Exam SC-500 Topic 1 Question 39 Discussion
Actual exam question for Microsoft's SC-500 exam
Question #: 39
Topic #: 1
Question #: 39
Topic #: 1
You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.

VM1 contains an application that accesses storage1. Another application accesses storage1 from a public IP address of xxx.xxx.xx.xx.
For storage1, you set Public network access to Enabled from selected virtual networks and IP addresses. You add an IP network rule for xxx.xxx.xx.xx.
After the configuration, only connections from xxx.xxx.xx.xx succeed.
You need to ensure that both VM1 and xxx.xxx.xx.xx.can access storage1 over the public endpoint, while preventing all other access.
What should you do?

VM1 contains an application that accesses storage1. Another application accesses storage1 from a public IP address of xxx.xxx.xx.xx.
For storage1, you set Public network access to Enabled from selected virtual networks and IP addresses. You add an IP network rule for xxx.xxx.xx.xx.
After the configuration, only connections from xxx.xxx.xx.xx succeed.
You need to ensure that both VM1 and xxx.xxx.xx.xx.can access storage1 over the public endpoint, while preventing all other access.
What should you do?
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To ensure that both the Azure Virtual Machine and the external public IP address can access the storage account over its public endpoint while blocking all other traffic, you must enable a Virtual Network Service Endpoint (Microsoft.Storage) on the VM's subnet and add a Virtual Network Rule for that subnet to the storage account's firewall Reference:
https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-azure-storage-account-network-access-9e024d2f02c6/
https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-azure-storage-account-network-access-9e024d2f02c6/
by Jennifer at Aug 08, 2026, 03:31 AM
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