Manage access to Azure resources
Objective access.to-azure-resources sits in Manage Azure identities and governance, which carries 24% of the Azure Administrator exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Microsoft Azure page it rests on.
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A worked example
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An administrator assigns the Virtual Machine Contributor role to a user, with the scope set to the resource group ProjectA-RG. What is the effect of this role assignment?
The concept
A role assignment combines a security principal, a role definition, and a scope. The scope limits where the permissions granted by the role definition apply.
Why this answer
Because the scope is set to the ProjectA-RG resource group, the Virtual Machine Contributor permissions only apply to resources within that resource group, not beyond it.
- Correct: scope was explicitly set to the resource group, not the subscription.
- BThis describes a subscription-level scope, which was not what was configured here.
- CVirtual Machine Contributor grants permissions for virtual machine actions only, not all resource types.
- DAzure resource groups do not nest inside each other, so there is no nested scope to inherit.
- EThis role grants virtual machine permissions, not virtual network permissions.
Now you: objective access.to-azure-resources questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An Azure role assignment is being created. Which three elements does it consist of?
Sample question 2 of 3
Which objects can be named as the security principal in an Azure role assignment?
Sample question 3 of 3
A DBA group should manage SQL databases across a whole subscription but nothing else. Which part of the assignment expresses the boundary?
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