AZ-900 Practice Question 58: Cost Analysis
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 6 · question 8 of 10
An engineering manager wants to see which resource groups and which services drove last month's actual Azure charges, and how that compares with the month before. Which tool should she open?
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Answer:
Cost analysis is described as your tool for interactive analytics and insights, and "should be your first stop when you need to explore or get quick answers about your costs." Its built-in views summarize the cost of your resources at various levels, the services spanning all your resources, and cost trends over time, and the Total KPI shows the percentage change compared with the previous period, which is the manager's second question exactly. Views can be grouped and filtered down to a subscription, resource group, resource, or tag.
Option A, the pricing calculator, estimates a hypothetical design before anything is deployed; it knows nothing about charges already incurred. Option B, the TCO calculator, is a business-case tool for comparing an existing on-premises estate against the equivalent Azure spend, not for analysing a bill you have already received. Option D, metrics explorer, analyses performance metrics such as CPU and request counts; it is an excellent tool with no view of currency at all.
Reference: Start using Cost Analysis