AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 8.11 - Azure Blob Types

Azure Blob

• Azure Storage supports 3 types of blobs:
  • Block blobs
    • Store text and binary data
    • Made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually
    • Store up to about 4.75 TiB of data
  • Append blobs
    • Optimized for append operations
    • Ideal for scenarios such as logging data from virtual machines
  • Page blobs
    • Store random access files up to 8 TB in size
    • Store virtual hard drive (VHD) files and serve as disks for Azure virtual machines

Practice Quiz

• Which type of blob meetings the following criteria? Stores text and binary data, made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually, has a maximum blob size of 190.7 TiB

  • Main blobs
  • Page blobs
  • Block blobs
  • Append blobs

• Which type of blob are optimized for append operations and are ideal for scenarios such as logging data from virtual machines?

  • Append blobs