Exam AZ-304 topic 6 question 1 discussion

1st box: Azure Total Cost of Ownership calculator. TCO can estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your workloads to Azure 2nd box: Azure Reservations: [Once App1 is migrated to Azure, you must ensure that new data can be written to the app, and the modification of new and existing data is prevented for a period of three years.] [App1 must not share physical hardware with other workloads.] Azure reserved instances can purchased for one year or three years. Therefore Litware can purchase 3 years Reserved instances to save cost. And reserved instances guarantees dedicated compute resources to App1. Why not Hybrid Benefit? this is for customers with Software Assurance. We are not sure if Litware has Software Assurance.

Passed exam today. There is not a word about a "corporate agreement" in this case study. So i choose Azure Resevation in 2nd box.

Azure Hybrid benefit: save up to 40% on VM Azure RI: save up to 72% Azure RI+Hybrid: save up to 82% So if I have to choose one, I will chose RI https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricihttps://www.examtopics.com/exams/microsoft/az-304/view/43/#ng/hybrid-benefit/faq/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/reserved-vm-instances/

1. TCO is correct unarguable. 2. Azure Reservations is a best suitable for App1. if it's SQL then Hybrid is best suitable.

Key point in question is 'solution should meet security requirements that is to keep data for 3 years'... so answer to 2nd box is 'Azure Reservations'

This link 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/enterprise?activetab=enterprise-tab:primaryr2' states: With Enterprise Agreement: -Automatically access the latest software and technologies with Software Assurance. -Simplify purchasing with predictable payments through a single agreement for cloud services and software. But the question asks: 'The solution must meet the security and compliance requirements.' Under these requirements is 'App1 must not share physical hardware with other workloads.' Hence Azure Reservations is required. From my point of view the entire solution uses/needs both Azure Hybrid Benefit and Azure Reservations, but to answer this question Azure Reservations will do.

They have an enterprise agreement which includes SA. They have data requirements stating that data written to app1 can't be deleted for three years. With Azure reservations you can also incorporate VM reservations. So the second answer is Azure reservations.

To qualify for the benefit, this license must be used either on-premises or in Azure—you'll get 180 days of concurrent use rights while migrating servers. >> you cannot use Hybrid Benefit because it only last for 180days. In this case, it needs 3 years. I would go for reservations.

1. TCO 2. Hybrid Benefits -> Who is eligible for this offer? The Azure Hybrid Use Benefit is available if you own Windows Server Standard or Datacenter edition licenses with active Software Assurance. It is not restricted to any specific licensing program.... Enterprise Agreement customers can deploy Windows Server virtual machines pre-configured with the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit in three easy steps...

Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that helps you to significantly reduce the costs of running your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machines (VMs) , and the VM's are Ubuntu based so seems Hybrid Benifit not an option here .

1. TCO 2. Reservations --- "Only the compute costs are included with the Dedicated host" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/save-compute-costs-reservations

Its Azure Hybrid benefits for 2nd option. Azure Hybrid Benefit is a cost-savings benefit that lets you bring your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance or subscriptions to Azure. Save up to 85 percent* compared to standard pay-as-you-go rates and achieve the lowest cost of ownership when you combine Azure Hybrid Benefit, reservations savings, and extended security updates. Azure Hybrid Benefit also applies to SQL on Azure and Azure Dedicated Host. Additionally, it provides 180 days of dual-use rights so you can maintain your on-premises operation while migrating to Azure. And now, this benefit applies to RedHat and SUSE Linux subscriptions, too.

Migrate to Azure so estimate costs using TCO is correct "Deploy the Azure virtual machines that will host App1 to Azure dedicated hosts" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/save-compute-costs-reservations Azure Dedicated Host - Only the compute costs are included with the Dedicated host Implement Azure reservations

1st : Azure TCO is the only option that makes sense. i would use Azure Migrate to calculate the cost 2nd : Azure Reservations is the only option since VM would be on dedicated host and you cannot use the Hybrid benefit

it is a great point to bring up Software Assurance. It seems it is not available. therefore, Azure Reservation is a better answer. If we go "Azure Reservation", the answer for the first question will be "Power BI app" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/save-compute-costs-reservations#determine-what-to-purchase

The given answer is correct and the links are valid.