AI-102 Question 67
Select 4You are designing a solution that utilizes multiple Azure AI services, including Azure Cognitive Services and Azure OpenAI. Your team is concerned about unexpected costs. What steps should you take to help manage and optimize costs while maintaining service availability?
- A
Set spending limits on your Azure subscription to prevent overages.
- B
Enable Azure Advisor cost recommendations and review them regularly.
- C
Use the Free Tier or pricing tiers with quotas for non-production workloads.
- D
Manually scale up resources during peak hours and scale them down during off-peak hours.
- E
Implement Azure Cost Management and set up budget alerts.
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Correct answers: A, B, C, E
Explanation
Managing costs for Azure AI services involves combining proactive measures such as setting spending limits, leveraging Azure tools like Advisor and Cost Management, and selecting appropriate pricing tiers. These actions help optimize spending while maintaining service availability and avoiding unexpected expenses. Manual scaling is less efficient compared to automated scaling solutions provided by Azure.
- A. Correct.
Setting spending limits on your Azure subscription is an effective way to prevent accidental cost overruns. This ensures that services are paused when the limit is reached, avoiding unexpected expenses.
- B. Correct.
Azure Advisor provides cost recommendations and optimizations, which help you identify unused or underutilized resources, enabling cost savings.
- C. Correct.
Using the Free Tier or pricing tiers with quotas for non-production workloads minimizes costs, especially during development or testing phases.
- D. Incorrect.
Manually scaling resources is not optimal as it requires constant monitoring and manual intervention, which can lead to inefficiencies and additional costs. Automated scaling is a better approach.
- E. Correct.
Azure Cost Management allows you to track and analyze costs effectively, and setting up budget alerts ensures that you are notified when spending approaches or exceeds predefined limits.