Understand Azure Pricing and Support

Question 1

What are the benefits of consumption-based pricing model?

Answer 1

• No upfront costs
• No need to purchase and manage the costly infrastructure that they may or may not use to its fullest
• The ability to pay for additional resources if and when they are needed
• The ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer needed

Question 2

What are the characteristics of cloud-computing?

Answer 2

• cost-effective
• scalable
• elastic
• current
• reliable
• secure

Question 3

What is an Azure subscription?

Answer 3

It is a logical container used to provision resources in Microsoft Azure. It holds the details of all your resources like virtual machines, databases, etc.

Billing occurs at the subscription level.

Question 4

What are Azure subscription types?

Answer 4

• Free
• Pay-as-you-go
• Enterprise agreement
• Student

Question 5

What do you get with free Azure subscription?

Answer 5

• $200 credit to spend in first 30 days
• free access to the most popular products for 12 months
• access to more than 25 products which are always free

Question 6

Do you still pay storage costs when you stop a VM?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Do you still pay storage costs when you stop and deallocate a VM?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

Do you still pay compute costs when you stop a VM?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Do you still pay compute costs when you stop and deallocate a VM?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

Where can you check compliance information for Azure

Answer 10

Microsoft Trust Center

Question 11

Where can you look for answers to common support questions?

Answer 11

Knowledge Center