Exam AZ-500 topic 3 question 70 discussion

Keyword: confidential, select the Size with a C in it 1 and 3 5 and 6

Can someone explain why vm3 is supported

Azure Confidential VMs support DCasv5 and ECasv5 series Windows: VM1, VM3 Linux: VM5, VM6

For Linux VMs, Only Ubuntu and SUSE are supported, Debian is not supported. Hence VM5 and VM6. Given answer is correct for Linux. For Windows VMs, Server 2022 Standard is not supported, so you can ignore VM2. Other supported Windows versions are, 2019 server core and datacenter 2022 server, datacenter azure edition and azure core https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/confidential-vm-overview Per Azure VM Type naming convention, subFamily (mostly second character), if its C, then its a Confidential computing. So, For Windows VM1 and VM3. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/overview?tabs=breakdownseries%2Cgeneralsizelist%2Ccomputesizelist%2Cmemorysizelist%2Cstoragesizelist%2Cgpusizelist%2Cfpgasizelist%2Chpcsizelist

Confidential VMs support the following VM sizes: General Purpose without local disk: DCasv5-series, DCesv5-series General Purpose with local disk: DCadsv5-series, DCedsv5-series Memory Optimized without local disk: ECasv5-series, ECesv5-series Memory Optimized with local disk: ECadsv5-series, ECedsv5-series NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU powered NCCadsH100v5-series