CV0-003 · Question #841
A systems administrator is planning to migrate to a cloud solution with volume-based licensing. Which of the following is most important when considering licensing costs?
The correct answer is C. The number of machines. With volume-based licensing, costs are calculated per installed instance or machine, making the total number of machines the most critical cost factor to track.
Question
A systems administrator is planning to migrate to a cloud solution with volume-based licensing. Which of the following is most important when considering licensing costs?
Options
- AThe number of cores
- BThe number of threads
- CThe number of machines
- DThe number of sockets
How the community answered
(68 responses)- A9% (6)
- B4% (3)
- C85% (58)
- D1% (1)
Why each option
With volume-based licensing, costs are calculated per installed instance or machine, making the total number of machines the most critical cost factor to track.
Per-core licensing models charge based on the number of CPU cores, which is a separate licensing metric not associated with volume-based licensing.
Thread count is not a standard licensing metric in any common software licensing model.
Volume-based licensing is structured around the count of machines or instances on which software is deployed, so the number of machines directly determines the licensing fee owed. As the company migrates workloads to cloud virtual machines or instances, each provisioned machine typically counts against the license volume, making machine count the most important variable to monitor and control for cost management.
Socket-based licensing charges per physical CPU socket and is a separate model distinct from volume-based licensing.
Concept tested: Volume-based software licensing cost considerations
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/products
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