Domain 4: Billing & Pricing Flashcards
You have upgraded your AWS support plan to the Business support level. What is true of the Business Support Plan?
< 1 hour response time support when your production system goes down.
You have a short term computing task to complete. It is essential that this task run uninterrupted from start to finish. Which is the best EC2 option for this task?
On-Demand Instance
You are managing the company’s AWS account. The current support plan is Basic, but you would like to begin using Infrastructure Event Management. What support plan (that already includes Infrastructure Event Management without an additional fee) should you upgrade to?
Upgrade to Enterprise plan.
Your company has entered into a 3-year contract with a government agency. Your best option for EC2 is reserved instances. Which AWS service would you use to track your reserved instance usage?
AWS Cost and Usage Report
You need to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. Which tool will allow you to do this?
Cost Allocation Tags
You have a web application that needs to run for a short period of time (a couple days). It is alright if there are interruptions in the application. Which EC2 instance type would be best for this use case?
Spot Instances
You have used on-demand instances for a month, but have met unexpected costs with this choice. Which EC2 option provides up to 90% discount on on-demand instances while taking advantage of AWS unused EC2 capacity?
Spot Instances
A large company needs to benefit from available volume discounts in AWS. Which AWS feature will enable the company to get volume discounts?
Use AWS Organizations and its consolidated billing feature to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts.
A company has multiple AWS accounts across multiple regions. Which AWS service can be used to manage these accounts and provide consolidated billing?
AWS Organizations
What can we do in AWS to receive the benefits of volume pricing for your multiple AWS accounts?
Use consolidated billing in AWS Organizations.
You are leading a pilot program to try the AWS Cloud for one of your applications. You have been instructed to provide an estimate of your AWS bill. Which service will allow you to do this by manually entering your planned resources by service?
AWS Pricing Calculator
With the AWS Pricing Calculator, you can input the services you will use, and the configuration of those services, and get an estimate of the costs these services will accrue. AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services, and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.
Which AWS service would enable you to view the spending distribution in one of your AWS accounts?
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer is a free tool that you can use to view your costs and usage. You can view data up to the last 13 months, forecast how much you are likely to spend for the next three months, and get recommendations for what Reserved Instances to purchase. You can use AWS Cost Explorer to see patterns in how much you spend on AWS resources over time, identify areas that need further inquiry, and see trends that you can use to understand your costs. You can also specify time ranges for the data, and view time data by day or by month.
Your company is considering migrating its data center to the cloud. What are the advantages of the AWS cloud over an on-premises data center?
Replace upfront capital expenses with low variable costs.
All the hardware purchased upfront for a data center will be replaced by resources which are variable in nature with low upfront costs.
You have decided to use the AWS Cost and Usage Report to track your EC2 Reserved Instance costs. To where can these reports be published?
An S3 Bucket that you own.
The AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available. You can use Cost and Usage Reports to publish your AWS billing reports to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you own. You can receive reports that break down your costs by the hour or day, by product or product resource, or by tags that you define yourself. AWS updates the report in your bucket once a day in comma-separated value (CSV) format. You can view the reports using spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel or Apache OpenOffice Calc, or access them from an application using the Amazon S3 API.
