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AZ-900 practice questions: Azure Management and Governance
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1/5 · Azure Management and Governance
A team buys a one-year reservation for the size of Windows virtual machine it runs continuously. Which change to its bill does Microsoft's documentation describe?
AThe compute and the Windows licence are both covered by the reservation.
BThe machines are reserved in the region and the licence is billed hourly.
CThe compute is discounted; the Windows licence continues to be charged.
DThe compute is discounted once the machines have been redeployed.
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C is correct. Bullet 'Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure'. The article 'What are Azure Reservations?' states that reservations provide a billing discount and don't affect the runtime state of your resources, and that after you purchase a reservation the discount automatically applies to matching resources. Under 'Charges covered by reservation' it states that a reserved virtual machine instance only covers the virtual machine and cloud services compute costs and doesn't cover additional software, Windows, networking or storage charges, and that for Windows virtual machines and SQL Database the reservation discount doesn't apply to the software costs, which can be covered with Azure Hybrid Benefit.
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2/5 · Azure Management and Governance
A data officer wants a single map of where the company's data sits before deciding how to classify it. What does Learn say Microsoft Purview's data governance manages?
AData held in Azure services and in the Microsoft 365 applications.
BData held in Azure services and in the company's own local databases.
CData held on-premises, in several clouds, and in software-as-a-service apps.
DData held in the stores that a supported connector can be pointed at.
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C is correct. Bullet 'Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview in Azure'. The Learn unit 'Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview' states that Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk and compliance solutions that helps you get a single, unified view into your data, and that it brings insights about your on-premises, multicloud and software-as-a-service data together. Under 'Unified data governance' it states that Purview's capabilities enable you to manage data stored in Azure, in SQL and Hive databases, locally, and even in other clouds like Amazon S3.
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3/5 · Azure Management and Governance
An organization runs servers in its own datacenter and Kubernetes clusters with another cloud provider. It wants those machines and clusters to sit in its Azure resource groups, carry its tags and fall under the same assignments as its Azure resources, while continuing to run where they are. What should it adopt?
AAzure Arc applied to the outside resources
BAzure Migrate for the outside resources
CAzure Monitor for the outside resources
DAzure Lighthouse for the outside resources
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A is correct. Bullet 'Describe the purpose of Azure Arc'. The Learn unit 'Describe the purpose of Azure Arc' states that Azure Arc works with Azure Resource Manager to extend Azure compliance and monitoring to hybrid and multicloud configurations, provides a centralized, unified way to manage the whole environment by projecting existing non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager, and lets you manage multicloud and hybrid virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and databases as if they were running in Azure.
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4/5 · Azure Management and Governance
An administrator opens Azure Advisor and finds security recommendations for resource types that are absent from Advisor's own list of supported services. What does Learn say about where those come from?
AThey are included in Advisor from Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
BThey are generated by Advisor from the activity log of each resource.
CThey are copied from the Microsoft cloud security benchmark on request.
DThey are raised by Microsoft Sentinel and then forwarded into Advisor.
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A is correct. Bullet 'Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor'. The article 'Introduction to Azure Advisor' states that Advisor analyses your resource configuration and usage telemetry and recommends solutions across five categories: reliability, security, performance, cost and operational excellence. Under 'What resources does Advisor provide recommendations for?' it lists the supported services and then states that Advisor also includes your recommendations from Microsoft Defender for Cloud, which might include recommendations for other resource types.
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5/5 · Azure Management and Governance · hard
After deleting a batch of virtual machines, a team finds that the next invoice fell by far less than expected. Which cause is consistent with how Azure charges for resources?
AResources provisioned alongside those machines, such as storage and networking, may still exist and still be charged.
BMachines that have been deleted continue to be charged at the full rate until the end of the current billing cycle closes.
CCompute charges are averaged across the twelve months of the year rather than metered inside a single billing cycle.
DAzure bills for the highest number of machines observed during the month rather than for the number actually running now.
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A is correct. Bullet 'Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure'. The Learn unit, under 'Maintenance', states that every time you provision a VM additional resources such as storage and networking are also provisioned, that deprovisioning the VM may not deprovision those at the same time, and that keeping an eye on resources you no longer need is how you control cloud costs.
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