Examkin

Question

Difficulty: EasyAzure Cost Management, Billing, and Resource Tags

An Azure administrator applies a billing tag to an Azure resource group named RG-Finance. What effect does this tag have on the individual resources located inside RG-Finance?

  1. The tag is applied only to the resource group itself and is not inherited by the resources.Answer
  2. B
    The tag is automatically inherited by all resources within the resource group.
  3. C
    The tag acts as a resource lock that prevents any of the resources from being modified or deleted.
  4. D
    The tag is enforced as an Azure Policy that automatically blocks the creation of non-compliant resources.

Answer

The tag is applied only to the resource group itself and is not inherited by the resources.
Applying a tag to an Azure resource group applies that tag only to the resource group itself. The resources inside that group do not automatically inherit the tag. If you need tags on the resources for cost reporting, you must apply them directly to those resources or use Azure Policy to enforce tag application.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the scope of the tag application.
The tag is applied directly to the resource group named RG-Finance.
This establishes where the metadata is originally configured.
2
Evaluate Azure's tag inheritance rules for resource groups.
Confirm that Azure does not support automatic propagation of resource group tags to the resources contained within.
This determines whether the child resources will have the tag applied automatically.

Key Concept

Azure resource tags do not inherit down from a resource group to individual resources.
Estimated Time:45s
Rate this question

Topics

Azure Cost Management, Billing, and Resource Tags

More questions from this topic