A company plans to deploy a new web application to Azure. The application will have unpredictable traffic, with occasional spikes. The team wants to estimate the monthly cost before committing to a deployment. They have not yet created any Azure resources. What should they do first?

Create a support request to ask Azure for a custom cost quote.

Use the Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to compare on-premises vs cloud costs.

Use the Azure Pricing Calculator to model the expected usage and estimate costs.

Deploy the application to a free tier and monitor the actual costs in Azure Cost Management.

A developer wants to compare the estimated cost of running a web app in two different Azure regions using the Azure Pricing Calculator. What must the developer do in the calculator to see the regional price difference?

Export the estimate to a CSV file

Change the subscription type in the calculator

Add a tag to the service in the calculator

Change the region setting for the service in the calculator

A company has a policy that all Azure resources must be tagged with a cost center. However, some resources were created without tags. The finance team wants to identify which resources are missing tags and then apply the correct tags. What should they do?

Use Azure Policy to automatically apply the cost center tag to all resources.

Use the Azure Pricing Calculator to identify untagged resources.

Use Azure Advisor to recommend tags for untagged resources.

Use Azure Cost Management to view resources without tags and then apply tags manually.

Which Azure pricing factor is the primary reason that the same virtual machine can cost different amounts when deployed in different geographic locations?

The number of resource groups used

The number of tags applied to the VM

The region in which the resource is deployed

The type of subscription agreement

A company is planning to deploy a new application that will use Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database. They want to estimate the monthly cost of the deployment before creating any resources. What should they do?

Deploy the services and use Azure Cost Management to view the actual costs after one month.

Use the Azure Pricing Calculator to add the App Service and SQL Database services and configure the expected settings.

Use the Azure TCO Calculator to estimate the cost of the new application.

Use Azure Advisor to get cost recommendations for the planned services.

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A company plans to deploy a new web application to Azure. The application will have unpredictable traffic, with occasional spikes. The team wants to estimate the monthly cost before committing to a deployment. They have not yet created any Azure resources. What should they do first?
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A developer wants to compare the estimated cost of running a web app in two different Azure regions using the Azure Pricing Calculator. What must the developer do in the calculator to see the regional price difference?
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A company has a policy that all Azure resources must be tagged with a cost center. However, some resources were created without tags. The finance team wants to identify which resources are missing tags and then apply the correct tags. What should they do?
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Which Azure pricing factor is the primary reason that the same virtual machine can cost different amounts when deployed in different geographic locations?
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20application · medium
A company is planning to deploy a new application that will use Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database. They want to estimate the monthly cost of the deployment before creating any resources. What should they do?
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