A legal team stores scanned contracts in Blob Archive. Auditors will need to open several files next week for about five days and then the documents should return to the lowest practical storage cost. Which two actions should the administrator plan? Select two.

Download the blobs directly from Archive with a normal read operation.

Archive blobs are offline, so a normal read request cannot retrieve the data immediately from the archive tier.

Set the blobs to the Hot tier permanently as soon as the review starts.

Hot works technically after rehydration, but permanently leaving compliance data in Hot increases storage cost unnecessarily.

Change the storage account redundancy to RA-GRS so the files can be read.

Redundancy affects durability and regional availability, not whether archived blobs are online or readable immediately.

What does this AZ-104 question test?

Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.

What is the correct answer to this question?

The correct answer is: Initiate a rehydration to the Cool tier before the review window. — Archived blobs are offline and must be rehydrated before they can be read. Because the auditors need repeated access over several days, rehydrating to Cool is a better fit than keeping the data in Hot. After the review window, moving the blobs back to Archive returns them to the lowest practical storage cost. The scenario is really about both the temporary rehydration step and the return-to-archive step. Why others are wrong: Archive does not support direct reads, so normal downloads fail. Hot is online but unnecessarily expensive for a short, infrequent review. Redundancy choices do not change the archive tier behavior. The key issue is tier lifecycle, not the storage account's replication setting.

What should I do if I get this AZ-104 question wrong?

Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.