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Which pricing model should you use for EC2 instances that will be used in a lab environment for several hours on a weekend and must run uninterrupted?

  1. On-Demand
  2. Reserved
  3. Spot
  4. Dedicated Instance
A
  1. On-Demand
  • On-Demand is the best choice for this situation as it is the most economical option that will ensure no interruptions
  • Spot instances are good for short term requirements as they can be very economical. However, you may find that the instance is terminated if the spot market price moves
  • Reserved instances are good for long-term, static requirements as you must lock-in for 1 or 3 years in return for a decent discount
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What types of pricing policies does AWS offer? (choose 2)

  1. Pay-as-you-go
  2. Enterprise license agreement (ELA)
  3. Non-peak hour discounts
  4. Global usage discounts
  5. Save when you reserve
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  1. Pay-as-you-go
  2. Save when you reserve
  • Amazon pricing includes options for pay-as-you-go, save when you reserve and pay less by using more
  • Amazon does not offer ELAs, non-peak hour discounts, or global usage discounts
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Which tool enables you to visualize your usage patterns over time and to identify your underlying cost drivers?

  1. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
  2. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
  3. AWS Cost Explorer
  4. AWS Budgets
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  1. AWS Cost Explorer

• The AWS Cost Explorer is a free tool that allows you to view charts of your costs. You can view cost data for the past 13 months and forecast how much you are likely to spend over the next three months. Cost Explorer can be used to discover patterns in how much you spend on AWS resources over time and to identify cost problem area

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For which services does Amazon not charge customers? (choose 2)

  1. Amazon VPC
  2. Amazon EBS
  3. Amazon CloudFormation
  4. Amazon S3
  5. Amazon SNS
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  1. Amazon VPC
  2. Amazon CloudFormation

• Amazon VPC and CloudFormation are free of charge, however in the case of CloudFormation you pay for the resources it creates

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What is the most cost-effective support plan that should be selected to provide at least a 1-hour response time for a production system failure?

  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
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  1. Business
  • Basic does not provide any technical support
  • Developer provides business hours access via email
  • Business provides < 1 hour response times for a production system failure
  • Enterprise provides < 1 hour response times for a production system failure and < 15 minutes for a business-critical system
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How can an organization compare the cost of running applications in an on-premise or colocation environment against the AWS cloud?

  1. AWS Budgets
  2. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
  3. TCO Calculator
  4. AWS Cost Explorer
A
  1. TCO Calculator

• The TCO calculator is a free tool provided by AWS that allows you to estimate the cost savings of using the AWS Cloud vs. using an on-premised data center

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What is the most cost-effective EC2 pricing option to use for a non-critical overnight workload?

  1. On-Demand
  2. Spot
  3. Reserved Instance
  4. Dedicated Host
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  1. Spot

• Spot instances are good for short term requirements as they can be very economical. Sometimes AWS may terminate your instance, e.g. when the market price exceeds your bid price. This is a good option for non-critical workloads that can be terminated

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Which AWS support plan should you use if you need a response time of < 15 minutes for a business-critical system failure?

  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
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  1. Enterprise
  • Both Business and Enterprise offer < 1 hour response time for the failure of a production system
  • Only the Enterprise plan provides a response time of < 15 minutes for the failure of a business-critical system
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Which of the following statements is correct in relation to consolidated billing? (choose 2)

  1. Paying accounts are independent and cannot access resources of other accounts
  2. Used to consolidate billing across organizations
  3. One bill is provided per AWS organization
  4. Volume pricing discounts cannot be applied to resources
  5. Only available to Enterprise customers
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  1. Paying accounts are independent and cannot access resources of other accounts
  2. One bill is provided per AWS organization
  • AWS organizations allow you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage
  • Note that it allows you to consolidate billing across accounts within an organization not across organizations
  • Volume pricing discounts can be applied to resources
  • Consolidated billing is available to all customers
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A company would like to maximize their potential volume and RI discounts across multiple accounts and also apply service control policies on member accounts. What can they use gain these benefits?

  1. AWS Budgets
  2. AWS Cost Explorer
  3. AWS IAM
  4. AWS Organizations
A
  1. AWS Organizations

• AWS Organizations enables you to create groups of AWS accounts and then centrally manage policies across those accounts. AWS Organizations provides consolidated billing in both feature sets, which allows you set up a single payment method in the organization’s master account and still receive an invoice for individual activity in each member account. Volume pricing discounts can be applied to resources

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Which items should be included in a TCO analysis comparing on-premise to AWS Cloud? (choose 2)

  1. Firewall management
  2. Application licensing
  3. Compute hardware
  4. Data center security
  5. Operating system patching
A
  1. Compute hardware
  2. Data center security
  • You need to identify the items that have a cost on-premise and that will be rolled into the service in the cloud. Compute hardware costs and data center security costs will be rolled in the service cost in the cloud so you need to include them in the model so you can really understand the true TCO on-premise vs. the cloud
  • Firewall management, application licensing and operating system patching need to be paid for on-premise and in the cloud so there is little difference
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What are two ways an AWS customer can reduce their monthly spend? (choose 2)

  1. Turn off resources that are not being used
  2. Use more power efficient instance types
  3. Reserve capacity where suitable
  4. Be efficient with usage of Security Groups
  5. Reduce the amount of data ingress charges
A
  1. Turn off resources that are not being used
  2. Reserve capacity where suitable

• You don’t pay for power, security groups, or data ingress to the AWS cloud so these answers are all incorrect

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Which AWS services can be utilized at no cost? (choose 2)

  1. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  2. Amazon VPC
  3. Amazon S3
  4. Amazon CloudFront
  5. Amazon RedShift
A
  1. Identity and Access Management (IAM)

2. Amazon VPC

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Which of the following are valid types of Reserved Instance? (choose 2)

  1. Convertible RI
  2. Discounted RI
  3. Scheduled RI
  4. Long-Term RI
  5. Special RI
A
  1. Convertible RI
  2. Scheduled RI
  • Standard RIs: These provide the most significant discount (up to 75% off On-Demand) and are best suited for steady-state usage
  • Convertible RIs: These provide a discount (up to 54% off On-Demand) and the capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instances of equal or greater value. Like Standard RIs, Convertible RIs are best suited for steady-state usage
  • Scheduled RIs: These are available to launch within the time windows you reserve. This option allows you to match your capacity reservation to a predictable recurring schedule that only requires a fraction of a day, a week, or a month
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An architect needs to compare the cost of deploying an on-premise web server and an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud. Which tool can be used to assist the architect?

  1. AWS Cost Explorer
  2. AWS Budgets
  3. AWS TCO Calculator
  4. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
A
  1. AWS TCO Calculator
  • The TCO calculator is a free tool provided by AWS that allows you to estimate the cost savings of using the AWS Cloud vs. using an on-premised data center
  • The AWS Cost Explorer is a free tool that allows you to view charts of your costs
  • The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator helps customers and prospects estimate their monthly AWS bill more efficiently
  • AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed
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Which Amazon S3 storage tier provider does not include a data retrieval fee and has an availability SLA of 99.99%?

  1. S3 Standard
  2. S3 Standard-IA
  3. S3 One Zone-IA
  4. Amazon Glacier
A
  1. S3 Standard
  • All of the storage tiers listed include a data retrieval fee except for S3 Standard
  • Availability SLAs are: S3 Standard = 99.99%; S3 Standard-IA = 99.9%; S3 One Zone-IA = 99%; Amazon Glacier = no SLA
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A company is planning to migrate some resources into the cloud. What factors need to be considered when determining the cost of the AWS Cloud? (choose 2)

  1. The number of VPCs created
  2. The number of servers migrated into EC2
  3. The number of IAM users created
  4. The amount of egress data per month
  5. The amount of ingress data per month
A
  1. The number of servers migrated into EC2
  2. The amount of egress data per month

• AWS charge for EC2 instances and data egress. There are no charges for VPCs, IAM users or data ingress

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A manager needs to keep a check on his AWS spend. How can the manager setup alarms that notify him when his bill reaches a certain amount?

  1. Using CloudWatch
  2. Using AWS Trusted Advisor
  3. Using CloudTrail
  4. By notifying AWS support
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  1. Using CloudWatch

• The best ways to do this is to use CloudWatch to configure alarms that deliver a notification when activated. The alarms can use cost metrics that trigger the alarm when a certain amount of spend has been reached

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Which AWS support plans provide support via email, chat and phone? (choose 2)

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

• Only the business and enterprise plans provide support via email, chat and phone

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An application stores images which will be retrieved infrequently, but must be available for retrieval immediately. Which is the most cost-effective storage option that meets these requirements?

  1. Amazon Glacier with expedited retrievals
  2. Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
  3. Amazon EFS
  4. Amazon S3 Standard
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  1. Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
  • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access is the most cost-effective choice
  • Amazon Glacier with expedited retrievals is fast (1-5 minutes) but not immediate
  • Amazon EFS is a high-performance file system and not ideally suited to this scenario, it is also not the most cost-effective option
  • Amazon S3 Standard provides immediate retrieval but is not less cost-effective compared to Standard-Infrequent access
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To optimize pricing or ensure capacity is available reservations can be applied to which of the following services? (choose 2)

  1. Amazon EC2
  2. AWS Lambda
  3. Amazon EBS
  4. Amazon RDS
  5. Amazon S3
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  1. Amazon EC2
  2. Amazon RDS

• Reservations apply to various services, including: EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS and RedShift

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Which of the options below are recommendations in the cost optimization pillar of the well-architected framework? (choose 2)

  1. Adopt a consumption model
  2. Adopt a capital expenditure model
  3. Start spending money on data center operations
  4. Analyze and attribute expenditure
  5. Manage your services independently
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  1. Adopt a consumption model
  2. Analyze and attribute expenditure

• The cost optimization pillar includes the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resource
• There are five design principles for cost optimization in the cloud:
– Adopt a consumption model
– Measure overall efficiency
– Stop spending money on data center operations
– Analyze and attribute expenditure
– Use managed services to reduce cost of ownership

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Which pricing options are available when using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances? (choose 2)

  1. Capacity upfront
  2. All upfront
  3. Mainly upfront
  4. Partial upfront
  5. Enterprise upfront
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  1. All upfront
  2. Partial upfront
  • Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) provide a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand pricing and provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability Zone
  • Payment options include All Upfront, Partial Upfront, and No Upfront
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When deploying resources using AWS CloudFormation, what are you charged for? (choose 2)

  1. Per-usage costs for CloudFormation
  2. Provisioned EC2 instances
  3. Provisioned EBS volumes
  4. Provisioned route tables
  5. AWS Auto Scaling Groups
A
  1. Provisioned EC2 instances
  2. Provisioned EBS volumes
  • You do not pay for AWS CloudFormation, just for the chargeable resources that it provisions
  • EC2 instances and EBS volumes both incur costs
  • Route tables and Auto Scaling Groups do not incur costs
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How does the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations treat Reserved Instances that were purchased by another account in the organization?

  1. All accounts in the organization are treated as one account so any account can receive the hourly cost benefit
  2. Only the master account can benefit from the hourly cost benefit of the reserved instances
  3. All accounts in the organization are treated as one account for volume discounts but not for reserved instances
  4. AWS Organizations does not support any volume or reserved instance benefits across accounts, it is just a method of aggregating bills
A
  1. All accounts in the organization are treated as one account so any account can receive the hourly cost benefit
  • For billing purposes, the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations treats all the accounts in the organization as one account. This means that all accounts in the organization can receive the hourly cost benefit of Reserved Instances that are purchased by any other account
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ri-behavior.html
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What are the charges for using Amazon Glacier? (choose 2)

  1. Data transferred into Glacier
  2. Retrieval requests
  3. Data storage
  4. Enhanced networking
  5. Minimum storage fees
A
  1. Retrieval requests
  2. Data storage
  • With Amazon Glacier you pay for storage on a per GB / month basis, retrieval requests and quantity (based on expedited, standard, or bulk), and data transfer out of Glacier
  • You do not pay for data transferred in and there are no minimum storage fees
  • Enhanced networking is a feature of EC2
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You need to run a production process that will use several EC2 instances and run constantly on an ongoing basis. The process cannot be interrupted or restarted without issue. What EC2 pricing model would be best for this workload?

  1. Reserved instances
  2. Spot instances
  3. On-demand instances
  4. Flexible instances
A
  1. Reserved instances
  • RIs provide you with a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand instance pricing
  • You have the flexibility to change families, OS types, and tenancies while benefitting from RI pricing when you use Convertible RIs
  • In this scenario for a stable process that will run constantly on an ongoing basis RIs will be the most affordable solution
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You are concerned that you may be getting close to some of the default service limits for several AWS services. What AWS tool can be used to display current usage and limits?

  1. AWS CloudWatch
  2. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
  3. AWS Trusted Advisor
  4. AWS Systems Manager
A
  1. AWS Trusted Advisor
  • Trusted Advisor is an online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment. Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Offers a Service Limits check (in the Performance category) that displays your usage and limits for some aspects of some services
  • Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers
  • AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you
  • AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS
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Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

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

• https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/

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When using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing what are two valid best practices? (choose 2)

  1. Always enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root account
  2. Always use a straightforward password on the root account
  3. The paying account should be used for billing purposes only
  4. Use the paying account for deploying resources
  5. Never exceed the limit of 20 linked accounts
A
  1. Always enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root account
  2. The paying account should be used for billing purposes only

• Best practices include:
– Always enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root account
– Always use a strong and complex password on the root account
– The Paying account should be used for billing purposes only. Do not deploy resources into the Paying account
• There is a default limit of 20 linked accounts but this can be extended and there is no reason why you should stick to a maximum of 20 accounts

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What is the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage tier for data that is not often accessed but requires high durability?

  1. Amazon S3 Standard
  2. Amazon S3 Standard-IA
  3. Amazon S3 One Zone-IA
  4. Amazon Glacier
A
  1. Amazon S3 Standard-IA
  • S3 Standard-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. S3 Standard-IA offers the high durability, high throughput, and low latency of S3 Standard
  • S3 One Zone-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. Unlike other S3 Storage Classes which store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs), S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ
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Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides significant discounts for fixed term contracts?

  1. Reserved Instances
  2. Dedicated Instances
  3. Dedicated Hosts
  4. Spot Instances
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  1. Reserved Instances
  • Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time
  • Spot Instances allow you to purchase spare computing capacity with no upfront commitment at discounted hourly rates
  • Dedicated hosts are EC2 servers dedicated to a single customer
  • Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances that run in a VPC on hardware that’s dedicated to a single customer
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Which Amazon EC2 billing option allows gives you low cost, maximum flexibility, no upfront costs or commitment, and you only pay for what you use?

  1. Reserved Instances
  2. Spot Instances
  3. Dedicated Host
  4. On-Demand Instances
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  1. On-Demand Instances
  • With On-Demand instances you pay for hours used with no commitment. There are no upfront costs so you have maximum flexibility
  • Spot instances are used for getting a very low price which you bid on. You lose some flexibility as you are constrained by market prices and your workloads can be terminated if the market price exceeds your bid price
  • Reserved instances are based on a commitment to 1 or 3 years in exchange for a large discount
  • Dedicated hosts use physically dedicated EC2 servers to isolate your workloads and are expensive
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What pricing models are available for DynamoDB? (choose 2)

  1. On-demand capacity mode
  2. Spot capacity mode
  3. Provisioned capacity mode
  4. Dedicated capacity mode
  5. Reserved capacity mode
A
  1. On-demand capacity mode
  2. Provisioned capacity mode
  • On-demand capacity mode: DynamoDB charges you for the data reads and writes your application performs on your tables. You do not need to specify how much read and write throughput you expect your application to perform because DynamoDB instantly accommodates your workloads as they ramp up or down
  • Provisioned capacity mode: you specify the number of reads and writes per second that you expect your application to require. You can use auto scaling to automatically adjust your table’s capacity based on the specified utilization rate to ensure application performance while reducing cost
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What are the fundamental charges for an Amazon EC2 instance? (choose 2)

  1. Compute uptime
  2. Data storage
  3. Basic monitoring
  4. AMI
  5. Private IP address
A
  1. Compute uptime
  2. Data storage
  • When using EC2 instances you are charged for the compute uptime of the instance based on the family and type you chose. You are also charged for the amount of data provisioned
  • Basic monitoring is free for EC2, detailed monitoring is charged
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are not chargeable
  • You do not pay for private IP addresses
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What are the fundamental charges for Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes? (choose 2)

  1. The amount of data storage consumed
  2. The amount of data storage provisioned
  3. Provisioned IOPS
  4. Inbound data transfer
  5. Number of snapshots
A
  1. The amount of data storage provisioned
  2. Provisioned IOPS
  • With EBS volumes you are charged for the amount of data provisioned (not consumed) per month. This means you can have empty space within a volume and you still pay for it
  • With provisioned IOPS volumes you are also charged for the amount you provision in IOPS
  • You pay for the storage consumed by snapshots, not by the number of snapshots
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When using Amazon RDS databases, which items are you charged for? (choose 2)

  1. Inbound data transfer
  2. Multi AZ
  3. Backup up to the DB size
  4. Outbound data transfer
  5. Single AZ
A
  1. Multi AZ
  2. Outbound data transfer

• With Amazon RDS you are charged for the type and size of database, the uptime, any additional storage of backup (above the DB size), requests, deployment type (e.g. you pay for multi AZ), and data transfer outbound

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What billing timeframes are available for Amazon EC2 on-demand instances? (choose 2)

  1. Per second
  2. Per minute
  3. Per hour
  4. Per day
  5. Per week
A
  1. Per second
  2. Per hour
  • With EC2 you are billed either by the second, for some Linux instances, or by the hour for all other instance types
  • https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
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An organization has multiple AWS accounts and uses a mixture of on-demand and reserved instances. One account has a considerable amount of unused reserved instances. How can the organization reduce their costs? (choose 2)

  1. Redeem their reserved instances
  2. Use Spot instances instead
  3. Create an AWS Organization configuration linking the accounts
  4. Switch to using placement groups
  5. Setup consolidated billing between the accounts
A
  1. Create an AWS Organization configuration linking the accounts
  2. Setup consolidated billing between the accounts
  • AWS organizations allow you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Unused reserved instances (RIs) for EC2 are applied across the group so the organization can utilize their unused reserved instance instead of consuming on-demand instances which will lower their costs
  • You cannot redeem your reserved instances. You can sell them on the AWS marketplace however
  • Using placement groups will not lower their costs
  • Spot instance pricing is variable so it is not guaranteed to lower the cost and it is not suitable for workloads that cannot be unexpectedly terminated by AWS
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To reduce the price of your Amazon EC2 instances, which term lengths are available for reserved instances?

  1. 1 year
  2. 2 years
  3. 3 years
  4. 4 years
  5. 5 years
A
  1. 1 year
  2. 3 years
  • Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time. Good for applications that have predictable usage, that need reserved capacity, and for customers who can commit to a 1 or 3-year term
  • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/
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What team is available to support AWS customers on an Enterprise support plan?

  1. AWS Technical Account Manager
  2. AWS Concierge
  3. AWS Billing and Accounts
  4. AWS Technical Support
A
  1. AWS Concierge

• Included as part of the Enterprise Support plan, the Support Concierge Team are AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts

  • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/features/
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Which of the below are good use cases for a specific Amazon EC2 pricing model? (choose 2)

  1. Spot for consistent load over a long term
  2. On-demand for ad-hoc requirements that cannot be interrupted
  3. Reserved instances for steady state predictable usage
  4. On-demand for regulatory requirements that do not allow multi-tenant virtualization
  5. Reserved instances for applications with flexible start and end times
A
  1. On-demand for ad-hoc requirements that cannot be interrupted
  2. Reserved instances for steady state predictable usage
  • Typical use cases for the pricing models listed are:
  • On-demand: Good for users that want the low cost and flexibility of EC2 without any up-front payment or long-term commitment. Applications with short term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted
  • Reserved: Applications with steady state or predictable usage or that require reserved capacity
  • Spot: Applications that have flexible start and end times and that are only feasible at very low compute prices. May be terminated
  • Dedicated hosts: Useful for regulatory requirements that may not support multi-tenant virtualization. Great for licensing which does not support multi-tenancy or cloud deployments
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A company wants to utilize a pay as you go cloud model for all of their applications without CAPEX costs and which is highly elastic. Which cloud delivery model will suit them best?

  1. Public
  2. Private
  3. Hybrid
  4. On-premise
A
  1. Public
  • The public cloud is offered under a purely pay as you go model (unless you choose to reserve), and allows companies to completely avoid CAPEX costs. The public cloud is also highly elastic so companies can grow and shrink the applications as demand changes
  • Private and on-premise clouds are essentially the same, though both could be managed by a third party and even could be delivered under an OPEX model by some vendors. However, they are typically more CAPEX heavy and the elasticity is limited
  • A hybrid model combines public and private and this company wants to go all in on a single model
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Which AWS support plan provides email support by the Cloud Support Associates team?

  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
A
  1. Developer
  • Developer provides email support by the Cloud Support Associates team whereas Business and Enterprise provide email support by the Cloud Support Engineers team
  • Basic does not provide email support at all
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What are two correct statements about AWS Organizations with consolidated billing? (choose 2)

  1. Multiple bills are provided per organization
  2. One bill provided for multiple accounts
  3. Linked accounts lose their management independence
  4. Volume pricing discounts applied across multiple accounts
  5. CloudTrail can be configured per organization
A
  1. One bill provided for multiple accounts
  2. Volume pricing discounts applied across multiple accounts
  • With AWS organizations you create a paying account and linked accounts. One bill is provided for multiple accounts within an organization. Volume pricing discounts can be applied across resources in multiple accounts
  • Linked accounts can still be managed independently
  • CloudTrail is on a per account basis and per region basis but can be aggregated into a single bucket in the paying account
46
Q

Which support plan is the lowest cost option that allows unlimited cases to be open?

  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
A
  1. Developer
  • With the Developer plan you can open unlimited cases
  • You can also open unlimited cases with the Business and Enterprise plans but these are more expensive
  • You cannot open any support cases with the basic support plan
47
Q

To reward customers for using their services, what are two ways AWS reduce prices? (choose 2)

  1. Volume based discounts when you use more services
  2. Reduction in inbound data transfer charges
  3. Reduced cost for reserved capacity
  4. Discounts for using a wider variety of services
  5. Removal of termination fees for customers who spend more
A
  1. Volume based discounts when you use more services
  2. Reduced cost for reserved capacity
  • AWS provide volume based discount so that when you use more services you reduce the cost per service. You can also reserve capacity by locking in to fixed 1 or 3 year contracts to get significant discounts
  • You never pay for inbound data transfer
  • You don’t get discounts for using a variety of services, only when you use more services
  • There are never termination fees with AWS
48
Q

What charges are applicable to Amazon S3 Standard storage class? (choose 2)

  1. Per GB/month storage fee
  2. Retrieval fee
  3. Minimum capacity charge per object
  4. Data ingress
  5. Data egress
A
  1. Per GB/month storage fee

5. Data egress

49
Q

How do AWS charge for Amazon CloudFront? (choose 2)

  1. Data transfer out
  2. Data transfer in
  3. Number of requests
  4. Number of users
  5. Uptime
A
  1. Data transfer out
  2. Number of requests

• With Amazon CloudFront the basic elements you are charged for include the amount of data transfer out and the number of requests. There are additional chargeable items such as invalidation requests, field-level encryption requests, and custom SSL certificates

50
Q

How do AWS charge for the use of NAT Gateways? (choose 2)

  1. Price per gateway hour
  2. Price per port
  3. Price per GB processed
  4. Price per instance session
  5. Price per protocol
A
  1. Price per gateway hour
  2. Price per GB processed

• If you choose to create a NAT gateway in your VPC, you are charged for each “NAT Gateway-hour” that your NAT gateway is provisioned and available. Data processing charges apply for each Gigabyte processed through the NAT gateway regardless of the traffic’s source or destination

51
Q

To reduce cost, which of the following services support reservations? (choose 2)

  1. Amazon ElastiCache
  2. Amazon CloudFormation
  3. Amazon RedShift
  4. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  5. Amazon S3
A
  1. Amazon ElastiCache
  2. Amazon RedShift
  • Amazon ElastiCache and Redshift both support reserved nodes
  • The use of CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk is not chargeable so you can’t reserve anything
  • Amazon S3 is a pure pay per use service, you cannot reserve capacity
52
Q

Which AWS technology enables you to group resources that share one or more tags?

  1. Tag groups
  2. Organization groups
  3. Resource groups
  4. Consolidation groups
A
  1. Resource groups
  • Resource groups make it easy to group resources using the tags that are assigned to them. You can group resources that share one or more tags
  • The other options are bogus and do not exist

• https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/

53
Q

Which AWS support plans provide 24×7 access to customer service?

  1. Basic
  2. Business
  3. Developer
  4. All plans
A
  1. All plans
  • All support plans provide 24×7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums
  • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/
54
Q

What advantages does the AWS cloud provide in relation to cost? (choose 2)

  1. Fine-grained billing
  2. One-off payments for on-demand resources
  3. Ability to turn off resources and not pay for them
  4. Enterprise licensing discounts
  5. Itemized power costs
A
  1. Fine-grained billing
  2. Ability to turn off resources and not pay for them
  • With the AWS cloud you get fine-grained billing and can turn off resources you are not using easily and not have to pay for them (pay for what you use model)
  • You do not get the option for one-off payments for on-demand resources. You can for reserved instances which can be paid all upfront
  • You do not get enterprise licensing discounts from AWS and you do not pay anything for power as the cost is built in
55
Q

Which billing and account management service can be used by businesses to sell applications they have built on the AWS cloud?

  1. Amazon Payments
  2. Amazon AppPay
  3. Amazon DevPay
  4. Amazon Billing
A
  1. Amazon DevPay
  • Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy for businesses to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services
  • None of the other options are valid

• https://aws.amazon.com/devpay/

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