Which three features are not supported by VM-Series NGFWs on Azure Stack? (Choose three.)

Question

Options

• AAzure Application Insight
• BResource Group
• CAzure Security Center
• DBootstrapping
• EARM Template

• A
  89% (32)
• B
  8% (3)
• E
  3% (1)

Explanation

VM-Series NGFWs on Azure Stack - Microsoft's on-premises/hybrid Azure variant - lack access to several cloud-native Azure services that the full public Azure cloud provides. Azure Application Insights (A) is a cloud-based application monitoring service not available in Azure Stack. Azure Security Center (C) is a cloud security posture management service that also doesn't extend to Azure Stack deployments. Bootstrapping (D) relies on Azure Blob Storage to deliver initial configuration to the firewall, and because Azure Stack doesn't expose the same storage endpoints, this mechanism is unsupported.

Resource Groups (B) and ARM Templates (E) are both wrong answer choices because they are foundational to Azure Resource Manager itself - Azure Stack is built on ARM, so both are fully supported and required for any deployment there.

Memory tip: Think "SAAS-style features don't work on-prem." Application Insights, Security Center, and cloud Bootstrapping are all hosted Azure services that require connectivity to Microsoft's public cloud back-end - exactly what Azure Stack replaces with local infrastructure. If a feature lives in Microsoft's cloud data centers rather than in the ARM control plane itself, it likely won't work on Azure Stack with VM-Series.

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