AI-200 Containerized AI Workloads Practice Question
You need to store private AI model weights in an Azure Container Registry (ACR). Which authentication method follows the principle of least privilege for an AKS cluster to pull these images?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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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Azure Managed Identity.
Managed Identity allows the AKS Kubelet to authenticate to ACR without storing static credentials.
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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Service Principal with Contributor role.
Why it's wrong here
Contributor is too permissive; AcrPull is sufficient.
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ACR Admin account credentials.
Why it's wrong here
This provides broad access and is not recommended for production.
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Azure Managed Identity.
Why this is correct
Managed Identity is the secure, recommended way for AKS to authenticate with ACR.
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A shared SAS token generated for the registry.
Why it's wrong here
SAS tokens are harder to rotate than Managed Identity.
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