You have an SAP HANA virtual machine that performs daily backups to an Azure Storage account container. You need to automatically delete backups that are older than 30 days. Which type of policy…

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Options

• AAzure Information Protection (AIP)
• BCross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
• Clifecycle management
• DConditional Access

• A
  8% (4)
• B
  4% (2)
• C
  86% (44)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Lifecycle management policies in Azure Storage allow you to define rules that automatically transition or delete blobs based on age - making it the perfect fit for purging backups older than 30 days without manual intervention.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Azure Information Protection (AIP) - classifies and protects documents via labels and encryption; it has nothing to do with storage retention or deletion schedules.
• B. CORS - controls which web origins can make cross-domain requests to your storage account; it's a browser security mechanism, not a data management tool.
• D. Conditional Access - an Azure AD/Entra ID feature that enforces access policies based on user identity, device state, or location; it governs who can access resources, not how long data lives.

Memory tip: Think "lifecycle = birth to death." Just as a lifecycle describes something from creation to expiration, Azure Storage lifecycle management policies handle data from the moment it's created all the way through automatic deletion - including setting a "die at 30 days" rule.

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