Cost Management in Azure Flashcards
OpEx cost can be impacted by
Resource type
Consumption
Maintenance
Geography
Subscription type
Azure Marketplace
Pricing calculator vs TCO calculator
pricing calculator is designed to give you an estimated cost for resources
TCO - designed to help compare cost for running on premises infrastructure compares to Azure cloud infrastructure
T or F
Pricing calculator is just an estimate
True
What is Cost Management tool?
provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets
T or F
Cost analysis is a subset of Cost Management that provides a quick visual for your Azure costs
True
T or F
Cost alerts provide a single location to quickly check on all of the different alerts
True
What are the three types of alerts that may show up in cost alerts?
Budget alerts
Credit alerts
Department and spending quota alerts
What is the purpose of tags?
to organize and provide extra information about your resources
Some things tags are useful for
Resource management
Cost management and optimization
Operations management
Security
Governance and regulatory compliance
Workload optimization and automation
Can you manage tags?
Yes, they can be added, modified, or deleted
How many tags can be added to an Azure resource?
one or more
What does a tag consist of?
Name and a value
ex. Name - Owner
Value - The name of the business owner
What Azure feature can help stay organized and track usage based on metadata associated with resources?
Tags
What’s the best method to estimate the cost of migrating to the cloud while incurring minimal costs?
Use the Total Cost of Ownership calculator to estimate expected costs.
