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Difficulty: EasyAzure Advisor

An administrator wants to optimize their Azure environment using Azure Advisor. Which two of the following tasks can be accomplished based on recommendations provided by Azure Advisor?

  1. Identify virtual machines with low CPU utilization and receive recommendations to right-size or shut them down to reduce costsAnswer
  2. Receive recommendations to improve the availability of applications by enabling virtual machine backupsAnswer
  3. C
    Enforce compliance rules across the subscription by automatically blocking the deployment of resources that lack required tags
  4. D
    Track real-time global infrastructure outages and scheduled maintenance events across all Azure regions

Answer

Identify virtual machines with low CPU utilization and receive recommendations to right-size or shut them down to reduce costs, and receive recommendations to improve the availability of applications by enabling virtual machine backups
Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to optimize your deployments. Under the Cost category, it suggests right-sizing or shutting down underutilized virtual machines. Under the Reliability category, it suggests actions like enabling virtual machine backups to ensure high availability and disaster recovery.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the core function of Azure Advisor.
Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps follow best practices across five categories: Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance, and Operational Excellence.
This establishes the scope of Advisor's capabilities.
2
Evaluate each option against Advisor's categories and other Azure management tools.
Optimizing VM utilization (Cost) and enabling backups (Reliability) match Advisor categories. Blocking deployments (Azure Policy) and tracking global outages (Azure Service Health) are functions of other distinct Azure tools.
This identifies the correct recommendations and distinguishes them from boundary tools.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor recommendation categories and tool boundaries
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