Remember TCO
Full name: Total Cost of Ownership
Memory aid: Total Costs include Operating, not only buying.
Include migration, staffing, licensing, egress, and decommissioning assumptions.
Study area: Cloud & virtualization · Batch 4
Relevant study for: CompTIA Cloud+ · Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 · ISC2 CCSP · Azure Administrator AZ-104 · Azure Solutions Architect AZ-305 · AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02
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TCO — Total Cost of Ownership
Estimates full lifecycle costs of an option.
Why learn TCO — Total Cost of Ownership?
Estimates full lifecycle costs of an option.
Where it came from
Include migration, staffing, licensing, egress, and decommissioning assumptions.
- Memory aid (a learning cue, not the expansion): Total Costs include Operating, not only buying.
Build your understanding
Work through these exercises in order. Try the task before opening a reference.
- Without looking, expand TCO: Total Cost of Ownership.
- Recall this memory aid: Total Costs include Operating, not only buying.
- Explain the practical use: Estimates full lifecycle costs of an option.
- Explain this distinction: Include migration, staffing, licensing, egress, and decommissioning assumptions.
- Identify TCO in a device specification, architecture diagram, or system inventory.
Documentation and sources
- Azure fundamentals documentation (learn.microsoft.com)
- Azure architecture (learn.microsoft.com)