Microsoft Certified Security Compliance And Identity Fundamentals · Free Practice Question Easy

Question 39

This question requires you to select the correct answer from the dropdown.

For Azure VMs, who is responsible for applying patches as per the shared responsibility model?

  • A

    Customer

  • B

    Microsoft

  • C

    Both

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

Azure VM is an IaaS service hosted in Microsoft Azure. Although Microsoft is responsible for the physical components like compute and network, the cloud customer is responsible for patching their VMs.

Option Customer is the correct choice.


Reference Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/describe-security-concepts-methodologies/3-describe-shared-responsibility-model#infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas

Patching Azure VM | (This security best practice talks about customers patching VMs)

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