Exam SC-500 Topic 1 Question 25 Discussion
Actual exam question for Microsoft's SC-500 exam
Question #: 25
Topic #: 1
Question #: 25
Topic #: 1
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You have an Azure subscription that contains two virtual machines named VM1 and VM2. Each virtual machine has system-assigned managed identity enabled.
You have an Azure Storage account named storage1. Public access from all networks is enabled for storage1.
You need to ensure that VM1 and VM2 can access storage1.
Solution: You create a user-assigned managed identity, assign the identity to each virtual machine, and then add each managed identity to a role on storage1.
Does this meet the goal?
More than one solution in the set might solve the problem. It is also possible that none of the solutions in the set solve the problem.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return. As a result, these questions do not appear on the Review Screen.
You have an Azure subscription that contains two virtual machines named VM1 and VM2. Each virtual machine has system-assigned managed identity enabled.
You have an Azure Storage account named storage1. Public access from all networks is enabled for storage1.
You need to ensure that VM1 and VM2 can access storage1.
Solution: You create a user-assigned managed identity, assign the identity to each virtual machine, and then add each managed identity to a role on storage1.
Does this meet the goal?
Suggested Answer: A Vote an answer
A user-assigned managed identity can be attached to multiple virtual machines and then granted an Azure Storage data role. The applications running on VM1 and VM2 can request tokens for that identity and access storage1 without account keys. Public network access is already enabled, so the missing control is authorization. Assigning the user-assigned managed identity to the correct storage role satisfies the access requirement. For SC-500, the decisive distinction is whether the control authenticates an identity, grants authorization, or merely changes configuration visibility. The incorrect choices generally either grant excessive privilege, change the application model, or operate at the wrong scope. Microsoft expects the least- privilege identity path that satisfies the scenario without introducing shared secrets or unnecessary tenant- wide rights. The result is a direct exam-style implementation choice: it changes the required security behavior without relying on unrelated monitoring, manual cleanup, or excessive privilege. Official Microsoft source
/topic: SC-500 Study Guide > managed identities; Microsoft Learn > user-assigned managed identities and role assignment to storage.
/topic: SC-500 Study Guide > managed identities; Microsoft Learn > user-assigned managed identities and role assignment to storage.
by Julian at Sep 17, 2026, 08:03 PM
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