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Drag and Drop Question You are maintaining an existing application that uses an Azure Blob GPv1 Premium storage account. Data older than three months is rarely used. Data newer than three months must
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Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 30, 2026Implement and Manage Storage in Azure - specifically configuring blob storage lifecycle management, understanding storage account types (GPv1, GPv2, Premium vs Standard), and data archiving strategies for cost optimization.
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Drag and Drop Question You are maintaining an existing application that uses an Azure Blob GPv1 Premium storage account. Data older than three months is rarely used. Data newer than three months must be available immediately. Data older than a year must be saved but does not need to be available immediately. You need to configure the account to support a lifecycle management rule that moves blob data to archive storage for data not modified in the last year. Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order. Answer:
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Upgrade the storage account to GPv2Create a new GPv2 Standard account and set its default access tier level to coolChange the storage account access tier from hot to coolCopy the data to be archived to a Standard GPv2 storage account and then delete the data from the original storage account
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#Azure Blob Storage#Lifecycle Management Policies#Storage Account Tiers#GPv2 Storage Migration