Azure Management and Governance 3.1

Question 1

Factors that can reduce costs include

Answer 1

reserved instances, reserved capacity,
hybrid use benefit, spot pricing

Question 2

Reserved Instances

Answer 2

Reserve virtual machines in advance and
save up to 72 percent compared to PAYG
pricing with 1-yr or 3-yr commitment

Question 3

Reserved Capacity
discount is product-specific!
also includes 1-year and 3-year options

Answer 3

Achieve significant savings on Azure SQL
Database, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure
Synapse Analytics and Azure Cache for Redis.
Enables you to more easily manage costs across
predictable and variable workloads and help
optimize budgeting and forecasting.

Question 4

Hybrid Use Benefit

Answer 4

A licensing benefit that helps you to
significantly reduce the costs of running
your workloads in the cloud.
Let’s you use your on-premises
Software Assurance-enabled Windows
Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure.
Windows Server, SQL Server, Redhat and Suse Linux

Question 5

Spot Pricing

Answer 5

applies to Azure VMs only!
Access unused Azure compute capacity
at deep discounts—up to 90 percent
compared to pay-as-you-go prices.
Use for workloads that can be interrupted without harm

Question 6

Pricing Calculator

Answer 6

Interactive calculator that allows you to
estimate the expected monthly Azure costs.
Choose regions, services, options, and SKUs.

Question 7

TCO Calculator

Answer 7

A tool that helps estimate cost savings you can
achieve by migrating application workloads to Azure.
Allows you to compare the TCO of different Azure
services and regions and provides a detailed breakdown
of cost of components and potential savings.

Question 8

Azure Cost Management

Answer 8

A suite of tools provided by Microsoft
that help you analyze, manage, and
optimize costs of your workloads.

Question 9

What are Tags

Answer 9

A name and a value pair used to logically
organize Azure resources, resource groups,
and subscriptions into a logical taxonomy.

Question 10

How are Tags used

Answer 10

A name and a value pair used to logically
organize Azure resources, resource groups,
and subscriptions into a logical taxonomy.
You can also enforce tagging rules
with Azure policies.
Examples of common tags include owner,
cost center, app/service, and environment