AZ-900 - Describe Azure Management and Governance (35% of the exam) - Section 3.3

Describe tools for managing and deploying Azure resources including the portal, Cloud Shell, CLI, PowerShell, Azure Arc, and infrastructure as code.

Choose among the Azure portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell for a given management or deployment workflow. Recognise that Azure Arc extends Azure governance to on-premises and multi-cloud resources, and that Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates enable repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure-as-code deployments.

Azure portalAzure Cloud ShellAzure CLI and PowerShellAzure ArcARM templates and Bicep

Practice question for this objective

Free sampleDescribe Azure Management and Governancemedium

Can Azure Arc extend Azure management and governance to servers and Kubernetes clusters that run on-premises or in another cloud?

AYes Correct
BNo

Azure Arc extends Azure management and governance to resources outside Azure via ARM. Azure Arc projects non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager and manages hybrid and multicloud servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they ran in Azure.

Why A is correct: Correct. Azure Arc projects non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager and manages hybrid and multicloud servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they ran in Azure.

Why B is wrong: Answering No ignores that Arc's purpose is to extend Azure management to resources outside Azure.

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Exam traps in Describe Azure Management and Governance

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the AZ-900 bank for this domain.

The Azure portal graphical console
Why it is wrong: The Azure portal is a graphical console rather than a command shell, so it does not give engineers the Azure CLI or PowerShell command line the team wants to standardise on.
The Azure portal, the graphical console used to manage resources
Why it is wrong: The Azure portal is one of the tools a user issues requests from, and those requests are sent through the management layer, so the portal is a client of that layer rather than the service that receives and routes every request.
Recreate the resources by hand in the Azure portal each time
Why it is wrong: Recreating resources manually in the portal is the GUI workflow the team is trying to leave behind, and repeating it per environment is neither repeatable nor consistent because each pass can drift.

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