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AZ-204 Practice Question: Key Vault RBAC vs access policies for multi-team…
This AZ-204 practice question tests your understanding of key vault rbac vs access policies for multi-team…. The scenario asks you to isolate a root cause — eliminate options that address a different problem before choosing. A key principle to apply: key Vault RBAC. 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.
Multiple teams need different levels of access to the same Azure Key Vault: the DevOps team needs to create and rotate secrets, the application team needs read-only secret access, and the auditing team needs list-only access. The security team wants audit logs of all access decisions and the ability to manage permissions through a single system. What access model should the developer recommend?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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A
Distractor review
Issue shared access signatures for each team scoped to the operations they need
Key Vault does not support SAS tokens. SAS is a feature of Azure Storage. Key Vault access is controlled exclusively through Azure AD identity-based permissions — access policies or RBAC.
B
Best answer
Use Azure RBAC for Key Vault with role assignments scoped per team: Key Vault Secrets Officer for DevOps, Key Vault Secrets User for the app team, and Key Vault Reader for auditing
RBAC assignments are integrated with Azure's identity and access management plane. All access decisions are logged in Azure Activity Log, fulfilling the audit requirement. Roles can be assigned at vault scope or narrower scopes. RBAC policies are managed centrally in Azure IAM, consistent with how all other Azure resources are governed.
C
Distractor review
Create separate access policies for each team with the minimum required permissions
Access policies are a flat list at the vault level. They cannot be scoped to individual secrets. All policy assignments apply to the entire vault. Access policies are not integrated into Azure Activity Log as a unified RBAC audit trail — they have their own, separate logging mechanism.
D
Distractor review
Create a separate Key Vault per team to enforce isolation between access levels
Using separate vaults for access isolation multiplies management overhead (key rotation, backup, monitoring, cost) without providing the per-operation granularity that RBAC roles offer within a single vault.
Common exam trap
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
Many certification questions include familiar terms but test a specific constraint. Read the exact wording before choosing an answer that is generally true but wrong for this case.
Technical deep dive
How to think about this question
Treat this as a scenario question. Identify the problem, the constraint, and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Key Vault RBAC
- Key Vault access policies
- least privilege
- centralized access management
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
Key Vault RBAC
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What does this AZ-204 question test?
Key Vault RBAC
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Use Azure RBAC for Key Vault with role assignments scoped per team: Key Vault Secrets Officer for DevOps, Key Vault Secrets User for the app team, and Key Vault Reader for auditing — Azure RBAC for Key Vault uses built-in roles (Key Vault Administrator, Key Vault Secrets Officer, Key Vault Secrets User, Key Vault Reader) assigned at the vault or individual object scope. RBAC assignments are recorded in Azure Activity Logs alongside all other Azure RBAC decisions, providing a single audit trail. Access policies, the legacy model, are vault-level and cannot be scoped to individual secrets. RBAC is the recommended model for fine-grained, auditable, multi-team access.
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