Your company has an azure subscription that includes a storage account, a resource group, a blob container and a file share. A colleague named Jon…

The goal is to review the original Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template that deployed both a virtual machine and a storage account. The blade for an individual resource, such as the Virtual Machine, does not contain the deployment history or the original template used. While you can export a template from a resource's blade, this action generates a new template based on the resource's current configuration, not the original template that was used for the deployment. The correct location to view the original template is in the "Deployments" section of the resource group where the resources were deployed.

A. This is incorrect because the Virtual Machine blade only provides access to manage the VM itself. It does not store the history of the multi-resource ARM template deployment that created it.

1. Microsoft Learn | Azure Resource Manager documentation. "View deployment history with Azure Resource Manager". This document explicitly states that to view deployment history and the template used, you must navigate to the resource group, select "Deployments" under "Settings", and then choose the specific deployment. It does not mention accessing this information from an individual resource's blade.

2. Microsoft Learn | Azure Resource Manager documentation. "Export template after deployment". This article clarifies that to get the original template used for a deployment, you should access it from the deployment history of the resource group. It distinguishes this from exporting a template from a resource, which "creates a new template that is a snapshot of the current state of the resource." This confirms the proposed solution is incorrect as it would not provide the original template.