Storage Flashcards

1
Q

What storage replication options could you use if you wanted protection against regional failures?

A

GRS
GZRS

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2
Q

What performance tier and replication option should be configured if you want to support SMB multichannel?

A

Premium, LRS/ZRS

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3
Q

What type of storage replicates data to another region

A

GRS

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4
Q

Live migration supports what kind of replications?

A

Migrations to ZRS from LRS or GRS
Type must be General Purpose V2

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5
Q

What is the cheapest storage replication option that replicates data into multiple zones?

A

ZRS

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6
Q

What type of premium storage accounts are available?

A

Block blobs
File shares
Page blobs

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7
Q

What performance tiers exist in storage accounts?

A

Standard
Premium

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8
Q

How would you copy blob data in the US to a secondary location in EU?

A

Object replication

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9
Q

What storage service supports hierarchical namespace?

A

Azure Data Lake Storage

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10
Q

What authentication methods do file storage support?

A

SAS

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11
Q

What authentication methods do blob storage support?

A

Azure AD and SAS

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12
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What is AzCopy?

A

A command-line utility that is used to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account

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13
Q

What types of storage does Azure Import job support?

A

Blob storage
File storage

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14
Q

What types of storage does Azure Export job support?

A

Blob storage

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15
Q

Azure Import/Export services support what types of storage accounts?

A

Standard General Purpose v2 and v1
Blob Storage

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16
Q

What type of storage accounts can hold table data?

A

Standard General Purpose v2 and v1

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17
Q

What type of data can GPv2 storage accounts hold?

A

All kinds
Blobs, files, queues, tables

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18
Q

What replication option provides data resiliency in the event of a data center outage that is the most cost efficient?

A

ZRS

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19
Q

What storage replication option costs the least?

A

LRS

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20
Q

What type of authentication for storage would you use if you wanted temporary access?

A

SAS

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21
Q

What is the cheapest type of storage account to make?

A

GPv2

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22
Q

What needs to be done to sync files to an on-premise server?

A
  • Install Azure File Sync on Server
  • Register Server
  • Create a sync group
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23
Q

What needs to be done to import data to an on-premise server?

A

Prepare drives
Create an import job
Ship drives to Microsoft
Update job with tracking info

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24
Q

If you wanted to map a file share with file explorer, what path would you use?

A

\{storageAccountName}.file.core.
windows.net\{fileShareName}

25
Q

When generating a SAS, what must be allowed to enable the ability to download blobs?

A
  • Allow object as resource type
  • Read-access
26
Q

How many copies of the storage account would there be with LRS replication?

A

3

27
Q

What is a rehydrated file?

A

Files that were in the archive tier first and then returned to hot/cool tier

28
Q

What does using SAS give you control over?

A

Permissions granted
Duration of access
Protocols allowed

29
Q

What does Azure Disk Encryption encrypt?

A
  • The OS & data disks of Azure VMs
  • Data remains encrypted when downloaded
30
Q

What storage types can you encrypt with encryption scope?

A

Container
Individual blob

31
Q

What Azure storage services support conditions in RBAC assignments?

A

Containers
Queues

32
Q

Where does Azure Import import data to?

A

Azure file storage
Azure blob storage

33
Q

What type of blobs support tiering?

A

Block blobs

34
Q

Storage accounts with which replication option support the archive tier?

A

LRS, GRS, RA-GRS

35
Q

Lifecycle management policies are supported for what type of data?

A

Block and append blobs in:
GPv2, premium block blob, and blob storage accounts

36
Q

What happens if you define more than one life cycle management policy on a blob?

A

Applies the least expensive action

37
Q

What is the maximum number of stored access policies you can have on a container?

A

5

38
Q

What does a storage sync group contain?

A

ONE cloud endpoint or Azure file share
One or more server endpoints

39
Q

What type of encryption does Azure storage encryption support?

A

RSA and RSA-HSM keys of sizes 2048, 3072, 4096

40
Q

What operations can you not perform in Azure Storage Explorer?

A

Cannot create a new storage account directly

41
Q

What steps are needed to back up a resource?

A

Create recovery services vault
Set replication type
Create a backup policy for the resource and configure it

42
Q

What are encryption scopes?

A
  • Enable you to manage encryption with a key that is scoped to a container or an individual blob
  • Used to create secure boundaries between data that resides in the same storage account but belongs to different customers
43
Q

What encryption options are available for file storage?

A

SAS

44
Q

What encryption options are available for blob storage?

A

SAS
Azure AD

45
Q

What are the pre-requisites of object replication?

A
  • Source and destination account must be GPv2 or premium block blob
  • Data must be block blob
46
Q

What premium storage accounts are available?

A

Block blobs
File shares
Page blobs

47
Q

What does applying an access policy do?

A
  • Applies a time-based retention policy where objects can be created/read but not modified/deleted
  • After the retention period has expired, objects can be deleted but not overwritten
48
Q

What is used to map a drive to the data file share from a home computer?

A

SMB, port 445

49
Q

What type of accounts are premium file shares hosted in?

A

FileStorage accounts

50
Q

What might be a reason you cannot add a file share as a server endpoint?

A

Server is not registered

51
Q

What service should you use for data that requires persistent storage?

A

Azure Files

52
Q

What types of services does AzCopy not support?

A

Table and queue storage services

53
Q

What resources can be backed up?

A

VMs
Fileshares

54
Q

What needs to be done before you can delete a recovery services vault?

A

From the vault, first stop the backup, then delete

55
Q

What replication options replicate your data synchronously?

A

ZRS

56
Q

What is the difference between a cloud and server endpoint in terms of syncing?

A
  • Cloud endpoints are scanned for sync every 24 hours
  • On-premise servers are synced automatically after upload
57
Q

Azure Import/Export service supports what kind of storage accounts?

A

GPv2
GPv1
Blob storage

58
Q

What is lifecycle management in Azure storage?

A

Allows you to automatically move data between hot, cool, cold, and archive tiers during the data lifecycle

59
Q

Can you choose which region GRS replicates your data to?

A

No