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Describe methods for planning and managing costs
Identify factors that can affect costs (resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic)

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

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management

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Describe methods for planning and managing costs
Describe the purpose of an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Identify actions that can impact an SLA (i.e. Availability Zones)

Describe the service lifecycle in Azure (Public Preview and General Availability)

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After completing successfully this quiz, as you move to the cloud, you might ask:
How much will it cost?

What guarantees does Azure provide around uptime and connectivity?

How do preview services impact my production applications?

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TCO Calculator
The TCO Calculator helps you estimate the cost savings of operating your solution on Azure over time, instead of in your on-premises datacenter.
With the TCO Calculator, you enter the details of your on-premises workloads. Then you review the suggested industry average cost (which you can adjust) for related operational costs. These costs include electricity, network maintenance, and IT labor. You're then presented with a side-by-side report. Using the report, you can compare those costs with the same workloads running on Azure.

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What types of Azure subscriptions can I use?
- Free trial A free trial subscription provides you with 12 months of popular free services, a credit to explore any Azure service for 30 days, and more than 25 services that are always free. Your Azure services are disabled when the trial ends or when your credit expires for paid products, unless you upgrade to a paid subscription.
- Pay As You Go
A pay-as-you-go subscription enables you to pay for what you use by attaching a credit or debit card to your account. Organizations can apply for volume discounts and prepaid invoicing.
-Member offers
our existing membership to certain Microsoft products and services might provide you with credits for your Azure account and reduced rates on Azure services. For example, member offers are available to Visual Studio subscribers, Microsoft Partner Network members, Microsoft for Startups members, and Microsoft Imagine members.

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What factors affect cost?
The way you use resources, your subscription type, and pricing from third-party vendors are common factors.
- Resource type
- Usage meters
- Resource usage
- Azure subscription types
- Azure Marketplace

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Does location or network traffic affect cost?
When you provision a resource in Azure, you need to define the location (known as the Azure region) of where it will be deployed. Let's see why this decision can have cost consequences.
- Location
Different regions can have different associated prices. Because geographic regions can impact where your network traffic flows, network traffic is a cost influence to consider as well.
- Zones for billing of network traffic
Billing zones are a factor in determining the cost of some Azure services.Bandwidth refers to data moving in and out of Azure datacenters. Some inbound data transfers (data going into Azure datacenters) are free. For outbound data transfers (data leaving Azure datacenters), data transfer pricing is based on zones.

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How can I estimate the total cost?
The Pricing calculator displays Azure products in categories. You add these categories to your estimate and configure according to your specific requirements. You then receive a consolidated estimated price, with a detailed breakdown of the costs associated with each resource you added to your solution. You can export or share that estimate or save it for later. You can load a saved estimate and modify it to match updated requirements. You also can access pricing details, product details, and documentation for each product from within the Pricing calculator.

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Use the Pricing calculator to estimate costs
- With Azure's cloud-based subscription model, most of Contoso's IT costs are operating expenditures. Because the IT director wants more detail on how costs can be managed, you can use the Pricing calculator to get an estimate of the expected costs.

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What is the Pricing calculator?
- The Pricing calculator is a webpage that you can use to get estimates of Azure costs. The calculator provides links that enable you to select the specific services that you intend to use, and then determine estimated costs based on planned configurations.

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What is Azure Advisor?
Azure Advisor analyzes your deployed resources and services and identifies ways to improve your environment across each of these areas. Azure Advisor provides recommendations on: - High availability

- Security

- Performance

- Operational excellence

- Cost

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Spot VMs
- Using Spot VMs enables you to make the most of unused capacity in the Azure infrastructure. This can result in a significant cost saving. However, whenever Azure needs the capacity allocated to Spot VMs, the Azure infrastructure evicts those VMs with only a 30-second notice.

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Azure Reservations
- If you've VM workloads that are static and predictable, you can use Azure Reservations to potentially save a significant amount off the pay-as-you-go cost. The savings depend on the VM size and how long the VM is running. You commit to reserved instances in one-year or three-year terms. You can make payment in full for the entire commitment period, or the commitment can be billed monthly. After it's reserved, Microsoft matches up the reservation to running instances and deducts the hours from your reservation.

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Which Azure tool or resource enables you to plan your future costs?
- You can use the Pricing calculator to get an estimate of your expected costs.

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WWhen you create a Spot VM instance, you can choose between two eviction policies. Which of the following is a valid eviction policy option?
- Stop/Deallocate

- The other eviction policy option is Delete.

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Which is the best first step a team should take to compare the cost of running various environments on Azure versus in their datacenter?
- Running the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator is a great first step because it can provide an accurate comparison of running workloads in the datacenter versus on Azure, certified by an independent research company.

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What's the best way to ensure that the development team doesn't provision too many virtual machines at the same time?
- If you exceed your spending limit, active resources are deallocated. You can then decide whether to increase your limit or provision fewer resources.

- Apply spending limits to the development team's Azure subscription

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Which is the most efficient way for the testing team to save costs on virtual machines on weekends, when testers are not at work?
- When you deallocate virtual machines, the associated hard disks and data are still kept in Azure. But you don't pay for CPU or network consumption, which can help save costs.

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