You have an Azure subscription and plan to create a virtual machine. Where in Azure will the virtual machine be placed?

A resource group is a logical container for Azure resources. All resources, including virtual machines, must be deployed into a resource group. This allows for easier management, monitoring, and deletion of related resources as a single unit. A storage account is a service that stores data, not a container for compute resources like virtual machines. An administrative unit is an Azure Active Directory concept used for managing users and groups, not for deploying infrastructure resources. An application group is not a standard Azure concept for resource deployment; it might refer to a logical grouping within an application, but not an Azure infrastructure container.