Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements Flashcards
A company has just set up an Azure virtual private connection between its on-premises network and an Azure virtual network. Would the company need to pay additional costs to transfer several gigabits of data from their on-premises network to Azure?
No, data transfers to the Azure data center are free
You are planning on setting up an Azure Free Account. After 30 days, would certain Azure products still be free to use?
Yes, the Azure free account gives access to all Azure services for the first 30 days with a free credit of $200.
After this there is a subset of Azure services for free. A pay as you go subscription can be used to access all Azure services.
A company plans to upgrade its current Azure AD Free plan to the Azure AD Premium P1 plan. Does Microsoft provide the same feature set for both plans?
No, premium P1 has all the features that a free plan has and it will also include more features.
Azure AD comes in four editions, Free, Office 365 apps, Premium P1 and Premium P2.
A company is planning to host 2 Virtual Machines in Azure, they are identical but hosted in different regions. Will both the Virtual Machines always generate the same monthly costs?
No, the cost for a Virtual Machine depends on the region where it is hosted.
A company is planning to store 1 TB of data in Azure BLOB storage. Would the cost of data storage be the same regardless of the region the data is stored in?
No, the cost depends on the region the BLOB is located in.
BLOB strage is used for storing large amounts of unstrucutred data
A company has a set of Virtual Machines defined in Azure. One of the machines was down due to issues with the underlying Azure Infrastructure. The server was down for an extended period and breached the standard SLA defined by Microsoft. How will Microsoft reinburse the downtime cost?
Microsoft provides service credits if they do not meet SLA targets. Typically 10 - 25% depending on the SLA missed.
A company wants to start using Azure. They want to deploy several resources to their Azure subscription. They want to be informed of the costs of Azure resources that go beyond a certain threshold. Which Azure feature can be used for this?
“Azure Cost Management” can be used to create a budget and generate notifications when exceeded.
A company wants to try out a couple of Azure services that are available in public preview. Is it true that services in the public preview can only be used via the Azure command-line interface?
No, this is not necessarily true, some preview services are available through the portal.
A company currently has the following unused resources as part of its subscription.
10 user accounts in Azure AD
5 user group in Azure AD
10 public IP address’
10 network interfaces
They want to reduce the costs for resources hosted in Azure and decide to remove the user groups from Azure AD. Would this reduce costs?
No, Azure AD allows you to create 50,000 objects as part of the free version. These objects include both users and groups.
A company has launched a set of Virtual Machines in their Pay-as-you-go subscription. After launching a set of VM’s they seem to be hitting a limit. They cannot provision additional VM’s. What should the company do to allow them to provision more VM’s?
They should raise a support ticket with Microsoft to raise the limit above the default limit.
Does the Azure AD Premium P2 tier guarantee any Azure AD Services available with the availability higher than 99.99%?
No, the highest SLA is 99.99% there aren’t any higher than this.
A company is planning to host 2 VM’s in Azure. When 1 of the VM’s is stopped will the company still incur costs for the storage attached to it?
Yes, the disks attached to a VM have costs associated with them.
A company wants to make use of an Azure service in public preview. Are Azure services in public preview available only to a selective portion of customers?
No, services in public preview are available upon request to all customers.
