AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 8 - Introduction to Storage Accounts

Azure Storage Accounts

Contains all of your Azure Storage data objects:

• Blobs
• Files
• Queues
• Tables
• Disks

Introduction to Storage Accounts

Azure Storage offers several types of storage accounts.

• Each with different features and their own pricing models
  • General-purpose v1 (legacy)
  • General-purpose v2
  • BlobStorage (legacy)
  • BlockBlobStorage
  • FileStorage

Storage accounts vary with the following features:

• Supported Services (What can I put in this storage account?)
  • Blob, File, Queue, Table, Disk, and Data Lake Gen2
• Performance Tiers (how fast will my read and writes be?)
  • Standard, Premium
• Access Tiers (how often do I need quick access to files?)
  • Hot, Cool, Archive
• Replication (How many redundant copies should be made and where?)
  • LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, ZRS, GZRS, RA-GZRS
• Deployment model (Who should deploy the supported services?)
  • Resource Manager, Classic

Storage type and Account Kind means the same thing.

Practice Quiz

• Which storage account feature includes Hot, Cool, and Archive?

  • Supported Services
  • Performance Tiers
  • Replication
  • Access Tiers

• Which storage account feature determines how many redundant copies should be made and where?

  • Deployment model
  • Replication
  • Supported Services
  • Performance Tiers

• What is an Azure Storage account?

  • It contains all of your Azure Storage data objects which include blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks, etc.

• What does the storage account feature Deployment model manage?

  • It manages who should deploy the supported services. E.g. Resource Manager, Classic