Which practice helps optimize costs related to license quantity?

Purchasing the maximum number of licenses possible

Buying licenses only once a year without review

Ignoring license counts and focusing only on compute costs

Regularly reviewing license usage and rightsizing the number of licenses

Which network component in a cloud environment is most likely to have a fixed monthly cost regardless of data volume?

Load balancer data processing fees

Data transfer for egress traffic

A company uses a shared cloud environment for multiple projects. The finance team wants to implement a chargeback system, but some resources are shared across projects (e.g., a common database). Which approach should the cloud administrator take to handle shared resource costs?

Allocate shared resource costs proportionally based on each project's usage of other resources.

Create a separate shared cost center and do not charge any project.

Do not include shared resource costs in the chargeback report.

Assign the shared resource cost to the first project that uses it.

A company is migrating a SQL Server workload to the cloud. The company has existing SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance. Which licensing option should the cloud administrator recommend to minimize costs?

Ignore licensing and use the cloud provider's default licensing.

Purchase new SQL Server licenses from the cloud provider.

Use Azure Hybrid Benefit to apply existing licenses to the cloud VM.

Use a free open-source database instead.

A company runs a web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. The application is deployed on VMs. The finance team wants to minimize compute costs while ensuring the application remains available during spikes. Which strategy should the cloud administrator implement?

Use only on-demand instances for all capacity.

Use reserved instances for all capacity.

Use a combination of reserved instances for baseline capacity and spot instances for burst capacity.

Use only spot instances for all capacity.

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A company runs a web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. The application is deployed on VMs. The finance team wants to minimize compute costs while ensuring the application remains available during spikes. Which strategy should the cloud administrator implement?
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