Exam AZ-900 topic 1 question 53 discussion

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.

When you migrate your 1,000 virtual machines to an Azure pay-as-you-go subscription, you are shifting from an on-premises capital expenditure (CapEx) model to an operational expenditure (OpEx) model. Operational Expenditure (OpEx) refers to ongoing costs for using cloud resources, where you pay for what you use without upfront investment in infrastructure. Pay-as-you-go billing in Azure falls under OpEx because you are paying for services as they are consumed, rather than making a large upfront investment in hardware.

well said

Operational is Azure model

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/business-outcomes/fiscal-outcomes

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pay-as-you-go = OpEx

OpEx :- is what you pay to keep your infrastructure operational, like IT staff. A is Correct Answer

A is correct.

it is Opex

operational

Maybe 99% of services provided on the cloud are OpEx.

Pay-as-you-go, so it's OpEx

Correct

Operational expenditure

A is correct - OPEX