Question

your organizations it administrator wants to back up the historical data from a compliance and regulatory perspective. he wants to create multiple data stores in azure and leverage a storage tier to store the data that is going to be rarely accessed. what would you recommend?
a hot tier
b cool tier
c archive tier
d disk storage

Explanation:

• Hot tier: Used for data accessed frequently. Not suitable for rarely - accessed data.
• Cool tier: For data accessed less frequently than hot tier but more than archive tier.
• Archive tier: Designed for data that is rarely accessed, which meets the requirement of backing up historical data (from compliance and regulatory perspective) that is rarely accessed.
• Disk Storage: A general term and not a specific tier for the described access - frequency - based storage need.

Answer:

C. Archive tier