Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support

Question 1

Which is the most cost-effective AWS Support plan that provides access to the AWS Support API for programmatic case management?

Answer 1

Business Plan

Question 2

Which support plan is the most cost effective plan that allows an unlimited number of tech support cases to be opened?

Answer 2

Developer Support Plan

Question 3

Where do you go if you need guided instructions on how to deploy a service for the first time?

Answer 3

AWS Documentation

Question 4

What do you look for for AWS best practices?

Answer 4

AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS Documentation

Question 5

How do you seek community support when you have a very specific question about what you’re building?

Answer 5

AWS re:Post

Question 6

A company must meet compliance and software licensing requirements that state a workload must be hosted on a physical server.
Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing option will meet these requirements?

Answer 6

Dedicated Hosts

Question 7

What is an advantage of consolidated billing on AWS?

Answer 7

Volume pricing qualification

Question 8

How should one AWS account use Reserved Instances from another AWS account?

Answer 8

By using consolidated billing.

Question 9

What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances?

Answer 9

• Spot Instances for stateless workloads
• Reserved Instances for sustained workloads

Question 10

Which term lengths are available when a company purchases Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances directly from AWS?

Answer 10

1 and 3 year terms.
(Can purchase instances through the AWS Management Console from third-party resellers for other terms.)

Question 11

Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts the costs based on the supply and demand of EC2 instances?

Answer 11

Spot Instances

Question 12

Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing?

Answer 12

Tagging resources

Question 13

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 of a production system has a service interruption.
Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the lowest cost?

Answer 13

AWS Business Support.

(Developer Support plan doesn’t include chart access and phone calls and provides email support during business hours only.)

Question 14

Which AWS organization feature can be used to track charges across multiple accounts and report the combined cost?

Answer 14

Consolidated Billing

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 16

A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud from on-premises data centers and wants hands-on help with the project.
How can the company get this support?

Answer 16

•Use AWS Professional Services
•Select a partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN) to assist with the migration

Question 17

What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do?

Answer 17

•Sell solutions to other AWS users.
•Buy third-party software that runs on AWS.

Question 18

Which of the following can a company do by using AWS Billing and Cost Management Tools?

Answer 18

•Break down AWS costs by day, service, and the linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current usage or forecasted usage exceeds those budgets.

Question 19

Which AWS Support plan provides access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks with the LEAST cost?

Answer 19

AWS Business Support

(Basic and Developer gives customers access to the seven core Trusted Advisor checks.)

Question 20

Which tool will identify cost savings by locating idle Amazon EC2 resources?

Answer 20

AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 21

What are some of the different pricing models in AWS?

Answer 21

Reserved Instances
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances
Savings Plans
Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated Instances
Capacity Reservations

Question 22

Is data traffic that is destined to your on-premises data centers considered data-transfer-out? And will that transfer of data result in a charge to your monthly bill?

Answer 22

Yes.
Can eliminate these charges by using Direct Connect

Question 23

What AWS services offer solutions for automatically deleting old Amazon EBS snapshots or backups from other AWS services?
And what AWS services could also help to reduce the storage costs within an AWS account?

Answer 23

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager and AWS Backup.

Question 24

What AWS service helps to set coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the defined threshold?

Answer 24

AWS Budgets.

Question 25

What can you use to track and categorize AWS costs on a detailed level?

Answer 25

Cost allocation tags

Question 26

What is the most cost-effective option when you purchase a reserved instance for a 1-year term?

Answer 26

All upfront.

Question 27

What type of reserved instance can you choose to change the instance family, type, platform, scope, or tenancy?

Answer 27

Convertible Reserved Instances

Question 28

In S3, what can you use to automatically transfer your infrequently accessed data in your S3 bucket to a more cost-effective storage class?

Answer 28

S3 Lifecycle Policy

Question 29

Where can you see your forecasted future costs and current usage of your AWS resources?

Answer 29

AWS Cost Explorer.

Question 30

Which AWS Support plan offers access to AWS Incident Detection and Response for an additional fee?

Answer 30

AWS Enterprise Support plan