AZ-900 Questions 61-70: Cost, Migration, and Resiliency Scenarios

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AZ-900 Questions 61-70: Cost, Migration, and Resiliency Scenarios

Continue the AZ-900 practice bank with 10 original exam-style questions focused on cost optimization, migration planning, and availability design. Choose your answer first, then reveal the explanation.

Series position: This continues the AZ-900 sequence after the previous 10-question batch. The goal is a complete, reviewable Microsoft Azure Fundamentals practice bank from Questions 1-100.
Exam code
AZ-900
Question range
61-70
Format
Single-best-answer practice
Status
Original questions, source-grounded
Practice mode: Answers are hidden by default. Decide on A, B, C, or D before opening the reveal panel.

Questions

Question 61

Single answerBudgets
A finance team wants alerts when monthly Azure spending approaches a defined threshold. What should they configure?
  • A. A budget in Microsoft Cost Management
  • B. An availability set
  • C. A private endpoint
  • D. A DNS CNAME record
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. A budget in Microsoft Cost Management
Budgets in Microsoft Cost Management can trigger alerts as actual or forecasted costs approach thresholds.
Why the others are wrong: The other choices do not provide spending threshold alerts.

Objective: Budgets.

Question 62

Single answerReservations
A company will run several VMs continuously for three years and wants to reduce compute cost. Which option may help?
  • A. Azure Reservations
  • B. Availability zones
  • C. Azure Policy exemptions
  • D. Service Health alerts
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Reservations
Azure Reservations can reduce costs for predictable, long-running workloads by committing to a one-year or three-year term.
Why the others are wrong: Zones, exemptions, and health alerts do not provide reservation pricing.

Objective: Reservations.

Question 63

Single answerHybrid licensing
A company has eligible Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance and wants to reduce Azure VM costs. Which benefit may apply?
  • A. Azure Hybrid Benefit
  • B. Azure DDoS Protection
  • C. Azure Storage lifecycle management
  • D. Azure Resource Graph
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Hybrid Benefit
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets eligible customers use existing licenses to reduce Azure costs.
Why the others are wrong: The other services do not apply existing server licenses to VM pricing.

Objective: Hybrid licensing.

Question 64

Single answerMigration discovery
A company wants to discover on-premises servers and assess migration readiness for Azure. Which service should it use?
  • A. Azure Migrate
  • B. Azure Advisor only
  • C. Azure Cloud Shell
  • D. Azure DNS
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate provides discovery, assessment, and migration tooling for on-premises workloads.
Why the others are wrong: Advisor optimizes Azure resources; Cloud Shell and DNS do not assess server migrations.

Objective: Migration discovery.

Question 65

Single answerBackup
A production VM needs protected backups that can be restored after accidental deletion or corruption. Which service should be used?
  • A. Azure Backup
  • B. Azure Policy
  • C. Azure Marketplace
  • D. Azure Bastion
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Backup
Azure Backup provides backup and restore capabilities for workloads such as Azure VMs.
Why the others are wrong: Policy, Marketplace, and Bastion do not perform VM backup and restore.

Objective: Backup.

Question 66

Single answerDisaster recovery
A business-critical VM workload needs replication to another Azure region for disaster recovery. Which service is designed for this?
  • A. Azure Site Recovery
  • B. Azure Monitor metrics
  • C. Azure Pricing Calculator
  • D. Azure Storage Explorer
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps replicate and recover workloads for disaster recovery scenarios.
Why the others are wrong: Monitor, Pricing Calculator, and Storage Explorer do not provide workload DR replication.

Objective: Disaster recovery.

Question 67

Single answerAutoscale cost control
An app receives heavy traffic during business hours but light traffic overnight. Which design can help match cost to demand?
  • A. Autoscale based on rules or metrics
  • B. Always run the maximum number of instances
  • C. Use only locally redundant storage
  • D. Disable monitoring
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Autoscale based on rules or metrics
Autoscale can increase or decrease capacity according to demand, helping balance performance and cost.
Why the others are wrong: Always running max capacity wastes money; storage redundancy and disabled monitoring do not solve compute demand variation.

Objective: Autoscale cost control.

Question 68

Single answerRegion pairs
Why are Azure region pairs useful in resiliency planning?
  • A. They provide paired regions for platform updates and regional recovery planning
  • B. They guarantee zero downtime for every service
  • C. They replace backups
  • D. They are the same as availability sets
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. They provide paired regions for platform updates and regional recovery planning
Azure region pairs support resiliency concepts such as sequenced platform updates and regional recovery planning.
Why the others are wrong: They do not guarantee zero downtime, replace backups, or equal availability sets.

Objective: Region pairs.

Question 69

Single answerGlobal routing
A company wants DNS-based routing that can direct users to different endpoints based on priority or performance. Which service fits?
  • A. Azure Traffic Manager
  • B. Azure Load Balancer only
  • C. Azure Key Vault
  • D. Azure Policy
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that supports routing methods such as priority and performance.
Why the others are wrong: Load Balancer is not DNS-based global routing; Key Vault and Policy do not route traffic.

Objective: Global routing.

Question 70

Single answerMarketplace
A team wants to deploy a third-party firewall appliance image into Azure from a catalog of partner solutions. Where should they look?
  • A. Azure Marketplace
  • B. Microsoft Entra ID
  • C. Azure Service Health
  • D. Azure Resource Locks
Reveal answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Azure Marketplace
Azure Marketplace provides Microsoft and partner solutions that can be deployed to Azure.
Why the others are wrong: The other tools are identity, health, or protection features rather than a solution catalog.

Objective: Marketplace.

Answer key

Reveal full answer key
QuestionCorrect answerObjective area
61ABudgets
62AReservations
63AHybrid licensing
64AMigration discovery
65ABackup
66ADisaster recovery
67AAutoscale cost control
68ARegion pairs
69AGlobal routing
70AMarketplace
Exam tip: AZ-900 questions usually reward the simplest Azure service or concept that exactly matches the requirement. Watch for distractors that are real services but solve a different problem.
Next: Continue with AZ-900 Questions 71-80 for governance, monitoring, and deployment tools.

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