SC-100 Practice Question 3862

Exam: SC-100
Domain: Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities
Difficulty: easy
You are designing compliance adherence across multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to enforce mandatory regulatory controls (such as NIST SP 800-53 or ISO 27001) and prevent unauthorized configurations from ever being deployed. What technology should you mandate?

Answer Options

A
Azure Policy initiatives
B
Network Security Group rule tags
C
Azure Cost Management budgeting alerts
D
ExpressRoute circuit peering

Correct Answer

A: Azure Policy initiatives

Explanation

Azure Policy initiatives (regulatory compliance built-in policy initiatives) enforce governance rules, audit configurations, and block non-compliant resource deployments via Azure Resource Manager.