AZ104-Q: Who created/deleted a resource

Q: You need to audit who created, modified, or deleted a resource and when — the control-plane (management) operations. Which Azure Monitor log provides this?

  • A) Activity log
  • B) Platform metrics
  • C) Diagnostic (resource) logs
  • D) Application Insights traces

Answer: A — Activity log. The Activity log records control-plane events — who/what/when a resource was created, updated, or deleted, and state changes — at the subscription level. Platform metrics (B) are numeric performance values, not operations. Diagnostic/resource logs (C) are emitted by a resource about its runtime behavior, not who changed it. Application Insights (D) is app telemetry.

Why it helps

Activity log = control plane / who-did-what. Diagnostic logs = resource runtime. This “what log do I use” distinction is tested.

azure-monitor-activity-log · azure-monitor · log-analytics