Billing, Pricing and Support (CCP) Flashcards

1
Q

Which of the following is a key financial benefit of migrating systems hosted on your on-premises data center to AWS?

A

Opportunity to replace upfront capital expenses (CAPEX) with low variable costs.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Which service should a company use to centrally manage account policies and consolidate billing across multiple AWS accounts?

A

AWS Organizations

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

A leading mobile game company has a mission-critical server that is currently down in AWS. The Systems Administrator needs to bring it back up within 15 minutes for service continuity. Which of the following support plans will allow the Administrator to contact technical support to immediately resolve the issue?

A

Enterprise

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Which of the following actions will AWS charge you for? (Select TWO.)

A

Transfer of EC2 files between two AWS Regions
Provisioning elastic IPs and attaching them to running EC2 instances

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Which of the following provides you access to Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your past usage and indicate potential opportunities for savings as compared to On-Demand usage?

A

AWS Cost Explorer

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Which of the following is the most cost-effective instance purchasing option for hosting an application which will run non-interruptible workloads for a period of three years?

A

Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Which of the following are the characteristics of Amazon EC2 Convertible Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Allows the change of instance family, operating system, tenancy, and payment option
  2. Has 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
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

A company is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS. Which of the following options can they use to help them estimate their costs?

A

AWS Pricing Calculator

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

A customer is choosing the best AWS support plan which includes a designated Technical Account Manager. Which of the following should they choose?

A

Enterprise

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Which of the following is the most cost-effective AWS Support Plan to use if you need access to AWS Support API for programmatic case management?

A

Business

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Which of the following is the most cost-effective payment option when you purchase either a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance for a 1-year term?

A

All Upfront

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

A company is currently using an On-Demand EC2 instance for their application which they plan to migrate to a Reserved EC2 Instance to save on cost. Which of the following is the most cost-effective option if the application being hosted would be used for more than 3 years?

A

All Upfront, Standard Reserved Instance pricing for a 3-year term.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Which payment plan will give you the largest discount when purchasing EC2 reserved instances?

A

All upfront payment for a 3-year term purchase

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Which of the following allows you to categorize and track your AWS costs on a detailed level?

A

Cost allocation tags

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Which of the following is true regarding the AWS Cost and Usage report? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage
  2. Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

A startup plans to build a data lake using Amazon S3 as the primary storage platform. Which of the following options would incur costs? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Egress data to the internet.
  2. Setting up S3 lifecycle policies.
17
Q

A customer currently has a Basic support plan and they are planning to use the Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected Reviews and Operations Reviews features in AWS. What should they do in order to access these features in the most cost-effective manner?

A

Upgrade to Enterprise support plan.

18
Q

Which of the following provides you the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage and also load that information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS QuickSight, or a tool of your choice?

A

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

19
Q

You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

A

You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule

20
Q

A company is using multiple AWS services to host their application, and they want to ensure that they optimize the environment by adhering to AWS best practices.

Which of the following services is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and making recommendations to lower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps?

A

AWS Trusted Advisor

21
Q

Which of the following Cost Management Tools allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

A

AWS Cost and Usage report

22
Q

Which of the following allows you to set coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define?

A

AWS Budgets

23
Q

A manufacturing company has multiple AWS accounts for various departments. As the company grows, they are experiencing an increase in its AWS costs and want to optimize its expenses by taking advantage of any available discounts.

Which of the following actions below will allow you to take advantage of volume discounts in AWS?

A

Use AWS Organizations and enable the consolidated billing feature.

24
Q

A company is planning to launch an Amazon EC2 instance with an attached EBS volume in a default configuration. You will be charged for your EBS storage only when your instance is in which instance state?

A

Stopped

25
Q

Where can the customer view his Reserved Instance usage for the past month?

A

AWS Billing Console

26
Q

Which of the following purchase options offers the most significant discount compared to On-Demand instance pricing to process steady-state workloads that will continuously be running for a year and also provide capacity reservation?

A

Standard Reserved Instance

27
Q

What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?

A

Developer

28
Q

In Amazon EC2, which pricing construct adjusts its price based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

A

Spot Instance

29
Q

Among the following payment options, which of the following can you choose when you purchase a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance? (Select TWO.)

A
  1. Partial upfront payment
  2. All Upfront payment
30
Q

Which type of EC2 instance is the most suitable and cost-effective if the customer will be running mission-critical workloads continuously for a whole year?

A

Reserved Instance