AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #5

Question

You are planning to deploy an Ubuntu Server virtual machine to your company's Azure subscription.
You are required to implement a custom deployment that includes adding a particular trusted root certification authority (CA).
Which of the following should you use to create the virtual machine?

Accepted Answer

Injecting a trusted root certification authority (CA) into an Ubuntu Server virtual machine at provisioning time is a custom deployment task best handled by **cloud-init**. Under Azure, you pass cloud-init configuration files as **custom data** to the virtual machine. The Azure CLI command `az vm create` supports the `--custom-data` parameter natively, which automatically reads and handles the file encoding. PowerShell's modern cmdlet `New-AzVM` does not support cloud-init input as directly and seamlessly as the CLI does. In addition, `New-AzureRmVm` is deprecated, and `Create-AzVM` is not a valid Azure PowerShell cmdlet. Therefore, `az vm create` is the correct tool for this task.

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