Clarification on AZ-104 vCPU Quota Question

[Destine Pinkney]

Hello Tutorials Dojo Team,

I am reviewing one of the AZ-104 practice questions related to Azure VM vCPU quotas and wanted to confirm my understanding of the explanation.

In the question, the existing North Central US VMs are:

VM1: A4_v2, 4 vCPUs, North Central US, Running<br data-start=”329″ data-end=”332″> VM2: D8s_v3, 8 vCPUs, North Central US, Stopped (Deallocated)

Based on Azure quota behavior, stopped/deallocated VMs can still count against vCPU quota, even though they do not incur compute charges while deallocated.

So the current North Central US regional vCPU usage would be:

4 + 8 = 12 of 15 vCPUs used

The planned VMs are created in this order:

VM4: A2m_v2, 2 vCPUs<br data-start=”710″ data-end=”713″> VM5: D2s_v3, 2 vCPUs<br data-start=”733″ data-end=”736″> VM6: A8_v2, 8 vCPUs

After creating VM4:

12 + 2 = 14 of 15 vCPUs used

That leaves only 1 vCPU available.

Therefore, the expected answers would be:

VM4 in North Central US: Yes<br data-start=”917″ data-end=”920″> VM5 in North Central US: No<br data-start=”947″ data-end=”950″> VM6 in North Central US: No

I wanted to confirm that this is the intended reasoning behind the answer explanation, specifically that stopped/deallocated VMs are still included when calculating vCPU quota.

Thank you.

[Destine Pinkney]

W for the team updating the question