Exam AZ-204 All Questions

View all questions & answers for the AZ-204 exam

Exam AZ-204 topic 2 question 26 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's AZ-204

Question #: 26
Topic #: 2

HOTSPOT -
You are configuring a development environment for your team. You deploy the latest Visual Studio image from the Azure Marketplace to your Azure subscription.
The development environment requires several software development kits (SDKs) and third-party components to support application development across the organization. You install and customize the deployed virtual machine (VM) for your development team. The customized VM must be saved to allow provisioning of a new team member development environment.
You need to save the customized VM for future provisioning.
Which tools or services should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hot Area:

Show Suggested Answer

Suggested Answer:

Box 1: Azure Powershell -
Creating an image directly from the VM ensures that the image includes all of the disks associated with the VM, including the OS disk and any data disks.
Before you begin, make sure that you have the latest version of the Azure PowerShell module.
You use Sysprep to generalize the virtual machine, then use Azure PowerShell to create the image.

Box 2: Azure Blob Storage -
You can store images in Azure Blob Storage.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource#create-an-image-of-a-vm-using-powershell

by andsol at March 15, 2021, 8:32 p.m.

Comments

Submit Cancel

st003

Highly Voted 3 years, 9 months ago

The answer is right, it is show in AZ-900 as well.

upvoted 58 times

clarionprogrammer

3 years, 9 months ago

Powershell is correct. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource

upvoted 9 times

...

mlantonis

Highly Voted 3 years, 7 months ago

Box 1: Azure Powershell Creating an image directly from the VM ensures that the image includes all of the disks associated with the VM, including the OS disk and any data disks. Before you begin, make sure that you have the latest version of the Azure PowerShell module. You use Sysprep to generalize the virtual machine, then use Azure PowerShell to create the image. Box 2: Azure Blob Storage A VM Image is a collection of metadata and pointers to a set of VHDs (one VHD per disk) stored as page blobs in Azure Storage. Reference: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/vm-image-blog-post https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource

upvoted 44 times

...

bgbgvfvf

Most Recent 1 year ago

I think the answer is right

upvoted 1 times

...

nlk0

1 year, 6 months ago

Is it still relevant for az-204 since they removed VMs from scope in 28th of april?

upvoted 6 times

macobuzi

1 year, 4 months ago

I would say better safe than sorry because Microsoft tends to give a sh*t about scope.

upvoted 8 times

...

tom112

1 year, 8 months ago

It's Visual Studio Command Prompt. You can't generalize VM to make an image in azure. <Windows> Sysprep removes all your personal account and security information, and then prepares the machine to be used as an image. For information about Sysprep, see Sysprep overview. Once Sysprep has finished, set the status of the virtual machine to Generalized. => So, you generalize VM in the OS side(windows/linux/etc), and just set the status in Azure powershell. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/generalize

upvoted 1 times

vizay

3 weeks, 2 days ago

To generalize a VM for imaging, you must: Run Sysprep inside the VM Then use Set-AzVM -Generalized — which is only available in Azure PowerShell

upvoted 1 times

...

IrshadF

1 year, 9 months ago

It was asked in exam on 26/03/23 as well.

upvoted 1 times

...

sarmaria

1 year, 9 months ago

Got this question in the exam on 16/03/2023. Went with proposed solution. Make sure to prepare for case studies. I got city and lights case study.

upvoted 4 times

...

Esward

1 year, 11 months ago

Given answers are correct! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/generalize

upvoted 2 times

...

Magis

2 years, 2 months ago

I think that answer is incorrect. Correct answer: -Visual Studio Command Prompt as first of all you need to Generalize VM. Generalize means that you need to run SysPrep and you can do it from OS side only. So Azure PowerShell cannot be used at this point but you can do it from Visual Studio Command Prompt as it has integration with OS CMD. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/generalize - Second option is correct. Azure Blob Storage.

upvoted 4 times

AllNickNamesTaken

1 year, 10 months ago

I agree. Everyone else appears to be answering the question "What tool should you use to create an image?" which would be PowerShell. But, that is not the question being asked. The question is "What tool should you use to generalize the image?" and you are correct with VC Cmd Prompt.

upvoted 1 times

...