Cloud Cost Management Considerations CERTIFIED-HYBRID-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6foundation · easy

   Which cloud pricing model requires a customer to commit to a specific amount of usage for a one- or three-year term in exchange for a lower hourly rate?

   • ASpot pricing
   • BOn-demand pricing
   • CPay-as-you-go
   • DReserved instances
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2. 7foundation · easy

   A cloud architect wants to use a third-party solution to analyze cloud costs across multiple cloud providers. Which type of tool would be most appropriate?

   • AA multi-cloud cost management platform
   • BA network monitoring tool
   • CA CI/CD pipeline tool
   • DA configuration management tool
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4. 8expert · hard

   A large enterprise has multiple AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. Each account hosts workloads for different internal projects. The finance team needs to allocate cloud costs to each project, but some resources (e.g., a shared VPC endpoint, a central NAT gateway) are used by multiple projects. The architect must design a cost allocation approach. Which strategy is most effective?

   • AUse AWS Cost Explorer's 'Linked Account' view and ignore shared resources
   • BUse separate AWS accounts for each project and rely on the account-level cost report
   • CApply a single 'Project' tag to every resource, using the primary project that uses it
   • DTag shared resources with a 'Shared' tag and allocate their cost manually or via a proportional formula based on usage metrics
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5. 9application · medium

   A company runs a web application on Azure VMs. Monitoring shows the CPU utilization averages 5% during business hours and 2% overnight. The application is a single-tier monolith that cannot be easily refactored. The architect needs to reduce compute cost with minimal operational change. Which strategy is most appropriate?

   • AMigrate the application to Azure Functions with a Consumption plan
   • BRight-size the VMs to a smaller SKU that matches the observed utilization
   • CImplement auto-scaling based on CPU to scale out during peak hours
   • DMove the VMs to Azure Spot VMs to reduce cost
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6. 10expert · hard

   A company uses Azure and has enabled Azure Cost Management. The finance team wants to forecast next quarter's spending and identify anomalies. The company has a mix of stable baseline workloads and a few workloads with seasonal spikes. Which combination of Cost Management features should the architect use?

   • ABudgets with alert thresholds and the 'Forecast' view in Cost analysis
   • BThe 'Cost by tag' view and export of cost data to a storage account
   • CCost alerts for each resource group and the 'Cost by resource' view
   • DThe 'Service cost' view and Azure Advisor cost recommendations
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