CPC Prep Pricing Flashcards
What are the six free services on AWS?
- Amazon VPC
- Elastic Beanstalk
- CloudFormation
- IAM
- Auto Scaling
- Consolidated Billing
What are the Amazon EC2 Pricing Components?
- Clock hours of server uptime
- Instance configurations
- Instance Type
- Number of Instances
- Load Balancing
- Detailed Monitoring - 1 minute increments
- Auto Scaling resources created
- Elastic IP addresses (charged if allocated but not used)
- Operating systems and software package
Which EC2 pricing model is a pay for compute or database capacity with no long-term commitments or upfront costs and is good for applications with short-term, spiky or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted?
On-deman
What EC2 pricing model provides a significant discount for capacity provisioned ahead of time, is applied to a specific Availability Zone, and is good for applications that have predictable usage?
Reserved Instances
What are the three EC2 pricing model Reserved Instances payment options?
- No Upfront
- Partial Upfront
- All Upfront
What are the three types of Reserved Instances?
- Standard
- Convertible
- Scheduled
Which Reserved Instance type instance size can me modified during the term, the instance family cannot be modified, cannot be exchanged, and can be sold in the Reserved Instance Marketplace?
Standard
Which Reserved Instance can be exchanged during the term with new attributes including instance family, instance type, platform, scope, or tenancy, and cannot be sold on the Instance Marketplace?
Convertible
Which Reserved Instance type enables you to purchase reservations that reoccur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis with a specified start time and duration for a one-year team?
Scheduled
Which EC2 Pricing Model allows you to purchase spare computing capacity with no upfront commitment at discounted hourly rates and is recommend for applications that have flexible start and end times and users with urgent computing needs for a lot of additional capacity?
Spot
What EC2 pricing model is suited for batch computing workloads that requires significant compute power and it can be stopped by AWS at any time with a 2 minute notice?
Spot
Which EC2 pricing model runs on your VPC and an EC2 server is dedicated to a single customer?
Dedicated host
Which EC2 Pricing Model enables you to leverage existing server-bound software licenses and is good to meet compliance requirements?
Dedicated Hosts
What do you pay for when using AWS Lambda?
- Requests
- Duration
Pay only for what you use and charged based on the number of requests for functions and the time it takes to execute
What do you pay for with Amazon ECS?
EC2 Instances
What do you pay for with Fargate?
- VCPU
2. Memory resources
What offers flexible pricing model that offer low prices for EC2, Lambda, and Fargate usage?
Savings Plan
What flexible pricing model provides a savings when you commit to consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term?
Savings Plan
What are the two categories available in the Savings Plan?
- Compute savings
2. EC2 Instance Savings Plan
What features do you pay for with Amazon S3?
Storage - price per class Storage quantity Number of requests Lifecycle transition requests data transfer out Transfer acceleration Storage Management pricing for some additional features
What pricing feature allows queries to run directly on data stored on Glacier without having to retrieve the archive?
Amazon Glacier select
What are the three options to access data on Amazon S3 Glacier?
- Expedited (1-5 minutes)
- Standard (3-5 hours)
- Bulk (5-12 hours)
What services do you pay for with Amazon Elastic Bulk Store?
- Volumes
2. Snapshots
What are the two different storage class when paying for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?
- Standard
2. Infrequent Access Storage (EFS IA)
What additional features do you pay for when using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?
- VPN Connections
- AWS PrivateLink
- NAT Gateways
- AWS Direct Connect
What are the two database purchase types when using Amazon RDS?
- On-demand
2. Reserved
What do you pay for when using Amazon RDS?
Clock hours of server uptime Database engine, instance size, memory Database purchase type Provisioned storage Requests Deployment type Data transfer out
What do you pay for when using Amazon DynamoDB?
Provisioned throughput (write) Provisioned throughput (read) Indexed data storage On-demand capacity Provisioned capacity mode Data transfer
What do you pay for when using Amazon CloudFront?
Traffic distribution
Requests
Data transfer out
What do you pay for when using Amazon Route53?
Monthly charge for managing hosted zones
DNS queries
Domain names
Which AWS service is a free tool that allows you to view charts of your costs and can view data for the past 13 months?
AWS Cost Explorer
Which AWS service enables your to forecast how much you are likely to spend over the next 3 months and is used to discover patterns?
AWS Cost Explorer
Which AWS service enables you to identify usage statistics such as which services are used the most, view metrics fro which AZ has the most traffic, and which linked account is used the most?
AWS Cost Explorer
Which AWS service helps customers estimate their monthly AWS bill more efficiently?
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
Which AWS service enables you to calculate the support for most AWS services, data ingress/egress charges, data storage charges, and retrieval fees?
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
Which AWS service enables you to compare AWS costs to on-premises data center costs enabling the customer to avoid large capital expenditures on hardware and infrastructure?
AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Caculator
Which AWS service works by the customer inputting cost elements on their current or estimated on-premises data center and comparing those cost requirements with how much it will cost on AWS?
AWS TCO Calculator
What is included in the TCO calculation?
Rack infrastructure cost Virtualization software costs Facilities costs Networking costs Data transfer costs IT labor costs
What are the four AWS Support plans?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise
Which AWS Support plan is for billing and account support only?
Basic
Which AWS Support Plan provides business hours support via email with a Cloud Support Technician and enables Trusted Advisor to complete the 7 Core Checks?
Developer
Which AWS Support Plan enables 24/7 email, chat and phone support to Cloud Support Engineers?
Business
Which AWS Support Plan comes with a Technical Account Manager?
Enterprise
Which AWS Support Plan enables you to use the Concierge Support Team?
Enterprise
Which AWS service consolidates multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage?
AWS Organizations
What are the two feature sets with AWS Organizations?
Consolidated billing
All features
What are the benefits of Consolidated Billing?
One bill
Easy tracking
Combined usage
What enables you to track charges across multiple accounts and download the combined and usage data?
Consolidated Billing
When enables all accounts in the organization to share volume pricing discounts and Reserved Instance discounts and can result in lower charges than with individual standalone accounts?
Consolidated Billing Combined Usage
What makes it easy to group resources using the tags that are assigned to them?
Resource Groups
What are key/value pairs that can be attached to AWS resources and contain metadata?
Tags
What are Resource Groups made of?
Region Name Health Checks Public & Private IP addresses Port Configuration Database Engine
What feature tracks a customer’s AWS costs on a detailed level and must be enabled in the billing and management console? These are used to organize resource costs a customer’s cost allocation report.
Cost Allocation Tags
