AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Study Notes

Implement and manage storage

Azure blobs

• Provides object storage for the cloud
• Optimised to support massive amounts of unstructured data
• Unstructured data is data that does not fit a specific model e.g. text and binary data

Azure files

• Fully managed file share system available in the cloud
• You can access Azure files through SMB protocol
• You can mount file shares from Windows, Linux and MacOS machines that reside both on-prem and in the cloud
• You can cache file shares on Windows servers, using the Azure file sync service

Storage accounts

• A container that houses all of your storage data objects

Azure queue storage=

• Designed for storing large numbers of messages used in communications between the different components of the distributed application. These messages can be accessed from anywhere in the world through authenticated calls via HTTP or HTTPS.
• Each queue message can be up to 64KB in size
• A typical queue can contain millions of messages

Azure table storage

• This is intended for the storage of structured NoSQL data
• It offers a key/attribute store and a schema-less design
• Schema-less design allows you to more easily adapt data to the needs of your business or application

Azure managed disks

• Block level storage volumes
• These are used to provide storage capabilities for virtual machines
• A managed disk is much like a disk that you would see in an on-prem server only virtualised
• Available disk types are ultra disks, premium SSD disks, standard SSD disks and standard HDD disks