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Answer A is correct. ZPA evaluates Access Policy rules using the first-match principle. The HR portal is described as an employee internal App Segment, not a High_Value_Assets segment, so rules 1 and 2 do not match. Rule 3 allows contractor applications, but the requested HR portal is not identified as a contractor application. Rule 4 matches both relevant facts: the user belongs to the SCIM Contractors group and the destination is an internal application. Its Block action therefore ends evaluation. Rule 5 is never reached and, independently, the user is not described as an employee. Compliant posture does not grant access by itself; it only satisfies a posture condition in a rule whose remaining criteria also match. See Zscaler’s Access Policy configuration guidance and Access Policy criteria overview.