Question 160 of 642 from exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Authentication, not authorization is the process of verifying a user's credentials.

The difference between authentication and authorization is:

Authentication is proving your identity, proving that you are who you say you are. The most common example of this is logging in to a system by providing

credentials such as a username and password.

-> Authorization is what you're allowed to do once you've been authenticated. For example, what resources you're allowed to access and what you can do with those resources.