Pricing, Billing, and Governance Flashcards

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Total Cost Of Ownership is Financial Tool that helps you understand both

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the direct and indirect costs of AWS.

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Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) can be used to figure out cloud migration cost and how to reduce

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cloud operational cost

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3
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Ways to Reduce Your TCO Using AWS (2)

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  • minimize large capital expenditures
  • Provision resources based on your usage
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Storage(S3) Pricing is based on (2)

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  • Storage Class Type
  • Number and size of total objects
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What are the 5 Factors that affect RDS Pricing?

  • Type of Database
  • Data Transfer
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  • Running Clock Hours
  • Number of API Request
  • Deployment Type
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The Cost and Usage Report Provides the most detailed set of

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AWS cost and usage data available.

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The Cost and Usage Report Aggregates usage data on what three timelines

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  • Hourly
  • Daily
  • Monthly
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8
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Cost Allocation Tags can help you

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track spending.

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Cost Allocation Tags allow you to label resources using a

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key and value pair

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10
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Cost Allocation Tags allow you to track costs via which report?

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the cost allocation report

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11
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What is an Organization in AWS?

An entity you create to

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consolidate multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella

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AWS Organization features (3)

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  • Account Governance
  • Auto Account creation
  • Consolidated Billing
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13
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AWS Control Tower Enforces the best use of services across accounts by helping your accounts

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adhere to company-wide policies.

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14
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Systems Manager gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources. It also helps you maintain your resources through

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automatic patching and updates.

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15
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Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following

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AWS best practices.

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16
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Which AWS service Checks S3 bucket permissions to determine if public access is allowed?

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Trusted Advisor does this for free

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17
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Trusted Advisor Enterprise Or Business Support comes with the following 3 Checks

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  • Checks IAM password policy
  • Checks for exposed access keys
  • Checks for CloudFront content delivery optimization
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18
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License Manager manages which types of licenses?

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Manage on-premises or AWS-based Oracle licenses.

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19
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Certificate Manager

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Provides public and private certificates for free

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20
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AWS Managed Services augments your staff and helps improve

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your overall operational efficiency.

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21
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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions that you can

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purchase or license.

22
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AWS Marketplace you can install software with

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Install software with the click of a button

23
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AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community of approved partners that offer

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software solutions and consulting services for AWS

24
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AWS Professional Services can help you

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migrate from on-premises to the cloud.

25
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Personal Health Dashboard alerts you to events that might

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impact your AWS environment.

26
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Personal Health Dashboard feedback and troubleshooting guidance tailored

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to your specific environment

27
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AWS Technical Support Cases can be opened by customers on the Developer, Business, or Enterprise plans but not the

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Basic Support Plan

28
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On the Basic Support Plan, you have 24/7 access via

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email only

29
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On the Developer Support Plan, you can open an unlimited # of tickets in which three categories?

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Account & Billing
Service Limit Increase
Technical Support Tickets

30
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Developer Support Plan you get 1 assigned _____ _______ ________ as Primary Contact.

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Cloud Support Associate

31
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Starting at the Business Support Plan you can open an unlimited # of Cases and Unlimited Contacts you also get access to the

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full set of Trusted Advisor checks.

32
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What are the forms of communication in this plan on the Business Support Plan?

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  • 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with a Cloud Support Engineers
33
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What is the ideal workload for the Business Support Plan?

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Production workloads.

34
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What are the response times on the Business Support Plan? (2)
Production system down?
Production system impaired?

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Response Times:
Production system down < 1hour ,
Production system impaired <4 hours

35
Q

What are the forms of communication in this plan on the Enterprise Support Plan?

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24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with Cloud Support Engineers

36
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  • 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with a
  • Cloud Support Engineers
  • Full set of Trusted Advisor checks.
  • Access to all ticket types

The Enterprise Support Plan has all the features of the priors plans and Access to a ______ ______ ______

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Technical Account Manager (TAM) and the Concierge Support Team.

37
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What is the ideal workload for the Enterprise Support Plan?

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Business or mission-critical production workloads.

38
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What are the response times on the Enterprise Support Plan? (3)
Production system down
Production system impaired
Business-critical system down

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Production system down < 1hour
Production system impaired <4 hours
Business-critical system down <15 Mins

39
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AWS Cost Explorer, is a tool that enables you to _______, _________, and _________ your AWS costs and usage over time.

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visualize, understand, and manage

40
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AWS Cost Explorer visualizes and forecasts your costs and usage over time. How far into the past and future can you look?

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  • View past 12 months
  • Forecast for up to 3 months
41
Q

Which tool should you use if you are considering your options for Savings Plans?

AWS Budgets
Control Tower
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Organization

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AWS Cost Explorer

42
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AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the

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cost of your use cases on AWS

43
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In AWS Organizations, you can apply service control policies (SCPs) to the

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Organization Unit
Organization Root
Or an Individual member account

44
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You can apply IAM policies to IAM (3)

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users, groups, or roles.

45
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Trusted Advisor is an online resource that helps to reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by

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optimizing your AWS environment.

46
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Trusted Advisor scans your AWS infrastructure and compares is to AWS best practices in five categories:

Cost Optimization
Performance

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Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits

47
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Which AWS service lets you apply resources and apply policies across accounts

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AWS Organization

48
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What are the forms of communication and the hours of availability on the Developer Support Plan?

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  • Via email only
  • Communication is only during Business-hours
49
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If your system is impaired on the Developer Support Plan how long does AWS have to respond?

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  • <12 Hour Response if System Impaired
50
Q

Trusted Advisor Free-Tier will check for unrestricted access in which two areas?

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  • Ports on EC2 instances
  • MFA on the root account
51
Q

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure,

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multi AWS Account environment called a landing zone.

52
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What is the difference between AWS organizations and control towers?

While AWS Organizations enables you to manage your environment across multiple accounts

AWS Control Tower automates many of the steps required to

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build your environment and govern at scale