What should you use to authenticate to adls2?

You have an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account named adls2 that is protected by a virtual network.

You are designing a SQL pool in Azure Synapse that will use adls2 as a source.

What should you use to authenticate to adls2?
A . a shared access signature (SAS)
B . a managed identity
C . a shared key
D . an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) user

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Answer: B

Explanation:

Managed identity for Azure resources is a feature of Azure Active Directory. The feature provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Azure AD. You can use the Managed Identity capability to authenticate to any service that support Azure AD authentication.

Managed Identity authentication is required when your storage account is attached to a VNet.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-bulk-load-copy-tsql-examples