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Difficulty: MediumAzure Resources, Resource Groups, Subscriptions, and Management Groups

A healthcare startup is deploying an application in Azure. The compliance team requires that all patient data storage accounts be located in the UK South region. The application's virtual machines must be deployed in the West Europe region. The IT team wants to deploy, manage, and delete all of these resources together as a single logical unit. Which resource organization strategy should the administrator implement to meet these requirements?

  1. A
    Create a parent resource group in West Europe, and nest a child resource group in UK South inside it to separate the regional deployments while preserving the lifecycle.
  2. B
    Deploy the virtual machines and the storage accounts into two separate resource groups, because all resources must reside in the same region as their containing resource group.
  3. Deploy all resources in a single resource group, selecting UK South for the storage accounts and West Europe for the virtual machines during deployment.Answer
  4. D
    Deploy the virtual machines and storage accounts under separate Azure subscriptions, because a single resource group cannot hold resources that reside in different regions.

Answer

Deploy all resources in a single resource group, selecting UK South for the storage accounts and West Europe for the virtual machines during deployment.
Deploying all resources in a single resource group with their respective locations is correct because Azure resource groups are logical containers designed to manage the lifecycle of related resources together. A resource group can contain resources from different geographical regions, and resources do not inherit or copy the location of their containing resource group.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the primary administrative requirement.
The IT team needs to manage the lifecycle (create, update, delete) of the virtual machines and storage accounts together as a single logical unit.
This requirement aligns with the primary purpose of an Azure resource group.
2
Evaluate the regional constraints.
The storage accounts must be in UK South, and the virtual machines must be in West Europe.
We must verify whether a single resource group can span multiple regions.
3
Apply Azure resource group regional and structural rules.
An Azure resource group can contain resources located in different regions, and resource groups cannot be nested.
Because resources do not inherit their location from the resource group and nesting is unsupported, the best approach is to place all resources in one resource group and specify their target regions during deployment.

Key Concept

Azure Resource Groups regional independence and lifecycle management
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Azure Resources, Resource Groups, Subscriptions, and Management Groups