Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question
As part of a compliance audit, you must implement a solution that automatically rotates the two access keys for an Azure Storage account every 30 days while letting applications retrieve the keys securely without giving developers direct visibility of those secrets. Which Azure feature should you use to meet these requirements?
Implement Azure AD authentication to eliminate the need for storage account access keys.
Manually regenerate the access keys periodically in the Azure portal.
Use Azure Key Vault to store and automatically rotate the storage account access keys.
Automate access-key regeneration with custom scripts and scheduled tasks.
Azure Key Vault's managed storage account keys feature is the recommended approach. Key Vault stores the access keys as secrets, controls access through Azure RBAC, and can automatically regenerate (rotate) the keys on a defined schedule without exposing their values to users. Manual rotation-whether through the portal or scripts-requires additional effort and lacks centralized auditing. Switching entirely to Azure AD authentication is ideal when possible but does not solve the stated need to continue using access keys and rotate them regularly.
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