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A large enterprise is designing a new data analytics platform on Azure that will consolidate data from various departments, including HR, finance, and operations. This platform will contain highly sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) and financial records. The company needs a unified solution to discover, classify, map, and govern all its data assets across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. Which Azure service is best suited for this comprehensive data governance requirement?
- AAzure Information Protection (AIP)
- BAzure Data Factory
- CMicrosoft Purview
- DAzure Monitor
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Correct answer: C. Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance solution that helps manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. It enables data discovery, sensitive data classification, data lineage, and provides a comprehensive data map for compliance.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Azure Information Protection (AIP) focuses on classifying and protecting documents and emails, not comprehensive data estate governance.
- B. Azure Data Factory is a data integration service for ETL/ELT operations, not for data governance.
- D. Azure Monitor is for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry data from Azure and on-premises environments, not data governance.
Microsoft Purview
A unified data governance service that helps organizations manage and govern their on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS data, enabling data discovery, classification, lineage, and a comprehensive data map.
- Unified data governance solution.
- Scans and maps data across hybrid/multi-cloud.
- Automated sensitive data classification.
- Provides data lineage and a data catalog.
Memory trick: Purview gives you a clear 'view' of all your data for governance.