AZ-900 Azure Pricing and Support 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Azure pricing model charges you only for the resources you actually use with no upfront commitment or termination fees?
- Reserved Instances
- Pay-as-you-go (Correct answer)
- Spot pricing
- Enterprise Agreement prepay
Correct answer: Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go charges only for what you consume each billing period with no upfront cost or long-term commitment.
Question 2: Which tool helps organizations estimate the financial savings of migrating existing on-premises workloads to Azure?
- Azure Pricing Calculator
- Azure Advisor
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator (Correct answer)
- Azure Cost Management
Correct answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
The TCO Calculator compares the cost of running workloads on-premises versus on Azure, factoring in hardware, labor, and facilities.
Question 3: Which Azure pricing option offers the largest discount in exchange for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to a specific virtual machine configuration?
- Pay-as-you-go
- Azure Spot Instances
- Azure Reserved Instances (Correct answer)
- Azure Hybrid Benefit
Correct answer: Azure Reserved Instances
Azure Reserved Instances provide up to 72% savings over pay-as-you-go pricing in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.
Question 4: What characteristic best describes Azure Spot Instances?
- Fixed monthly pricing with guaranteed availability
- Deeply discounted pricing using unused Azure capacity that can be evicted when demand rises (Correct answer)
- Standard pay-as-you-go pricing with priority scheduling
- Reserved pricing requiring a 1-year commitment
Correct answer: Deeply discounted pricing using unused Azure capacity that can be evicted when demand rises
Spot Instances use unused Azure compute capacity at significant discounts but can be interrupted when Azure needs the capacity back.
Question 5: What is the Azure Hybrid Benefit?
- A discount for deploying workloads across multiple Azure regions simultaneously
- A licensing benefit that lets you reuse existing on-premises Windows Server or SQL Server licenses on Azure VMs (Correct answer)
- A program that combines multiple Azure subscription types for a lower rate
- A feature that bundles compute and storage billing into one monthly charge
Correct answer: A licensing benefit that lets you reuse existing on-premises Windows Server or SQL Server licenses on Azure VMs
Azure Hybrid Benefit allows customers with eligible Software Assurance licenses to run Windows Server or SQL Server on Azure at a reduced cost.
Question 6: Which of the following factors does NOT directly affect the price of an Azure Virtual Machine?
- VM size and series (e.g., D-series vs. E-series)
- The Azure region where the VM is deployed
- The number of end users accessing applications on the VM (Correct answer)
- The operating system type (Windows vs. Linux)
Correct answer: The number of end users accessing applications on the VM
Azure VM pricing is based on compute size, region, OS, and licensing — not on how many users access the applications running on it.
Question 7: Which Azure tool provides personalized, actionable recommendations to help reduce costs and improve the performance and security of your Azure resources?
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Advisor (Correct answer)
- Azure Service Health
Correct answer: Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to recommend cost, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence improvements.
AZ-900 Azure Pricing and Support 1
Which Azure pricing model charges you only for the resources you actually use with no upfront commitment or termination fees?