Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (10-15%)

Question 1

Identify factors that can affect costs (resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic)

Answer 1

Tracking by meter, Pay for usage, eg. functions, Gbs, bandwidth. Inbound data is free, outbound 5gb is free then you pay.

Question 2

Identify factors that can reduce costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing)

Answer 2

AZURE ADVISOR. Auto-shutdowns, cool/archive storage, billing alerts, policies, autoscaling. Spot pricing is using other peoples unused resources.

Question 3

Describe the functionality and usage of the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator

Answer 3

Calculate based on Region, tier, type, support options. Export and share result. TCO is comparing Azure vs your own on-prem costs.

Question 4

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management

Answer 4

Free tool to analyse spending, tracking against budgets, reports.

Question 5

Describe the purpose of an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Answer 5

Service Level Agreements (SLA) - a financial guarantee that they will deliver the services as promised
Microsoft will refund 10% or 25% of your bill if their uptime guarantee doesn’t meet the published standard

Question 6

Identify actions that can impact an SLA (i.e. Availability Zones)

Answer 6

If you do not have services in different availability zones, you may not be entitled to a credit. Different types of disks and premium all effect potential downtime leniency.

Question 7

Describe the service lifecycle in Azure (Public Preview and General Availability)

Answer 7

Private Preview = By signup
Public Preview = Available to all, no support, for testing
GA = Available to all