Cost analysis: Correct Option
In cost analysis blade of Azure, you can see all the detail for custom time span. You can use this to determine expenditure of last few day, weeks, and month. Below options are available in Cost analysis blade for filtering information by time span: last 7 days, last 30 days, and custom date range. Choosing the first option (last 7 days) auditors can view the costs by time span.
Cost analysis shows data for the current month by default. Use the date selector to switch to common date ranges quickly. Examples include the last seven days, the last month, the current year, or a custom date range.
Pay-as-you-go subscriptions also include date ranges based on your billing period, which isn't bound to the calendar month, like the current billing period or last invoice. Use the <PREVIOUS and NEXT> links at the top of the menu to jump to the previous or next period, respectively. For example, <PREVIOUS will switch from the Last 7 days to 8-14 days ago or 15-21 days ago.
Invoice: Incorrect Option
Invoices can only be used for past billing periods not for current billing period, i.e. if your requirement is to know the last week's cost then that also not filled by invoices because Azure generates invoice at the end of the month. Even though Invoices have custom timespan, but when you put in dates for a week, the pane would be empty. Below is from Microsoft document:
Resource Provider: Incorrect Option
When deploying resources, you frequently need to retrieve information about the resource providers and types. For example, if you want to store keys and secrets, you work with the Microsoft.KeyVault resource provider. This resource provider offers a resource type called vaults for creating the key vault. This is not useful for reviewing all Azure costs from the past week which is required for audit.
Payment method: Incorrect Option
Payment methods is not useful for reviewing all Azure costs from the past week which is required for audit.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/download-azure-invoice-daily- usage-date
Topic 5, Litware, inc.Overview
Litware, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and two branch offices in Seattle and New York.
The Montreal office has 2,000 employees. The Seattle office has 1,000 employees. The New York office has
200 employees.
All the resources used by Litware are hosted on-premises.
Litware creates a new Azure subscription. The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant uses a domain named Litware.onmicrosoft.com. The tenant uses the P1 pricing tier.
Existing Environment
The network contains an Active Directory forest named Litware.com. All domain controllers are configured as DNS servers and host the Litware.com DNS zone.
Litware has finance, human resources, sales, research, and information technology departments. Each department has an organizational unit (OU) that contains all the accounts of that respective department. All the user accounts have the department attribute set to their respective department. New users are added frequently.
Litware.com contains a user named User1.
All the offices connect by using private links.
Litware has data centers in the Montreal and Seattle offices. Each data center has a firewall that can be configured as a VPN device.
All infrastructure servers are virtualized. The virtualization environment contains the servers in the following table.
Litware uses two web applications named App1 and App2. Each instance on each web application requires
1GB of memory.
The Azure subscription contains the resources in the following table.
The network security team implements several network security groups (NSGs).
Planned Changes
Litware plans to implement the following changes:
* Deploy Azure ExpressRoute to the Montreal office.
* Migrate the virtual machines hosted on Server1 and Server2 to Azure.
* Synchronize on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
* Migrate App1 and App2 to two Azure web apps named webApp1 and WebApp2.
Technical requirements
Litware must meet the following technical requirements:
* Ensure that WebApp1 can adjust the number of instances automatically based on the load and can scale up to five instance*.
* Ensure that VM3 can establish outbound connections over TCP port 8080 to the applications servers in the Montreal office.
* Ensure that routing information is exchanged automatically between Azure and the routers in the Montreal office.
* Enable Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for the users in the finance department only.
* Ensure that webapp2.azurewebsites.net can be accessed by using the name app2.Litware.com.
* Connect the New Your office to VNet1 over the Internet by using an encrypted connection.
* Create a workflow to send an email message when the settings of VM4 are modified.
* Create a custom Azure role named Role1 that is based on the Reader role.
* Minimize costs whenever possible.
