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Difficulty: MediumAzure Advisor

An educational institution hosts its online learning management system (LMS) on Azure virtual machines. The IT department wants to leverage Azure Advisor to optimize their cloud resources. Which of the following optimization tasks can the IT department accomplish by following Azure Advisor recommendations? (Select TWO)

  1. Identify virtual machines with low CPU utilization and recommend right-sizing or shutting them down to reduce costs.Answer
  2. Identify virtual machines that do not have Azure Backup enabled and recommend enabling it to improve reliability.Answer
  3. C
    Ensure that all newly created virtual machines automatically inherit resource tags from their parent resource group.
  4. D
    Collect real-time CPU usage metrics from virtual machines and send alerts when a global Azure region outage is detected.

Answer

Azure Advisor can identify underutilized virtual machines to suggest cost-saving measures, and identify virtual machines lacking backup configurations to recommend reliability improvements.
Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations based on your resource usage. It helps optimize deployments under five pillars. For Cost, it identifies underutilized virtual machines to suggest resizing or shutting them down. For Reliability, it identifies virtual machines without Azure Backup to recommend enabling protection.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the scope of Azure Advisor capabilities.
Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps follow best practices across five pillars: Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance, and Operational Excellence by providing recommendations.
Understanding what Azure Advisor does is necessary to filter out features of other Azure management tools.
2
Evaluate the correct options based on Advisor pillars.
Identifying underutilized VMs belongs to the Cost pillar. Recommending Azure Backup for VMs belongs to the Reliability pillar. Both are native Advisor recommendations.
To select the two correct recommendations that Azure Advisor provides.
3
Evaluate the incorrect options to identify misaligned management tools.
Automatic tag inheritance is a policy enforcement action (Azure Policy / governance). Real-time telemetry monitoring and regional service outage alerts are handled by Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health.
To verify that the other options describe functionalities of other Azure management and monitoring services.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor recommendation categories and tool boundaries
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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