Billing and Pricing

Question 1

AWS Cost Explorer

Answer 1

Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

Question 2

Professional Services

Answer 2

Professional Services helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model. For getting your cloud up and running

Question 3

Managed Services

Answer 3

Managed Services helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure and reduces operational risks and overhead. — Already have moved to the cloud

Question 4

You are managing the company’s AWS account. The current support plan is Basic, but you would like to begin using Infrastructure Event Management. What support plan (that already includes Infrastructure Event Management without an additional fee) should you upgrade to?

Answer 4

Upgrade to Enterprise plan.

AWS Infrastructure Event Management is a structured program available to Enterprise Support customers (and Business Support customers for an additional fee) that helps you plan for large-scale events, such as product or application launches, infrastructure migrations, and marketing events.

Question 5

AWS Infrastructure Event Management

Answer 5

Infrastructure Event Management offers architecture guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events, such as shopping holidays, product launches, and migrations.

Question 6

Trusted Advisor

Answer 6

Trusted Advisor has a service limit dashboard that helps you monitor service limits.

Question 7

CloudWatch

Answer 7

CloudWatch Alarms can be used to determine the percentage of utilization versus the limit.

Question 8

Control Tower

Answer 8

Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies. Control Tower actually sits on top of Organizations.

Question 9

Organizations

Answer 9

Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under 1 umbrella. You can allocate resources and apply policies across accounts.

Question 10

AWS Pricing Calculator.

Answer 10

The Pricing Calculator provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges. Since the company knows the workload details, the AWS Pricing Calculator can also help with calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) — Use before you buy services — can estimate what your bill will be

Question 11

How can a customer on the Developer Support plan open a system impaired support case?

Answer 11

Customers on the Developer Support plan can submit support cases for account and billing questions, service limit increases, and technical support cases via email on

Question 12

You have upgraded your AWS Support plan to the Business Support level. What is true of the Business Support plan?

Answer 12

< 1 hour response time support when your production system goes down.

The Business level support plan provides 1 hour or less response time support for production-level failures.

Question 13

You have upgraded your AWS Support plan to the Enterprise Support level. What is true of the Enterprise plan?

Answer 13

< 15 minutes response time support if your business-critical system goes down.

This level of support is only available in the Enterprise Support plan.

Question 14

A customer wants access to the full set of Trusted Advisor checks. What’s the minimum support plan they need to have access to?

Answer 14

Business Support

Business Support is the minimum plan that provides access to the full set of Trusted Advisor checks.

Question 15

You need to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. Which tool will allow you to do this

Answer 15

Cost Allocation Tags

A tag is a label that you or AWS assign to an AWS resource. Each tag consists of a key and a value. Tagged resources can appear on the Cost Explorer or on a cost allocation report.

Question 16

You have decided to use the AWS Cost and Usage Report to track your EC2 Reserved Instance costs. Which AWS service can be used to store AWS Cost and Usage report files?

Answer 16

An S3 bucket you own

You can use Cost and Usage Reports to publish your AWS billing reports to an S3 bucket you own. AWS updates the report in your bucket once a day in comma-separated value (CSV) format. You can view the reports using spreadsheet software or access them from an application using the Amazon S3 API

Question 17

When would you use the EC2 On-Demand pricing model?

Answer 17

No upfront payment & Unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted

You would use the EC2 On-Demand model when you need compute capability that does not require any up front payments or long term commitments, and where you have applications with short-term or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted.

Question 18

You want to monitor the cost of using your AWS services and receive alerts when the thresholds you define are met. Which of the following AWS Budgets types should you create?

Answer 18

Cost budget

You need to create a cost budget with AWS Budgets if you want to monitor the cost of using your AWS services.

Question 19

Which of the following support plans features access to AWS Support via email only during business hours?

Answer 19

The Developer Support plan features access to AWS Support during business hours via email.

The Basic Support plan does not include any email support options.

Question 20

You need to visualize, understand, and identify trends for future charges, as well as manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Which AWS tool would you use?

Answer 20

Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

Question 21

AWS Cost and Usage Report

Answer 21

The Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data