Account Management, Billing & Support

Question 1

What AWS service let’s you manage multiple AWS Accounts with one master account and other child accounts with consolidated billing and aggregated usage pricing benefits, and pooling of reserved instances.

Answer 1

AWS Organizations

Question 2

True or False: AWS Organizations has an API available to automate account creation and management?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What kind of policy can you use to manage permissions in your organization using IAM actions applied to all Users, Roles and Groups, including Root?

Answer 3

SCP (Service Control Policies)

Question 4

What is Consolidated Billing?

Answer 4

In an AWS Organization, usage can be combined across all accounts to share volume pricing, and discounts in a singular bill.

Question 5

What service allows for the setup and govern a secure compliant multi-account AWS Environment based on best practices?

Answer 5

AWS Control Tower

Question 6

What are some examples of free services in AWS?

Answer 6

IAM
VPC
Consolidated Billing
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Auto Scaling Groups
Free Tier

Question 7

How is Compute Pricing Handled for EC2?

Answer 7

Number of instances
Instance Configuration
ELB Running time and data processed
Detailed Monitoring

Question 8

What is the pricing model for on-demand instances?

Answer 8

Pay per second for Windows and Linux and per hour for other OS’s

Question 9

What is the pricing model for Reserved EC2 Instances?

Answer 9

Up to 75% discount
1 or 3 year commitment
All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront

Question 10

What is the pricing model for Spot Instances?

Answer 10

Up to 90% discount
Bid for unused capacity

Question 11

What is the pricing model for Dedicated Host EC2 instances?

Answer 11

On-demand
Reservation for 1 to 3 year commitment

Question 12

What is a flexible pricing model that can help you reduce your bill by up to 72% compared to On-Demand prices, in exchange for a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment?

Answer 12

Savings Plan

Question 13

What are the three AWS Savings Plans?

Answer 13

EC2 Savings Plan – Up to 72% discount, commit to usage of instance families and region

Compute Savings Plan – Up to 66% discount regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy, and compute service

Machine Learnings Savings Plan – SageMaker

Question 14

What service does an analysis using ML for optimal configurations to reduce costs and improve performance of four types of AWS resources—Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services on AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda functions—based on your utilization data?

Answer 14

AWS Compute Optimizer

Question 15

What service is used to estimate the cost for your solutions architecture?

Answer 15

AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 16

What feature shows all the costs associated with the account, forecasts and month-to-date?

Answer 16

AWS Billing Dashboard

Question 17

Where can you view the Free Tier service usage on your AWS Account?

Answer 17

AWS Billing Dashboard - Free Tier Dashboard

Question 18

What feature allows the user to track AWS costs on a detailed level by the associated tags using the Tag Editor or at resource creation?

Answer 18

Cost Allocation Tags

Question 19

What is the most comprehensive way to view AWS cost and usage data, including metadata about services, pricings and reservations by account and IAM?

Answer 19

Cost & Usage Report

Question 20

What service allows you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS Costs and usage over time, at a high level, and forecast up to 12 months based on previous usage?

Answer 20

Cost Explorer

Question 21

What feature allows you to create a budget and send alarms when costs or forecasted costs exceed budgets?

Answer 21

AWS Budgets

Question 22

What are the 3 types of Budgets?

Answer 22

Usage
Cost
Reservation

Question 23

What service provides high level assessments and recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices, and evaluates your account by using checks?

Answer 23

AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 24

What are the five AWS Support Plans?

Answer 24

Basic – free
Developer – Spend over $29.00
Business – Spend over $100.00
Enterprise On-Ramp – Spend over $5,500
Enterprise – Spend over $15,000

Question 25

What is the AWS Basic Support Plan?

Answer 25

24/7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers and support forums
AWS Trusted Advisor – 7 Core Checks
AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Question 26

What is the AWS Developer Support Plan?

Answer 26

Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associate
General guidance response: less than 24 business Hours
System impaired response: less than 12 business hours

Question 27

What is the AWS Business Support Plan?

Answer 27

24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineer
Production system impaired response: less than 4 hours
Production system down response: less than 1 hour

Question 28

What is the AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?

Answer 28

Access to pool of Technical Account Managers
Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Concierge Support Team
Business-critical system down response: less than 30 minutes

Question 29

What is the AWS Enterprise Support Plan?

Answer 29

Dedicated Technical Account Manager
Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Access to a Technical Account Manager
Concierge Support Team
Business-critical system down response: less than 15 minutes