AZ-305 Practice Question 53: Budget Alert Automation
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) · Test 6 · question 3 of 10
A development subscription has a monthly budget of USD 5,000. Finance wants an email when actual spending reaches 80 percent of the budget, and the platform team wants an automation runbook to shut down non-production virtual machines automatically when spending reaches 100 percent.
What should you configure?
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Answer:
A Cost Management budget lets you set a spending threshold with alerts at percentages of actual or forecasted cost. A budget alert can send email to recipients and can also call an action group, and action groups can trigger automation such as a runbook or a Logic App. That covers both the email at 80 percent and the automated shutdown at 100 percent. Budgets themselves do not stop any resource, which is why the action group is needed.
Option B is not possible as described. Azure Policy evaluates resource properties at deployment time and has no view of accumulated cost, so it cannot deny deployments after a spending threshold.
Option C fails because a subscription does not expose a billing metric to Azure Monitor metric alerts; cost data is handled by Cost Management.
Option D is passive. Advisor recommendations suggest savings but do not notify anyone when a threshold is crossed and do not automate an action.
Reference: Tutorial: Create and manage budgets