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1
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A customer is on the Enterprise Support plan, and they’ve reported a business-critical system down support case. What is the guaranteed response time from AWS Support?

a. Less than 15 minutes

b. Less than 1 hour

c. Less than 24 hours

d. Less than 5 minutes

A

Less than 15 minutes

The response time for a business-critical system down case is less than 15 minutes.

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How can a customer with the Enterprise Support plan get help with billing and account questions?
Choose2

a. Use the AWS Support API to programmatically open a case with AWS Support.

b. AWS Community Forums

c. AWS Online Tech Talks

d. Technical Account Manager (TAM)

e. Contact the Support Concierge team.

A

a. Use the AWS Support API to programmatically open a case with AWS Support.

Customers on the Enterprise Support plan have access to the AWS Support API to create, manage, and close support cases.

e. Contact the Support Concierge team.
Contact the Support Concierge team.

The Concierge agent is the primary point of contact for billing or account inquiries.

IS NOT e–
Technical Account Manager (TAM)

While customers on the Enterprise Support plan have access to TAMs, TAMs typically provide proactive best-practice guidance and assistance with architecting, developing, and running AWS solutions.

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A company is migrating its workloads to AWS. Which tool will help the company estimate their potential cloud bill and calculate their overall total cost of ownership (TCO) based on their current workloads?

choose 1

a. The company can research the published prices of the AWS services and manually calculate the estimate.

b. The company can open an account and billing support case with AWS Support to get help with estimating the TCO.

c. The company can use the Cost Explorer to visualize its estimated TCO.

d. The company can use the AWS Pricing Calculator.

A

d. The company can use the AWS Pricing Calculator.

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.

IS NOT C—
The company can use the Cost Explorer to visualize its estimated TCO.

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

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A company would like someone to help them coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts when they need help. Which support plan do they need to have?

  • Business
    -Basic Support
  • Developer Support
  • Enterprise
A

Enterprise

Enterprise Support provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) who helps coordinate access to subject matter experts among other things.

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A company wants to ensure all AWS accounts in their environment conform to company-wide policies. Which services can help?
Choose2 2

  • Control Tower
    -Systems Manager
    -Trusted Advisor
    -Organizations
A
  1. Control Tower

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

  1. Organizations

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

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

Developer Support

Basic Support

Business Support

Enterprise Support

A

Business Support

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

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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?

choose 1

a. Upgrade to Developer plan.
b. Upgrade to the Business plan. No other steps are necessary.
c. Do nothing. It is included in the Basic plan.
d.Upgrade to Enterprise plan.

A

d. 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.

IS NOT
Upgrade to the Business plan. No other steps are necessary.

In addition to having the Business plan, there is an additional fee for Infrastructure Event Management.

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Your company is considering migrating its data center to the cloud. Which of the following is an advantage of the AWS Cloud over an on-premises data center?

a. Maintain physical access to the new data center but share responsibility with AWS.
b. Replace low variable costs with upfront capital expenses.
c. Replace upfront operational expenses with low variable operational expenses.
d. Replace upfront capital expenses with low variable costs.

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d. Replace upfront capital expenses with low variable costs.

All the hardware purchased upfront for a data center will be replaced by resources that are variable in nature with low upfront costs.

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A company has made the decision to migrate its internal on-premises data center to the cloud. Who can help the company plan and conduct the migration?

choose 2

a. AWS Support
b. AWS Infrastructure Event Management
c. Consulting partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN)
d. Marketplace

A

AWS Infrastructure Event Management

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.

Consulting partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN)

Consulting partners offer professional services.

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A company has multiple AWS accounts across many departments. They are considering using Organizations to group all their accounts under 1 master payer account. What are the benefits of using Organizations?

choose 3
a. The IAM integration allows for IAM users to be deleted automatically when an account is closed.

b. They can easily add new accounts or create new accounts.

c. They can reduce costs by sharing resources across accounts.

d. They can receive 1 bill for all their AWS accounts.

e. They can automatically be alerted when new accounts are set up.

A

b. They can easily add new accounts or create new accounts.

Account governance is a benefit of AWS Organizations. You have a quick and automated way to create accounts or invite existing accounts.

c. They can reduce costs by sharing resources across accounts.

Cost savings is a benefit of AWS Organizations. You’ll receive volume discounts since usage is combined across accounts.

d. They can receive 1 bill for all their AWS accounts.

Consolidated billing is a benefit of AWS Organizations. The advantage of consolidated billing is that you receive 1 bill for multiple accounts.

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An independent developer needs help with monitoring service limits to ensure they don’t exceed free-tier usage on their account. Which services will help them monitor service limits?

choose 2

a. Config
b. Inspector
c. CloudWatch
d. GuardDuty
e. Trusted Advisor

A

c. CloudWatch

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

e. Trusted Advisor

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

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A company would like to reduce operational overhead when operating AWS infrastructure. Which service can help them do this?

choose 1

a. Managed Services
b. Consulting partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN)
c. Technology partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN)
d. Professional Services

A

a. Managed Services

Managed Services helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure and reduces operational risks and overhead.

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A small software company is starting to work with the AWS Cloud. Which service will allow them to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS?

choose 1

a. ElastiCache
b. Service Catalog
c. Organizations
d. AWS Marketplace

A

d. AWS Marketplace

Marketplace is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license. You may also use it to sell solutions to others.

IS NOT—–
Service Catalog
Although it allows centralized management of your services and apps, it is not designed to allow the purchase of these apps.

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Which of the following EC2 instance types will realize a savings over time in exchange for a contracted term-of-service?

choose 1

a. Discount Instances

b. Reserved Instances

c. On-Demand Instances

d. Spot Instances

A

b. Reserved Instances

EC2 Reserved Instances offer significant discounts for a contracted term-of-service, up to 75% off.

IS NOT —–
On-Demand Instances

On-Demand Instances are charged equally per-hour, regardless of how long they’re run for.

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Which of the following support services do all accounts receive as part of the AWS Support Basic tier?

a. Architectural support
b. 24/7 support via phone and chat

c. Technical Account Manager
d. Billing support

A

d. Billing support

The AWS Support Basic tier is the free support given to all AWS accounts. All accounts receive billing support, because every customer needs an avenue to lodge disputes or make requests around their billing.

IS NOT
b. 24/7 support via phone and chat

This is an element of a paid plan.

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A system administrator works for a company and manages several AWS accounts. He would like to use a Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) across different AWS accounts. How can this be set up?

choose 1

a. By using combined billing within AWS Budgets
b. By using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations
c. By using AWS Cost Explorer
d. By using a service control policy (SCP) under Control Tower

A

b. By using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations

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

IS NOT —–
By using a service control policy (SCP) under Control Tower

SCPs use the_AWS Identity and Access Management_(IAM) policy language; however, they do not grant permissions, only restrict them.

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A company is launching a new product and needs help with assessing its operational readiness and identifying and mitigating risks. Which feature of the Enterprise Support plan provides this?

choose 1

a. Managed Services

b. Infrastructure Event Management

c. Technology partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN)

d. Professional Services

A

b. Infrastructure Event Management

Infrastructure Event Management provides support for planning and running business-critical events.

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A system administrator works for a company and manages several AWS accounts. He would like to use a Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) across different AWS accounts. How can this be set up?

choose 1

a. By using a service control policy (SCP) under Control Tower

b. By using AWS Cost Explorer

c. By using combined billing within AWS Budgets

d. By using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations

A

d. By using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations

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

IS NOT _____A
By using a service control policy (SCP) under Control Tower

SCPs use the_AWS Identity and Access Management_(IAM) policy language; however, they do not grant permissions, only restrict them.

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Which of the following EC2 instance types will realize a savings over time in exchange for a contracted term-of-service?

choose 1

a. Spot Instances

b. On-Demand Instances

c. Reserved Instances

d. Discount Instances

A

c. Reserved Instances

EC2 Reserved Instances offer significant discounts for a contracted term-of-service, up to 75% off.

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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?

choose 1

a. An AWS-owned S3 bucket

b. An S3 bucket you own

c. CloudWatch

d. Trusted Advisor

A

b. 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.

IS NOT—A
An AWS-owned S3 bucket

You cannot store the Cost and Usage Report in a bucket owned by AWS.

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Which S3 storage class is the best value for long-term archive?

choose 1

a. Glacier

b. S3 Standard Infrequent-Access

c. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

d. S3 Standard

A

Glacier

Glacier is a low-cost storage option for data archiving. It can take several hours to retrieve the data, but if this is acceptable, it is the best value for long-term storage of data.

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What is the most cost-effective AWS Support Plan if you want the full set of Trusted Advisor checks?

choose 1

a. Enterprise

b. Developer

c. Basic

d. Business

A

d. Business

The Business plan is the cheapest plan that will still provide the full set of Trusted Advisor checks

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You are an AWS Enterprise customer with questions about billing and your overall AWS account. Which of the following AWS Support personnel should you contact?

choose 1

a. AWS Technical Account Manager

b. AWS Support

c. AWS Concierge

d. AWS Billing and Accounts

A

c. AWS Concierge

For AWS Enterprise customers, the AWS Concierge is a resource dedicated to answering billing and account questions.

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You need an AWS Support plan for your production workloads, but want to keep costs to a minimum. Which of the following plans should you choose?

choose 1

a. Developer

b. Business

c. Enterprise

d. Basic

A

b. Business

The Business Support plan is specifically designed for production workloads in AWS.

25
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Which of the following statements are true regarding AWS Reserved Instances?

choose 3

a. Reserved Instances usually have contract terms of one or three years. The longer the term, the higher the savings.

b. Reserved Instances act as a discount on new or existing On-Demand Instances.

c. Convertible Reserved Instances can be exchanged for another Convertible Reserved Instance with different length contract terms.

d. Reserved Instances are available in all up-front, partial up-front, or no upfront payments.

A

A, B, D

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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?

choose 1

a. Cost budget

b. Usage budget

c. Reservation budget

d. Savings Plans budget

A

a. Cost budget

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

IS NOT B —-
Usage budget

This type of budget is not the best choice.

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

choose 2

a. No upfront payments required

b. Discounted cost model compared to Reserved Instances

c. Guaranteed cost

d. Unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted

A

a. No upfront payments required

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.

d. 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.

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Which of the following support plans features a < 4-hour response time in the event of an impaired production system?

choose 1

a. Business

b. Basic

c. Developer

d. Individual

A

a. Business

Both the Business and Enterprise support levels offer a < 4-hour response time in the event of an impaired production system.

29
Q

A healthcare company has nightly batch jobs that can afford to be interrupted. Which EC2 pricing model can meet this need and provide great savings by using a supply-and-demand model?

choose 1
a. Scheduled Reserved Instances

b. Standard Reserved Instances

c. On-Demand

d. Spot Instances

A

d. Spot Instances

EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

30
Q

Which of the following AWS services can be used to create billing alarms?

choose 1

a. Athena

b. Cost Explorer

c. CloudWatch

d. Macie

A

c. CloudWatch

The CloudWatch service is used to create billing alarms.

IS NOT B—-
Cost Explorer

The Cost Explorer service is used to create custom reports that facilitate the understanding of the organization’s costs and data usage.

31
Q

Which of the following statements are true of the AWS Free Tier?

choose 2

a. Amazon S3 storage of up to 5 GB is always free.

b. You will never be charged for use of EC2 Micro instances.

c. Some AWS services come with short-term free trial offers.

d. Some AWS services are free for the first 12 months following the initial sign-up date to AWS.

A

c. Some AWS services come with short-term free trial offers.

The AWS Free Tier offers some services for free for the first 12 months after signing up for an AWS account. It also offers free trials of select AWS services for a short period. So, usage is governed by these principles.

d. Some AWS services are free for the first 12 months following the initial sign-up date to AWS.

The AWS Free Tier offers some services for free for the first 12 months after signing up for an AWS account. It also offers free trials of select AWS services for a short period. So, usage is governed by these principles.

32
Q

Which of the following AWS Support levels offers the assistance of a Technical Account Manager?

choose 1

a. Premium

b. Business

c. Enterprise

d. Developer

A

c. Enterprise

Only Enterprise (the highest level of AWS Support plans) offers the services of a Technical Account Manager.

33
Q

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

choose 1

a. Developer

b. Basic

c. Business

d. Enterprise

A

a. Developer

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

IS NOT C—-
Business

The Business Support plan provides 24x7 email support, not just during business hours.

34
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Your company has entered into a 3-year contract with a government agency. Your best option for EC2 is Reserved Instances. Which AWS feature would you use to track your Reserved Instance usage?

choose 1

a. Trusted Advisor

b. AWS Cost and Usage Report

c. AWS Organizations

d. AWS CloudTrail

A

b. AWS Cost and Usage Report

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

35
Q

You are leading a pilot program to try the AWS Cloud for 1 of your applications. You have been instructed to provide an estimate of your AWS bill. Which service will allow you to do this by manually entering your planned resources by service?

choose 1

a. AWS CloudTrail

b. AWS Pricing Calculator

c. AWS Cost Explorer

d. AWS Cost and Usage Report

A

b. AWS Pricing Calculator

With the AWS Pricing Calculator, you can input the services you will use, as well as the configuration of those services, and get an estimate of the costs these services will accrue. The AWS Pricing Calculator can also help with calculating the total cost of ownership.

IS NOT C—
AWS Cost Explorer

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

36
Q

Your Development team uses 4 On-Demand EC2 instances. Your QA team has 5 Reserved Instances, only 3 of which are being used. Assuming all AWS accounts are under a single AWS Organization, how will the Development team’s instances be billed?

choose 1

a. The Dev team will be billed for 2 instances at On-Demand prices and 2 instances at the Reserved Instance price.

b. All the Dev team’s instances will be billed at the On-Demand rate.

c. All the Dev team’s instances will be billed at the Reserved Instance rate.

d. The pricing for the Reserved Instances will shift from QA to Dev.

A

a. The Dev team will be billed for 2 instances at On-Demand prices and 2 instances at the Reserved Instance price.

Since the QA team has 5 Reserved Instances and only 3 are being used, that means 2 of the Reserved Instances are free. Since both teams belong to the same AWS Organization, the pricing for the 2 unused instances would be applied to 2 of the 4 Dev On-Demand instances.

IS NOT D—-

The pricing for the Reserved Instances will shift from QA to Dev.

This is not how the instances will be billed.

37
Q

Upon which of these measurements is AWS Lambda pricing based?

choose 3

a. Duration and memory

b. Data transfer

c. Cost of the Lambda function’s execution role in AWS IAM.

d. Number of requests

A

a. Duration and memory

With AWS Lambda, you are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the amount of time (duration) it takes for your code to execute. The duration depends on the amount of memory you allocate to your function.

b. Data transfer

Many types of data transfer with Lambda is free, but some can have a charge. The change depends on the specific services involved and the data transfer path ( Example: in region or across regions).

d. Number of requests

With AWS Lambda, you are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the amount of time (duration) it takes for your code to execute.

38
Q

You have used On-Demand Instances for a month but have met unexpected costs with this choice. Which EC2 option provides up to 90% discount on On-Demand Instances while taking advantage of AWS unused EC2 capacity?

choose 1

a. Reserved Instances

b. Virtual instances

c. Spot Instances

d. Dedicated Host

A

c. Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test and development workloads. Because Spot Instances are tightly integrated with AWS services (such as Auto Scaling, EMR, ECS, CloudFormation, Data Pipeline, and AWS Batch), you can choose how to launch and maintain your applications running on Spot Instances.

39
Q

When would you use the Reserved Instance pricing model?

choose 2

a. Your application has unpredictable workloads

b. Ability to bid on the lowest compute price possible

c. Your application requires a capacity reservation

d. Your application has steady state usage

A

c. Your application requires a capacity reservation

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) can provide a capacity reservation, offering additional confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you have reserved when you need them.

d. Your application has steady state usage

Reserved Instances are a great way of reducing costs on long running applications with steady state usage. Even if the money is not available to make upfront payments, using Reserved Instances over longer periods can still be useful for cost savings.

40
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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?

choose 1

a. Amazon CloudWatch

b. AWS Cost Explorer

c. Trusted Advisor

d. AWS Cost and Usage Report

A

b. AWS Cost Explorer

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

ISNOT D—
AWS Cost and Usage Report

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

41
Q

Which AWS service would enable you to view the spending distribution in 1 of your AWS accounts?

choose 1

a. Billing Advisor

b. AWS Cost Explorer

c. AWS Organizations

d. AWS Spending Explorer

A

b. AWS Cost Explorer

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

42
Q

You have many database backups you need to store for an indefinite amount of time. If the backups are ever needed, they just need to be retrieved within 6 hours. What is the lowest cost solution for this scenario?

choose 1

a. Amazon S3

b. Amazon EFS

c. Amazon S3 Standard-IA

d. Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval

A

d. Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval

Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly Amazon S3 Glacier) provides the lowest cost option for long-term storage and is perfectly suited for this scenario. The backups would not need to be retrieved quickly, so Glacier Flexible Retrieval is the best option.

43
Q

Your company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. For servers, your company has existing per-core licenses they would like to continue to use. Which EC2 purchasing option allows this? (Subject to your license terms).

choose 1

a. Spot

b. On-Demand

c. Reserved

d. Dedicated Host

A

d. Dedicated Host

Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses, subject to your license terms.

44
Q

A company has signed a 3-year contract with a school district to develop a Teacher Absence Management application. Which type of EC2 instance would be best for application development on this project?

choose 1

a. Scheduled Reserved Instances

b. Standard Reserved Instances

c. On-Demand Instances

d. Spot Instances

A

b. Standard Reserved Instances

Standard Reserved Instances provide you with a significant discount (up to 72%) compared to On-Demand Instance pricing and can be purchased for a 1-year or 3-year term.

45
Q

A company is trying to visualize and forecast its costs and usage over time. Which service can help them?

choose 1

a. AWS Organizations

b. Cost and Usage Report

c. AWS Budgets

d. AWS Cost Explorer

A

d. AWS Cost Explorer

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

46
Q

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

choose 1

a. Cost Allocation Tags

b. AWS Organizations

c. CloudWatch

d. AWS CloudTrail

A

a. 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.

47
Q

Which of the following are criteria affecting your billing for RDS?

choose 3

a. Standard monitoring services

b. Running duration of the RDS instances

c. Internet data transfer

d. Additional storage

A

b. Running duration of the RDS instances

RDS runs on EC2 instances. Therefore, much like an EC2 instance, you are charged based on how long the RDS instances are running.

c. Internet data transfer

You are charged for the internet data transferred in and out of your RDS instances.

d. Additional storage

RDS runs on EC2 instances. So, much like an EC2 instance, you are charged based on how much storage they have provisioned.

48
Q

A company would like to call AWS support to open cases when issues arise. What’s the minimum support plan they need to subscribe to in order to have telephone access?

choose 1

a. Business Support

b. Developer Support

c. Enterprise

d. Basic support

A

a. Business Support

Business Support is the minimum plan that provides access to support via telephone.

49
Q

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

choose 2

a. No upfront payments required

b. Unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted

c. Discounted cost model compared to Reserved Instances

d. Guaranteed cost

A

a. No upfront payments required

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.

b. 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.

50
Q

Which of the following support plans features a < 4-hour response time in the event of an impaired production system?

choose 1

a. Individual

b. Developer

c. Business

d. Basic

A

Business

Both the Business and Enterprise support levels offer a < 4-hour response time in the event of an impaired production system.

51
Q

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?

choose 1

a. Savings Plans budget

b. Reservation budget

c. Cost budget

d. Usage budget

A

c. Cost budget

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

52
Q

Your company has entered into a 3-year contract with a government agency. Your best option for EC2 is Reserved Instances. Which AWS feature would you use to track your Reserved Instance usage?

choose 1

a. AWS Organizations

b. AWS Cost and Usage Report

c. AWS CloudTrail

d. Trusted Advisor

A

b. AWS Cost and Usage Report

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

53
Q

Which of the following does AWS use to notify you by email when you exceed 85% of your Free Tier limits for each service?

choose 1

a. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

b. AWS Budgets

c. AWS Cost Explorer

d. AWS Organizations

A

b. AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets notifies you when you exceed 85% of your Free Tier limits for each service you’re using by sending you an email.

54
Q

Which of the following AWS services can be used to create billing alarms?

choose 1

a. Macie

b. Cost Explorer

c. Athena

d. CloudWatch

A

d. CloudWatch

The CloudWatch service is used to create billing alarms.

IS NOT B—
Cost Explorer

The Cost Explorer service is used to create custom reports that facilitate the understanding of the organization’s costs and data usage.

55
Q

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

choose 1

a. Developer

b. Basic

c. Business

d. Enterprise

A

a. Developer

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

56
Q

When would you use the Reserved Instance pricing model?

choose 2

a. Ability to bid on the lowest compute price possible

b. Your application requires a capacity reservation

c. Your application has unpredictable workloads

d. Your application has steady state usage

A

b. Your application requires a capacity reservation

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) can provide a capacity reservation, offering additional confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you have reserved when you need them.

d. Your application has steady state usage

Reserved Instances are a great way of reducing costs on long running applications with steady state usage. Even if the money is not available to make upfront payments, using Reserved Instances over longer periods can still be useful for cost savings.

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