AZ-300 Azure Storage Solutions 2

Question 1

Which Azure Storage account type supports both Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 hierarchical namespace and Blob Storage features?

Accepted Answer

General Purpose v2 with HNS enabled

Answer

A General Purpose v2 storage account with Hierarchical Namespace enabled becomes an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account supporting POSIX-like directory operations.

Question 2

What is the purpose of Azure Storage shared access signatures (SAS)?

Accepted Answer

Grant limited, time-bound access to storage resources without sharing the account key

Answer

SAS tokens provide delegated, fine-grained access to Azure Storage resources with configurable permissions, IP restrictions, and expiry times.

Question 3

Which Azure Storage redundancy option provides the highest durability by replicating data both zone-redundantly in the primary region and geo-redundantly to a secondary region?

Accepted Answer

GZRS

Answer

Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS) combines ZRS in the primary region with asynchronous geo-replication to a secondary region for maximum durability.

Question 4

What is Azure Blob Storage 'soft delete' designed to protect against?

Accepted Answer

Accidental deletion or overwrite of blobs within a configurable retention period

Answer

Soft delete retains deleted or overwritten blobs for a configurable number of days, allowing recovery from accidental deletions.

Question 5

Which Azure Disk encryption option uses keys stored in Azure Key Vault and managed by the customer to encrypt managed disk data?

Accepted Answer

Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Managed Keys (SSE CMK)

Answer

SSE with Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) stores the disk encryption key in Azure Key Vault, giving customers full control over the key lifecycle.

AZ-300 - Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Practice Test

AZ-300 - Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Practice Test

AZ-300 Azure Storage Solutions 2