Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate AZ-500 Practice Question
You manage an Azure subscription that already has Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 1 enabled. The security team asks you to assess operating-system vulnerabilities and detect malicious files on 200 existing Azure virtual machines without deploying or maintaining any additional agents on those machines. You must minimize administrative overhead while meeting the requirement. Which action should you perform?
Deploy the built-in Qualys vulnerability assessment extension to all virtual machines.
Install the Log Analytics agent on each virtual machine and keep using the SecurityCenterFree pricing tier.
Upgrade the subscription to Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2 and turn on Agentless scanning for machines in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Enable Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management preview for the subscription.
Agentless scanning for Azure virtual machines is provided only with Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2. After upgrading the subscription to Plan 2, you enable the Agentless scanning for machines setting under Environment settings in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Vulnerability assessment and malware detection are then performed from storage-based snapshots, so no Qualys, Log Analytics, or Microsoft Defender agents are required or deployed. The other options continue to rely on agents (Qualys extension, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management via the MDE sensor, or the Log Analytics agent) and therefore do not meet the requirement.
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