CSOA-A Domain 6 - Cost and Performance Optimization (12%)

Question 1

What is a cost allocation tag?

Answer 1

Help you track the costs of AWS resources.
- User-defined CATs
- AWS Generated CATs

Question 2

What does Cost Explorer do?

Answer 2

It helps you visualize view and analyze your AWS usage costs.

Question 3

What are the features of Cost Explorer?

Answer 3

Reporting on
- Cost and Usage
- Savings Plans
- Reservations

Question 4

Where are cost allocation tags defined?

Answer 4

At the account level in AWS Billing

Question 5

How do you activate AWS Cost Allocation Tags?

Answer 5

Just go to the CAT area in AWS Billing and click activate. Can do this for both user defined and was defined.

Question 6

What are the types of budgets you can set up?

Answer 6

Cost (Dollar amount)
Usage (usage of one or more types or groups)
Savings plan
Reservation

Question 7

What does Compute Optimizer do?

Answer 7

Machine learning-based recommendation service to help optimize
- performance
- cost

Question 8

What is a prerequisite to enabling billing alerts?

Answer 8

Enable the billing alerts in the billing dashboard