Microsoft Azure Storage exam |43 questions with 100% correct answers

You are creating an Azure storage account. You have decided on a general purpose storage account. Which two performance tiers are available for general purpose storage accounts? Standard, Premium. General purpose storage accounts have two performance tiers: standard and premium. Your Azure storage account is always replicated to ensure durability and high availability. By default, which of the following replications schemes is used? Read-access redundant storage. By default, Azure storage accounts are configured to use read-only redundant storage. Read access geo-redundant storage replicates your data to a secondary geographic location, and also provides read access to your data in the secondary location. What type of storage account is backed by magnetic drives and provides the lowest cost per GB? Standard. Standard storage accounts are backed by magnetic drives and provide the lowest cost per GB. The basic syntax for AzCopy commands includes which two of the following parameters? /Dest:, /Source:. The basic syntax for AzCopy includes Source (/Source:) and Destination (/Dest:). You deploy a virtual machine to a single Azure datacenter. How many copies of the data are stored in the datacenter? By default, Azure stores three copies of your data. If a virtual machine fails, Azure can quickly move you to new hardware so that downtime is minimized. You have installed Storage Explorer and would like to manage storage resources in another Azure subscription. The administrator for the other subscription does not want to provide their account credentials. What two other options do you have? Account name and key, Shared access signature. To access storage resources belonging to another subscription you can use Account name and key, or a Shared access signature. If you choose this redundancy strategy you can not convert to another redundancy strategy without creating a new storage account and copying the data to the account. Zone-redundant storage. You will need to be careful in your selection of redundancy level. A ZRS account cannot be converted later to LRS or GRS. Similarly, an existing LRS or GRS account cannot be converted to a ZRS account. If you have existing blobs in blob storage and you want to use ZRS, then you have to create a ZRS account, and copy the blobs to the new account. What type of storage can only be used with Azure virtual machine disks and is best for I/O intensive applications? Premium storage. Premium storage can only be used with Azure virtual machine disks and is best for read and write intensive. The maximum size for a file share is? (Answer in TBs) The maximum size for a file share is 5 TBs. Which two of the following virtual machines can support premium storage? Premium Storage is only supported on Azure DS, DSv2, GS, or FS series virtual machines. You are mapping a file share and are prompted for credentials. Which two of the following should you provide? To obtain access to your file share you should provide the storage account name and the storage account access key. You would like to use PowerShell to upload a local file to a file share directory. Which cmdlet can you use? Set-AzureStorageFileContent. You can use Set-AzureStorageFileContent to upload the contents of a file. Your 1 TB file share is quickly filling up. You need to increase the size of the file share. What should you do? Change the file share quota. You can change the file share quota on the fly. There is no need to restart the virtual machine. You add a data disk to an Azure virtual machine. What drive type is created? You can add virtual disks to every virtual machine to store application data or other data you need to keep. Data disks are registered as SCSI drives and are labeled with a letter that you choose. You are attaching an existing virtual hard disk to a virtual machine. Which format is supported? VHD. The existing disk must be in the VHD format. Which storage type should you use for streaming audio and video files? Blob. Blob storage should be used for audio and video files. Which two of the following are characteristics of block blob storage? Blob block storage is the most cost effective storage. Data is written in blocks and optimized for sequention I/O. You have just created a new Blob service. By default, By default, when you create a blob container it is private to the owner. Azure virtual machine operating system and data disks use this type of blob storage. Page blob. Azure virtual machine operating system and data disks use page blob storage. You have a VHD file in blob storage in the cloud and want to download it to your on-premises storage. Which PowerShell command should you use? Save-AzureRmVHD. Save-AzureRmVHD downloads VHDs from a blob to a file. The Add-AzureRmVHD command uploads a VHD file from X to X The Add-AzureRmVhd command uploads a VHD file from an on-premise machine to a blob in a cloud storage account in Azure. You would like to upload a VHD to blob storage in the cloud. Which three of these tools can you use to do this? Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Storage Explorer. How many days can a message remain in the queue? (Enter the number of days) A message can remain in the queue up to a maximum of 7 days. An Azure table entry can have a maximum of how many properties? An Azure table entity can have up to 255 properties. Which PowerShell cmdlet will display the approximate number of messages in a storage queue associated with an Azure Storage account? Get-AzureStorageQueue. Get-AzureStorageQueue will retrieve general information about the storage queue including approximate message count. What is the maximum size of a message in the Azure message queue? (Enter the size in kb) A message can be in any format, up to 64 KB. Which three of the following are required properties for an Azure table entry? PartitionKey, RowKey, Timestamp. These three properties are required for each Azure table entry. An entity is a collection of Properties. An entity is a collect of properties. A table is a collection of Entities. A table is a collection of entities. An entity is a set of properties. Storage analytics logging is not available for which of the following? Files. Storage analytics logging is not available for the file service. It is available for blobs, queues, and tables. You would like to provide a third party temporary access to an Azure file. Which of these technologies would be best? Shared access signature. Shared access signature can provide access to a storage object, container, or service for a limited period of time. When selecting a region for your backup vault For speed of data transfer it is best to chose a region close to your production server. Azure automatically backs up the data to secondary center. So there is no need to select a region that is far away from your production server. By default, storage analytics retention is set to how many days? (Enter a numeric value) By default, storage analytics retention is set to zero (0) days. This means storage metrics and logs are kept indefinitely and you are responsible for cleaning up the storage. Which three of the following statements is true about Azure backups? Azure backup uses cached files. You should allow at least 10% of the production server disk for caching. Azure will encrypt and decrypt your files using a passphrase that you supply. If you lose the passphrase your backup cannot be recovered. When setting up Azure Backup you will need to download which two items? Azure Backup Agent, Vault credentials. To use Azure Backup you will need to download the Azure Backup Agent. When you install (register) the backup agent you will need the vault credentials.