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A company has 10 Azure subscriptions used by different departments. The finance team wants to receive automated, prioritized recommendations to reduce cloud costs. Specifically, they want suggestions for identifying idle virtual machines and rightsizing underutilized resources across all subscriptions. Which Azure service should the finance team use to get these recommendations?
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Why each option matters
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A
Best answer
Azure Advisor
Correct. Azure Advisor is a free service that continuously analyzes resource usage and provides personalized recommendations to optimize costs, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. It includes specific cost recommendations such as identifying idle VMs and rightsizing underutilized resources.
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Azure Cost Management + Billing
Azure Cost Management + Billing provides tools for cost analysis, budgeting, and invoice management. While it can help track spending, it does not generate the automated, prioritized cost optimization recommendations that Azure Advisor does. Advisor is the service for recommendations.
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Azure Policy
Azure Policy is used to enforce organizational standards and assess compliance. It can prevent the creation of expensive resources but does not provide dynamic recommendations for optimizing existing resources like idle or oversized VMs.
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Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data for performance and health. It can alert on high usage but does not offer cost optimization recommendations. Azure Advisor is the correct service for such suggestions.
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Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
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How to think about this question
This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
- Use explanations to understand the rule behind the answer.
TExam Day Tips
- Underline the problem statement mentally.
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
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Question 3
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Question 4
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Question 5
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Question 6
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FAQ
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What does this AZ-900 question test?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Azure Advisor — Azure Advisor is the primary service that provides personalized, actionable recommendations across cost, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. The cost recommendations include identifying idle virtual machines and rightsizing underutilized resources. Azure Cost Management + Billing focuses on cost analysis, budgeting, and invoicing, but the automated, prioritized recommendations for cost optimization come from Azure Advisor. Azure Policy is used to enforce compliance rules, not to generate cost recommendations. Azure Monitor provides monitoring and alerting but does not deliver cost optimization suggestions.
What should I do if I get this AZ-900 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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