Which of the following can be used to estimate cost savings when migrating to Azure?
Pricing calculator
Total Cost of Ownership calculator
Usage meter
Answer is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator. The TCO calculator is a tool that you use to estimate cost savings you can realize by migrating to Azure.
Question 142
Your billing is based on your usage of Azure resources and is invoiced _____________
Annually
Monthly
Daily
You will be billed monthly.
Question 143
Azure Advisor provides recommendations for _________.
Costs only
High availability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost
High availability, performance, and cost
Answer is High availability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost. Azure Advisor provides recommendations on many different capabilities for your solutions.
Question 144
To use Azure datacenters that are made available with power, cooling, and networking capabilities independent from other datacenters in a region, choose a region that supports _________?
Geography distribution
Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
Availability Zones
Answer is Availability Zones
Availability Zones are datacenters set up to be an isolation boundary from others in the region, with their own power, cooling, and networking. If one zone in a region goes down, other Availability Zones in the region continue to work.
Question 145
Application availability refers to what?
The service level agreement of the associated resource.
Application support for an availability zone.
The overall time that a system is functional and working.
Answer is The overall time that a system is functional and working. The time that a system is working is referred to as the application availability.
Question 146
Which task can you perform by using Azure Advisor?
Integrate Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Estimate the costs of an Azure solution.
Confirm that Azure subscription security follows best practices.
Evaluate which on-premises resources can be migrated to Azure.
Answer is Confirm that Azure subscription security follows best practices..
Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow BEST PRACTICES to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, reliability (formerly called high availability), and SECURITY of your Azure resources.
Which is the best first step a team should take to compare the cost of running these environments on Azure versus in their datacenter?
They're just test environments. Spin them up and check the bill at the end of the month.
Assume that running in the cloud costs about the same as running in the datacenter.
Run the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.
Answer is Run the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.
Running the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator is a great first step because it can provide an accurate comparison of running workloads in the datacenter versus on Azure, certified by an independent research company.
Question 148
What's the best way to ensure that a development team doesn't provision too many virtual machines at the same time?
Do nothing. Let the development team use what they need.
Apply spending limits to the development team's Azure subscription.
Verbally give the development lead a budget and hold them accountable for overages.
Answer is Apply spending limits to the development team's Azure subscription.
If you exceed your spending limit, active resources are deallocated. You can then decide whether to increase your limit or provision fewer resources.
Question 149
Which is the most efficient way for a testing team to save costs on virtual machines on weekends, when testers are not at work?
Delete the virtual machines before the weekend and create a new set the following week.
Deallocate virtual machines when they're not in use.
Just let everything run. Azure bills you only for the CPU time that you use.
Answer is Deallocate virtual machines when they're not in use.
When you deallocate virtual machines, the associated hard disks and data are still kept in Azure. But you don't pay for CPU or network consumption, which can help save costs.
Question 150
Resources in the Dev and Test environments are each paid for by different departments. What's the best way to categorize costs by department?
Apply a tag to each virtual machine that identifies the appropriate billing department.
Split the cost evenly between departments.
Keep a spreadsheet that lists each team's resources.
Answer is
Apply a tag to each virtual machine that identifies the appropriate billing department.