Exam AZ-104 Topic 2 Question 21 Discussion
Actual exam question for Microsoft's AZ-104 exam
Question #: 21
Topic #: 2
Question #: 21
Topic #: 2
You have an Azure virtual machine named VM1. VM1 was deployed by using a custom Azure Resource Manager template named ARM1.json.
You receive a notification that VM1 will be affected by maintenance.
You need to move VM1 to a different host immediately.
Solution: From the resource group blade, move VM1 to another resource group.
Does this meet the goal?
You receive a notification that VM1 will be affected by maintenance.
You need to move VM1 to a different host immediately.
Solution: From the resource group blade, move VM1 to another resource group.
Does this meet the goal?
Suggested Answer: B Vote an answer
Detailed Explanation
Moving a VM to a different resource group (or subscription) is a Resource Manager metadata/management- group operation; it changes which resource group manages the VM but does not migrate the VM ' s compute allocation to a different physical host, and it does not interact with the Azure maintenance/health subsystem at all. To immediately move a VM off its current host in response to a planned-maintenance or degraded-host notification, you must use the VM ' s Redeploy action (Overview blade > Redeploy, or Restart-AzVM - PowerState/Set-AzVM redeploy equivalents), which shuts down the VM, moves it to a new physical node in the Azure fabric, and restarts it while keeping the same VM configuration and IP addresses (for most SKUs).
Since a resource-group move does not achieve host relocation, the solution does not meet the goal.
Official Reference
Redeploy a VM to a new Azure node - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines
/windows/redeploy-to-new-azure-node
Moving a VM to a different resource group (or subscription) is a Resource Manager metadata/management- group operation; it changes which resource group manages the VM but does not migrate the VM ' s compute allocation to a different physical host, and it does not interact with the Azure maintenance/health subsystem at all. To immediately move a VM off its current host in response to a planned-maintenance or degraded-host notification, you must use the VM ' s Redeploy action (Overview blade > Redeploy, or Restart-AzVM - PowerState/Set-AzVM redeploy equivalents), which shuts down the VM, moves it to a new physical node in the Azure fabric, and restarts it while keeping the same VM configuration and IP addresses (for most SKUs).
Since a resource-group move does not achieve host relocation, the solution does not meet the goal.
Official Reference
Redeploy a VM to a new Azure node - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines
/windows/redeploy-to-new-azure-node
by Natividad at Oct 30, 2026, 02:46 AM
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