You have 1,000 virtual machines hosted on the Hyper-V hosts in a data center.
You plan to migrate all the virtual machines to an Azure pay-as-you-go subscription.
You need to identify which expenditure model to use for the planned Azure solution.
Which expenditure model should you identify?
When planning a migration of virtual machines to an Azure pay-as-you-go subscription, the expenditure model to use is the operational expenditure (OpEx). OpEx refers to the expenses required for the day-to-day functioning of the service, such as the costs incurred for using cloud services. Unlike capital expenditure (CapEx), which involves upfront investment in hardware and related infrastructure, OpEx is beneficial in the cloud context because it allows for costs to scale with usage, providing flexibility and cost management advantages.
The expenditure models are either CapEx or OpEx (Capital or Operational). CapEx is what you pay upfront, on prem, for servers, racks, cooling, security, the Datacenter itself. OpEx is what you pay to keep your infrastructure operational, like IT staff. In this case, when you move to the Cloud, what you identify in this case is the OpEx or Operational model. This is because you actually don't have CapEx on the Cloud (or at least you look to minimize CapEx) as you pay for the resources you use and not for the underlying hardware, security, cooling, etc that you will pay for in an On-Prem solution. That is why the right answer is (A) Operational. Elastic and Scalable are not expenditure models.
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pay-as-you-go = OpEx
it is Opex
A is correct.
OpEx :- is what you pay to keep your infrastructure operational, like IT staff. A is Correct Answer
Correct. Appears in the exam of 06/06/2023.
Came out on 13jun2023.
Operational is Azure model
Correct
Pay-as-you-go, so it's OpEx
Maybe 99% of services provided on the cloud are OpEx.
operational
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/business-outcomes/fiscal-outcomes
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