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A company is planning on hosting an application on a set of Virtual Machines. The Virtual Machines are going to be running for a pro-longed duration of time. Which of the following should be considered to reduce the overall cost of Virtual Machine usage?

.Azure Reservation because they help you save money by committing to one-year or three-years plans for virtual machines, Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, SQL Database compute capacity, Azure Cosmos DB throughput, or other Azure resources. Committing allows you to get a discount on the resources you use. Reservations can significantly reduce your resource costs up to 72% on pay-as-you-go prices. Reservations provide a billing discount and don't affect the runtime state of your resources. If you have virtual machines, Blob storage data, Azure Cosmos DB, or SQL databases that use significant capacity or throughput, or that run for long periods of time, buying a reservation gives you the most cost-effective option. For example, when you continuously run four instances of a service without a reservation, you're charged at pay-as-you-go rates. When you buy a reservation for those resources, you immediately get the reservation discount. The resources are no longer charged at the pay-as-you-go rates.

A company is planning on hosting a set of resources within their Microsoft Azure subscription. They are currently aware that most Azure Services can provide a SLA of 99.9%. Which of the following technique could be used to increase the up-time for resources hosted in Azure?

Adding resources to multiple regions because Regions are a set of data centres deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network. With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy apps where they need to. Azure is generally available in 52 regions around the world, with plans announced for 2 additional regions.

A company has a set of Virtual Machines (VMs) defined within Microsoft Azure. One of the machines was down due to issues with the underlying Azure Infrastructure. The server was down for an extended period of time and breached the standard SLA defined by Microsoft. How will Microsoft reimburse the downtime cost?

By providing service credits to the customer By providing service credits to the customer because Microsoft Azure cloud service provider always refunded by giving "service credits" in case of breaches in their in SLAs. The "Service Credit" is the percentage of the applicable monthly service fees credited to customers following claim approval

You are planning on setting up a Microsoft Azure Free account. Which of the following is not true when it comes to what is offered with an Azure Free account?

Free access to all Azure products after the 12 month expiration period because the Azure free account includes free access to Azure products for only 12 months, you don't keep access to those products unless you pay, but when you sign up, you get $200 credit to spend for the first 30 days and access to more than 25 products that are always free.

You are planning on setting up an Azure Free Account. By setting up an Azure Free Account, would you only get access to a subset of services?

No, The Azure Free Account gives access to all services in Azure. This is also mentioned in the FAQ section for the Azure Free Account

A company is planning on using an Azure storage account. They are planning on provisioning an Azure storage account of the kind "General Purpose v2". Would the company be charged only for the amount of data stored and not for the amount of read and write operations?

No, The cost of Azure storage depends on several factors, and one of them includes the number of read and write operations.

A company is planning on upgrading their current Microsoft Azure Free plan to the Basic plan. Does the Free and Basic Azure AD plan come with the same standard support from Microsoft?

No because only paid services come with standard support. Basic is a form of paid support tier as shown in the visual below.

A company has just setup an Azure virtual private connection between their on-premise network and an Azure virtual network. Would the company need to pay additional costs if they transfer several gigabits of data from their on-premise network to Azure? ​

No, Data transfers to the Azure data center are free.

A company is planning on using an Azure App Service to host their set of web applications. The company has the Basic tier service plan. Does Microsoft automatically provide professional technical support services with the Basic support plan?

No, Microsoft does not automatically provide professional services with the Basic plan. You must be familiar and aware that there are 5 tiers of support plans available, Basic, Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier. In order to obtain additional support outside the scope of Basic (which is free), you would need to purchase one of the other 4 support plans (Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, or Premier).

A company has just setup an Azure subscription. The company is planning on creating several resource groups. By creating additional resource groups, would the company incur additional costs?

No, Resource groups have no costs associate with them.

A company currently has the following unused resources as part of their subscription - 10 user accounts in Azure AD - 5 user groups in Azure AD - 10 public IP address - 10 network Interfaces They want to reduce the costs for resources hosted in Azure They decide to remove the network interfaces from Azure AD Would this fulfil the requirement?

No, There is no price for network interfaces, so this would not help reduce the cost.

A company has just started using Azure. They have setup resources as part of their subscription. They want to get the current costs being incurred. They decide to use the TCO calculator to get this information Would this fulfil the requirement?

No, This is used to realize the costs when you move your current infrastructure to Azure.

A company currently has the following unused resources as part of their subscription - 10 user accounts in Azure AD - 5 user groups in Azure AD - 10 public IP address - 10 network Interfaces They want to reduce the costs for resources hosted in Azure They decide to remove the user accounts from Azure AD Would this fulfil the requirement?

No, When you look at the pricing for Azure Active Directory, you can create 5,00,000 objects as part of the free version. These objects include both users and groups.

A company currently has the following unused resources as part of their subscription - 10 user accounts in Azure AD - 5 user groups in Azure AD - 10 public IP address - 10 network Interfaces They want to reduce the costs for resources hosted in Azure They decide to remove the user groups from Azure AD Would this fulfil the requirement?

No, When you look at the pricing for Azure Active Directory, you can create 5,00,000 objects as part of the free version. These objects include both users and groups.

A company is planning on storing 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, When you look at the pricing for Azure BLOB storage, there is a selector for the region. The cost depends on the region the BLOB is located in.

A company is planning on moving to Microsoft Azure. Senior management wants to get an idea on the cost that will be incurred if decided to host resources within Azure. You recommend using the Azure Cost Management to get the required costing of the resources. Would this recommendation fit the requirement?

No, because Azure Cost Management is a native Azure cost management solution. It helps you analyze costs, create and manage budgets, export data, and review and act on optimization recommendations to save money while already in production.

A company is planning on setting up a Microsoft Azure Free Account. Does the Standard Support plan come along with the Microsoft Azure Free Account?

No, because Azure Standard support is intended for customers running production workloads and offers unlimited 24/7 technical and billing support for your entire organization. It isn't a free service, it's one of 5 support tiers.

A company is planning on moving to Microsoft Azure. Senior management wants to get an idea on the cost that would be incurred when hosting resources within Azure. You recommend using the Cloudyn service to get the required costing of the resources. Would this recommendation fit the requirement?

No, because Cloudyn, a Microsoft subsidiary, allows you to track cloud usage and expenditures for your Azure resources and other cloud providers including AWS and Google. Easy-to-understand dashboard reports help with cost allocation and showbacks/chargebacks as well. Cloudyn helps optimize your cloud spending by identifying underutilized resources that you can then manage and adjust.

A company is planning on hosting 2 Virtual Machines within Microsoft Azure as shown below: Virtual Machine Name Virtual Machine Size demovm B1S demovm1 B1S Would both the Virtual Machines always generate the same monthly costs?

No, because VMs usually use some form of storage, such as Azure Managed Disks, which are the new and recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure virtual machines for persistent storage of data. You can use multiple Managed Disks with each virtual machine. Microsoft offers four types of Managed Disks — Ultra Disk, Premium SSD Managed Disks, Standard SSD Managed Disks, Standard HDD Managed Disks. If one VM stops and the other runs, the cost will not be the same. If one VM has storage and the other does not, the cost will not be the same. If you scale in or out one VM, the cost will not be the same.

A company wants to try out some services which are being offered by Microsoft Azure in Public Preview. Do the services in Public Preview within Azure come with an SLA?

No, because previews are provided "as-is," "with all faults," and "as available," and are excluded from the service level agreements and limited warranty.

A company plans to purchase a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Ensure that for high severity cases, there is a minimum initial response time of 10 minutes A recommendation is made to purchase the Basic Support plan Would this recommendation fulfill the requirement?

No, because the Basic support tier doesn't include Case Severity/Response Times compared to the Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier tier.

A customer is planning on creating several Free Microsoft Azure Accounts. Is a customer allowed a maxim of 10 Free Microsoft Azure account?

No, because there is a limit of one account with 12 months free access to products and $200 credit per new customer. You can, however, use as many products as you like beyond the free amounts by upgrading your account to pay-as-you-go pricing.

A company plans on purchasing a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Provide an option to contact Microsoft support engineers by phone or email during business hours. A recommendation is made to purchase the Basic Support plan. Would this recommendation fulfil the requirement? ​

No, is the correct answer, because being able to contact Microsoft Support Engineers by phone or email during business hours is only available under the 'Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier' Support plans. The company would not be able to contact Microsoft Support Engineers by phone or email during business hours under the Basic Support plan as "Technical Support" is not included.

A company plans to purchase a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Ensure that for high severity cases, there is a minimum initial response time of 10 minutes A recommendation is made to purchase the Professional Direct Support plan Would this recommendation fulfill the requirement?

No, the Professional Direct Support plan does not have a 10 minute window for responses. For Professional Direct Support, response times include: Minimal business impact (Sev C): <4 business hours1 Moderate business impact (Sev B): <2 hours Critical business impact (Sev A): <1 hour

A company wants to try out a couple of Microsoft Azure services which are available in public preview. Is it true that services in public preview can only be used via the Azure CLI interface?

No, this is incorrect, all public preview services can be used via all user interfaces, not only the Azure CLI. A service in Public Preview means that the service is in public beta and can be tried out by anyone with an Azure subscription. You can often use these services at a discount as long as they are in preview.

A company has multiple Microsoft Azure subscriptions. They want to merge the subscriptions into one. Do they need to contact Microsoft to merge the subscriptions? ​

No, you don't need to contact Microsoft for this request. You can transfer subscriptions between your accounts. Your accounts are conceptually considered accounts of two different users so you can use the above steps to transfer subscriptions between your accounts. Using "Cost Management + Billing" within the Azure Portal.

A company has just started using Azure. They have setup resources as part of their subscription. They want to get the current costs being incurred. They decide to use the Pricing Calculator to get this information Would this fulfil the requirement?

No. The question says "They want to get the current costs being incurred" Obviously the answer is NO , because the "Current costs" of the resources can be got from the "Cost Management" in the Azure Portal. "Pricing Calculator" is only used to get the "estimated cost" of using an Azure resource

A company wants to try out some services which are being offered by Microsoft Azure in Public Preview. Should the company deploy resources which are part of Public Preview in their production environment?

No. Azure may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions offered by Microsoft to obtain customer feedback ("Previews"). Previews are made available to you on the condition that you agree to these terms of use, which supplement your agreement governing use of Azure. PREVIEWS ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND "AS AVAILABLE," AND ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AND LIMITED WARRANTY which is the main reason not to release in your production enviorment as you have no binding SLA. Previews may not be covered by customer support. Previews may be subject to reduced or different security, compliance and privacy commitments, as further explained in the Microsoft Online Services Privacy Statement, Microsoft Azure Trust Center, the Online Services Terms, and any additional notices provided with the Preview. Customers should not use Previews to process Personal Data or other data that is subject to heightened compliance requirements. Certain named Previews may also be subject to additional terms set forth below, if any. We may change or discontinue Previews at any time without notice. We also may choose not to release a Preview into "General Availability."

A company wants to purchase a Microsoft Azure support plan. Below is a key requirement from the support plan: - Regular architecture reviews from Microsoft for the company's Azure environment Which of the following plan would the company need to purchase to fulfill this requirement?

Premier because regular architecture reviews from Microsoft for a company's Azure environment are included in this tier.

A company has launched a set of Virtual Machines in their Pay-as-you-go Microsoft Azure subscription. After launching a set of VM's they seem to be hitting a constraint of 20 vCPU's and are not able to provision additional Virtual Machines. Which of the following can be done to allow the company to provision more Virtual Machines?

Raise a support ticket with Microsoft because you get easy access to Azure Support by going online to the Azure Portal and submitting a support request. This is the fastest way to hear back from a Support Engineer that will be ready to start helping you. Access to Subscription Management and billing support is included with your Microsoft Azure subscription, and Technical Support is provided through one of the Azure Support Plans.

A company wants to start using Azure services. They have several departments that would need to make use of Azure services. They want to give the ability for each department to use a different payment option for the amount of Azure services they consume. Which of the following should each department use to fulfil this requirement?

Subscription, The billing for Azure resources is tagged to a subscription. Hence to segregate the billing for each department, each of them can have a different subscription.

A company has just setup an Azure subscription and an Azure tenant. Which of the following can the company use to create an Azure support request?

The Azure portal: You can create a support request in the Azure portal itself. You just have to go to "Help + support" and then click on "New support request"

A company is planning on migrating their public web site to Microsoft Azure. Which of the following should the company consider when it comes to hosting their public web site within Microsoft Azure? ​ They would need to consider the level of traffic their website gets.

They would need to consider paying a monthly cost for their solution of choice.

Your company plans to purchase Azure. The company's support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email. You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement. Solution: Recommend a Professional Direct support plan. Does this meet the goal?

Yes

A company plans on purchasing a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Provide an option to contact Microsoft Support Engineers by phone or email 24/7. A recommendation is made to purchase the Premier Support plan. Would this recommendation fulfil the requirement?

Yes , under the Premier support plan, the company would be able to contact Microsoft Support Engineers by phone or email 24/7.

A company is planning on setting up an Enterprise Microsoft Azure Subscription. Do they need to have a valid Microsoft account for associating the Azure Subscription?

Yes because an Enterprise Azure account is a global unique entity that gets you access to Azure services and your Azure subscriptions. You can create multiple subscriptions in your Azure account to create separation e.g. for billing or management purposes. In your subscription(s) you can manage resources in resources groups. Azure subscription can have a trust relationship with an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) instance. But a valid Microsoft account is required to associate with the Azure Subscription.

You are planning on setting up an Azure Free Account. Would the Azure Free Account expire after a specific period of time?

Yes, After a duration of 30 days or if the 200 USD credit gets over, then you have to convert your Free subscription to a Pay-As-You-Go subscription.

A company is planning on purchasing Microsoft Azure AD Basic for their Azure account. Does the Azure AD Basic tier come with a SLA of 99.9%?

Yes, Microsoft Azure guarantees at least 99.9% availability of the Azure Active Directory Basic and Premium services. The services are considered available in the following scenarios: Users are able to login to the service, login to the Access Panel, access applications on the Access Panel and reset passwords. IT administrators are able to create, read, write and delete entries in the directory or provision or de-provision users to applications in the directory. No SLA is provided for the Free tier of Azure Active Directory.

A company is planning on hosting their resources within Microsoft Azure. Management wants to know the Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx) costs that would be incurred if they migrated their entire IT infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Does Microsoft Azure provide flexibility to companies when it comes to Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and Operational Expenditures (OpEx)?

Yes, Microsoft Azure provides flexibility for cost, control, and operational management. You must know the definition of each term to under the differences, they are defined below: Capital Expenditures (CapEx) generate benefits over a long period. These expenditures are generally nonrecurring and result in the acquisition of permanent assets. Some examples include physical buildings, office equipment, computers, servers, software, essentially any asset that is expected to provide utility to a business. Operational Expenditures (OpEx) is your operating costs, the expenses to run day-to-day business operations, like services and consumable items that get used up and are paid for according to use. This includes rent/utilities, wages/salaries, legal fees, website hosting fees, software licensing fees, essentially any costs a company incurs for running their day-to-day operations.

You are planning on setting up an Azure Free Account. Is there a spending limit when it comes to the spending limit for the free account?

Yes, There is a credit of 200 USD which is assigned to the Free account is limited to the first 30 days the account is active. This acts as a spending limit. The Microsoft documentation mentions the following

A company is planning on hosting 2 Virtual Machines in Azure as shown below: Virtual Machine Name Virtual Machine Size----------------------------------- ------------------------------- demovm B1S demovm1 B1S When the virtual machine demovm is stopped, you will still incur costs for the storage attached to the Virtual Machine?

Yes, because Azure continues to charge for the VM core hours while it is Stopped (but not Stopped (Deallocated), based on the size of the VM and the image you selected to create it. You continue to accrue charges for the VM's cloud service and the storage needed for the VM's OS disk and any attached data disks. Temporary (scratch) disk storage on the VM is free.

A company wants to try out some services which are being offered by Microsoft Azure in Public Preview. Does Microsoft provide a separate Azure portal for trying out the services in Public Preview?

Yes, because Microsoft Azure offers preview features to you for evaluation purposes. A preview may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions. Previews are subject to reduced or different service terms, as set forth in your service agreement and the preview supplemental terms -https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/ . Previews are made available to you on the condition that you agree to these terms of use, which supplement your agreement governing the use of Azure. So If you want to test public preview features you would go to for preview.portal.azure.com

A company is planning on setting up a Pay-as-You-Go subscription within Microsoft Azure. Would the company have access to the MSDN support forums? ​

Yes, because Microsoft Windows MSDN forums is a free online community support outlet for Windows Azure. You can find specific forum topics and questions other Azure users have or post your own for guidance on a subject to get answers from Microsoft engineers and members within the Azure community. You get access to MSDN forums with all 5 support plans (Basic, Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, & Premier as show in the visual below:

A company is planning on purchasing Azure AD Premium for their Microsoft Azure account. Does the Azure AD Premium tier come with an SLA of 99.9%?

Yes, because Microsoft guarantees at least 99.9% availability of the Azure Active Directory Basic and Premium services. The services are considered available in the following scenarios: Users are able to login to the service, login to the Access Panel, access applications on the Access Panel and reset passwords. IT administrators are able to create, read, write and delete entries in the directory or provision or de-provision users to applications in the directory. No SLA is provided for the Free tier of Azure Active Directory.

A company is planning on setting up a Microsoft Azure account. Can they purchase multiple Azure subscriptions and tie them to the single Azure account?

Yes, because a billing account is created when you sign up to use Azure. You use your billing account to manage your invoices, payments, and track costs. You can have access to multiple billing accounts. For example, you might have signed up for Azure for your personal projects. You could also have access through your organization's Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Customer Agreement. For each of these scenarios, you would have a separate billing account.

A company is planning on setting up an Azure Free Account. Does the Basic Support plan come along with the Azure Free Account?

Yes, because the Azure Basic support plan is available to all Microsoft Azure accounts.

A company has multiple subscriptions. They want to create resources in the different subscriptions. Is it possible to create resources in multiple subscriptions?

Yes, because typically, you deploy all the resources in your template to a single resource group. However, there are scenarios where you want to deploy a set of resources together but place them in different resource groups or subscriptions. For example, you may want to deploy the backup virtual machine for Azure Site Recovery to a separate resource group and location. Resource Manager enables you to use nested templates to target different subscriptions and resource groups than the subscription and resource group used for the parent template. You can deploy to only five resource groups in a single deployment. Typically, this limitation means you can deploy to one resource group specified for the parent template, and up to four resource groups in nested or linked deployments. However, if your parent template contains only nested or linked templates and does not itself deploy any resources, then you can include up to five resource groups in nested or linked deployments.

A company plans on purchasing a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Provide an option to contact Microsoft support engineers by phone or email 24/7. A recommendation is made to purchase the Standard Support plan. Would this recommendation fulfil the requirement? ​

Yes, is the correct answer as under the Standard Support plan, the company has the ability to contact support engineers via phone or email 24/7.

A company is planning on using their Microsoft Azure Free Account for hosting production-based resources. Does the Azure Free Account allow you to host production-based resources?

Yes, the Azure Free Account allows the hosting of up to 10 production resources for free.

A company plans to purchase a Microsoft Azure Support plan. Below is a key requirement for the support plan: - Ensure that for high severity cases, there is a minimum initial response time of 15 minutes A recommendation is made to purchase the Premier Support plan. Would this recommendation fulfill the requirement?

Yes, the Premier Support plan would ensure that for high severity cases, there is a minimum initial response time of 15 minutes.

A company is planning on moving to Microsoft Azure. The senior management wants to get an idea on the cost that would be incurred when hosting resources in Azure. You recommend using the pricing calculator to get the required costing of the resources. Would this recommendation fit the requirement?

Yes, the pricing calculator allows you to view the price for different sizes and configurations of your Azure Virtual Machines in terms of the machine's CPU, memory, storage, location and hours in use. Microsoft Azure has monthly releases of new updates and new features as well.

A company currently has the following unused resources as part of their subscription - 10 user accounts in Azure AD - 5 user groups in Azure AD - 10 public IP address - 10 network Interfaces They want to reduce the costs for resources hosted in Azure They decide to remove the public IP addresses from Azure AD Would this fulfil the requirement?

Yes, this can reduce the cost since there is a price for Public IP addressing

Microsoft Azure services normally follow the below life-cycle: - 1st they are deployed in private preview - 2nd they are released in public preview - finally they are finally released to general availability Is this an accurate life cycle for an Azure service?

Yes, this is the life-cycle Microsoft Azure services normally follows.

A company has just started using Azure. They have setup resources as part of their subscription. They want to get the current costs being incurred. They decide to use Azure Cost Management to get this information Would this fulfil the requirement?

Yes, this would give a cost breakdown for the resources being used in Azure.

A company is planning on setting up an Azure account and spinning up resources within their purchased subscription. When it comes to the Service Level Agreement (SLA), does Microsoft ensure a SLA of 99.9% up-time for paid Azure services?

Yes, when it comes to paid Azure services, Microsoft Azure ensures a SLA of 99.9% up-time for paid Azure services.