Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate AZ-500 Practice Question
Your company must retain audit log files uploaded to an Azure Storage container for seven years in a non-erasable, non-modifiable state to meet regulatory WORM requirements. Administrators must still be able to upload new files but must be prevented from altering or deleting existing data during the retention period. Which Azure Storage feature should you configure?
Enable blob soft delete and set the retention period to seven years.
Create daily blob snapshots and store them in Azure Backup with a seven-year retention rule.
Configure a container-level immutable storage policy with a seven-year time-based retention period.
Enable blob versioning and use lifecycle management to delete prior versions after seven years.
A container-level immutable storage policy with a time-based retention period places the container in write-once, read-many (WORM) mode. After data is written, it cannot be modified or deleted by any user, including administrators, until the retention interval expires. Soft delete only allows recovery of deleted blobs and does not block overwrites. Versioning keeps prior copies but still allows current versions to be overwritten or deleted. Snapshots combined with Azure Backup provide point-in-time copies but do not enforce immutability; snapshots themselves can be deleted. Therefore, an immutable storage policy is the only option that satisfies the seven-year non-erasable, non-modifiable requirement.
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