A company needs to store compliance logs for 7 years. The logs will rarely be accessed, but must be retained. Which Azure Storage tier provides the lowest storage cost for this scenario?

Answer options:

Hot tier

Cool tier

Cold tier

Archive tier

How to approach this question

Identify the storage tier designed for long-term, rarely accessed retention.

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D.Archive tier✓ Correct

The Archive access tier has the lowest storage cost. It is optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements (retrieval can take hours).

Common mistakes

Forgetting that while Archive has the lowest storage cost, it has the highest retrieval cost. For 7-year retention with rare access, it is the correct choice.

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A company needs to store compliance logs for 7 years. The logs will rarely be accessed, but must be retained. Which Azure Storage tier provides the lowest storage cost for this scenario?

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