Azure Pricing and Support

Question 1

What are Public and Private Preview Features?

Answer 1

Pre-Release Azure products and service for Microsoft to obtain feedback and for evaluation purposes.

Question 2

What are Additional Azure Support Channels?

Answer 2

Azure Knowledge Center, MSDN forums, Stack Overflow forums

Question 3

Where can you find the SLA for Azure Products and Services?

Answer 3

The Azure SLA landing page:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/

Question 4

How can you purchase Azure products and services?

Answer 4

Directly from Microsoft or through a Microsoft Partner

Question 5

What are Azure Government Services?

Answer 5

Isolated private cloud just for US federal, state, and local governments, and their partners

Question 6

What are the characteristics of the Azure Free Account?

Answer 6

One-time offer per account for free access to many Azure products and a $200 credit to spend in the first 30 days.

Question 7

What are the Azure Support Plan types?

Answer 7

Basic, Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, Premier

Question 8

Where can you monitor Azure Feature Updates?

Answer 8

Azure Updates landing page:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/

Question 9

What is an Azure Subscription?

Answer 9

Where you can manage resources using resource groups, they serve as a capacity, administration, and billing container

Question 10

What are Azure Germany Services?

Answer 10

Microsoft partnered with German companies to comply with all German regulations, building 2 distinct data centers for a German-only part of Azure - As of 2018, being phased out by Microsoft - no longer accepting new users
http://portal.microsoftazure.de

Question 11

What is an Azure subscription offer?

Answer 11

Type of subscription, such as Enterprise Agreement, Certified Solution Partner, Pay-As-You-Go, etc.

Question 12

What are Azure Reservations?

Answer 12

Discounts for committing to 1-3 years of Azure products and services

Question 13

What are Azure Billing Zones?

Answer 13

For data transfer in/out of Azure, regions correspond to different Azure Billing Zones and charge different prices.

Question 14

What are the Azure Storage Blob Tiers?

Answer 14

Hot - high cost/fast retrieval
Cool - lower cost/slower retrieval
Archive - low cost/slow retrieval

Question 15

What is the Azure Cost Management tool?

Answer 15

Helps you analyze costs, create and manage budgets, export data, and review and act on optimization recommendations to save money.

Question 16

What is the Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator?

Answer 16

Estimate the cost savings you can have by migrating your workloads to Azure.

Question 17

Where can you access Preview Features?

Answer 17

Try any preview features using the Azure Portal:

https://portal.azure.com

Question 18

What is the Azure Pricing Calculator?

Answer 18

Estimate your Azure consumption for each product or service in your solution.

Question 19

What is General Availability (GA)?

Answer 19

Officially released Azure product or service

Question 20

What are Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)?

Answer 20

Expressed as a percentage of the total time per month that the service is guaranteed to be up.

Uptime is guaranteed (not performance, bandwidth, or feature availability).

Question 21

What is the Azure Marketplace?

Answer 21

An online applications and services marketplace with over 8,000 listings.

Offers SaaS applications, Virtual Machines, Solution Templates, and Azure Managed Applications.

Question 22

Where do you open an Azure support ticket?

Answer 22

Azure Portal (portal.azure.com)

Question 23

What is the Azure Knowledge Center?

Answer 23

Get answers to common support questions.