👨‍🦱 💬 This sentence is true. BLOB stands for Binary Large OBject. Typically binary files are considered a computer-readable and not human-readable files. But they are files nonetheless. Personally I feel like every file can be considered a BLOB, because even human readable files (txt, csv, etc) are saved as series of binary data (0’s and 1’s).

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure Blob Storage is a general purpose file storage in Azure.

👨‍🦱 💬 While using Azure Storage Account in Azure portal you will see four services. Those services are blob, file, queue and table storage. But disk storage is also a sub-service of the Azure Storage Account. This means that both unmanaged and managed disks are part of it. Even if Managed Disks are shown as a separate resource, underneath it’s still the same service.

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure file storage and disk storage provide customers with ability to mount drives on their PM. Disk storage is emulation of typical disk and file storage is a shared drive. But both can be used to provide persistent storage capabilities for a virtual machines.

👨‍🦱 💬 Structured data is the correct answer. Structured data sets are often defined using schema and relationships.

👨‍🦱 💬 Semi-structured data is the correct answer. Semi-structured data sets can fit into tabular form but they do not follow very strict schema, they only have a common column (or multiple columns) that define unique entries.

👨‍🦱 💬 Unstructured data is the correct answer. Unstructured data often can’t be put into any pre-defined shape or form. Typical cases are images, binary files, etc.

👨‍🦱 💬 Azure Queue Storage is a service designed to store messages and allow multiple services to pick them up at any time. Usually used in load-leveling and background processing tasks.