AZ-104 Manage Azure Identities and Governance — 15 Questions

Question 1

Your company has an Azure subscription named Prod-Sub. You create a custom role that allows users to restart virtual machines but not create, delete, or resize them. You need to ensure that members of the VMOperators group can use this custom role only for virtual machines in the RG-Prod resource group. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Assign the custom role to VMOperators at the RG-Prod scope.. Option B is correct because assigning the custom role at the RG-Prod scope restricts the role's permissions to only the virtual machines within that specific resource group. This meets the requirement that VMOperators can restart VMs but not create, delete, or resize them, and only within RG-Prod.

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Assign the custom role to VMOperators at the subscription scope.

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Assign the Virtual Machine Contributor role to VMOperators at the RG-Prod scope.

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Assign the custom role to VMOperators at the management group scope.

Question 2

Your organization assigns an Azure Policy at the Corp-MG management group to require the tag Environment on all newly created resources. A deployment to RG-App in the Prod-Sub subscription fails because the tag is missing. You need to allow this single deployment to proceed without weakening enforcement for the rest of the organization. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Create a policy exemption at the Prod-Sub or RG-App scope.. A policy exemption allows you to exclude a specific scope (like Prod-Sub or RG-App) from the enforcement of a policy assignment without modifying or removing the policy itself. This lets the single deployment proceed while maintaining the Deny effect for all other resources under Corp-MG. Exemptions can be created with an expiration date to ensure temporary relief does not become permanent.

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Remove the policy assignment from Corp-MG.

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Change the policy effect from Deny to Audit for all assignments.

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Move Prod-Sub out of Corp-MG.

Question 3

A help desk team must be able to reset passwords for cloud users in Microsoft Entra ID, but they must not be able to create or delete users. Which built-in role should you assign?

Accepted Answer

User Administrator. The User Administrator role in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) grants permissions to reset passwords for cloud users, but explicitly excludes the ability to create or delete users. This makes it the correct choice for a help desk team that needs password reset capabilities without broader user management rights.

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Global Administrator

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Reader

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Billing Administrator

Question 4

You need to assign the same RBAC role to 15 administrators so they can manage backups for several virtual machines. You want to minimize ongoing administrative effort when membership changes. What should you use?

Accepted Answer

A Microsoft Entra group and a single role assignment to the group.. Option A is correct because assigning a single RBAC role to a Microsoft Entra group allows you to manage permissions centrally. When membership changes, you only need to add or remove users from the group, and the role assignment automatically applies to the new members. This minimizes ongoing administrative effort compared to managing individual role assignments.

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A separate custom role assignment for each administrator.

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A resource lock on every virtual machine.

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A policy exemption for the administrators.

Question 5

A storage account named stfinance01 contains critical data. Administrators must still be able to read and modify the data, but no one should be able to delete the storage account accidentally. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

A CanNotDelete lock on stfinance01.. A CanNotDelete lock on stfinance01 prevents the storage account from being deleted while still allowing administrators to read and modify data. This lock type blocks delete operations at the resource level, but does not restrict read or write access, which is exactly what the requirement specifies.

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A ReadOnly lock on stfinance01.

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A policy assignment that audits storage accounts.

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An NSG rule denying outbound traffic from the subnet.

Question 6

Your company has two subscriptions named Dev-Sub and Prod-Sub. A new administrator must be able to create resource groups only in Dev-Sub and must not have any permissions in Prod-Sub. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Assign Contributor to the administrator at the Dev-Sub scope.. Option B is correct because assigning the Contributor role at the Dev-Sub scope grants the administrator full permissions to create and manage resource groups within that subscription, while the role assignment is scoped exclusively to Dev-Sub, ensuring no permissions in Prod-Sub. Azure RBAC is hierarchical, so a role assigned at a subscription scope applies to all resource groups within it, but does not cross subscription boundaries. This meets the requirement of allowing resource group creation only in Dev-Sub with no access to Prod-Sub.

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Assign Contributor to the administrator at the management group scope.

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Assign Owner to the administrator at the resource group scope in Dev-Sub.

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Assign Reader to the administrator at the Prod-Sub scope and Contributor at the tenant root group.

Question 7

Your organization requires all storage accounts to allow access only from selected networks. You need a governance solution that automatically corrects noncompliant new storage accounts when possible instead of only reporting them. What policy effect should you choose?

Accepted Answer

DeployIfNotExists. The DeployIfNotExists policy effect is correct because it can automatically remediate noncompliant storage accounts by deploying a network rules configuration that restricts access to selected networks. Unlike Audit, which only reports compliance status, DeployIfNotExists actively modifies the resource to meet the policy requirement when possible, aligning with the need for automatic correction.

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Audit

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Disabled

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Append

Question 8

You need to prevent accidental deletion of a production resource group while still allowing administrators to update resources inside it. What should you apply to the resource group?

Accepted Answer

A CanNotDelete lock. A CanNotDelete lock (B) prevents the resource group from being deleted while still allowing all operations (including updates) on resources within it. This is the correct choice because the requirement is to block accidental deletion of the entire resource group, not to restrict modifications to its resources.

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A ReadOnly lock

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A deny assignment

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A budget alert

Question 9

Your company has two Azure subscriptions named Dev-Sub and Prod-Sub. You need to ensure that a user can create resource groups only in Dev-Sub and nowhere else. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Assign the Contributor role at the Dev-Sub subscription scope.. The Contributor role allows a user to create and manage resources, including resource groups, within the assigned scope. By assigning this role at the Dev-Sub subscription scope, the user gains the necessary permissions to create resource groups only in that subscription, as Azure RBAC permissions are inherited downward but not across sibling scopes. This ensures the user cannot create resource groups in Prod-Sub or any other subscription.

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Assign the Owner role at the tenant root scope.

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Assign the Reader role at the Dev-Sub subscription scope.

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Assign the Contributor role at the management group scope that contains both subscriptions.

Question 10

You need to ensure that all new resources deployed to a subscription automatically receive a CostCenter tag with a default value if the tag is omitted during deployment. Which Azure governance feature should you use?

Accepted Answer

An Azure Policy with an append or modify effect. Azure Policy with an append or modify effect can automatically add a CostCenter tag with a default value to resources that are missing it during deployment. The append effect adds the tag and value at creation time, while the modify effect (using a 'addOrReplace' operation) can also update existing resources. This ensures governance compliance without manual intervention.

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A resource lock

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A management group lock

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A custom RBAC role

Question 11

You need to ensure that all users in the HelpdeskAdmins group can reset passwords for cloud-only users in Microsoft Entra ID but cannot modify group memberships or delete users. Which role should you assign?

Accepted Answer

Helpdesk Administrator. The Helpdesk Administrator role is specifically designed to allow password resets for non-administrator users (including cloud-only users) while explicitly preventing modifications to group memberships or deletion of users. This aligns perfectly with the requirement to restrict the HelpdeskAdmins group to only password reset capabilities.

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Global Administrator

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User Administrator

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Security Administrator

Question 12

You need to ensure that all newly created resource groups in a subscription automatically inherit the CostCenter tag with a fixed value, even if the creator forgets to add it. Which Azure Policy effect should you use?

Accepted Answer

Modify. The Modify effect is correct because it allows Azure Policy to automatically add or alter tags on resources or resource groups during creation or update, ensuring the CostCenter tag with a fixed value is applied even if the creator omits it. Unlike Audit or Deny, Modify actively remediates non-compliant resources by appending the required tag, making it ideal for enforcing mandatory inheritance without blocking deployment.

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Audit

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Deny

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Disabled

Question 13

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID. A new engineer must be able to create virtual machines in RG-Dev but must not be able to assign roles to other users. Which built-in role should you assign at the RG-Dev scope?

Accepted Answer

Virtual Machine Contributor. The Virtual Machine Contributor role provides the exact permissions needed: it allows creating and managing virtual machines within the specified scope (RG-Dev), but explicitly does not include the ability to assign roles to other users. This role grants write access to compute resources while preserving the principle of least privilege.

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Owner

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User Access Administrator

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Reader

Question 14

An administrator grants the Helpdesk group the User Administrator role at the tenant scope. The team should be able to reset passwords only for users in the Europe-Users administrative unit. What should the administrator do?

Accepted Answer

Assign the User Administrator role to Helpdesk for the Europe-Users administrative unit only.. Option A is correct because Azure AD administrative units allow scoping of role assignments to a subset of users, groups, or devices. By assigning the User Administrator role to the Helpdesk group scoped to the Europe-Users administrative unit, the team can reset passwords only for users within that unit, meeting the requirement without granting broader tenant-wide permissions.

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Create a Conditional Access policy that targets Helpdesk and Europe-Users.

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Assign the Password Administrator role at the tenant scope and use Privileged Identity Management.

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Create a custom RBAC role in the subscription and assign it to Helpdesk.

Question 15

An Azure subscription contains several resource groups. You need to ensure that users can create virtual machines only in regions approved by the security team. Existing noncompliant VMs can remain unchanged. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Assign a policy that denies resources in disallowed locations.. Azure Policy can enforce organizational standards by evaluating resources for compliance. The built-in 'Not allowed locations' policy denies the creation of resources in specified regions, ensuring users can only deploy VMs in approved regions. Since the requirement is to allow existing noncompliant VMs to remain unchanged, a deny effect policy (without a 'DeployIfNotExists' or 'Modify' effect) will only affect new deployments, leaving existing resources untouched.

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Apply a ReadOnly lock to each resource group.

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Create an action group in Azure Monitor.

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Move all existing VMs to approved regions.