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Secure compute, storage, and databases

An administrator needs to enable Azure Disk Encryption on a Windows VM data disk without affecting the OS disk. Which statement is accurate?

A. ADE supports selectively encrypting only data disks while leaving the OS disk unencrypted

B. ADE can only encrypt the OS disk and never touches data disks

C. ADE requires the VM to be deleted and recreated to change disk encryption scope

D. ADE encryption scope cannot be controlled; it is all disks or nothing, always

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Code: AZ-500
Passing score: 700/1000

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