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An organization is reviewing its Azure cloud deployment using Azure Advisor. The IT department wants to focus on improving service uptime and disaster recovery readiness, while also minimizing unnecessary cloud spend. Which of the following recommendations are provided by Azure Advisor under either the Reliability or Cost categories? (Select TWO)

  1. Right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines to lower subscription spend.Answer
  2. Enable Azure Backup on virtual machines to protect application data from corruption or accidental loss.Answer
  3. C
    Create an Azure Policy to block any new resource deployments once the monthly budget is exceeded.
  4. D
    Configure Azure Service Health alerts to automatically failover and restart virtual machines in a different region during an outage.

Answer

The recommendations to right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines, and to enable Azure Backup on virtual machines.
Azure Advisor provides Cost recommendations such as right-sizing or shutting down underutilized virtual machines to optimize spend. It also provides Reliability recommendations such as enabling Azure Backup to ensure data protection and resiliency. Both are key pillars of Azure Advisor.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the target Azure Advisor categories from the scenario.
The target categories are Reliability (uptime/disaster recovery) and Cost (minimizing spend).
The scenario highlights a need for optimizing service uptime and minimizing cloud costs.
2
Evaluate the options against Azure Advisor's native recommendation pillars.
Right-sizing underutilized VMs falls under the Cost pillar, and enabling Azure Backup falls under the Reliability pillar.
These map directly to the defined capability categories of Azure Advisor.
3
Differentiate Advisor recommendations from other Azure governance and health tools.
Azure Policy restricts resource properties but does not manage budgets, and Azure Service Health tracks outage events without orchestrating VM failovers.
This rules out the incorrect management and monitoring capabilities presented in the distractors.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor recommendation categories and tool boundaries
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