AZ-900 Practice Question 48: Azure Arc
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 5 · question 8 of 10
A company runs Windows servers in its own datacenter and a Kubernetes cluster at a different cloud provider. It wants all of them to appear in the Azure portal, carry Azure tags, and fall under the same Azure Policy assignments as its Azure resources, while continuing to run where they are. What should it use?
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Answer:
Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multicloud and on-premises management platform. Its central mechanism is exactly what the stem asks for: projecting your existing non-Azure and on-premises resources into Azure Resource Manager, so servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases can be managed as if they were running in Azure. Once projected, they gain resource organization through management groups and tags, access control through Azure RBAC, and Azure Policy governance, and that control-plane functionality carries no extra cost.
Option A, Azure Migrate, is the tool for *moving* workloads into Azure, whereas the stem requires them to stay put. Option B, Azure Virtual Desktop, virtualizes desktops and applications for end users and has nothing to do with governing servers. Option C is the closest wrong answer: the Azure Monitor Agent would genuinely collect logs and metrics from those servers, but telemetry alone does not make them Resource Manager resources, so they still could not carry tags or receive a policy assignment.
Reference: Azure Arc overview