What should you recommend?

Testlet 2

Case study

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Overview

You develop data engineering solutions for Graphics Design Institute, a global media company with offices in New York City, Manchester, Singapore, and Melbourne.

The New York office hosts SQL Server databases that stores massive amounts of customer data. The company also stores millions of images on a physical server located in the New York office. More than 2 TB of image data is added each day. The images are transferred from customer devices to the server in New York.

Many images have been placed on this server in an unorganized manner, making it difficult for editors to search images. Images should automatically have object and color tags generated. The tags must be stored in a document database, and be queried by SQL

You are hired to design a solution that can store, transform, and visualize customer data.

Requirements

Business

The company identifies the following business requirements:

– You must transfer all images and customer data to cloud storage and remove on-premises servers.

– You must develop an analytical processing solution for transforming customer data.

– You must develop an image object and color tagging solution.

– Capital expenditures must be minimized.

– Cloud resource costs must be minimized.

Technical

The solution has the following technical requirements:

– Tagging data must be uploaded to the cloud from the New York office location.

– Tagging data must be replicated to regions that are geographically close to company office locations.

– Image data must be stored in a single data store at minimum cost.

– Customer data must be analyzed using managed Spark clusters.

– Power BI must be used to visualize transformed customer data.

– All data must be backed up in case disaster recovery is required.

Security and optimization

All cloud data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. The solution must support:

– parallel processing of customer data

– hyper-scale storage of images

– global region data replication of processed image data

You need to recommend a solution for storing the image tagging data.

What should you recommend?
A . Azure File Storage
B . Azure Cosmos DB
C . Azure Blob Storage
D . Azure SQL Database
E . Azure SQL Data Warehouse

View Answer

Answer: C

Explanation:

Image data must be stored in a single data store at minimum cost.

Note: Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that does not adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

Blob storage is designed for:

– Serving images or documents directly to a browser.

– Storing files for distributed access.

– Streaming video and audio.

– Writing to log files.

– Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.

– Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction