Domain 4 Flashcards
Billing, Pricing, and Support
Which AWS tool or feature compares prices of different services, creates rough estimates of the total monthly costs, and exports the estimates to a .csv file?
AWS Pricing Calculator
With AWS Pricing Calculator, users can explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of their use cases on AWS. Users can model their solutions before building them, explore the price points and calculations behind the estimates, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet their needs.
Which term lengths are available when a company purchases Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances directly from AWS? (Select TWO.)
a. 6 months
b. 1 year
c. 3 years
d. 4 years
e. 5 years
Users can purchase a Reserved Instance directly from AWS for a 1-year or 3-year commitment. The 3-year commitment offers a larger discount.
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts the cost based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
Spot Instances
Spot Instances are discounted more heavily when there is more capacity available in the Availability Zones.
Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing?
Tagging resources
Users can tag resources to allocate costs.
Which of the following can a company do by using AWS Billing and Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)
a. Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded
b. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and the linked AWS account
c. Create budgets and receive notifications if current usage or forecasted usage exceeds those budgets
d. Switch to RIs or Spot instances automatically, based on which instance is the most cost effective
e. Move data that is stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost effective storage class
b. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and the linked AWS account & c. Create budgets and receive notifications if current usage or forecasted usage exceeds those budgets
Billing and Cost Management tools include tools such as Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets. Cost Explorer provides an interface that you can use to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Cost Explorer can break down costs by day, service, and linked accounts. AWS Budgets can notify you if your current usage or forecasted usage exceeds your budget.
Can you Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded?
Yes. You can use a combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch to terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded.
Where should users find a catalog of free or purchasable AWS-recognized providers of third-party solutions?
AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog used to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services that users need to build solutions and run their businesses. The AWS Marketplace includes security solutions as well as many other types of software used to build IT solutions on AWS.
A company is building a system that will collect large amounts of data during the day and analyze the data at night. If necessary, the analysis can occur at any time of day. The analysis requires hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances to process the data and deliver the results. The company needs a solution that will minimize costs.
Which Amazon EC2 purchase option will meet these requirements?
Spot Instances
The flexible timing and large number of instances make Spot Instances the best choice for this situation.
Which tool will identify cost savings by locating idle Amazon EC2 resources?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment to identify cost savings, performance, and security enhancements that you can make. Trusted Advisor can identify EC2 instances that ran over the last 14 days and alert you if the daily CPU utilization was 10% or less. This check can help locate idle EC2 resources and estimate cost savings.
What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do?
Buy and Sell Third-party solutions to other AWS users
How should one AWS account use Reserved Instances from another AWS account?
Consolidated Billing
Consolidated Billing gives users the ability within the same bill to take advantage of discounts, such as Amazon S3 or Reserved Instances.
What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances? (Select TWO.)
a. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads
b. Memory optimized instances for high compute workloads
c. On-Demand Instances for high-cost and sustained workloads
d. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads
e. Spend limits set using AWS Budgets
a. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads & d. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads
Spot Instances use spare EC2 capacity. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications.
Reserved Instances provide you with significant savings on your EC2 costs compared to On-Demand Instance pricing when you commit to the long-term purchase of EC2 instances. You can purchase a Reserved Instance for a 1-year or 3-year commitment. The 3-year commitment to purchase a Reserved Instance offers a larger discount.
Which AWS Support plan provides access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks with the LEAST cost?
Business Support
Business Support is the least costly support plan that provides access to the complete list of Trusted Advisor checks. (Basic and Developer only gives 7 core checks)
Which AWS Organizations feature can be used to track charges across multiple accounts and report the combined cost?
Consolidated Billing
You can use the consolidated billing feature in Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts. Consolidated billing gives you the ability to track charges across multiple accounts. Then, you can download the combined cost and usage data.
A company needs phone, email, and chat access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The response time must be less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption.
Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
AWS Business Support
The Business Support plan provides phone, email, and chat access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Business Support plan has a response time of less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption.
