A company runs a production database on a VM that must be available 24/7. The finance team wants to reduce compute costs. Which option provides the most cost savings while maintaining high availability?

Stop the VM during off-peak hours.

Move the database to a smaller VM size.

Use a spot instance for the VM.

Purchase a reserved instance for the VM.

In a cloud environment, which network activity typically incurs the highest additional cost?

Data transfer out of the cloud provider's network to the internet

Data transfer between two virtual machines in the same availability zone

Data transfer between two virtual machines in the same virtual network

Data transfer into the cloud provider's network from the internet

A company runs a web application on cloud VMs. The monthly bill shows a significant increase in network egress charges. The application serves large files to users. Which action would most effectively reduce network egress costs?

Increase the VM size to handle more traffic.

Tag all resources with a 'production' tag.

Move the files to a content delivery network (CDN) and serve them from edge locations.

Enable compression on the web server.

How does the quantity of licenses purchased affect cloud expenditure?

License quantity only matters for on-premises software

Buying fewer licenses always reduces costs

Buying more licenses than needed increases costs unnecessarily

The quantity of licenses has no effect on costs

For which type of workload is a reserved instance most cost-effective?

A temporary test environment that is deleted after a week

A database server that runs continuously for a production application

A batch processing job that runs once a month for a few hours

A development environment that is shut down every night

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