AZ-900 Cost Management and Governance 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which purchasing option offers up to a 72% discount in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment to Azure compute?
- Reserved Instances (Correct answer)
- Pay-as-you-go
- Spot pricing
- Azure Hybrid Benefit
Correct answer: Reserved Instances
Azure Reserved Instances provide large discounts for one- or three-year usage commitments.
Question 2: Azure Hybrid Benefit reduces costs by letting you reuse existing licenses for which products?
- Windows Server and SQL Server (Correct answer)
- Microsoft 365 and Teams
- Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Power BI and Dynamics
Correct answer: Windows Server and SQL Server
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets you apply existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to lower Azure costs.
Question 3: Which compute option provides deeply discounted capacity that Azure can reclaim at any time?
- Spot virtual machines (Correct answer)
- Reserved Instances
- Dedicated hosts
- Availability sets
Correct answer: Spot virtual machines
Spot VMs use unused capacity at steep discounts but can be evicted when Azure needs the capacity.
Question 4: A finance team needs to view current month spending broken down by department. Which Cost Management feature should they use?
- Cost analysis (Correct answer)
- Budgets
- Advisor
- Policy
Correct answer: Cost analysis
Cost analysis visualizes and breaks down spending by dimensions such as tags or resource groups.
Question 5: Which scope can a single Azure Policy be assigned to?
- Management group, subscription, or resource group (Correct answer)
- Only individual resources
- Only the tenant root
- Only virtual networks
Correct answer: Management group, subscription, or resource group
Azure Policy can be assigned at the management group, subscription, or resource group scope and inherits downward.
Question 6: What does a ReadOnly resource lock allow?
- Reading the resource but not modifying or deleting it (Correct answer)
- Deleting but not modifying the resource
- Full control over the resource
- Modifying but not reading the resource
Correct answer: Reading the resource but not modifying or deleting it
A ReadOnly lock permits viewing a resource while blocking both changes and deletion.
Question 7: Which tool compares the cost of running workloads on-premises versus in Azure?
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator (Correct answer)
- Azure Pricing Calculator
- Cost analysis
- Azure Advisor
Correct answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
The TCO Calculator estimates savings from migrating on-premises workloads to Azure.
AZ-900 Cost Management and Governance 3
Which purchasing option offers up to a 72% discount in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment to Azure compute?