(AZ-900 topic) Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements Flashcards
AZ-900 topic assess your ability to: Understand and be able to work with the various cost management and planing tools in the Azure environment, and show an understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and know what a service lifecycle is. Questions for this domain comprise 12% of the total questions for the AZ-900.
When utilizing at least two Azure virtual machines with at least two availability zones, what is the guaranteed service level agreement that can be expected?
99.99%
When deploying at least two Azure virtual machines across two or more Availability Zones in the same Azure region, a 99.99% SLA is guaranteed.
You currently have two Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions. You would like to combine these into a single subscription. How can you accomplish this?
Contact Microsoft Azure Support
The only way to combine Azure subscriptions is to open a support case with Microsoft. There is no such feature in the Azure Portal to combine Azure subscriptions. There is no such CLI command to merge subscriptions. There is no such PowerShell cmdlet either.
Which of the following Azure support plans provide phone 24/7 access for technical support queries?
Developer
Basic
Professional Direct
Standard
Professional Direct
Standard
Professional Direct provides 24/7 access to technical support via phone and email.
The Developer support plan only provides access to technical support via email in business hours. Both the Standard and Professional Direct support plans provide 24/7 access to technical support via phone and email.
You need an Azure support plan with the overall fastest possible response time. Which support plan meets this requirement?
Professional Direct
Of the available options, the Professional Direct support plan provides the quickest response time when cases are raised.
Which of the following statements regarding Azure Virtual Machines is true?
- If a virtual machine stays stopped and de-allocated for 30 days, it will be deleted.
- Two virtual machines with the same size will incur the same monthly charges.
- Virtual machines can be auto-resized to combat system performance.
- Deleted virtual machines will still incur charges for storage.
-Deleted virtual machines will still incur charges for storage.
When a virtual machine is deleted, its managed disk remains in the Azure portal and can be used to create a new virtual machine. Until this disk is manually removed, you will incur charges for the disk whether it is in use or not.
What tool provides cost information and would help to identify underutilized and idle Azure resources in order to help reduce overall spending?
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Fundamentals
- Application Insights
- Azure Advisor
-Azure Advisor
Advisor helps you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending by identifying idle and underutilized resources.
You attempt to create several managed disks in your Azure environment. In the Portal, you receive a message that you must increase your Azure subscription limits. What should you do to increase the limits?
- Upgrade your support plan.
- Create a new support request.
- Use Azure PowerShell to create the new managed disks.
- Modify an Azure policy.
-Create a new support request.
If you want to raise the limit or quota above the default limit, open an online customer support request at no charge. Azure resource limits are bound to any tool set being used to create them. Limits for Portal-created resources apply to those created with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
Your company has several internal departments. Each department is responsible for purchasing its own IT equipment and services. The company plans to implement an Azure environment. You need to ensure that each department can use a different payment option for the Azure services it consumes. What should you create for each department?
- Reservations
- Azure Payment plan
- Management groups
- Subscription
-Subscription
A subscription is an agreement with Microsoft to use one or more Microsoft cloud platforms or services, for which charges accrue based on either a per-user license fee or on cloud-based resource consumption. Microsoft’s Software as a Service (SaaS)-based cloud offerings (Office 365, Intune/EMS, and Dynamics 365) charge per-user license fees. Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud offerings (Azure) charge based on cloud resource consumption. Payment options can only be specified per Azure subscription. A reservation can be used to save costs on Azure resources. Azure resources, such as virtual machines, can be reserved in one-year or three-year terms, resulting in significant cost savings. However, Azure reservations are not used to manage billing for Azure services. If your organization has many subscriptions, you may need a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for those subscriptions. Azure management groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions. You organize subscriptions into containers called “management groups” and apply your governance conditions to the management groups. Billing is not managed via an Azure management group. There is no such thing as an Azure payment plan..
Management groups are for grouping your subscriptions, this allows you to mirror your company’s structure and also apply policies or access controls to any service in that structure. But it does not effect or control payment options, this is at the subscription level.
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is?
Microsoft’s commitment for uptime and connectivity
The Service Agreement by Microsoft describes the commitment to the customer on uptime and connectivity availability for Azure services. Most but not all Azure services have a financially backed guarantee.
Which Azure Support Plans offer 24x7 access to technical support engineers?
- Basic
- Developer
- Standard
- Professional Direct
- Standard
- Professional Direct
The Professional direct (being the most expensive of the plans) offers access to 24/7 access to technical support by email and phone after a support request is submitted.
The standard plan offers access to 24/7 access to technical support by email and phone after a support request is submitted.
You work as part of the Product Deployment team at Nutex Corporation. you have a series of products to deploy on Azure. These products are targeted at audiences in different geographies. You need to understand the impact of deploying products by their geography.
Which of the following statements concerning pricing by geography for Azure is TRUE?
- Azure services are charged the same across all geographies
- A region in Azure is a set of geographies that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
- All Azure products are available in all Azure regions.
- Azure Australia has two featured Azure Australia Central regions.
- A region in Azure is a set of geographies that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
- Azure Australia has two featured Azure Australia Central regions.
A region consists of data centers connected through a regional low-latency network and deployed within a latency-defined perimeter. Azure regions are organized into geographies typically containing two or more regions, that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries.
The two Azure Australia Central regions (Australia Central and Australia Central 2) are designed for the Austrailian and New Zealand governments, and critical infrastructure organizations and their supplies. Services in the Azure Australia Central regions can be purchased in the same way as any other Azure service.
Azure services are not charged the same across all geographies. Azure charges customers based on the geographical locations in which the apps and services are deployed. Prices vary by regions that define the geographical locations.
Azure products are available by regions; some products are not available in some regions.
Which minimum costing support plan provides access to general guidance with architecture support?
- Professional Direct
- Developer
- Standard
- Basic
-Developer
The Developer support plan provides access to technical support via email in business hours and is the most-effective.
You currently have a Basic level of support agreement with Microsoft, but your CTO has requested the company has access to an Pro Active Guidance support from a Pro Direct delivery manager.
What is the minimal level of support contract that your company needs to achieve this?
- Developer
- Basic
- Professional Direct
- Standard
-Professional Direct
To be allocated a Technical Account Manager you require the highest level of Microsoft Azure support contract which is the Professional Direct tier.
You work as part of the Product Analysis team at the Nutex Corporation. You have been asked to obtain a report of the profitability of products by the costs incurred to serve data to the products.
Which of the following statements about costs for ingress and egress data in Azure are TRUE? (Select all that apply.)
-Different ingress and egress data charges apply for VNet peering between the same Azure
region and different Azure regions.
-Both ingress and egress data charges apply for VNet peering.
-For site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections, the first 5 GB of data transfer are
exempt from monthly charges for egress data.
-Ingress to Azure datacenters from on-premises environments is not charged.
-Both ingress and egress data charges apply for a metered Azure ExpressRoute plan.
- Different ingress and egress data charges apply for VNet peering between the same Azure region and different Azure regions.
- Both ingress and egress data charges apply for VNet peering.
- For site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections, the first 5 GB of data transfer are exempt from monthly charges for egress data.
- Ingress to Azure datacenters from on-premises environments is not charged.
Data egress for site-to-site and point-to-site connections are charged at regular data transfer rates. The first 5 GB per month is free, and any data transfer beyond that is charged based on the following usage: 5GB-10TB @ $0.087/GB, 10-50TB @ $0.083/GB, and 50-150TB @ $0.07/GB (USD, as of this writing).
It is not true that both ingress and egress data charges apply for a metered Azure ExpressRoute plan. The two types of billing plans associated with ExpressRoute are:
Metered plans – Customers are charged for outbound data transfer based on Azure datacenter regions grouped as zones, but inbound data transfer is free.
Unlimited plans – Customers pay a flat fee based on the selected port speed, and both inbound and outbound data transfers are free.
The Nutex Corporation wants to migrate its apps and services to Azure. Before doing so, they want to estimate the cost of managing apps and services on Azure. You are part of the product support team. You are asked to perform a feasibility analysis and create a migration plan, and to show the costs associated with adopting Azure.
Is the following statement about Azure Price Calculator TRUE?
The Azure Pricing Calculator is only available for customers with an Enterprise Agreement.
False.
Azure Pricing Calculator is available for all customers, not just customers with an Enterprise Agreement. The prices calculated to estimate the costs vary for regular customers, customers with an Enterprise Agreement, or customers with Microsoft Customer Agreements.
