AZ-305 Practice Question 65: Blob Object Replication Setup
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) · Test 7 · question 5 of 10
A company stores block blobs in a general-purpose v2 storage account in West US. New and changed blobs under a specific container prefix must be copied asynchronously to a second storage account in East US, without changing how applications write to the source account. You plan to use blob object replication.
Which prerequisites must you enable before you create the replication policy?
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Answer:
Object replication asynchronously copies block blobs between storage accounts according to rules you define, including prefix filters. It needs the change feed to be enabled on the source account and blob versioning to be enabled on both the source and destination accounts; both features can add cost.
Option A lists features that do not drive replication. Soft delete protects against deletion, and lifecycle management moves or deletes blobs by age; neither copies data to another account.
Option B mixes up the requirements: the change feed is needed on the source, not the destination, and versioning is needed on both accounts.
Option D is a redundancy setting, not a configurable copy. Geo-replication goes to the fixed paired region, cannot be limited to a container prefix, and the secondary copy is a replica of the whole account rather than a second account you control.
Reference: Object replication for block blobs