AZ-104 Manage Azure Identities and Governance Practice Question
This AZ-104 practice question tests your understanding of manage azure identities and governance. Match the stated requirement to the specific cloud service, access model, or configuration option — many options are valid in isolation but not for this scenario. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A support engineer must restart and view the properties of virtual machines only in RG-Dev. The engineer must not gain access to other resource groups in the subscription. What should the administrator do?
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Assign the Virtual Machine Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope.
Option B is correct because the Virtual Machine Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope grants the engineer the necessary permissions to restart and view properties of virtual machines within that resource group, while restricting access to other resource groups. This role includes actions like Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/start/action and Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read, which cover the required tasks without granting broader management rights.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Assign the Reader role at the subscription scope and the Virtual Machine Contributor role at RG-Dev scope.
Why it's wrong here
This gives broad read access across the subscription, which is wider than the requirement.
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Assign the Virtual Machine Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope.
Why this is correct
This limits VM management permissions to the specific resource group and avoids broader subscription access.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Assign the Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope.
Why it's wrong here
This is broader than needed and would allow management of many resource types in the resource group.
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Create a custom role at the subscription scope and assign it to the engineer.
Why it's wrong here
A subscription-scope custom role would still be inherited too widely for this least-privilege requirement.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often choose Option A, mistakenly thinking the Reader role at subscription scope is harmless, but it actually grants read access to all resources in the subscription, violating the explicit restriction to RG-Dev only.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Azure RBAC roles are composed of Actions, NotActions, and DataActions. The Virtual Machine Contributor role includes Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/* actions, which cover restart (Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/restart/action) and read properties (Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read), but excludes management of the virtual network or storage account the VM uses. In a real-world scenario, if the engineer needs to view VM properties via Azure Portal, the read action also enables listing VM sizes and status, but not modifying network interfaces or disks directly.
KKey Concepts to Remember
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
→Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
→Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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Concepts from this question explained
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Manage Azure Identities and Governance — This question tests Manage Azure Identities and Governance — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Assign the Virtual Machine Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope. — Option B is correct because the Virtual Machine Contributor role at the RG-Dev scope grants the engineer the necessary permissions to restart and view properties of virtual machines within that resource group, while restricting access to other resource groups. This role includes actions like Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/start/action and Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read, which cover the required tasks without granting broader management rights.
What should I do if I get this AZ-104 question wrong?
Identify which exam domain this question belongs to, review the core concept, then practise similar questions from the same domain.
What is the key concept behind this question?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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