Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question
Your development team runs containerized Linux workloads and Windows Server virtual machines in Azure. They require a fully managed file service that can be mounted by the Windows VMs over SMB and by the Linux containers over NFS 4.1. The application's hot data must sustain up to 10 GiB/s throughput with single-digit-millisecond latency. Which Azure storage solution should you deploy to satisfy these requirements?
Provision an Azure NetApp Files volume.
Create a Premium tier Azure file share in a FileStorage account.
Implement Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Deploy an Azure Blob Storage account with the Hot access tier.
A Premium tier Azure file share in a FileStorage account is the best fit. Premium Azure Files offers SSD-backed storage that delivers up to 100 000 IOPS and 10 GiB/s throughput with ~2-3 ms latency. Within the same FileStorage account you can create separate shares-one configured for SMB and another for NFS 4.1-giving both Windows and Linux clients the protocol they need. Azure NetApp Files provides sub-millisecond latency but tops out at 4.5 GiB/s per standard volume, so its extra cost and quota overhead aren't justified here. Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 are object stores: they lack SMB support and aren't designed for low-latency file access.
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