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A reporting application stores files in Azure Blob Storage. The business wants the secondary region to be readable if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option should you use?
Easy2A partner company needs write access to a single blob container for 24 hours. The partner does not have an Azure subscription in your tenant, and the team does not want to share the storage account key. Which access method is the best choice?
Medium3A user deleted one Excel file from a file share backed up with Azure Backup. You want to restore only that file, not the entire share. What should you use?
Easy4A web app in Azure needs to upload files to a blob container. The development team wants the app to authenticate without storing a storage account key or password in code. Which approach should the administrator configure?
Easy5You are managing an Azure Storage account that hosts a large number of blobs. You need to ensure that data can be recovered if blobs are accidentally deleted or overwritten. Which three of the following actions should you take? (Choose three.)
Medium6You need a storage redundancy option that keeps data available if an entire availability zone in the primary region fails, but you do not need cross-region replication. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium7Match each storage networking requirement to the Azure storage network control that should be used.
Medium8A platform team wants one Azure storage account for application logs in Blob containers and a shared working directory for a Windows admin VM and a Linux automation VM. The account must support blob lifecycle rules, standard performance, and future private endpoint access. Which storage account kind should the administrator create?
Hard9An organization wants a single Azure storage account that can host blob containers, Azure Files shares, and lifecycle management rules for blob data. Which storage account kind should the administrator create?
Medium10Match each storage resiliency requirement to the Azure redundancy option that best satisfies it.
Medium11A compliance team keeps signed contract scans in blob storage. The files are usually not accessed, but when they are needed they must be available immediately without waiting for rehydration. The team wants the lowest-cost online tier that still allows immediate reads. Which access tier should you choose?
Medium12A contractor needs to upload data into one specific blob container for six hours. The administrator must avoid sharing the storage account key and should grant only the minimum permissions needed. Which access method should be used?
Medium13A storage account must be accessible only from one Azure subnet. The security team does not want a private endpoint or private DNS zone, and they are fine with the storage account continuing to use its public FQDN. Which configuration should you use?
Hard14A partner organization needs write access to a single blob container for 24 hours. You want to avoid sharing the storage account key and minimize access scope. Which access mechanism should you provide?
Medium15Match each lifecycle management requirement to the blob tier transition or action that should be configured.
Medium16A company wants its file share data to be automatically copied to a paired Azure region, and administrators want to read the secondary copy during a disaster test. Which redundancy option should they use?
Easy17An application runs on an Azure VM in a subnet and must access a storage account over the public endpoint without using a private IP address. The administrator wants to restrict access so only that subnet can reach the account. What should be configured?
Medium18A web app running in Azure App Service must upload files to a blob container. The team wants to avoid storing any secrets in application settings and wants the app to authenticate without a password or access key. What should the administrator configure?
Medium19A storage account must stay reachable through its public endpoint, but only Azure workloads in AppSubnet should be allowed to access it. No private IP is required. What should you configure?
Easy20Which two authentication methods let an app access blob data without storing the storage account key on the machine? Select two.
Easy21Based on the exhibit, which method should the administrator use to grant the partner time-limited access to one container?
Medium22You store long-term financial statements in Azure Blob Storage. The files are almost never accessed, but when they are needed they must be readable immediately without waiting for rehydration. You need to minimize cost. Which access tier should you use?
Hard23A help desk engineer must be able to start, stop, and resize only VM-App01. The engineer must not gain access to any other virtual machines or resource groups in the subscription. What scope should you use for the Azure RBAC role assignment?
Easy24A Windows VM and a Linux VM in Azure need to use the same shared folder for application artifacts. The team wants a managed file service instead of running a separate file server VM, and both operating systems must be able to mount the share using a standard protocol. Which solution should the administrator implement?
Medium25Before changing a managed data disk attached to a VM, you want a point-in-time copy that can be restored later if the change fails. What should you create?
Easy26A help desk group must use the Azure portal to start a virtual machine, stop or deallocate it, and see its current state, but they must not change any other VM settings. Which three Microsoft.Compute actions should be included in a custom role? Select three.
Hard27An engineering team stores build artifacts that are downloaded every day by developers for a week after release, then rarely after that. Which tier should the administrator choose for the period when the artifacts are still actively used?
Easy28An administrator moved old log blobs to the Archive tier last month. An auditor now needs one blob for review later today. What must happen before the blob can be opened?
Medium29Match each data-access pattern to the blob tier or required action.
Medium30You need to grant an external partner temporary read access to a single blob in an Azure storage account without giving access to the account key. What should you create?
Medium31A DevOps pipeline runs on an on-premises build server and must deploy ARM templates to a resource group in Azure without using a user password. The server is not in Azure, so managed identity is not available. What should the administrator create?
Medium32A VM-based app must upload invoices to a blob container every hour. Security prohibits storing account keys or SAS tokens on the VM. The app should authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID and be allowed only to write blobs in one container. What should you configure?
Medium33A finance operations team manages virtual machines in RG-App. They must start, stop, deallocate, and view VM properties for any VM in that resource group. They must not be able to delete VMs, read NIC settings, or manage disks. What should the administrator do?
Hard34A storage account hosts blobs used by a public website. You need to reduce the risk of accidental deletion by developers while allowing updates to existing blobs. What should you configure?
Medium35An application writes transaction logs to a storage account in a region that supports availability zones. The business wants the account to stay available if one datacenter or zone fails, but it does not need a secondary region replica. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium36An analytics platform stores daily export files in Azure Blob Storage. The business wants the storage account to survive a failure of any one availability zone and also keep a replicated copy in a paired region for disaster recovery. No one needs to read from the secondary region unless a disaster recovery event occurs. Which redundancy option should be used?
Hard37Match each blob tier or protection feature to the correct description.
Easy38A finance department shares a resource group containing a critical VM and a storage account. Administrators must still be able to update settings and apply patches, but no one should accidentally delete the resources. Which lock should be applied at the resource group level?
Medium39A 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.
Hard40A web app running in Azure App Service must read blobs from a storage account. The app must authenticate without storing secrets or SAS tokens, and administrators should grant only blob data permissions, not storage management permissions. What should you configure?
Medium41You need to allow a partner application to upload files to a blob container for the next 24 hours. The partner must not receive the storage account key. What should you provide?
Hard42Order the steps to configure Azure AD Connect for hybrid identity.
Medium43A finance team stores application blobs in an Azure Storage account. The data must remain available if a single availability zone in the region is lost, and the team does not need automatic read access from another region. Which redundancy option best meets the requirement?
Medium44A hub VNet already has a VPN gateway connected to on-premises networks. A new spoke VNet must reach those on-premises networks through the existing gateway without deploying another gateway. Which peering settings are required?
Medium45A Windows file server VM in Azure must mount an Azure file share by using existing Active Directory Domain Services credentials instead of a storage account key. The organization already has domain-joined Windows servers in the environment. What should the administrator configure on the storage account?
Medium46A line-of-business application stores transaction logs in an Azure Storage account. The app must keep working if one availability zone in the primary region fails, and administrators want read access to the secondary copy if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium47An administrator moved a blob to the Archive tier last month. A user needs to open it tomorrow. What must happen before the file can be read?
Easy48Based on the exhibit, what is the best access change to let John download blobs from only the invoices container?
Medium49A development team needs a single Azure Storage account for blob containers, Azure Files shares, and blob lifecycle rules. The account must support standard performance and allow future use of access tiers. Which account kind should you create?
Medium50Match each file-sharing requirement to the best Azure Files mounting or integration approach.
Medium51An analytics team stores exported reports in a storage account. They want the data to survive a zone failure and a regional outage, and if the primary region becomes unavailable they also want read-only access to the replica while failover is being planned. Which redundancy option should you select?
Medium52A partner must upload files to one blob container for 12 hours. You do not want to share the storage account key, and the access should expire automatically. Which access method should you use?
Easy53An archive team stores legal exhibits in Azure Blob Storage. The files are downloaded only during quarterly audits, but when an auditor needs one, it must be readable immediately without waiting for a rehydration job. The team wants the lowest practical cost after the first 30 days and does not want to move blobs manually each quarter. What should the administrator configure?
Hard54A contractor needs temporary access to upload and download files in only one blob container for 8 hours. You do not want to share the storage account key, and you want to revoke access later without affecting other containers. What should you create?
Medium55A storage account must be accessible only from one virtual network, and the storage service must have a private IP address inside that network. Public network access should be disabled. Which solution should the administrator use?
Medium56You need to create a storage account that provides the lowest-cost redundant storage for non-critical data and only needs protection against local disk or server failure within a single datacenter. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium57A reporting system requires a storage account that is zone resilient in the primary region and also keeps a geo-replicated secondary copy that can be read during an outage. Which redundancy option should you select?
Medium58A partner company needs to upload files to a single blob container for the next 24 hours. The partner should not receive the storage account key, and the access should be limited to that container only. Which access mechanism should you provide?
Medium59A business-critical storage account must survive a zone outage in the primary region and also keep a read-only copy in the paired region for reporting if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium60A lifecycle rule moves blobs to the archive tier after 90 days. A file was archived 2 weeks ago, and a reporting job now needs to read it tomorrow morning. What should you expect?
Medium61A platform team created a BlobStorage account for application logs. Later they discovered the same account must also host an Azure Files share for a Linux automation server, and lifecycle rules must continue to manage blob tiers. Standard performance is sufficient. What should they do?
Hard62A Windows VM mounts an Azure Files share by using SMB and identity-based authentication. Which two permission layers can affect access to folders in the share? Select two.
Easy63Your company stores monthly reports in Azure Blob Storage. The reports are rarely accessed, but when needed they must be read within seconds rather than hours. You need to minimize storage cost while preserving near-immediate availability. Which access tier should you use?
Hard64A hub VNet contains a VPN gateway that provides access to on-premises resources. A spoke VNet is peered to the hub and must send on-premises traffic through the hub gateway without deploying its own gateway. What peering configuration is required?
Medium65An Azure Files share must stay available if one availability zone in its primary region fails. The business does not need replication to another region. Which redundancy option should you choose for the storage account?
Easy66Based on the exhibit, the security team wants AppSubnet to access an Azure Storage account through the public endpoint, but only that subnet should be allowed. They do not want a private IP or DNS changes. What should the administrator configure?
Medium67A reporting team stores read-only analytics files in Azure Blob Storage. The files must replicate to a paired region so they survive a regional outage, and analysts want to read the secondary copy through the secondary endpoint without waiting for failover. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Medium68A company stores customer documents in Azure Blob Storage. The business requires the data to stay available if one availability zone in the region has an outage. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Easy69A support engineer finds a blob that was moved to the Archive tier by a lifecycle rule and must download it today. Which two actions are required before the blob can be read? Select two.
Easy70A storage account must be reachable only from resources in one Azure subnet, and public network access should not be used. Which configuration best meets this requirement?
Easy71A company hosts documents in Azure Blob Storage. The files must remain available if one availability zone in the region fails. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Easy72A media company stores project video assets in Azure Blob Storage. The business requires the data to survive a single availability zone outage in the primary region. In addition, if the primary region becomes unavailable, operations staff must still be able to read the most recently replicated copy from the secondary region right away, even if writes are temporarily unavailable. Which redundancy option best meets this requirement?
Hard73Based on the exhibit, what should you do so the report can open the file tomorrow morning?
Medium74A finance department stores spreadsheets in an Azure file share. Yesterday a user deleted a subfolder tree, but other folders were modified after that point and must not be rolled back. The administrator wants to restore only the deleted subfolder tree to its state from yesterday. What should the administrator use?
Hard75An application uploads documents by using one of the storage account access keys. The team wants to rotate keys without interrupting uploads. Which process should the administrator follow?
Medium76A development subnet must access an Azure Storage account privately, but the security team does not want to create a private IP in the VNet. They only want the subnet identity to be extended to the storage service. Which feature should the administrator configure?
Medium77A Python app running on an Azure VM must upload blobs to one container in a storage account. The app must not store a storage account key or SAS token on the VM. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Easy78A media archive stores large video files that must survive a zone failure in the primary region and also be replicated to a paired region for disaster recovery. The archive team does not want anyone to read from the secondary region during normal operations, and cost should be lower than the read-access variant. Which redundancy option should you configure?
Hard79A monthly report file must automatically move to a cheaper online tier after 90 days in Azure Blob Storage. Which feature should the administrator configure?
Easy80Match each access scenario to the SAS or key type that best fits it.
Medium81A Windows file server VM must mount an Azure file share by using domain credentials instead of a storage account key. The organization already manages users in Active Directory Domain Services. Which authentication option should be configured for Azure Files?
Medium82A contractor must import data into one blob container for six hours. The contractor should not receive the storage account key, and access must be limited to that container only. Which credential should the administrator generate?
Medium83An administrator is deploying a new storage account for an application. The account must support blob containers, an Azure Files share, lifecycle rules for blobs, and standard access tiers. The application does not need premium performance for a single data service. Which storage account kind should be chosen?
Medium84A web API running in an Azure App Service needs to read and write blobs in a storage account. The operations team does not want to store secrets in app settings or rotate credentials manually. What should they enable on the App Service?
Medium85A hub VNet already has a VPN gateway connected to on-premises. A spoke VNet must send on-premises traffic through the hub gateway without deploying its own gateway. Which peering settings are needed?
Medium86A finance team stores PDF statements in Azure Blob Storage. The workload must survive a zone failure in the primary region, and if the entire region becomes unavailable, auditors still need read-only access to the copies in the secondary region. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium87A user accidentally deleted a nested folder tree from an Azure file share yesterday. Other folders were modified after the deletion and must not be rolled back. The administrator wants to restore only the deleted folder tree. What is the best recovery method?
Medium88A storage account must stay online for applications, but administrators have a temporary freeze on configuration changes. Users can still view the account, but attempts to change the access tier, create a container, or update networking all fail. What most likely caused the behavior?
Medium89A team wants a storage option that stays available if one availability zone in the primary region fails. Which two redundancy options meet that requirement? Select two.
Easy90You need to move infrequently accessed blob data automatically from the Hot tier to the Cool tier after 30 days to reduce cost. What should you configure?
Medium91A legal department archived a 120-GB blob three weeks ago. They now need the file available for review later today, and waiting more than a day would delay a court filing. What should the administrator do to make the blob readable as quickly as possible?
Medium92A web app uses a managed identity to read blobs from a storage account. Security now wants to ensure no future requests can authenticate with shared keys and the app should continue to use secretless access. Which two changes should the administrator make? Select two.
Hard93A web app running in Azure App Service must upload images to a blob container without storing any account keys, passwords, or connection strings in configuration. The app uses only one Azure resource. What should the administrator configure?
Medium94An administrator wants a storage account to be accessible only from one subnet. The storage account should still use its public FQDN, the team does not want a private IP address in the VNet, and they do not want to manage private DNS zones. Which solution should be used?
Hard95An analyst needs a blob that is currently in the Archive tier to be downloadable within the next hour. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Easy96A team wants one Azure Files share to be used by both Windows and Linux virtual machines. Which two mounting approaches are valid? Select two.
Easy97A Windows VM and a Linux VM in Azure must use the same shared working folder for application files. The team does not want to run a separate file server, and both VMs must be able to mount the share by using native operating system tools. What should the administrator deploy?
Medium98Your application stores compliance records in Azure Blob Storage. The records must remain in a write-once-read-many state for three years and must not be altered or deleted during that period. What should you configure?
Hard99You need to choose a storage redundancy option that provides the lowest cost and protects data against local hardware failure within a single datacenter only. Which redundancy option should you select?
Medium100An application runs in a subnet and must reach a storage account over the public endpoint, but only that subnet should be allowed. The team does not want to use a private endpoint. Which two configurations should the administrator use? Select two.
Easy101A company has 15 branch Windows file servers that must show the same shared drive content. Users should keep working during short WAN outages, and local servers should cache frequently used files. Which Azure feature should you deploy?
Medium102An archive of legal documents is accessed only a few times each month, but when someone needs a document it must open immediately without a rehydration wait. Which access tier should be used?
Easy103A team runs a Windows service on an Azure virtual machine that uploads invoices to Blob storage every few minutes. Security policy forbids storing account keys or long-lived SAS tokens on the VM. The service must authenticate without human interaction. What should the administrator configure?
Medium104A compliance team stores signed contract scans in Azure Blob Storage. The data must remain available if one zone in the primary region fails. If the entire primary region is unavailable, the team also needs to read the secondary copy while recovery work is underway. Which redundancy option should you choose for the storage account?
Hard105You have a storage account that stores infrequently accessed data that must remain available immediately when requested. You need to minimize storage costs. Which access tier should you use?
Medium106A team runs a Windows VM in Azure that uploads invoices to a blob container. Security policy forbids storing storage account keys or long-lived SAS tokens on the VM. The app must keep working until the VM is deleted, and access should disappear automatically when the VM is removed. What should the administrator configure?
Medium107A finance department wants several Windows virtual machines to map the same shared drive letter and work with the same files at the same time. Which Azure Storage service should you configure?
Easy108A blob was moved to the Archive tier last month. A project team now needs the file available later today, and they expect to read it several times during review. What should the administrator do first?
Medium109A compliance team wants newly uploaded monthly reports to remain in the Hot tier for 90 days and then move automatically to a cheaper online tier without becoming offline. Which two configurations should the administrator use? Select two.
Hard110A records team stores monthly regulatory exports in a blob container. The files are rarely opened, but auditors may request one specific file later the same day. The team wants the lowest storage cost possible while keeping a path to restore a single file on demand. Which approach should you use?
Hard111A Windows VM and a Linux VM are both joined to the same Active Directory Domain Services domain. Which two authentication methods can be used to mount the same Azure Files share over SMB? Select two.
Easy112A team enabled Azure Files for a Windows-based application. The app can reach the storage account, but the mount fails because users cannot authenticate with the share. The team does not want to use the storage account key. What is the best next step?
Medium113A development team needs one storage account to host blob containers, Azure Files shares, and blob lifecycle management rules. Which two statements about the account are correct? Select two.
Easy114A VM-based application needs to read from Azure Storage without storing a password, access key, or other secret in code or configuration. The identity should also be removed automatically if the VM is deleted. What should you enable?
Easy115A lifecycle rule moved old audit logs to the Archive tier. A support engineer now needs to read one archived blob, and the download request fails with a message that the blob is archived. The engineer can wait several hours for the data to become available. What should the administrator do?
Medium116A business-critical application uses an Azure storage account. The company requires that data remain available even if an entire Azure region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Medium117A support engineer must download a blob that was moved to the Archive tier by a lifecycle rule. The file must be available as soon as possible for an investigation. What should the engineer do first?
Medium118You need to synchronize an on-premises Windows file server with an Azure file share so that branch offices can continue using the local server while keeping cloud-based copies of the files. Which service should you configure?
Medium119An administrator archives monthly log exports in a blob container to reduce storage cost. During an audit, one archived blob must be downloaded and opened later the same day. What must the administrator do before the blob can be read?
Medium120An Azure Function App and an Azure Automation runbook both need to upload, read, and delete blobs in one container. You must avoid stored secrets and keep the permissions as limited as possible. Which two configuration choices should you make? Select two.
Hard121Quarterly invoices were moved to the Archive tier by a lifecycle rule. An auditor now needs one specific blob available for download within the next hour. What should the administrator do?
Hard122An Azure Automation job running on a VM uses a managed identity to upload and overwrite JSON files in one container named configs. The job must not list, delete, or modify any other containers in the storage account. Which role assignment is the best choice?
Hard123A workload uses Azure Blob Storage for customer uploads. The team wants protection against a datacenter failure within the primary region and wants data copied to a paired region for disaster recovery, but they do not need to read from the secondary region during normal operations. Which redundancy option fits best?
Medium124Arrange the steps to create an Azure Storage account with a container and upload a blob.
Medium125A Windows VM in Azure must upload log files to a blob container every hour. Security policy forbids storing the storage account key or any long-lived SAS token on the VM. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Easy126An administrator archived monthly log exports in a blob container six weeks ago. An auditor now needs to open one of those files later today, and the file must be readable from Azure Storage rather than restored from a separate backup copy. What should the administrator do?
Medium127A company has an Azure Storage account that stores application files in Blob Storage. VMs in AppSubnet must access the blobs by using the standard storage account name, but traffic must stay private and the public endpoint must not be used. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Hard128A team wants an Azure Storage account to be reachable only from a single Azure virtual network and to use a private IP address inside that network. Which option should the administrator configure?
Easy129A partner needs temporary read-only access to a single blob in a storage account for the next 24 hours. The partner must not be able to list other blobs or write data. What should you provide?
Hard130A finance team stores monthly invoice PDFs in Azure and wants the data to remain available if an entire availability zone in the region fails. They do not need read access to a secondary region, and they want to keep the storage service simple. Which redundancy option should they choose for the storage account?
Medium131A 180-GB blob was moved to the Archive tier last week. A legal team now needs the file available later today for repeated review, and they are willing to pay more to shorten the wait. Which action should the administrator take first?
Hard132Users in Branch01 access an Azure file share over SMB. Performance is poor because frequently used files are downloaded repeatedly across the WAN. You need to keep a local cache on a Windows Server in Branch01 while keeping Azure Files as the central file share. What should you deploy?
Hard133Your application stores compliance documents in Azure Blob Storage. The documents must be kept in a write-once-read-many state for five years and must not be altered or removed during that time. What should you configure?
Hard134You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for Azure Blob Storage. The storage account is configured with geo-redundant storage (GRS). Which three of the following statements about GRS and failover are true? (Choose three.)
Medium135A storage account must accept traffic only from a single subnet. The team wants to keep using the storage account's public endpoint and does not want to deploy a private endpoint. What should you configure?
Easy136A contractor needs to upload files to one blob container for the next two hours. The contractor must not learn the storage account key, and access should expire automatically without manual cleanup. What is the best way to grant access?
Medium137A team wants to allow a subnet to access a storage account only from that subnet, but they do not want to create a private endpoint or change DNS. The storage account should still be reachable through its public endpoint, just not from other networks. What should the administrator configure?
Medium138You are designing a storage solution for a large-scale data analytics application that will run in Azure. The solution needs to support high-throughput writes, hierarchical namespace for organizing data, and the ability to assign POSIX-like permissions to directories and files. Additionally, the solution must support lifecycle management policies to tier data to cooler storage tiers after 30 days and enable blob-level versioning. Which four of the following features or services should you include in your design? (Choose all that apply. There are four correct answers.)
Medium139A legal team archived a 200-GB blob last quarter. They now need to open it repeatedly later today for review, and waiting more than a day would delay the case. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Hard140A storage account must be reachable only from Azure VMs in a single subnet. Public network access should not be used, and the team wants the storage service to keep using a private IP address inside the virtual network. Which feature should the administrator configure?
Medium141A legal team stores archived case files in Azure Blob Storage. The files are rarely read, but they must remain online and available immediately when needed. Which access tier should the administrator use?
Easy142A developer can access an Azure Blob container from the portal using Microsoft Entra sign-in, but their custom app gets a 403 error when reading the same blob. The storage account is configured to use Azure AD authorization. What is the most likely fix?
Medium143A business stores audit exports in Blob Storage. The account must continue serving writes if one availability zone fails, and reporting users in the paired region must still be able to read the replicated data if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option best meets the requirement?
Hard144A batch job fails with a blob read error after the administrator moved a 200-GB blob to the archive tier. The file must be available again within a few hours, and the administrator wants the least disruptive recovery. What should be done?
Medium145A finance web app in AppSubnet must connect to Azure SQL Database over the service's public endpoint. Only AppSubnet should be allowed, and the security team does not want to deploy any private IPs or change DNS. What should you configure?
Hard146A team has Windows VMs in a subnet that need to access an Azure Storage account. The storage account should remain reachable through its public endpoint, but only traffic from that one subnet should be allowed. Which configuration best meets the requirement?
Medium147A user accidentally deleted a folder tree from an Azure file share. The administrator needs to restore only the deleted folders to the state they had yesterday, not roll back the whole share. Which feature should be used?
Medium148A records archive stores thousands of blobs that are usually read-only. The administrator wants blobs older than 90 days to move automatically to a lower-cost online tier without manual intervention. Which solution should be configured?
Medium149Match each access requirement to the most appropriate Azure Storage authentication or authorization approach.
Medium150A finance application stores monthly invoice PDFs in Azure Blob Storage. The business wants the data to remain available if one availability zone in the region becomes unavailable, but it does not require a secondary region for read access. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Medium151A reporting team wants a storage redundancy option that keeps a readable copy in the paired region. Which two choices provide read access to the secondary region? Select two.
Easy152A team has an existing storage account with the public endpoint enabled. They want to allow access only from a specific subnet in a virtual network, but they do not want to create a private endpoint or manage private DNS zones. Which configuration should the administrator use?
Medium153A business stores audit logs in Azure Blob Storage. The account must remain available if an entire availability zone in the primary region fails, and analysts must still be able to read the data from the paired region if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which replication option should the administrator select?
Hard154A 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?
Medium155Match each blob access method or setting to its best use case.
Easy156A business-critical storage account must keep data available if one availability zone fails in the primary region. It must also keep a readable copy in the paired region so administrators can verify data during disaster recovery testing before failover. Which redundancy option should be selected?
Medium157A team stores application logs in an Azure Storage account. The logs must remain available if an entire Azure availability zone in the primary region has an outage, but the team does not require a secondary region copy. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Easy158A deployment pipeline uploads content to a blob container in Azure Storage. The pipeline authenticates with Microsoft Entra ID and must grant a partner temporary write access for 12 hours without sharing the storage account key. The access should be limited to the container only. Which access method should the administrator use?
Hard159A company wants a single storage account for blob containers, Azure Files shares, and blob lifecycle management rules. Which two statements about the required account are true? Select two.
Easy160Based on the exhibit, which Azure feature best meets the file-sharing requirement?
Medium161You need to allow recovery of previous versions of files stored in an Azure file share after accidental modification or deletion. Which feature should you configure?
Hard162A contractor needs temporary read-only access to a single blob container for three hours. The contractor does not have an Azure user account in your tenant. Which method is the best fit?
Easy163A web app in a subnet must access a storage account through the storage account's public FQDN. Access must be limited to that single subnet, and the team does not want to deploy a private endpoint or manage private DNS records. Which configuration should you use?
Hard164An employee accidentally deletes a critical document from an Azure file share. You need to restore only that file to its earlier state without restoring the entire share or using a vault-based backup job. Which feature should you use?
Medium165A finance team stores monthly reports in Azure Blob Storage. The data must remain available if one datacenter in the Azure region fails, but the company does not need read access from a secondary region. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Easy166An application on a VM in subnet AppSubnet must access a storage account over the public endpoint. The security team wants to allow traffic only from AppSubnet and does not want to deploy a private endpoint. What should the administrator configure?
Medium167A Windows file server VM in Azure needs to mount an Azure file share by using existing Active Directory Domain Services credentials. The security team does not want to use storage account keys. Which authentication option should be configured for Azure Files?
Medium168A team moved blob data to the Archive tier to minimize cost. They now need to restore a few files for an audit. Which two statements are true about accessing archived blobs? Select two.
Medium169A team wants to restrict a storage account so only one Azure subnet can reach it. They do not need a private IP address, and they are fine with the storage account still using its public endpoint. Which configuration should the administrator use?
Medium170A company stores contract PDFs in Azure Blob Storage. The application must keep working if one datacenter in the primary region has an outage, and auditors also want read-only access to the replicated data from the secondary region during a regional outage. Which redundancy option should the administrator choose?
Medium171Diagnostic settings on an Azure storage account must send logs to a destination storage account that has its firewall set to deny all public network access. The team cannot create a private endpoint, but the destination service is one of the Azure services that can bypass the firewall as a trusted Microsoft service. What should the administrator enable?
Hard172An archived blob must be read tomorrow morning. Which two actions are required before the blob can be opened? Select two.
Easy173A records team stores blobs that are read often during the first month and then rarely accessed later, but the files must stay online the whole time. Which two access tiers should they use for the active and inactive data sets? Select two.
Easy174A media archive contains video files that are accessed only a few times per year, but they must remain online and readable immediately whenever an investigator requests them. Which blob access tier should the administrator choose to minimize storage cost?
Medium175You plan to store backup files that are written once per week and are rarely accessed except during an audit. The company wants the lowest storage cost but still needs online access within hours, not days. Which blob access tier should you choose?
Medium176Your company stores departmental documents in an Azure file share. Users need to be able to recover previous versions of files that were deleted or modified accidentally. You need a solution that supports recovery at the file share level without deploying additional virtual machines. What should you configure?
Hard177A legal department keeps signed contract scans in a blob container. The files are almost never opened, but when a reviewer requests one, it must be available later the same day and then stay online for about three days while the review is completed. The team wants the lowest ongoing storage cost during that review window. What should the administrator do?
Hard178An analytics team keeps quarterly telemetry exports in Azure Blob Storage. The files are accessed only a few times per year, but when they are needed they must remain online and immediately readable without any rehydration delay. Which access tier should you use?
Hard179An application team plans to store block blobs for application logs, lifecycle them to cooler tiers over time, and use Azure Monitor diagnostic exports from several Azure resources into the same storage account. They also want access tier controls and general-purpose features in one place. Which storage account type should the administrator create?
Medium180Match each Azure Storage redundancy option to the best description.
Easy181A Windows VM and a Linux VM in the same on-premises Active Directory Domain Services domain must mount the same Azure Files share over SMB. Security policy forbids storage account keys and long-lived SAS tokens. What should the administrator configure?
Hard182A development team stores build artifacts in Azure Blob Storage. The artifacts must remain available if one datacenter in the Azure region fails, but the business does not want to pay for replication to another region. Which redundancy option should the administrator select?
Medium183A legal department keeps evidence files in Azure Blob Storage. The files are accessed only a few times per year, but they must stay online and be immediately readable when requested. The team wants the lowest-cost online tier and does not want a rehydration step. Which tier should you choose?
Hard184Before changing a managed data disk on a production VM, you want a point-in-time copy that you can keep and restore later if needed. What should you create?
Easy185A legacy application still authenticates to Azure Blob Storage by using the account key. Security now requires preventing any new requests that use shared key authorization, while leaving the storage account itself and Microsoft Entra-based access unchanged. Which setting should the administrator enable?
Hard186A contractor needs to upload files into one blob container for six hours. The administrator must avoid sharing the storage account key, and the access token should keep working even if the storage account keys are rotated later. Which access mechanism should be issued?
Hard187An on-premises application connects to Azure through an existing site-to-site VPN. The application must access an Azure Blob Storage account over a private IP, and the storage account must not accept public network traffic. Which configuration should the administrator deploy?
Medium188A user deleted a nested folder tree from an Azure file share yesterday. Other folders in the share were updated after the deletion and must not be rolled back. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Hard189A team needs one Azure Files share that can be mounted by both Windows and Linux VMs. The VMs are joined to the same on-premises Active Directory Domain Services domain, and the security team forbids storage account keys. The team also wants to manage access with existing AD group memberships. What should the administrator configure?
Hard190Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure to meet the storage access requirement?
Easy191A data-processing app reads blobs immediately after upload, and operations do not want any rehydration delay. Which three access tiers can be read directly? Select three.
Medium192Match each workload requirement to the Azure storage account kind that best fits it.
Medium193You need to give a third-party auditor temporary read-only access to specific blobs in a container without sharing the storage account keys. Which feature should you use?
Medium194A storage account should accept requests only from a specific virtual network subnet in Azure. The team does not want traffic to reach the public endpoint from the internet. What should the administrator configure?
Easy195A compliance team keeps signed contract scans in Azure Blob Storage. The files are usually read only a few times per year, but when a reviewer needs one, it must be available immediately without waiting for rehydration. Which access tier should the administrator use?
Medium196A web app currently accesses Azure Blob Storage by using the storage account key in a connection string. Security now requires blocking any new requests that use shared key authorization, while Microsoft Entra-based access must continue to work. Which storage account setting should the administrator change?
Medium197A Windows VM runs an application that uploads files to a blob container every hour. Security forbids storing storage account keys or long-lived SAS tokens on the VM. The application must be able to write only to that container and nothing else. What should the administrator configure?
Hard198A team wants an Azure Storage account to be reachable only from one subnet, but they do not want to use a private endpoint. Which two configurations should they use? Select two.
Easy199Your application stores regulatory records in Azure Blob Storage. The records must remain in a write-once-read-many state for four years and must not be altered or deleted during that time. What should you configure?
Hard200A contractor needs temporary access to upload files into one Azure Blob container for six hours. The administrator does not want to share the storage account key. What should the administrator create?
Easy201A company uses Azure Blob Storage for legal documents. The documents must not be modified or deleted for seven years after upload, even by administrators. What should you configure?
Hard202A healthcare application stores files that must be protected against a single datacenter outage in the region. The team does not need a secondary region for read access, and they want the simplest resilient option. Which storage redundancy should they choose?
Easy203A blob was moved to the Archive tier last month. A user now needs to open the file within a few hours. What should the administrator do first?
Easy204A backup job from an Azure service must write to a storage account that has the network firewall set to deny all public traffic. The team does not want to create a private endpoint for this workload. What should the administrator enable?
Medium205A legal department stores project video assets in Azure Blob Storage. The files are reviewed only during quarterly audits, but when someone needs a file it must open immediately without waiting for rehydration. Which access tier should the administrator use for the blobs?
Medium206An operations team archived monthly log exports six weeks ago. An auditor now needs one specific blob restored within a day, and the file will likely be opened several times during the audit. Which action should the administrator take first?
Hard207A records team wants blobs to be replicated to a secondary region, and the secondary copy must be readable if the primary region becomes unavailable. Which redundancy option should you choose?
Easy208You have a storage account named stlogs01. An application running on VM-App01 in Azure must access blobs in the account without storing account keys in code or configuration files. What should you use?
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