AZ-900 Practice Question 8: Pricing Calculator
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 1 · question 8 of 10
Before any resources are deployed, an architect must give the budget owner an estimated monthly bill for a proposed design of four virtual machines, a managed disk set, and a storage account. Which tool produces that estimate?
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Answer:
The Azure pricing calculator is the pre-deployment tool: you assemble a hypothetical list of services with their regions, tiers, and quantities, and it returns an estimated cost. Nothing needs to exist in a subscription for it to work, which is what the stem requires.
Option B, cost analysis, reports on charges that have already been incurred by resources that already exist, useful after deployment, useless for a design on paper. Option C, Azure Advisor, inspects deployed resources and their telemetry to recommend savings such as resizing or shutting down idle VMs, so it also needs the resources to exist. Option D, a budget, sets a spending threshold and fires alerts as real charges approach it; it tracks a number you supply rather than calculating one. Watch also for the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator, a related tool whose job is comparing an existing on-premises estate with the equivalent Azure spend, not costing a greenfield design.
Reference: Azure pricing calculator