1 57. Which of the following provides significant discounts for purchasing Azure services?A. Azure Reserved Instances (ARI)B. Azure ReservationsC. Azure Managed ServicesD. Azure Enterprise

      1 58. Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?Your organization currently has two Azure subscriptions. Adding a third Azure subscription will increase your Azure consumption and costs.A. enable you to deploy Azure resources in other regions.B. require you to create a third Azure AD tenant.C. not cause any cost increase by itself.D. No change is needed.

      1 59. Which of the following enables you to bring your existing licenses for SQL Server into Azure to save licensing costs?A. Azure Hybrid BenefitB. An enterprise agreementC. SQL Managed InstanceD. Cosmos DB

      1 60. You manage internal Azure billing for your organization, allocating costs to various departments based on their consumption of Azure services. Which of the following would you use to define budgets for subscriptions?A. Azure Cost Management + BillingB. Azure Cost ManagementC. Azure MonitorD. Azure Quota Management

      1 61. You have a solution in Azure comprising two VMs, each with a 99.5% SLA. What is the composite SLA for the solution?A. 99.0%B. 99.5%C. 99.9%D. 99.99%

      1 62. Which of the following statements are true regarding public preview features in Azure? (Choose all that apply.)A. They are available to all Azure customers.B. The are available only by invitation from Microsoft.C. They are subject to the same SLAs as generally available (GA) services.D. They are not subject to SLAs.

      1 63. Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?Microsoft provides at least 30 days’ notice before it retires an Azure service.A. 6 monthsB. 12 monthsC. 2 yearD. 5 years

      1 64. Which of the following would you choose to perform management tasks in Azure as an experienced Linux administrator?A. Azure PowerShellB. Azure CLIC. Azure Tools for LinuxD. Azure Power Tools for Linux

      1 65. What function does the Azure Cloud Shell provide?A. It enables you to run either PowerShell or the Azure CLI from a web browser.B. It is a library of management functions that you can integrate into your web apps to monitor Azure services.C. It enables you to run PowerShell commands within the Azure CLI.D. All of the above.

      1 66. Which of the following is not a true statement?A. You can use the Azure Mobile App to run the Azure CLI.B. You can run Azure CLI directly in the Azure portal.C. You can run the Azure CLI from within the Azure Cloud Shell.D. You can install the Azure CLI on a Windows device.

      1 67. Which of the following is a good option for deploying a single VM in Azure?A. Azure portalB. An Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templateC. Azure Mobile AppD. PowerShell

      1 1. B. Azure is a consumption‐based cloud model in which you pay only for the services that you consume, enabling you to move from a CapEx model to an OpEx model. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 2. C. The TCO Calculator helps you consider the costs of facilities, power, and related expenses associated with moving services hosted in a data center to Azure.

      1 3. B. Agility refers to the ability to adjust resources to meet changes in demand. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 4. D. As the number of subscribers increases, the cost to provide a service to those subscribers goes down because the cost is spread across more users, providing an economy of scale. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 5. D. Vertical scaling refers to adding or removing resources such as CPU cores or memory as demand changes. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 6. C. This is an example of PaaS. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 7. B. This is an example of SaaS. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 8. A. This is an example of IaaS. See Chapter 1 for more information.

      1 9. A. An Azure geography can align to a single country or to a market that encompasses multiple countries, such as Europe. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 10. B. Regions are usually paired with other regions in Azure to help ensure high availability. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 11. B. Azure China is a physically isolated instance of Azure, but it is available to business as well as governmental organizations within China. See Chapter 4 for more information.

      1 12. C. Distributing VMs across availability zones helps guard against data center outages. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 13. D. Resources groups serve as a logical container for Azure resources. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 14. D. The underlined fragment is correct. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 15. A. Subscriptions are just logical containers and therefore are not limited to a single region. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 16. A. The statement is true. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 17. C. Azure Kubernetes provides orchestration services for containers that you create with ACI. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 18. B. All containers in a group share the same OS. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 19. C. Azure Files enables you to save application state from one execution to another. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 20. A. The most cost‐effective option is to use Azure SQL Database. See Chapter 2 for more information.

      1 21. D. Azure NSGs do not provide load‐balancing capability. See Chapter 4 for more information.

      1 22. C. Azure Application Gateway provides URL‐based routing. See Chapter 4 for more information.

      1 23. C. Azure ExpressRoute is the appropriate solution to provide VPN across the Internet, managed