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AZ-900 Practice Question 73: Azure Migrate Business Case

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 8 · question 3 of 10

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A CIO wants a data-driven business case before committing to migrate 200 on-premises servers to Azure. The report needs to compare the current on-premises total cost of ownership against projected Azure costs, factor in savings from Azure Hybrid Benefit, and estimate the change in carbon emissions. Which tool should the migration team use to produce this?

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  • C. Azure Migrate business case

The Azure Migrate business case capability does exactly this: it estimates total cost of ownership, potential savings (including from Azure Hybrid Benefit and Extended Security Updates), and sustainability impact, and presents a side-by-side on-premises versus Azure comparison for the applications and servers being assessed. It is the current, purpose-built tool for justifying a migration with numbers before committing to it.

Option A, the pricing calculator, only estimates the cost of a configuration you build inside Azure; it has no on-premises comparison, no Hybrid Benefit modeling, and no emissions estimate. Option B, Azure Advisor, produces optimization recommendations for resources you are already running in Azure, which doesn't help before a single server has moved. Option D, Cost Management budgets, tracks and alerts on spend after resources are deployed; it plays no role in building the pre-migration business case itself.

Reference: Business Case in Azure Migrate

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