AZ-900: Cost Management & SLAs

Cost Management & SLAs is one of the skill areas tested on the Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam. Below are free AZ-900 practice questions with worked answers and a concept diagram — each with a plain-language explanation. Practice the first 10 questions of AZ-900 free, no signup.

The concept, in one picture

Concept flowHow cloud spending works (CapEx vs OpEx)
How cloud spending works (CapEx vs OpEx)How you pay: CapEx vs OpExCapExlarge upfront purchase of hardware you ownOpExpay only for services you consume, over timeCloud = OpExpay-as-you-go; no upfront cost, scale anytime

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Sample AZ-900 question

A company moves its on-premises virtual machines to Azure on a pay-as-you-go subscription, paying only for what it consumes each month. Which expenditure model does this represent?

  • Operational expenditure (OpEx)
  • Capital expenditure (CapEx)
  • Fixed expenditure
  • Depreciated expenditure
Explanation

Paying for cloud services as you use them is an ongoing operating cost, which is operational expenditure (OpEx). It has no large upfront purchase. Capital expenditure (CapEx) is buying assets outright — like on-premises servers — and depreciating them over time. Shifting from CapEx to OpEx is one of the headline financial benefits of moving to the cloud.

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