Pricing, SLAs & support
27 free practice questions with explanations
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Pricing, SLAs & support: example questions & answers
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Which tool helps you estimate the cost of Azure services before deploying them?
- A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- B Azure Pricing Calculator ✓
- C Azure Advisor
- D Azure Cost Management
Answer: The Azure Pricing Calculator lets you estimate the anticipated cost of Azure products and services before you provision them.
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Which calculator compares the cost of running workloads on-premises versus in Azure?
- A Azure Pricing Calculator
- B Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator ✓
- C Azure Advisor
- D Azure Migrate
Answer: The TCO Calculator estimates the cost savings of migrating from an on-premises infrastructure to Azure by comparing total costs.
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What is an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
- A A formal commitment about the expected performance and uptime of a service ✓
- B A document listing all Azure regions
- C A security compliance certification
- D A billing discount program
Answer: An SLA is a formal agreement between Microsoft and the customer that defines the performance and uptime guarantees for a given service.
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How can you typically increase the composite SLA of an application that depends on multiple services?
- A By adding more services in series
- B By introducing redundancy and independent fault paths ✓
- C By reducing the number of regions used
- D By removing the SLA from each component
Answer: Adding redundancy with independent failure paths (for example, deploying across Availability Zones) can raise the effective availability of an application.
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Do free Azure services such as the Free tier typically come with a financially backed SLA?
- A Yes, all services have the same SLA
- B No, free and preview services generally have no financially backed SLA ✓
- C Only if deployed across two regions
- D Only for the first 30 days
Answer: Free tier and preview services generally do not include a financially backed SLA; SLAs typically apply to paid, generally available services.
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Which Azure pricing option offers discounts in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment to specific resources?
- A Pay-as-you-go
- B Reserved Instances (Reservations) ✓
- C Spot pricing
- D Free tier
Answer: Azure Reservations provide significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment to specified resources.