az-104 Practice Question 1710
Exam: az-104
Domain: Implement and manage storage
Topic: Manage data in Azure storage accounts
Difficulty: medium
Contoso Ltd has an Azure Blob Storage account with a large number of blobs that are rarely accessed. They want to reduce costs by moving these blobs to a cooler tier automatically after 30 days of inactivity. Which lifecycle management rule should they configure, and what will be the impact on the storage account's performance?
Answer Options
A
Configure a lifecycle management rule to move blobs to the Hot Access Tier after 30 days of inactivity.
B
Configure a lifecycle management rule to move blobs to the Cool Access Tier after 30 days of inactivity.
C
Configure a lifecycle management rule to move blobs to the Archive Access Tier after 30 days of inactivity.
D
Do not configure any lifecycle management rule as it does not affect cost savings.
Correct Answer
B: Configure a lifecycle management rule to move blobs to the Cool Access Tier after 30 days of inactivity.
Explanation
The correct answer is to configure a lifecycle management rule to move blobs to the Cool Access Tier after 30 days of inactivity. This will help Contoso Ltd save costs without significantly impacting storage account performance. Other options like Archive or Hot tiers are not suitable as they do not have the same inactivity-based transition rules. The performance impact is minimal because the lifecycle management operations are designed to be non-disruptive to the storage account’s performance.