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AZ-900 · Question #514

What can you use to make recommendations that will reduce Azure costs?

The correct answer is A. Azure Advisor. Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to optimize costs, performance, security, and operational excellence for your Azure resources.

Submitted by eva_at· Mar 5, 2026Describe Azure Management and Governance

Question

What can you use to make recommendations that will reduce Azure costs?

Options

  • AAzure Advisor
  • BLog Analytics
  • CAzure Service Health
  • Dthe Azure pricing calculator

How the community answered

(15 responses)
  • A
    93% (14)
  • B
    7% (1)

Why each option

Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to optimize costs, performance, security, and operational excellence for your Azure resources.

AAzure AdvisorCorrect

Azure Advisor is a free service that analyzes your Azure resource configuration and usage telemetry to provide personalized, actionable recommendations for optimizing your Azure deployments across five pillars: Cost, Security, Reliability, Operational Excellence, and Performance. Specifically for cost reduction, it suggests actions like identifying idle resources, rightsizing VMs, or using reserved instances.

BLog Analytics

Log Analytics is a tool for collecting, querying, and analyzing log data from various sources, not primarily for cost recommendations.

CAzure Service Health

Azure Service Health provides personalized alerts and guidance on Azure service issues and planned maintenance, not cost optimization recommendations.

Dthe Azure pricing calculator

The Azure pricing calculator estimates costs for planned deployments, but it does not analyze existing deployments for cost reduction recommendations.

Concept tested: Azure Advisor cost optimization

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-overview

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