AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #179

Question

You have an Azure virtual machine named VM1 that runs Windows Server 2019. The VM was deployed using default drive settings.
You sign in to VM1 as a user named User1 and perform the following actions:
✑ Create files on drive C.
✑ Create files on drive D.
✑ Modify the screen saver timeout.
✑ Change the desktop background.
You plan to redeploy VM1.
Which changes will be lost after you redeploy VM1?

Accepted Answer

When an Azure virtual machine is redeployed, it is shutdown, migrated to a new physical host node in the Azure datacenter, and powered back on. While the OS disk (drive C:) and all associated data, configurations, and registry modifications (such as screen saver timeout and desktop backgrounds) persist because they are stored on the managed OS disk, the local temporary disk (which is mounted as drive D: on Windows Azure VMs by default) is cleared. Therefore, any data stored on drive D: will be lost after redeployment.

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