In a cloud-misconfiguration audit at a healthcare provider ' s Azure environment in Boston, Massachusetts,...

Answer A is the best fit because Azure PowerShell is designed for scriptable, repeatable administration from Windows environments and supports structured output that investigators can export and reuse across many subscriptions. The question highlights a Windows-based forensic workstation, reusable workflows, detailed resource properties, and review of role assignments at scale. Microsoft documents that Azure PowerShell can manage Azure resources through Azure Resource Manager and can list role assignments with cmdlets such as Get-AzRoleAssignment, which aligns directly with the tasks in the scenario. Azure Portal is interactive and browser-based, so it does not match the requirement to avoid browser interaction. Azure CLI is also scriptable, but the wording strongly favors PowerShell because of its tight integration with Windows administrative practices and object-based output. Azure Resource Manager is the underlying management framework, not the day-to-day interaction method the examiner would use from the workstation. In CHFI v11 terms, cloud forensics often depends on practical evidence collection methods, and here the most suitable operational interface for broad Azure collection is Azure PowerShell.