AZ-900

Learning path 03:

Management and
governance

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Learning path outline

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Learning path 03―outline
You will learn the following
concepts:
1 Cost management
• Cost and pricing calculators
• Cost management and tags

2 Governance and compliance

• Blueprints, policies, and resource
locks
• Service Trust portal
3 Resource deployment tools
• Portal, PowerShell, CLI, and others
• Azure Arc and Azure Resource
Manager
4 Monitoring tools
• Azure Advisor, Azure Service
Health, and
Azure Monitor
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Cost management

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Cost management―objective domain

• Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure.

• Compare the pricing calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator.
• Describe the Azure Cost Management Tool.
• Describe the purpose of tags.

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Factors affecting costs (part 1)
These are some of the factors affecting costs:

1) Resource type 2) Consumption 3) Maintenance

Costs are resource-specific, so With a pay-as-you-go model, Monitoring your Azure
the usage that a meter tracks consumption is one of the footprint and maintaining
and the number of meters biggest drivers of costs. your environment can help
associated with you identify and mitigate
a resource, depend on the costs that aren’t necessary,
resource type. such as shutting down
underused virtual machines.

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Factors affecting costs (part 2)
These are some of the factors affecting costs:

4) Geography 5) Network traffic 6) Subscription

The same resource type can While some inbound data The type and configuration of
cost different amounts transfers are free, the cost for your subscription can also
depending on the geographic outbound data or data impact your cost. For
area, which has an impact on between Azure resources is example, the free trial lets
Azure costs. impacted by billing zones. you explore some Azure
resources for free.

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Explore Azure Marketplace

Azure Marketplace
allows customers to find,
try, purchase, and
provision applications and
services from hundreds of
leading service providers,
which are
all certified to run on
• Open-source container
Azure.
platforms.
• Virtual machine and
database images.
• Application build and
deployment software.
• Developer tools.
• And much more, with
10,000-plus listings!

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Pricing calculator

The pricing calculator is

a tool that helps you
estimate the cost of Azure
products. The options that
you can configure in the
pricing calculator vary
between products, but
basic configuration options
• Region
include:
• Tier
• Billing options
• Support options
• Programs and offers
• Azure dev/test pricing

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Exercise―use the Azure pricing calculator

Use the Azure pricing

calculator to generate
a cost estimate for an
Azure virtual machine
and related network
resources.
1. Configure the pricing
calculator.
2. Review the pricing
estimate.

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator

• A tool to estimate cost

savings you can
realize by migrating
to Azure.
• A report compares the
costs of on-premises
infrastructures
with the costs of using
Azure products and
services in the cloud.

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Exercise―use the Azure TCO calculator

Use the Total Cost of

Ownership (TCO)
calculator to generate
a cost comparison
report for an on-
premises
environment.
1. Configure the TCO
calculator.
2. Review the results and
save a copy.

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Azure Cost Management

• Reporting: Billing
reports
• Data enrichment

• Budgets: Set spend

budget
• Alerting: When cost
exceed limits
• Recommendation:
Cost
recommendations

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Tags

• Provides metadata
for your Azure
resources.
• Logically organizes
resources into a
taxonomy.
• Consists of a name-
OR
value pair.
• Very useful for
rolling up billing owner: joe
information. cost-center:
department: marketing
environment: production marketing

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Governance and
compliance

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Governance and compliance―objective domain

• Describe the purpose of Azure Policy.

• Describe the purpose of resource locks.
• Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal.
• Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview.

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Azure Policy

Azure Policy helps to

enforce organizational
standards and to assess
compliance at scale.
Provides governance and
resource consistency with
regulatory compliance,
security, cost, and
• Evaluates and identifies
management.
Azure resources that do not
comply with your policies.
• Provides built-in policy and
initiative definitions, under
categories such as Storage,
Networking, Compute,
Security Center, and
Monitoring.

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Resource locks

• Protect your Azure resources from accidental deletion or modification.

• Manage locks at subscription, resource group, or individual resource levels
within the
Azure portal.
Lock Types Read Update Delete
Delete Yes Yes No

ReadOnly Yes No No

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Walkthrough―manage resource locks

Create a resource
and add a lock to
prevent modification
1. Create a resource.
2. Add a ReadOnly
resource lock to
prevent resource
modification.
3. Update lock and retest.
4. Remove the
resource lock.
5. Delete the resource.

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Service Trust portal

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Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview is a
family of data
governance, risk, and
compliance solutions
that helps you get a
single, unified view into
your data. Microsoft
Purview brings insights
about your on-premises,
multicloud, and software
as a service data
• Automated data
together.
discovery
• Sensitive data
classification
• End-to-end data lineage
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Management and
deployment tools

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Management and deployment tools―objective
domain
• Describe Azure portal.
• Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell.
• Describe the purpose of Azure Arc.
• Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure ARM templates.

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Tools for interacting with Azure

Azure portal Azure

PowerShell

Command-Line
Azure Cloud Interface (CLI)
Shell

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Azure Arc

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Azure Resource Manager

The Azure Resource

Manager (ARM)
provides a management
layer that enables you
to create, update, and
delete resources in your
Azure subscription.

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Infrastructure as code

• Ensure consistency in
deployment across
your cloud ecosystem.
• Manage configuration
at scale.
• Rapidly provision
additional
environments based
on a standard
configuration and
build.

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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

Azure Resource Manager

(ARM) templates are
JavaScript Object Notation
(JSON) files that can be
used to create and deploy
Azure infrastructure without
having to write programing
commands.
• Declarative syntax
• Repeatable results
• Orchestration
• Modular files
• Built-in validation
• Exportable code

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Bicep

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Azure monitoring tools

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Azure management tools―objective domain

Describe the functionality and usage

• Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor.

• Describe Azure Service Health.

• Describe Azure Monitor, including Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor Alerts, and
Application Insights.

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Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor analyzes

deployed Azure resources
and makes
recommendations
based on best practices to
optimize Azure
• Reliability
deployments.
• Security
• Performance
• Cost
• Operational excellence

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Azure Service Health

Azure Service Health is a collection of

services that keep you informed of
general Azure status, service status that
may impact you, and specific resource
status that is affecting you.
Azure Status: Global view of the health
of all Azure services across all Azure
regions.
Service Health: Focused view on only
the services and regions that you’re
using. If a service is experiencing a
problem in a region you’re not using, it
won’t show up here.
Resource Health: Tailored view of your
actual Azure resources. It provides
information about the health of your
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Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
maximizes the
availability and
performance of
applications and
services by collecting,
analyzing, and acting on
telemetry from cloud
• Application Insights
and on-premises
• Log Analytics
environments.
• Smart alerts
• Automation actions
• Customized dashboards

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Knowledge check

Populate with instructions to use the

polling tool of your choice

Learning path 03 Which one?

1. Use your smartphones or mobile devices. A). Azure

2. Go to (insert polling app link of your portal
choice). B).
3. Enter code: 123-45-678. PowerShell
4. Please participate in the quiz for this section.
C). Local tool

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Learning path 03 review

Microsoft Learn Modules

(learn.microsoft.com/training)
• Cost management

• Governance and compliance

• Resource deployment tools

• Monitoring tools

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