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A healthcare provider hosts a multi-region electronic health record (EHR) application on Azure virtual machines. The IT operations team wants to identify optimization opportunities across their environment using Azure Advisor. Which of the following recommendations should the team expect to receive directly from Azure Advisor? (Select two.)

  1. A recommendation to right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines to optimize monthly spending.Answer
  2. A recommendation to enable virtual machine backups to protect application data against accidental loss.Answer
  3. C
    A recommendation to automatically copy tags from resource groups to individual virtual machines for cost tracking.
  4. D
    A recommendation to configure a CPU usage alert rule that notifies administrators when a virtual machine's workload spikes.

Answer

The recommendations to right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines, and to enable virtual machine backups to protect application data.
The correct recommendations are to right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines, and to enable virtual machine backups. Azure Advisor analyzes telemetry to detect low-utilization VMs (Cost category) and checks if virtual machines have backup enabled to protect against data loss (Reliability category).

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the primary purpose and categories of Azure Advisor.
Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations across five categories: Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance, and Operational Excellence.
This establishes the boundaries of what Azure Advisor can recommend.
2
Evaluate which of the options fall directly under Advisor's standard best-practice evaluations.
Right-sizing underutilized virtual machines represents a standard Cost optimization recommendation. Configuring virtual machine backup represents a standard Reliability recommendation.
This confirms the two correct selections.
3
Differentiate Advisor's capabilities from other Azure governance and monitoring tools.
Automatic tag inheritance is a policy enforcement action (Azure Policy), and real-time metric alerting is a monitoring configuration task (Azure Monitor).
This eliminates the distractors based on tool boundaries.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor analyzes resource configuration and telemetry data to recommend solutions that improve the cost-effectiveness, performance, reliability, and security of Azure resources.
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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