Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide

AppendixAnswers to Review Questions

Chapter 1: Cloud Concepts

1. 1.   A. Azure enables your organization to pay for only those services it uses, which enables you to budget your IT infrastructure costs as an operational expenditure based on the services you consume in each month. Operational expenditures are generally those that you consume on a pay‐as‐you‐go basis. By contrast, purchasing hardware and software would require a capital expenditure, which is an acquisition of fixed assets.
2. 2.   C. Microsoft acquires large amounts of hardware and other infrastructure resources to support Azure, enabling it to purchase at a reduced cost, which represents an economy of scale. In addition, distributing those resources among multiple customers also ...