Account Management, Billing and Support (NC)

Question 1

What is the purpose of AWS Resource Access Manager?

Answer 1

Allows you to share AWS resources that you own with other AWS accounts to avoid resource duplication.

Question 2

What are AWS Budgets?

Answer 2

A budgeting service that you can use to create and send alarms when more complicated metrics are exceeded, e.g. usage

Question 3

What AWS Billing alarms?

Answer 3

Simple alarm service that tells you if you exceed a certain billing metric, e.g. more than £10 spent this month

Question 4

What is the difference between billing alarms and budgets?

Answer 4

Billing alarms are more simple - they tell you if you exceed a certain metric, compared to budgets that have similar alarms functionality but take into account other factors such as usage, cost, reservations and savings plans.

Question 5

What is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection?

Answer 5

A service that uses ML to detect unusual spends and sends reports with a root cause analysis when an anomaly is found.

Question 6

What is the purpose of AWS Control Tower?

Answer 6

An easy way to set up a multi-account AWS environment in a few clicks using guardrails that protect you and help enforce best practice.

Question 7

What is an example of how Control Tower helps simplify setting up a multi-account AWS environment?

Answer 7

• Automates ongoing policy management
• Detects policy violations and helps remedy them
• One level higher than organisations so helps automatically set these up and implement service control policies

Question 8

Which from which support plan upwards are the 7 core checks for trusted advisor included?

Answer 8

Basic (the lowest)

Question 9

From which support plan upwards are all the checks for trusted advisor enabled?

Answer 9

Business

Question 10

What is the order of superiority of the AWS support plans?

Answer 10

1. Basic
2. Developer
3. Business
4. Enterprise on-ramp
5. Enterprise 24/7

Question 11

Which support plan is recommended for mission-critical workloads?

Answer 11

Enterprise 24/7

Question 12

From which support plan upwards is 24/7 phone access to cloud support engineers enabled?

Answer 12

Business

Question 13

What is the main tool that can be used to estimate the cost of your designed solution architecture?

Answer 13

AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 14

Which AWS service can be used to reduce costs and improve performance by informing the user of under/over-provisioned workloads?

Answer 14

AWS Compute Optimiser

Question 15

For which services can AWS Compute Optimiser be used?

Answer 15

EC2 Instances
EC2 ASGs
EBS Volumes
Lambda Functions