Hands-on exercises
To support your learning with some practical skills, we will look at the hands-on use of some of the tools covered in this chapter.
The following exercises will be carried out:
- Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator
- Exercise 2 – using the TCO calculator
Getting started
To get started with these hands-on exercises, you will need the following:
- Access to an internet browser.
- A Microsoft account; you can use the same account that you have used for the other exercises in this book. If you do not have a Microsoft account, you can create a free account at https://account.microsoft.com/account.
Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator
In this exercise, you will create a price estimate with the Azure Pricing calculator; the estimate will be for a simple single-instance Windows VM hosted in the North Europe (Dublin) region.
Task – accessing the Azure Pricing calculator
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