in Azure that holds and manages all your Azure data objects like blobs, files, and disks.

Question 2

What are the different types are Storage Accounts?

Answer 2

General-Purpose v1 (Legacy, use GPv2 instead)
General-Purpose v2
BlockBlobStorage
FileStorage
BlobStorage (Legacy, use GPv2 instead)

Question 3

What Storage Account can be used for all types of Azure storage data objects and generally used in most scenarios?

Answer 3

General-Purpose v2

Question 4

Which Storage Account is the only types that supports Data Lake Gen2 data?

Answer 4

General-Purpose v2

Question 5

What are BlockBlobStorage Accounts?

Answer 5

Premium performance accounts designed for block blobs and append blobs.

Question 6

What Storage Account is recommended for scenarios requiring low storage latency, higher transaction rates, or where data objects are smaller?

Answer 6

BlockBlobStorage Accounts

Question 7

What are FileStorage Accounts?

Answer 7

Provides premium tier performance for files (only stores files).

Question 8

What Storage Account is recommended for enterprise applications or high-performance scale applications?

Answer 8

FileStorage Accounts

Question 9

What are Storage Account Endpoints?

Answer 9

Publicly accessible unique namespaces in Azure for your data.

Question 10

Identify the container name, object name, storage account name and storage Service Endpoint in the following Storage Endpoint URL:

Question 11

Fill in the Blanks:

Answer 11