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What should primarily drive target service selection for each bucket of data?
The type of source storage system
The requirements of the going-forward use case
The total volume of data to migrate
When might an offline migration with Azure Data Box be preferable even when network bandwidth is available?
When the source system uses the NFS protocol
When the data volume is less than 1 TB
When contract terms or bandwidth costs make sustained online transfer impractical
Why should you establish a formal validation sign-off gate before proceeding to cutover?
To generate a billing report for the migration project
To ensure all stakeholders confirm the migration meets their requirements before the irreversible cutover step
To trigger automatic decommission of the source storage
What is the correct first step when executing a storage cutover?
Switch DNS records to point to the target storage
Decommission the source storage system
Stop or quiesce applications writing to the source storage, then run a final delta sync
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