AZ-900 Cost Management and Governance 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Azure tool lets you set spending thresholds that trigger alerts when costs approach a defined limit?
- Azure Budgets (Correct answer)
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Policy
Correct answer: Azure Budgets
Azure Budgets in Cost Management lets you define spending thresholds that trigger alerts or automated actions.
Question 2: A company wants to enforce that only specific VM sizes can be deployed across all resource groups. Which service enforces this?
- Azure Policy (Correct answer)
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure Blueprints
- Resource locks
Correct answer: Azure Policy
Azure Policy enforces organizational rules such as allowed VM SKUs across resources.
Question 3: Which type of resource lock prevents deletion of a resource but still allows modification?
- CanNotDelete (Correct answer)
- ReadOnly
- Delete
- Modify
Correct answer: CanNotDelete
A CanNotDelete lock allows reading and modifying a resource but blocks its deletion.
Question 4: What is the primary purpose of resource tags in Azure?
- Organize resources and enable cost reporting by category (Correct answer)
- Encrypt resource data at rest
- Restrict network access to resources
- Automatically scale resources
Correct answer: Organize resources and enable cost reporting by category
Tags are name-value pairs that organize resources and allow cost grouping in reports.
Question 5: Which pricing tool helps estimate the cost of an Azure solution BEFORE deploying it?
- Azure Pricing Calculator (Correct answer)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure Advisor
Correct answer: Azure Pricing Calculator
The Azure Pricing Calculator estimates the cost of planned Azure services before deployment.
Question 6: Azure Advisor provides recommendations across several categories. Which category helps reduce spending?
- Cost (Correct answer)
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance
Correct answer: Cost
Azure Advisor's Cost category suggests ways to optimize and reduce Azure spending.
Question 7: Which factor does NOT affect the cost of an Azure virtual machine?
- The color of the Azure portal theme (Correct answer)
- VM size (SKU)
- Region where it is deployed
- Operating system licensing
Correct answer: The color of the Azure portal theme
Portal theme is purely cosmetic and has no effect on VM pricing.
AZ-900 Cost Management and Governance 2
Which Azure tool lets you set spending thresholds that trigger alerts when costs approach a defined limit?