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2 - Understanding Your AWS Account Flashcards

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What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

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A cloud computing platform offering hundreds of distinct services.

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What are the two key account-level concerns in AWS?

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  • Cost of services
  • Authority over account resources
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What is the AWS Free Tier?

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A program allowing new users to experiment with AWS services for free for the first 12 months.

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How many hours of EC2 usage are allowed under the Free Tier?

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Up to 750 hours per month.

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What is the maximum storage allowed in S3 under the Free Tier?

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5 GB of data.

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What happens if you exceed Free Tier limits?

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You will be billed for the excess usage at normal AWS rates.

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How can you track your Free Tier usage?

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Through email alerts and the Billing Dashboard.

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What are two types of free services provided by AWS?

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  • Light implementations for the first 12 months
  • Always free light usage of certain services
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What is Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) available for under the Free Tier?

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30 GB of either magnetic or solid-state drive volumes.

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How much outbound data transfer is allowed under the Free Tier for CloudFront?

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1 TB of outbound data transfers.

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What is the cost structure for AWS services based on?

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Usage metrics such as storage, requests, and data transfers.

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What is the URL format for accessing AWS service pricing?

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[Service URL]/pricing

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What is the benefit of using the AWS Pricing Calculator?

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To visualize and estimate costs of AWS services based on configurations.

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What is the maximum number of custom monitoring metrics allowed for free on CloudWatch?

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10 custom monitoring metrics.

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Fill in the blank: AWS Free Tier benefits do not apply to resources launched in the _______ region.

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GovCloud (US)

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True or False: You need to actively launch services for billable events to occur in AWS.

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True

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What is one million requests per month on Amazon API Gateway used for?

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Managing application programming interfaces (APIs).

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What is the cost of Free Tier–eligible t2.micro instances running over 750 hours?

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No cost if under 750 hours; excess costs $0.0116/hour.

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What is the URL for the AWS Pricing Calculator?

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https://calculator.aws

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What is included in the costs of EC2 instances?

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  • Instance type
  • Operating system licensing costs
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What is the AWS service for sending large volumes of emails?

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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).

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What is the maximum number of API calls per month under the Free Tier?

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One million API calls.

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What is the first step to build a Deployment Cost Estimate using the AWS Pricing Calculator?

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Open the calculator page at https://calculator.aws and click Create Estimate

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Which service should you configure after typing ‘s3’ in the Find Service field?

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Amazon Simple Storage (S3)

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What should you enter for the amount of S3 Standard storage in the AWS Pricing Calculator?
300 GB
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How many PUT COPY POST LIST Requests should be entered for the S3 configuration?
1,000
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What is the purpose of the AWS Pricing Calculator?
To anticipate real-world usage costs for AWS deployments
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What is the maximum number of reserved instances you can launch within EC2 each month?
20 reserved instances
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True or False: Most service limits in AWS are hard and cannot be increased.
False
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What does the AWS Billing Dashboard provide?
Visual spend summary, payment methods, and previous transaction records
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What are the three types of AWS budgets you can create?
* Cost budgets * Usage budgets * Reservation instance utilization or coverage budgets
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What happens when you create a budget that triggers an alert?
An alert, such as an email, is sent when a preset threshold is approached or passed
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What is the default view of Cost Explorer?
Shows spending over the most recent few months broken down by service
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What is the primary function of Cost and Usage Reports?
To provide a detailed report of account activity, including resource usage and costs
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Fill in the blank: Tags are metadata identification elements representing a resource and its _______.
actions
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What types of tags does AWS offer?
* Resource Tags * Cost Allocation Tags
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What is the main purpose of Cost Allocation Tags?
To interact with billing tools and track account spending
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What is AWS Organizations used for?
To centralize the administration of multiple AWS accounts owned by a single company
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What does the Free Tier offer new AWS accounts?
A full year of free access to light configurations of most AWS services
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Where can you find pricing information for AWS services?
By adding /pricing to the URL of an AWS service
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What should you monitor to avoid costly cloud overspends?
AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and Cost and Usage Reports
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True or False: You can manually request limit increases for all service limits in AWS.
False
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What is the role of AWS Budgets?
To track spending and send alerts when limits are approached
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Which AWS service can help visualize historical and current costs?
Cost Explorer
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How can you access the AWS Billing Dashboard?
Through the Account drop-down menu at the top of the AWS Management Console
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What do you need to set when creating a budget?
* Terms of your budget * How and when alerts are sent
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What is the format of reports generated by Cost and Usage Reports?
CSV format
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What is the significance of AWS- generated cost allocation tags?
They are automatically generated when resources are created
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What should you do to protect your account against unauthorized resource launches?
Create a Cost Budget that alerts you when expenses threaten to exceed your limit
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What is a key feature of the AWS Billing & Cost Management Dashboard?
It includes a visual spend summary and links to manage payment methods
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What is the volume of data saved to an S3 bucket?
The volume of data saved to an S3 bucket
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What is the volume of data egress from an Amazon S3 Glacier vault?
The volume of data egress from an Amazon S3 Glacier vault
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Which AWS documentation URL points to the page containing an up-to-date list of service limits?
A. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/limits.html * B. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html * C. https://aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html * D. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html
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What is one possible reason for AWS service limits?
A. To prevent individual customers from accidentally launching a crippling level of resource consumption * B. To more equally distribute available resources between customers from different regions * C. To allow customers to more gradually increase their deployments * D. Because there are logical limits to the ability of AWS resources to scale up
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Is it always possible to request service limit increases from AWS?
A. Yes. All service limits can be increased. * B. No. A limit can never be increased. * C. Service limits are defaults. They can be increased or decreased on demand. * D. No. Some service limits are hard.
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What is the best place to get a quick summary of this month’s spend for your account?
D. Billing & Cost Management Dashboard * A. Budgets * B. Cost Explorer * C. Cost and Usage reports
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What is the main goal for creating a Usage budget type in AWS Budgets?
A. To correlate usage per unit cost to understand your account cost efficiency * B. To track the status of any active reserved instances on your account * C. To track particular categories of resource consumption * D. To monitor costs being incurred against your account
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Which of the following is not a setting you can configure in a Cost budget?
B. Instance type * A. Period (monthly, quarterly, etc.) * C. Start and stop dates * D. Owner (username of resource owner)
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What is the main difference between the goals of Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage reports?
A. Cost Explorer displays visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs, whereas Cost and Usage reports generate granular usage reports in CSV format. * B. Cost and Usage reports display visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs, whereas Cost Explorer generates granular usage reports in CSV format. * C. Cost Explorer lets you set alerts that are triggered by billing events, whereas Cost and Usage reports help you visualize system events. * D. Cost and Usage reports are meant to alert you to malicious intrusions, whereas Cost Explorer displays visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs.
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What is the purpose of cost allocation tags?
B. To help you identify the purpose and owner of a particular running resource to better understand and control deployments * A. To associate spend limits to automatically trigger resource shutdowns when necessary * C. To help you identify resources for the purpose of tracking your account spending * D. To visually associate account events with billing periods
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Which of the following scenarios would be a good use case for AWS Organizations? (Choose two.)
A. A single company with multiple AWS accounts that wants a single place to administer everything * B. An organization that provides AWS access to large teams of its developers and admins * C. A company that’s integrated some operations with an upstream vendor * D. A company with two distinct operational units, each with its own accounting system and AWS account
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Which tool lets you design graphs within the browser interface to track your account spending?
B. Cost Explorer * A. Budgets * C. Reports * D. Consolidating Billing

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