A lifecycle rule moved quarterly audit logs to the Archive tier. An auditor now needs one blob for an urgent investigation and wants it available for download as soon as the rehydration completes. What should the administrator do?

Copy the blob directly from Archive tier to the client's local disk.

Archived blobs cannot be downloaded immediately. They must be rehydrated to an online tier before standard read operations succeed.

Assign the blob a shorter retention policy so it becomes accessible automatically.

Retention settings affect governance and deletion timing, not whether an archived blob is online and readable.

Move the blob to the Cool tier and attempt the download immediately.

Cool is an online tier, but the blob must first be rehydrated out of Archive before it can be accessed. The download will not work immediately while still archived.

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: Change the blob access tier to Hot and wait for rehydration to finish before downloading it. — Archived blobs are offline, so the administrator must rehydrate the blob into an online tier before it can be read. Selecting Hot is the best choice when immediate access is needed after rehydration because it is optimized for frequent access. The key point is that Archive is not directly downloadable; the access tier must be changed and the rehydration process allowed to finish first. Why others are wrong: A ignores the fact that archived data is offline. C changes governance behavior but does not make archived content readable. D is close because Cool is online, but the blob still has to be rehydrated before any tier can be used for download.

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.