Storage Flashcards
What storage replication options could you use if you wanted protection against regional failures?
GRS
GZRS
What performance tier and replication option should be configured if you want to support SMB multichannel?
Premium, LRS/ZRS
What type of storage replicates data to another region
GRS
Live migration supports what kind of replications?
Migrations to ZRS from LRS or GRS
Type must be General Purpose V2
What is the cheapest storage replication option that replicates data into multiple zones?
ZRS
What type of premium storage accounts are available?
Block blobs
File shares
Page blobs
What performance tiers exist in storage accounts?
Standard
Premium
How would you copy blob data in the US to a secondary location in EU?
Object replication
What storage service supports hierarchical namespace?
Azure Data Lake Storage
What authentication methods do file storage support?
SAS
What authentication methods do blob storage support?
Azure AD and SAS
What is AzCopy?
A command-line utility that is used to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account
What types of storage does Azure Import job support?
Blob storage
File storage
What types of storage does Azure Export job support?
Blob storage
Azure Import/Export services support what types of storage accounts?
Standard General Purpose v2 and v1
Blob Storage
What type of storage accounts can hold table data?
Standard General Purpose v2 and v1
What type of data can GPv2 storage accounts hold?
All kinds
Blobs, files, queues, tables
What replication option provides data resiliency in the event of a data center outage that is the most cost efficient?
ZRS
What storage replication option costs the least?
LRS
What type of authentication for storage would you use if you wanted temporary access?
SAS
What is the cheapest type of storage account to make?
GPv2
What needs to be done to sync files to an on-premise server?
- Install Azure File Sync on Server
- Register Server
- Create a sync group
What needs to be done to import data to an on-premise server?
Prepare drives
Create an import job
Ship drives to Microsoft
Update job with tracking info
If you wanted to map a file share with file explorer, what path would you use?
\{storageAccountName}.file.core.
windows.net\{fileShareName}
When generating a SAS, what must be allowed to enable the ability to download blobs?
- Allow object as resource type
- Read-access
How many copies of the storage account would there be with LRS replication?
3
What is a rehydrated file?
Files that were in the archive tier first and then returned to hot/cool tier
What does using SAS give you control over?
Permissions granted
Duration of access
Protocols allowed
What does Azure Disk Encryption encrypt?
- The OS & data disks of Azure VMs
- Data remains encrypted when downloaded
What storage types can you encrypt with encryption scope?
Container
Individual blob
What Azure storage services support conditions in RBAC assignments?
Containers
Queues
Where does Azure Import import data to?
Azure file storage
Azure blob storage
What type of blobs support tiering?
Block blobs
Storage accounts with which replication option support the archive tier?
LRS, GRS, RA-GRS
Lifecycle management policies are supported for what type of data?
Block and append blobs in:
GPv2, premium block blob, and blob storage accounts
What happens if you define more than one life cycle management policy on a blob?
Applies the least expensive action
What is the maximum number of stored access policies you can have on a container?
5
What does a storage sync group contain?
ONE cloud endpoint or Azure file share
One or more server endpoints
What type of encryption does Azure storage encryption support?
RSA and RSA-HSM keys of sizes 2048, 3072, 4096
What operations can you not perform in Azure Storage Explorer?
Cannot create a new storage account directly
What steps are needed to back up a resource?
Create recovery services vault
Set replication type
Create a backup policy for the resource and configure it
What are encryption scopes?
- 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
What encryption options are available for file storage?
SAS
What encryption options are available for blob storage?
SAS
Azure AD
What are the pre-requisites of object replication?
- Source and destination account must be GPv2 or premium block blob
- Data must be block blob
What premium storage accounts are available?
Block blobs
File shares
Page blobs
What does applying an access policy do?
- 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
What is used to map a drive to the data file share from a home computer?
SMB, port 445
What type of accounts are premium file shares hosted in?
FileStorage accounts
What might be a reason you cannot add a file share as a server endpoint?
Server is not registered
What service should you use for data that requires persistent storage?
Azure Files
What types of services does AzCopy not support?
Table and queue storage services
What resources can be backed up?
VMs
Fileshares
What needs to be done before you can delete a recovery services vault?
From the vault, first stop the backup, then delete
What replication options replicate your data synchronously?
ZRS
What is the difference between a cloud and server endpoint in terms of syncing?
- Cloud endpoints are scanned for sync every 24 hours
- On-premise servers are synced automatically after upload
Azure Import/Export service supports what kind of storage accounts?
GPv2
GPv1
Blob storage
What is lifecycle management in Azure storage?
Allows you to automatically move data between hot, cool, cold, and archive tiers during the data lifecycle
Can you choose which region GRS replicates your data to?
No
