Day 19: Microsoft Module Predict costs and optimize spending for Azure

Knowledge check:

1. Which tab of the Azure pricing calculator will you use to put together your estimate?

• Estimate
• Products

This tab has all the Azure services listed and is where you'll add or remove services to get your estimate.

2. True or false: You can share your estimate through an Excel spreadsheet or through a URL.

• True

Clicking Export at the bottom of the estimate will export an Excel spreadsheet that you can share, or you can click Share to get a URL link that you can share with your team.

• False

3. Azure Advisor provides recommendations for _________.

• Costs only
• High availability, security, performance, and cost

Azure Advisor provides recommendations on high availability, security, performance, and cost.

• High availability, performance, and cost

4. Azure Cost Management allows you to _________.

• See historical breakdowns of what services you are spending your money on.

Cost Management analyzes where you are historically spending your money and can track it against budgets you have set.

• See estimates of what your services might cost if you make a change.

5. Which one of these is not a cost-saving solution?

• Deallocate virtual machines during off hours.
• Use Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances.
• Load balance your virtual machines for incoming messages.

Load balancing is used for performance optimization not cost savings.

• Right-size underutilized virtual machines.

6. True or false: PaaS is generally less expensive than IaaS.

• True

IaaS requires Azure to dedicate resources while PaaS give Azure more flexibility in how services are delivered. This means Azure can fill and operate hardware efficiently and therefore offer PaaS services at a savings over IaaS.

• False

7. True or false: If you already have Windows Server licenses, you have to pay for them again on Azure.

• True
• False

Under certain circumstances, you can utilize the hybrid benefit for Windows Server and pay only the Linux rate.

8. True or false: Azure has money-saving options for test and development servers.

• True

The Azure Enterprise Dev/Test and Azure Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test benefits give you several discounts, most notably for Windows workloads, eliminating license charges and billing you only at the Linux rate for virtual machines. This also applies to SQL Server and any other Microsoft software that is covered under a Visual Studio subscription.

• False

9. Which one of the following systems is used to determine Azure costs for each billing period?

• The Azure website
• Number of created virtual machines
• The Azure pricing calculator
• Usage meters

Correct. Azure is billed according to your consumption based on monthly usage meters.

10. Which of the following factors affects costs?

• Global infrastructure
• Location

The location you place your resources will vary the price for the resource.

• Availability zone

11. Complete the following sentence. As an Azure customer, Azure Reservations offer discounted prices if you _________

• Make upfront commitments on compute capacity

Azure Reservations offer discounted prices on certain Azure products and resources. To get a discount, you reserve products and resources through an upfront commitment. You can then either prepay or pay monthly for one or three years of usage of certain Azure resources.

• Provision many resources
• Have a free account
• Set Spending Limits

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