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A company has multiple Azure subscriptions used by different departments. The governance team has created several Azure Policy definitions to enforce tagging rules, restrict allowed VM SKUs, and require HTTPS for storage accounts. The team wants to assign these policies as a single, manageable unit to a management group so that they can track overall compliance across all subscriptions in that group from one dashboard. The compliance summary should show how many resources are compliant against all the combined policies. Which Azure feature should the team use?
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A
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Azure Policy Initiative
An Azure Policy Initiative (policy set definition) groups multiple individual policy definitions into a single bundle for assignment. This allows the governance team to assign all the tagging, VM SKU, and HTTPS policies together and view the overall compliance status across the management group from a single dashboard. This is exactly the feature described.
B
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Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
RBAC is used to manage who has access to Azure resources and what actions they can perform. It does not define or group policy rules. While RBAC can control who can manage policy assignments, it is not the mechanism for grouping policies or tracking compliance.
C
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Azure Management Groups
Management Groups are containers for organizing subscriptions. They establish a hierarchy for applying governance controls, but they do not group policies themselves. Policies are assigned to management groups, but the grouping of policy definitions into a single unit is done by an initiative, not by the management group structure.
D
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Azure Resource Graph
Azure Resource Graph is a service for querying and exploring Azure resources across subscriptions. It can be used to report on compliance data, but it does not group policy definitions or provide a consolidated assignment mechanism. The grouping and assignment are done using Policy Initiatives, while Resource Graph can be used to query the compliance results.
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This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
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.
- Use explanations to understand the rule behind the answer.
TExam Day Tips
- Underline the problem statement mentally.
- 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.
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Question 2
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Question 3
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Question 4
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Question 5
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Question 6
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FAQ
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What does this AZ-900 question test?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Azure Policy Initiative — Azure Policy Initiatives (also known as policy set definitions) allow you to group multiple related policy definitions into a single unit. When you assign an initiative to a scope such as a management group, subscription, or resource group, all policies within the initiative are applied together. The compliance state is evaluated across the entire initiative, providing a summary of how many resources are compliant with the combined set of rules. This simplifies governance by treating a collection of policies as one object for assignment and compliance reporting.
What should I do if I get this AZ-900 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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