Skills Learned
- Identify factors that can reduce costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing)
- Describe the functionality and usage of the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
Study Guide

Practice Test

Question 2

Contoso is migrating their DNS server to Azure. Because of the nature of this service, it runs constantly throughout the year. Current server runs Windows Operating system with the Software Assurance. Which cost reduction methods should Contoso use? Choose 2.

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Spot VM

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Hybrid Benefit

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Cost Management

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Reservations

❌ ✔ ⚪ 🔵 ⬜ 🟦 Azure Enterprise Discounts

✔ That's correct

❌ That's not correct

👨‍🦱 💬 If company has software assurance purchased they qualify to use their Windows Server licenses in Azure as such Hybrid use Benefit will lift the cost associated with the oeprating system. Since this VM will be running constantly, Azure Reservations will additionally reduce the cost of the compute power for this virtual machine.

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