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DP-900 · Question #103

You need to recommend a non-relational data store that is optimized for storing and retrieving files, videos, audio stream, and virtual disk images. The data store must store data, some metadata…

The correct answer is C. object. Object storage is optimized for storing and retrieving large binary objects (images, files, video and audio streams, large application data objects and documents, virtual machine disk images). Large data files are also popularly used in this model, for example, delimiter file…

Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 30, 2026Describe core data concepts

Question

You need to recommend a non-relational data store that is optimized for storing and retrieving files, videos, audio stream, and virtual disk images. The data store must store data, some metadata, and a unique ID for each file. Which type of data store should you recommend?

Options

  • Adocument
  • Bkey/value
  • Cobject
  • Dcolumnar

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • C
    89% (25)
  • D
    7% (2)

Explanation

Object storage is optimized for storing and retrieving large binary objects (images, files, video and audio streams, large application data objects and documents, virtual machine disk images). Large data files are also popularly used in this model, for example, delimiter file (CSV), parquet, and ORC. Object stores can manage extremely large amounts of unstructured data. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/data-store-

Topics

#object storage#non-relational data store types#blob storage#metadata

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