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Account Management, Billing & Support Flashcards

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What is AWS Organizations?

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Global service that allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts. Main account is master account.

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What are the benefits of AWS Organizations?

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Consolidated Billing across all accounts
Pricing benefits from aggregated usage
Pooling of Reserved EC2 instances

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How can you restrict account privileges?

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Using Service Control Policies

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What is a multi-account strategy?

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Create accounts per department, per cost center, per dev / test / prod for better resource isolation, separate per-account service limits, isolated account for logging

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What are organizational units (OU)?

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Group accounts together to administer as a single unit.

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What is service control policies (SCP)?

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Allows you to whitelist or blacklist IAM actions. Applied at OU or Account Level. SCP must have explicit allow but by default doesn’t let anything in. Used to restrict access to explicitly disable services

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What is AWS Control Tower?

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Easy way to set up and govern a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment based on best practices. Runs on top of AWS Organizations

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What are the four pricing models in AWS?

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  1. Pay as you go
  2. save when you reserve
  3. Pay less by using more (volume based discounts)
  4. Pay less as AWS grows
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How are EC2 compute pricing?

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  1. Only charged for what you use
  2. Number of instances
  3. Instance configuration
  4. ELB running time and amount of data processed
  5. Detailed monitoring
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What is pricing for EC2 Instance types?

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  1. On-Demand: Minimum 60s, pay per second
  2. Reserved: Up to 75% off, hourly rate, 1 or 3 year commitment, all upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
  3. Spot: Up to 90%, hourly rate, bid for unused capacity
  4. Dedicated Host: On-demand or reservation for 1 or 3 years
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What is pricing for lambda?

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Pay per call and pay per duration

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What is pricing for ECS?

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EC2 Launch Type Model, only pay for AWS resources stored and created in your application

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What is pricing for Fargate?

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Fargate Launch Type Model, pay for vCPU and memory resources allocated to your applications in your containers

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What is pricing for S3?

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  1. Storage class
  2. Number and size of objects
  3. Number and type of requests
  4. Data transfer OUT of the S3 region
  5. S3 Transfer Acceleration
  6. Lifecycle transitions
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What is pricing for EFS?

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Pay per use, has infrequent access and lifecycle rules

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What is pricing for EBS?

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  1. Volume type (based on performance)
  2. Storage volume in GB per month provisioned
  3. IOPS
  4. Snapshots
  5. Data transfer
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What is pricing for RDS?

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  1. Per hour billing
  2. Database characteristics
  3. Purchase type
  4. Backup Storage
    5 Additional storage (per GB per month)
  5. Number of input and output requests per month
  6. Deployment type (single vs multiple az)
  7. Data transfer
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What is pricing for CloudFront?

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  1. Pricing is different across geographic regions
  2. Aggregated for each edge location then applied to bill
  3. Data transfer Out (volume discount)
  4. Number of HTTP/HTTPS requests
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Network costs?

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Most important thing is that using private IP is less expensive than using public IP / Elastic IP. Cross AZ communication more expensive than networking costs inside a single AZ and even more expensive to talk to other region

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What is Savings Plan?

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Commit to certain $ amount per hour for 1 or 3 years. Easiest to setup.
EC2 Savings Plan: up to 72% off compared to on demand, must commit to individual instance families in a region
Compute Savings Plan: Up to 66% discount, regardless of family, region, size, os, tenacity, compute options

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21
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer?

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Helps you choose optimal configurations and right-size for your workloads (over/under provisioned). Allows you to lower cost by up to 25%

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What is AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators? (Depreciated)

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Allow you to estimate the cost savings when using AWS and provide a detailed set of reports that can be used in executive presentations

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What is Pricing Calculator?

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Estimate the cost of your architecture solution

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Is simple monthly calculator being depricated?

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Yes

25
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What is AWS Billing Dashborad?

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View all cost for month and forecast

26
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What is AWS Free Tier Dashboard?

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Show usage for each free tier for the month

27
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What are Cost Allocation Tags?

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Track your AWS costs on a detailed level (AWS generated tags or User-defined tags)

28
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What is cost and usage reports?

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The most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available

29
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What is cost explorer? (exam question)

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Visualize, understand, manage your AWS cost and usage over time. Can forecast your bill up to 12 months based on previous usage

30
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What are 3 types of budgets?

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Usage, Cost, Reservation

31
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How any free budgets?

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2 budgets are free then rest are .02 dollars a day per budget

32
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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

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Analyze AWS accounts and provides recommendation.

Core checks and recommendations for all customers

Full trusted advisor- for business and enterprise support plans

33
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What are the 5 categories for trusted advisor?

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  1. Cost optimization
  2. Performance
  3. Security
  4. Fault Tolerance
  5. Service Limits
34
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What are the 4 support plans?

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  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
35
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What do you get with Basic support plan?

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  1. Customer Service & Communities
  2. AWS Trusted Advisor 7 core checks
  3. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
36
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What are the 7 core checks for Trusted Advisor?

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  1. S3 Bucket Permissions
  2. Security groups
  3. IAM Use
  4. MFA on root account
  5. EBS public snapshots
  6. RDS public snapshots
  7. Service Limits
37
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What do you get with the developer support plan?

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Everything in basic plan plus:

1. Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates (unlimited cases / 1 primary contact)

38
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What do you get with the business support plan?

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Intended for production workloads.
All checks on trusted advisor + API access
24/7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers
Access to Infrastructure Event Management For additional fee

39
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What do you get with the enterprise support plan?

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Intended for mission critical workloads
All of business support plan plus:
Access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Much faster response time compared to business plan

40
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Which services are free to use in AWS?

  1. IAM, VPC, Consolidated Billing, and Elastic Beanstalk
  2. Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling Groups, and Lambda
  3. SNS, SQS, IAM, VPC
  4. All services have a free tier included
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IAM, VPC, Consolidated Billing, and Elastic Beanstalk

41
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Which tool allows you to centrally manage all users and roles permissions in your organization?

  1. Technical Account Manager (TAM)
  2. Service Control Policies
  3. IAM
  4. Config
A

Service Control Policies

42
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CloudFront pricing is the same in every geographic region?

  1. True
  2. False
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False

43
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When you reserve, the larger the upfront payment, the smaller the discount?

  1. True
  2. False
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False

44
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Which of the following is NOT a pricing factor in S3?

  1. Storage Class
  2. Data transfer into S3
  3. Objects size
  4. Type of requests
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Data transfer into S3

45
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You would like to automatically set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment with best practices for your organization. Which AWS tool can you use?

  1. Control Tower
  2. Organizations
  3. Trusted Advisor
  4. Security Hub
A

Control Tower

46
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A company would like recommendations regarding their performance, security, and fault tolerance. What can it use?

  1. Inspector
  2. Config
  3. Trusted Advisor
  4. Technical Account Manger
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Trusted Advisor

47
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Which of the following is INCORRECT regarding AWS Organizations?

  1. Manage multiple AWS accounts
  2. Consolidated billing across all accounts
  3. Volume discounts from aggregated usage
  4. Faster access to the AWS Support
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Faster access to AWS Support

48
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EBS Snapshots are added cost in GB per month?

  1. True
  2. False
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True

49
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What is the most cost-effective option to have 24x7 phone, email, and chat support?

  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
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Business

50
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Which of the following options can provide up to 66% discount compared to On-demand for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for 1 or 3 years and offers the possibility to change EC2 instances family type?

  1. Spot Instances
  2. Reserved Instances
  3. Compute Savings Plan
  4. EC2 Instance Savings Plan
A

Compute Savings Plan

51
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You are running an on-demand Linux EC2 instance, what timing is applied regarding billing?

  1. Pay per minute
  2. Pay per hour
  3. Pay per day
  4. Pay per second
A

Pay per second (with 60s minimum)

52
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Which pricing model allows you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets and comply with long-term requirements, and is available for EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, and Redshift?

  1. Pay as you go
  2. Pay less as AWS grows
  3. Pay less by using more
  4. Save when you reserve
A

Save when you reserve

53
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What can you use to estimate the cost of your architecture solution?

  1. Simple Monthly Calculator / Pricing Calculator
  2. Cost and Usage Reports
  3. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  4. Trusted Advisor
A

Simple Monthly Calculator / Pricing Calculator

54
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The Enterprise Support Plan comes with a business-critical system down response under 15 minutes and offers access to a Technical Account Manager, as well as a Concierge Support Team.

  1. True
  2. False
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True

55
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A company is not sure whether or not it is cost-effective to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which service can help the executive board make a decision?

  1. Simple Monthly Calculator
  2. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  3. Billing Dashborad
  4. Cost Explorer
A

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

56
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Which RDS pricing option is most cost-effective if you need capacity for 3 years?

  1. On-Demand
  2. Spot Instances
  3. Dedicated Instances
  4. Reserved Instances
A

Reserved Instances

57
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What do Resource Groups rely on to group your resources?

  1. Labels
  2. Categories
  3. Tags
  4. Stickers
A

Tags

58
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A company would like to choose the best Savings Plan and forecast its cost in the next 3 months. Which AWS & service can help?

  1. Cost and Usage Reports
  2. Budgets
  3. Cost Explorer
  4. Forecast
A

Cost Explorer

59
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What can you use to get alerts when your costs and usage are exceeding or are forecasted to exceed your budgeting amount?

  1. CloudWatch Billing Alarms
  2. Budgets
  3. Cost and Usage Reports
  4. Billing Dashboard
A

Budgets

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