Azure Pricing and Support Flashcards

Which Azure pricing model charges you only for the resources you actually use with no upfront commitment or termination fees?

Answer: Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go charges only for what you consume each billing period with no upfront cost or long-term commitment.

Which tool helps organizations estimate the financial savings of migrating existing on-premises workloads to Azure?

Answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

The TCO Calculator compares the cost of running workloads on-premises versus on Azure, factoring in hardware, labor, and facilities.

Which Azure pricing option offers the largest discount in exchange for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to a specific virtual machine configuration?

Answer: Azure Reserved Instances

Azure Reserved Instances provide up to 72% savings over pay-as-you-go pricing in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.

What characteristic best describes Azure Spot Instances?

Answer: Deeply discounted pricing using unused Azure capacity that can be evicted when demand rises

Spot Instances use unused Azure compute capacity at significant discounts but can be interrupted when Azure needs the capacity back.

What is the Azure Hybrid Benefit?

Answer: A licensing benefit that lets you reuse existing on-premises Windows Server or SQL Server licenses on Azure VMs

Azure Hybrid Benefit allows customers with eligible Software Assurance licenses to run Windows Server or SQL Server on Azure at a reduced cost.

Which of the following factors does NOT directly affect the price of an Azure Virtual Machine?

Answer: The number of end users accessing applications on the VM

Azure VM pricing is based on compute size, region, OS, and licensing — not on how many users access the applications running on it.

Which Azure tool provides personalized, actionable recommendations to help reduce costs and improve the performance and security of your Azure resources?

Answer: Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to recommend cost, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence improvements.