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

An administrator needs to organize Azure resources for two distinct projects. Project A uses an Azure subscription named Sub-A, and Project B uses an Azure subscription named Sub-B. The administrator wants to manage all virtual machines for both projects under a single resource group named RG-VMs.

Is the following statement true or false?

A single Azure resource group can contain resources that belong to different Azure subscriptions.

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The statement is false. An Azure resource group belongs to exactly one subscription and cannot cross subscription boundaries to contain resources from other subscriptions.
The correct answer is false because Azure's management hierarchy dictates that every resource group is created within a single subscription. Therefore, a resource group cannot contain resources belonging to a different subscription.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the hierarchical relationship between Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.
Azure resources must belong to a single resource group, and a resource group must belong to a single Azure subscription.
This is a fundamental organizational constraint of the Azure Resource Manager hierarchy.
2
Evaluate if the resource group RG-VMs can span across Sub-A and Sub-B.
Since a resource group is bound to one subscription, RG-VMs can only reside in either Sub-A or Sub-B.
A resource group cannot exist in multiple subscriptions simultaneously.
3
Determine if resources from Sub-B can be placed inside RG-VMs if it resides in Sub-A.
No, because any resource within RG-VMs must inherit and belong to the parent subscription of that resource group (Sub-A).
Resources cannot cross the subscription boundary of their parent resource group.

Key Concept

Azure Resource Group Subscription Boundary
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Azure Resources, Resource Groups, Subscriptions, and Management Groups