How Do You Identify a Created Azure AI Services Account in a Pipeline?

Why the Answer Is Correct

az cognitiveservices account show is the read operation for a single Azure AI services (Cognitive Services) account: given the account name and resource group that the earlier pipeline step created, it returns the resource's id, endpoint, kind, SKU, and provisioning state. That output is exactly what a subsequent pipeline step needs to "identify" the account and feed its properties into later tasks, such as retrieving the endpoint for a Foundry project connection. It is also the smallest possible addition to the YAML — one task line plus name/resource-group arguments — which satisfies the "minimize development effort" constraint. As Srikantha noted, "This command retrieves the properties and details of a specific Azure Cognitive Services" resource, so no extra scripting or parsing of a full resource dump is required.

Why the Other Options Are Wrong

az cognitiveservices account network-rule is a write operation that adds, lists, or removes virtual network and IP firewall rules for the account; it manages access control and never returns the account's identity. az account list enumerates the Azure subscriptions available to the signed-in identity, which says nothing about which AI services account the pipeline created. az resource link relates to resource links between a resource and a scope (historically used with ARM linked resources) and does not surface an Azure AI services account's properties — it is also not part of the normal AI services workflow. Only the show verb targets the created resource itself.

Community Comment Notes

Community feedback on this item converges on B, with the reasoning that the command "retrieves the properties and details of a specific Azure Cognitive Services / Azure AI services account (by name and resource group)." The same comment explicitly rules out the network-rule option as managing network access rather than retrieving identity or details, and dismisses the subscription-listing option. That matches the vendor's CLI surface: read verbs (show) versus configuration verbs (network-rule) versus subscription-scoped commands (az account list). Treating the vote as corroboration rather than proof, the wording of the question — "identify the created Azure AI services account" — still points unambiguously to the show verb.