CPC Prep Pricing Flashcards

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What are the six free services on AWS?

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  1. Amazon VPC
  2. Elastic Beanstalk
  3. CloudFormation
  4. IAM
  5. Auto Scaling
  6. Consolidated Billing
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What are the Amazon EC2 Pricing Components?

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  1. Clock hours of server uptime
  2. Instance configurations
  3. Instance Type
  4. Number of Instances
  5. Load Balancing
  6. Detailed Monitoring - 1 minute increments
  7. Auto Scaling resources created
  8. Elastic IP addresses (charged if allocated but not used)
  9. Operating systems and software package
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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?

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On-deman

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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?

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Reserved Instances

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What are the three EC2 pricing model Reserved Instances payment options?

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  1. No Upfront
  2. Partial Upfront
  3. All Upfront
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What are the three types of Reserved Instances?

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  1. Standard
  2. Convertible
  3. Scheduled
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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?

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Standard

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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?

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Convertible

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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?

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Scheduled

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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?

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Spot

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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?

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Spot

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Which EC2 pricing model runs on your VPC and an EC2 server is dedicated to a single customer?

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Dedicated host

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Which EC2 Pricing Model enables you to leverage existing server-bound software licenses and is good to meet compliance requirements?

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Dedicated Hosts

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What do you pay for when using AWS Lambda?

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  1. Requests
  2. Duration
    Pay only for what you use and charged based on the number of requests for functions and the time it takes to execute
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What do you pay for with Amazon ECS?

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EC2 Instances

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What do you pay for with Fargate?

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  1. VCPU

2. Memory resources

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What offers flexible pricing model that offer low prices for EC2, Lambda, and Fargate usage?

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Savings Plan

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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?

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Savings Plan

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What are the two categories available in the Savings Plan?

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  1. Compute savings

2. EC2 Instance Savings Plan

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What features do you pay for with Amazon S3?

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Storage - price per class
Storage quantity
Number of requests
Lifecycle transition requests
data transfer out
Transfer acceleration
Storage Management pricing for some additional features
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21
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What pricing feature allows queries to run directly on data stored on Glacier without having to retrieve the archive?

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Amazon Glacier select

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What are the three options to access data on Amazon S3 Glacier?

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  1. Expedited (1-5 minutes)
  2. Standard (3-5 hours)
  3. Bulk (5-12 hours)
23
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What services do you pay for with Amazon Elastic Bulk Store?

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  1. Volumes

2. Snapshots

24
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What are the two different storage class when paying for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?

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  1. Standard

2. Infrequent Access Storage (EFS IA)

25
Q

What additional features do you pay for when using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?

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  1. VPN Connections
  2. AWS PrivateLink
  3. NAT Gateways
  4. AWS Direct Connect
26
Q

What are the two database purchase types when using Amazon RDS?

A
  1. On-demand

2. Reserved

27
Q

What do you pay for when using Amazon RDS?

A
Clock hours of server uptime
Database engine, instance size, memory
Database purchase type
Provisioned storage
Requests
Deployment type
Data transfer out
28
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What do you pay for when using Amazon DynamoDB?

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Provisioned throughput (write)
Provisioned throughput (read)
Indexed data storage
On-demand capacity
Provisioned capacity mode
Data transfer
29
Q

What do you pay for when using Amazon CloudFront?

A

Traffic distribution
Requests
Data transfer out

30
Q

What do you pay for when using Amazon Route53?

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Monthly charge for managing hosted zones
DNS queries
Domain names

31
Q

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?

A

AWS Cost Explorer

32
Q

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?

A

AWS Cost Explorer

33
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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?

A

AWS Cost Explorer

34
Q

Which AWS service helps customers estimate their monthly AWS bill more efficiently?

A

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

35
Q

Which AWS service enables you to calculate the support for most AWS services, data ingress/egress charges, data storage charges, and retrieval fees?

A

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

36
Q

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?

A

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Caculator

37
Q

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?

A

AWS TCO Calculator

38
Q

What is included in the TCO calculation?

A
Rack infrastructure cost
Virtualization software costs
Facilities costs
Networking costs
Data transfer costs
IT labor costs
39
Q

What are the four AWS Support plans?

A
  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise
40
Q

Which AWS Support plan is for billing and account support only?

A

Basic

41
Q

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?

A

Developer

42
Q

Which AWS Support Plan enables 24/7 email, chat and phone support to Cloud Support Engineers?

A

Business

43
Q

Which AWS Support Plan comes with a Technical Account Manager?

A

Enterprise

44
Q

Which AWS Support Plan enables you to use the Concierge Support Team?

A

Enterprise

45
Q

Which AWS service consolidates multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage?

A

AWS Organizations

46
Q

What are the two feature sets with AWS Organizations?

A

Consolidated billing

All features

47
Q

What are the benefits of Consolidated Billing?

A

One bill
Easy tracking
Combined usage

48
Q

What enables you to track charges across multiple accounts and download the combined and usage data?

A

Consolidated Billing

49
Q

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?

A

Consolidated Billing Combined Usage

50
Q

What makes it easy to group resources using the tags that are assigned to them?

A

Resource Groups

51
Q

What are key/value pairs that can be attached to AWS resources and contain metadata?

A

Tags

52
Q

What are Resource Groups made of?

A
Region
Name
Health Checks
Public & Private IP addresses
Port Configuration
Database Engine
53
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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.

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Cost Allocation Tags