MicrosoftMicrosoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Certification·EN·Updated 10 Aug 2026
Your finance team wants tighter control over monthly Azure spend and better purchase planning. Requirements: 1) Trigger email to on-call and a webhook to an automation endpoint when 80% of the monthly budget is reached. 2) Provide the CFO a daily breakdown of costs grouped by resource group and by the 'CostCenter' tag. 3) After observing 30 days of usage, obtain recommendations for VM reservations. What should you do?
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Correct answer: Create a Cost Management budget at the subscription scope with an alert at 80% and attach an Azure Monitor action group that emails on-call and triggers a webhook to your automation endpoint. Save a Cost Analysis view grouped by resource group and CostCenter and schedule a daily export of actual cost details to a Storage account; use a Logic App to email the report link to the CFO. Review Reservation recommendations in Cost Management after 30 days for 1-year/3-year VM reservations..
Why this is the answer
The correct option directly addresses all three requirements using appropriate Azure services. Azure Cost Management budgets with action groups fulfill the 80% spend alert with email and webhook. Cost Analysis views and scheduled exports to storage, combined with a Logic App, provide the daily, grouped cost breakdown for the CFO. Cost Management's built-in reservation recommendations are the standard way to identify VM reservation opportunities after observing usage.
Incorrect options: Spending caps are not suitable for alerts or planning. Azure Policy is for governance, not daily cost summaries by tag. Anomaly alerts are not a daily breakdown. Purchasing reservations without review is risky. Polling the Consumption API hourly for forecasted cost is inefficient and doesn't meet the actual cost requirement. Power BI is a reporting tool, but the solution requires a scheduled export. Azure Migrate is for migration assessment, not reservation planning.