AI-200 Security And Observability Practice Question
You are optimizing an enterprise AI architecture for cost and performance. Which THREE of the following strategies effectively reduce Azure AI and infrastructure spending without sacrificing reliability? (Choose three)
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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Purchase Azure reservations or provisioned throughput commitments for steady-state workloads.
Autoscaling compute clusters down to zero when idle, leveraging reserved instances/provisioned throughput commitments for predictable workloads, and sizing compute appropriately reduce costs.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Delete all Application Insights workspaces and stop collecting any monitoring telemetry.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Stopping all telemetry removes observability, making troubleshooting impossible.
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Purchase Azure reservations or provisioned throughput commitments for steady-state workloads.
Why this is correct
Correct. Reservations offer significant discounts for predictable, ongoing workloads.
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Right-size virtual machine and GPU SKUs based on historical Azure Monitor utilization metrics.
Why this is correct
Correct. Right-sizing prevents over-provisioning expensive high-end GPU instances.
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Configure Azure Machine Learning compute clusters to scale down to zero nodes when idle.
Why this is correct
Correct. Scaling to zero eliminates idle compute charges.
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Run all development and production workloads on the highest tier enterprise GPUs 24/7 regardless of usage.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Running high-tier GPUs 24/7 without regard to usage wastes immense amounts of money.
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