Exam DP-203 topic 1 question 57 discussion

If "Data that is older than seven years is NOT accessed" then this data can be deleted to minimize the storage costs, right?

Answer is correct. RE: Why is 'Delete the blob' not a valid option? Well I agree that 7 years may seem a long time to most who commented here BUT there is ABSOLUTELY NO mention to DELETE here, In several context NOT ACCESSED can easily refer to be drawn OFFLINE in ARCHIVE IOW: "Your data files may be stored in the archive access tier in Azure Blob storage based on different context needs. According to the Azure documentation: While a blob is in archive storage, the blob data is OFFLINE and CANNOT BE ACCESSED that is: read, copied, overwritten, or modified. You also can't take snapshots of a blob in archive storage. However, the blob METADA remains online and available, allowing you to list the blob and its properties. For blobs in archive, the only valid operations are GetBlobProperties, GetBlobMetadata, ListBlobs, SetBlobTier, and DeleteBlob. For more information about Azure Blob storage tiers, see the Azure documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-storage-tiers.

I think the keyword in this question is "data archiving solution". Which means that option to delete anything is not considered

In my opinion, the retention policy clearly states that any file or blob older than seven years is a violation. The policy specifies: "Data that is older than seven years is NOT accessed." Therefore, any data older than seven years should be deleted to avoid unnecessary costs, as we should not pay for storage we don't need. This approach aligns with the requirement to "minimize costs while maintaining the required availability." For data retention: Data older than five years should be moved to the cool storage tier. Data older than seven years should be deleted.

Why would keep any data in archive if it is NOT accessed? That would be just waste of money and possible violation of give data protection regulations.

1) Cool, because it takes hours to access Archive data, but cool is cheaper than Hot 2) archive. For those, who thinks, that "Data that is older than seven years is NOT accessed" is equal to "the data can be deleted", you're fired :)

Data older than 7 years old is NOT accessed. Archived blobs are not accessible and deleting the blobs would be too aggressive so I'll go with archive for the second answer with the question as is.

Cool Storage and Delete job, because in this way you can seriously minimize costs

i think you guys are really overthinking it. just f....g delete data that will never be accesed.

Costs must be minimized while maintaining the required availability. -- > DO NOT DELETE

correct. deleting files is not a type of archiving them (chatGPT)

Cool & Archive No deletion of data here because question require to perform a data archiving solution

correct

The question says: ✑ Provides the highest degree of data resiliency and this would be RA-GZRS with customer failover. Data is replicated to 3 zones in the primary region and async to a secondary region. If primary zone fails, there is read and write to other zones in the region. Microsoft only engages a failover if "original primary region is deemed unrecoverable within a reasonable amount of time due to a major disaster.", which is not the case here. The answer provided is correct

"Costs must be minimized while maintaining the required availability." ==> it means Move to archive storage"

The Given answer is correct,the big tip here is archiving solution,deleting is not archiving solution

Archive might be the right option as we need to retrive before we access the data. so we cannot access without retrieval.