AWS Pricing Flashcards

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Which of the following are factors should be considered for Amazon EBS pricing? (Choose TWO)
The size of volumes provisioned per month.
The compute capacity you consume.
The amount of data you have stored in snapshots.
The compute time you consume.
The number of Snowball storage devices you request.

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The size of volumes provisioned per month.
The amount of data you have stored in snapshots.

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Which statement best describes the AWS Pay-As-You-Go pricing model?
With AWS, you replace low upfront expenses with large variable payments.
With AWS, you replace low upfront expenses with large fixed payments.
With AWS, you replace large upfront expenses with low fixed payments.
With AWS, you replace large capital expenses with low variable payments.

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With AWS, you replace large capital expenses with low variable payments.

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A company is migrating production workloads to AWS, and they are concerned about cost management across different departments. Which option should the company implement to categorize and track AWS spending?
Use the AWS Pricing Calculator service to monitor the costs incurred by each department.
Use Amazon Aurora to forecast AWS spending based on usage.
Apply cost allocation tags to segment AWS costs by different e projects and departments.
Configure AWS Price List API to receive billing updates for each department automatically.

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Apply cost allocation tags to segment AWS costs by different e projects and departments.

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You have multiple standalone AWS accounts and you want to decrease your AWS monthly charges. What should you do?
Try to remove unnecessary AWS accounts.
Add the accounts to an AWS Organization and use Consolidated Billing.
Track the AWS charges that are incurred by the member accounts.
Enable AWS tiered-pricing before provisioning resources.

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Add the accounts to an AWS Organization and use Consolidated Billing.

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Which statement is true regarding AWS pricing? (Choose TWO)
With the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model, you don’t have to pay any upfront fee.
You have no responsibility for third-party software license costs.
You only pay for the individual services that you need with no long-term contracts.
For some services, you have to pay a startup fee in order to get the service running.
There are no reservations on AWS, you only pay for what you use.

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With the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model, you don’t have to pay any upfront fee.
You only pay for the individual services that you need with no long-term contracts.

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What are the benefits of the AWS Marketplace service? (Choose TWO)
Protects customers by performing periodic security checks on listed products.
Per-second billing.
Provides cheaper options for purchasing Amazon EC2 on-demand instances.
Provides flexible pricing options that suit most customer needs.
Provides software solutions that run on AWS or any other Cloud vendor.

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Protects customers by performing periodic security checks on listed products.
Provides flexible pricing options that suit most customer needs.

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7
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The AWS Cloud’s multiple Regions are an example of:
Agility.
Global infrastructure.
Elasticity.
Pay-as-you-go pricing.

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Global infrastructure.

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Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user demand? (Select TWO)
High availability.
Shared security model.
Elasticity.
Pay-as-you-go pricing.
Reliability.

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Elasticity.
Pay-as-you-go pricing.

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Which of the following Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models provides the highest average savings compared to On-Demand pricing?
One-year, No Upfront, Standard RI pricing.
One-year, All Upfront, Convertible RI pricing.
Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing.
Three-year, No Upfront, Convertible RI pricing.

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Three-year, All Upfront, Standard RI pricing.

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10
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Which of the following BEST describe the AWS pricing model? (Select TWO)
Fixed-term.
Pay-as-you-go.
Colocation.
Planned.
Variable cost.

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Pay-as-you-go.
Variable cost.

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Which Amazon EC2 pricing model offers the MOST significant discount when compared to OnDemand Instances?
A Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term.
All Upfront Reserved instances for a 1 year form.
All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3 year term.
No Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3 year term.

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All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3 year term.

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12
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A user must meet compliance and software licensing requirements that state a workload must be hosted on a physical server. When Amazon EC2 instance pricing option will meet these requirements?
Dedicated Hosts.
Dedicated Instances.
Spot Instances.
Reserved Instances.

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Dedicated Hosts.

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Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value?
Dedicated RIs.
Scheduled RIs.
Convertible RIs.
Standard RIs.

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Convertible RIs.

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Which of the following is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?
Volume pricing qualification.
Shared access permissions.
Multiple bills per account.
Eliminates the need for tagging.

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Volume pricing qualification.

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Which of the following Amazon EC2 pricing models allow customers to use existing server-bound software licenses?
Spot Instances.
Reserved Instances.
Dedicated Hosts.
On-Demand Instances

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Dedicated Hosts.

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16
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Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?
Reserved Instances.
On-Demand.
Dedicated Hosts.
Spot Instances.

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Spot Instances.

17
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One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:
The ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
Paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
Paying only for time used.
Pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.

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Paying only for time used.

18
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A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.

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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.

19
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Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company’s requirement for low latency to all of its customers?
Fault tolerance.
Global reach.
Pay-as-you-go pricing.
High availability

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Global reach.

20
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Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
On-Demand Instances.
Reserved Instances.
Spot Instances.
Convertible Reserved Instances.

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Spot Instances.