Describe Cost Management in Azure AZ-900 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1expert · hard

   A company has a complex Azure environment with resources in multiple subscriptions. The finance team wants to create a monthly report that shows costs by project, but the current tagging strategy is inconsistent. Some resources have a 'Project' tag, some have a 'Department' tag, and some have no tags. What should the company do to improve cost reporting accuracy?

   • AUse Azure Advisor to automatically apply the correct tags to all resources.
   • BUse the Azure Pricing Calculator to manually calculate costs for each project.
   • CUse Azure Cost Management to group costs by resource group instead of tags.
   • DDefine a standard tagging strategy and use Azure Policy to enforce it on all new resources, then use Azure Cost Management to group by the 'Project' tag.
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2. 2application · medium

   A company has a policy that all Azure resources must be tagged with an owner. They want to ensure that any new resource created without the owner tag is not deployed. What should they use?

   • AAzure Cost Management to monitor missing tags.
   • BThe Azure Pricing Calculator to include tag costs.
   • CAzure Policy to require the owner tag on new resources.
   • DAzure Advisor to recommend adding tags.
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4. 3expert · hard

   A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs that must be available 24/7. The application has a predictable load that peaks during business hours. The company wants to reduce costs but cannot tolerate any downtime. They are considering using Azure VM scale sets with autoscaling. What is the most important consideration before implementing this solution?

   • AUse Azure Advisor to recommend a different VM size instead of autoscaling.
   • BEnsure the autoscaling rules are configured to scale out before the peak begins and scale in after the peak ends.
   • CKeep the scale set at a fixed instance count to ensure availability.
   • DUse Azure Cost Management to manually adjust the number of VMs each day.
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5. 4foundation · easy

   A company wants to group Azure resources by department so that it can track costs for each department separately. Which Azure feature should be used to achieve this?

   • AAzure Policy
   • BTags
   • CAzure Advisor
   • DResource groups
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6. 5foundation · easy

   What is the primary purpose of applying tags to Azure resources?

   • ATo organize resources for management and cost tracking
   • BTo create a logical boundary for deploying resources
   • CTo increase the performance of the resources
   • DTo secure the resources from unauthorized access
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