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They are essential for individuals or organizations to use Azure services. When you sign up for Azure, you’re asked to create a subscription and provide credit card details for billing. A subscription enables you to provision resources and gives you access to Azure services. Each subscription is associated with an Azure account, which can have multiple subscriptions.
There are different types of subscriptions available, catering to various needs:
An Azure subscription is a logical container used to:
Azure imposes some limits and quotas on the amount of resources you can deploy and use within each subscription. These limits can typically be raised by submitting a support request.
Within subscriptions, resources can be further organized into resource groups. A resource group is a collection of resources that share the same lifecycle, permissions, and policies. It simplifies resource management and cost reporting.
Azure provides tools such as Azure Cost Management and Billing to help track and manage your Azure subscription expenditure. This includes budgets, alerts, and detailed cost reports.
It is not uncommon for a business or individual to have multiple subscriptions. This could be for billing purposes, organizational reasons, or compliance. Having multiple subscriptions can, however, introduce complexity in management. Azure Lighthouse and management groups help manage these scenarios by providing governance across subscriptions.
It’s possible to transfer resources from one subscription to another if needed. However, some services have specific constraints, so it’s essential to consult the documentation before proceeding.
Before creating a subscription, you can use the Azure Pricing Calculator to estimate costs based on your projected usage, allowing for better financial planning and subscription selection.
Azure subscriptions are foundational for using Azure services, and understanding them is critical for anyone aiming to work with Azure or preparing for the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. Proper subscription management ensures that you have the necessary control over costs, governance, and organizational structure required to effectively run your Azure workloads.
Azure subscriptions create a boundary for billing and resource usage, and you need at least one subscription to deploy Azure services.
Subscriptions are associated with, but not tied directly to, Azure Active Directory. They rely on Azure AD for identity services, but the subscription itself is a separate entity for billing and management purposes.
A, B, D
Azure Cost Management, Azure Policies, and Azure Budgets all play roles in managing and controlling Azure costs, while Azure Service Health provides service health notifications.
B. Azure Tenant
An Azure tenant represents a dedicated instance of the Azure AD service and is the parent component of all Azure subscriptions.
An Azure tenant can contain multiple subscriptions, allowing organizations to manage billing and resources across different departments or projects.
The Microsoft Azure free account includes a free subscription with a limited amount of free services for 12 months, plus a specified amount of credit to use in the first 30 days.
C. Full access, including the ability to delegate permissions
The Owner role at the subscription level provides full access to all resources in the subscription, including the ability to delegate access to others by assigning roles.
A subscription is associated with a single Azure Active Directory tenant, which provides identity management for the subscription’s resources.
D. Azure in Open
Azure in Open is not a subscription type; the correct subscription types are Free, Pay-As-You-Go, and Enterprise Agreement.
While subscriptions are a primary way to organize and manage billing for resources, Azure also provides other means such as resource groups and management groups to organize resources.
A, B, D
Azure Enterprise Agreements offer discounted pricing, consolidated billing for multiple subscriptions, and the ability to customize policy settings. They are meant for long-term commitments and not for limited time use.
B. Only users with an Owner role at the subscription level
Only users with an Owner role at the subscription level can access the Account Center to manage Azure subscriptions, as it requires the authority to manage billing and subscription details.
A subscription is a logical container used to provision and manage resources in Microsoft’s cloud offerings.
You can create and manage resources, set access policies and permissions, and track costs and usage.
A tenant is the organization that owns the subscription and the resources provisioned within it.
Yes, you can have multiple subscriptions within a single tenant.
Subscriptions are billed based on the services and resources provisioned within them, with pricing varying based on the specific service and usage.
A user account is an identity used to access resources within a subscription.
A license is an entitlement that allows a user to use a specific service or set of services within a subscription.
Licenses can be assigned directly to users or to groups of users.
An account is a collection of user identities and their associated access policies and permissions within a subscription.
Access to resources within a subscription is managed through the use of roles and role-based access control (RBAC).
RBAC is a method of managing access to resources within a subscription by assigning roles to user identities.
RBAC provides a granular and flexible approach to managing access to resources, allowing for more fine-grained control over who can perform specific actions within a subscription.
Yes, you can share resources between subscriptions within the same tenant, although some services may require additional configuration to enable this.
The Azure portal is a web-based interface used to manage resources within Azure subscriptions.
Yes, you can use APIs and automation tools to manage resources within a subscription, providing greater flexibility and programmability for managing cloud resources.
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