Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Practice Exam

What is the most efficient way to ensure a naming convention is followed across your subscription?

1. Send out an email with the details of your naming conventions and hope it is followed.

2. Create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription.

3. Make users read-only and require approval for new resource names.

The correct answer is: Create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription.

The most efficient way to ensure that a naming convention is followed across your Azure subscription is to create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription. Azure Policy allows you to define rules that ensure resources are compliant with certain standards, such as a naming convention. When you assign this policy at the subscription level, it automatically enforces the naming requirements on all new and existing resources, significantly reducing the chance of human error in name assignment. This approach ensures consistency and compliance without relying solely on individual users to adhere to guidelines or requiring additional administrative overhead, such as approvals or read-only permissions. By embedding the naming requirements directly into the resource management process, you can enforce standards programmatically, leading to a more streamlined and efficient governance model. This capability aligns well with best practices in cloud resource management and helps maintain organization-wide standards effectively.