AZ-900 Practice Question 53: Cost Predictability
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 6 · question 3 of 10
A CFO complains that her team can never predict next quarter's cloud bill. Which practice addresses cost predictability specifically?
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Answer:
Predictability in the cloud comes in two flavours, and the exam expects you to tell them apart. Cost predictability focuses on predicting or forecasting cloud spend: in the cloud you can track resource use in real time, monitor resources to make sure they are used efficiently, and apply analytics to find patterns and trends that inform future deployments, and you can use a tool such as the Azure pricing calculator to estimate potential spend before committing.
Option A improves reliability and availability; if anything it *increases* cost, because you are paying for redundancy. Option B is a governance control that stops accidental deletion, valuable, but it forecasts nothing. Option C is the closest wrong answer and the reason this question is worth asking: autoscaling and load balancing genuinely are part of predictability, but they belong to performance predictability, which is about predicting the resources needed to deliver a good customer experience.
Reference: Describe the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud