Infrastructure management
CoreAzure Resource Manager
Control plane, scopes, deployments, dependencies, and resource organization.
Key points
- Azure control plane for resource deployment, organization, access, Policy, tags, and locks.
- Exposes management scopes from tenant and management group through subscription and resource group.
- Processes declarative deployments and invokes resource providers.
Best-known use cases
- Deploy a repeatable resource group environment.
- Apply access or governance at a management scope.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Resource Manager vs resource provider: common control plane vs service-specific implementation API.
- Management plane vs data plane: configure a service resource vs operate the data it contains.
Key takeaway
Use Azure Resource Manager to manage Azure resource state and scope while recognizing separate service data planes.
Related services
- ARM templates
- Bicep
Relevant exam tasks
- D3.1.S1 — Interpret an Azure Resource Manager template or a Bicep file
- D3.1.S2 — Modify an existing Azure Resource Manager template
- D3.1.S3 — Modify an existing Bicep file
- D3.1.S4 — Deploy resources by using an Azure Resource Manager template or a Bicep file
- D3.1.S5 — Export a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template or convert an Azure Resource Manager template to a Bicep file