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Question 27
Microsoft Azure Storage is a managed service that provides durable, secure, and scalable storage in the cloud. You can create an Azure storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. Azure Storage provides three distinct account options with different pricing and features supported.
Which of the Azure Storage account options is best described by:
“Support all of the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables. Pricing has been designed to deliver the lowest per gigabyte prices.”
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A
GPv1
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B
Page
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C
Queue
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D
Append
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E
GPv2
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F
Block
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G
Blob storage accounts
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Correct answer: E
Explanation
Create a storage account
You can create an Azure storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. Azure Storage provides three distinct account options with different pricing and features supported.
General-purpose v1 (GPv1)
General-purpose v1 (GPv1) accounts provide access to all Azure Storage services but may not have the latest features or the lowest per gigabyte pricing. For example, cool storage and archive storage are not supported in GPv1. Pricing is lower for GPv1 transactions, so workloads with high churn or high read rates may benefit from this account type.
General-purpose v2 (GPv2)
General-purpose v2 (GPv2) accounts are storage accounts that support all of the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables. Pricing for GPv2 accounts has been designed to deliver the lowest per gigabyte prices.
Blob storage accounts
A legacy account type, blob storage accounts support all the same block blob features as GPv2, but they are limited to supporting only block and append blobs. Pricing is broadly similar to pricing for general-purpose v2 accounts.
A. GPv1 storage accounts are an older version compared to GPv2 and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices as described in the question.
B. Page storage accounts are used for storing random access files and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices as described in the question.
C. Queue storage accounts are specifically used for storing messages in queues and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices as described in the question.
D. Append storage accounts are designed for append blobs and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices as described in the question.
E. GPv2 storage accounts support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables. They are designed to deliver the lowest per gigabyte prices compared to other storage account options, making them a cost-effective choice for storing data in Azure Storage.
F. Block storage accounts are not the best option described in the question. They are primarily used for storing unstructured data as block blobs and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices.
G. Blob storage accounts are optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, specifically blobs, and do not support all the latest features for blobs, files, queues, and tables with the lowest per gigabyte prices as described in the question.
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