AI-102 Plan and manage an Azure AI solution Practice Question
You need to monitor the costs of your Azure AI services across multiple subscriptions. Which Azure tool should you use to track spending and set budgets?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse Azure Monitor (which tracks resource metrics and logs) with cost monitoring, but Azure Monitor has no native capability to track financial spend or set budgets.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management is the dedicated tool for monitoring, analyzing, and controlling cloud spending across multiple subscriptions. It provides cost analysis, budget creation, and alerting capabilities specifically designed for tracking Azure AI services costs at scale.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Azure Cost Management
Why this is correct
Azure Cost Management aggregates spend across subscriptions and resource groups, letting you analyse costs and configure budgets with alerts. This satisfies the requirement to track spending for Azure AI services across multiple subscriptions in one place.
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Azure Portal
Why it's wrong here
The Azure portal displays per-resource cost views but cannot aggregate spending across subscriptions or raise alerts and budgets at scale. Cost Management is the dedicated tool for cross-subscription budgets; the portal merely surfaces its data for single-scope browsing.
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Azure Monitor
Why it's wrong here
Azure Monitor collects metrics and logs for resource health and performance, not billing data. Cost Management owns budgets and spend tracking; Monitor would be chosen to alert on CPU, latency or availability thresholds instead of monetary consumption across subscriptions.
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Azure Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Azure Advisor returns recommendations on cost, security, reliability and performance, but it neither tracks actual spending nor enforces budgets. Cost Management performs that tracking; Advisor would be the right choice when seeking optimisation suggestions rather than monetary monitoring.
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