A media company stores 500 TB of video files in Azure Blob Storage. Files are accessed frequently for the first 30 days, occasionally for the next 90 days, and rarely afterward. However, compliance requires retaining all files for 7 years. You need to minimize storage costs while meeting these requirements. What should you design?

Answer options:

A Blob lifecycle management policy.

An Azure Automation runbook scheduled daily.

Azure Data Factory pipelines.

Azure File Sync.

How to approach this question

Identify the native Azure Storage feature that automates tiering based on rules.

Full Answer

A.A Blob lifecycle management policy.✓ Correct

Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management offers a rule-based policy that you can use to transition blob data to the appropriate access tiers (Hot, Cool, Archive) or expire data at the end of the data lifecycle.

Common mistakes

Thinking custom automation is required for tiering.

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