AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Cost Management and Governance Questions and Answers

Question 1

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to Azure.
They need a tool to estimate the potential cost savings by comparing their current on-premises infrastructure costs with the projected costs of running the same workloads in Azure.
Which Azure tool is specifically designed for this purpose?

Accepted Answer

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Answer

Azure Pricing Calculator

Answer

Azure Cost Management

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Azure Advisor

Question 2

An IT administrator needs to enforce a rule that prevents the creation of any new virtual machines outside of the 'West US 3' and 'East US' regions to comply with company policy. Which Azure service should be used to implement this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Azure Policy

Answer

Azure Resource Locks

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Azure Blueprints

Answer

Azure Cost Management

Question 3

A project manager is concerned that a critical production database, hosted on an Azure SQL Database instance, might be accidentally deleted by a junior administrator. What is the most effective way to protect this specific resource from accidental deletion?

Accepted Answer

Apply a 'CanNotDelete' resource lock to the database.

Answer

Assign a 'Reader' role to all junior administrators.

Answer

Create a budget alert in Azure Cost Management.

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Use resource tags to mark the database as 'critical'.

Question 4

A team lead wants to receive an email notification when their development team's monthly spending on a specific resource group is forecasted to exceed $500. Which Azure feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Budgets in Azure Cost Management

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Azure Monitor alerts

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Azure Advisor recommendations

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Azure Policy assignments

Question 5

Which of the following is a primary factor that directly influences the cost of an Azure Virtual Machine?

Accepted Answer

The virtual machine size (CPU, RAM)

Answer

The number of resource tags applied

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The number of resource locks applied

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The Azure AD tenant the VM is associated with

Question 6

How do resource tags primarily assist with cost management and governance in Azure?

Accepted Answer

By allowing costs to be grouped and allocated to specific departments or projects

Answer

By automatically encrypting resource data

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By preventing resources from being deployed in certain regions

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By enforcing network security rules