AZ-104 Question 50
Single answerYou administer multiple Azure subscriptions for different departments. The marketing team often exceeds its monthly allocation, and you want to be notified whenever costs reach 80% and 100% of the budget. You also need to regularly review suggestions on reducing underutilized resources. Which approach should you take?
- A
Create budgets in Azure Cost Management, define alert thresholds at 80% and 100%, and use Azure Advisor to review cost-saving suggestions
- B
Apply an Azure Policy to block all new resource deployments once the subscription cost reaches 80% of the monthly budget
- C
Set up a single budget threshold at 90% usage and rely on personal email reminders for cost updates
- D
Manually export daily usage data and use Azure Monitor for custom usage alerts without referencing Azure Advisor
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Creating budgets through Azure Cost Management, configuring alerts at specified thresholds, and reviewing Azure Advisor’s cost optimization recommendations is the most effective way to proactively manage and reduce Azure spending.
- A. Correct.
This option correctly uses Azure Cost Management budgets to set up 80% and 100% threshold alerts and leverages Azure Advisor’s cost recommendations for optimization insights.
- B. Incorrect.
While Azure Policy can help enforce rules on resource creation, it does not provide a built-in cost threshold mechanism or cost-saving recommendations.
- C. Incorrect.
A single 90% budget threshold and personal email reminders do not adequately monitor costs at multiple critical checkpoints, and do not include Azure Advisor recommendations.
- D. Incorrect.
Manually exporting usage and creating custom Azure Monitor alerts overlooks the automated budgeting features and Azure Advisor’s cost optimization suggestions.