Pricing, Billing and Governance Services

Question 1

What is the Application Discovery Service?

Answer 1

Application Discovery Service helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.

Question 2

What is Budgets?

Answer 2

Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.

Question 3

What is the Cost and Usage report?

Answer 3

The Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.

Question 4

What is Cost Explorer?

Answer 4

Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

Question 5

What is Organisations?

Answer 5

Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella.

Question 6

What is Control Tower?

Answer 6

Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies.

Question 7

What is Systems Manager?

Answer 7

Systems Manager gives you visibility into and control over your AWS resources.

Question 8

What is Trusted Advisor?

Answer 8

Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.

Question 9

What is MarketPlace?

Answer 9

Marketplace is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license. You may also use it to sell solutions to others.

Question 10

What is the AWS Partner Network?

Answer 10

APN is a global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS.

Question 11

DELETE - What is AWS Managed Services?

Answer 11

Managed Services helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure.

Question 12

What is Professional Services?

Answer 12

Professional Services helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model.

Question 13

What is AWS Licence Manager?

Answer 13

License Manager helps you manage software licenses.

Question 14

What is AWS Certificate Manager?

Answer 14

Certificate Manager helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates.

Question 15

A customer provisioned an on-demand EC2 instance using a Linux AMI. The instance ran for 10 hours, 3 minutes, and 7 seconds before the user terminated it. How much time will the customer be billed for?

Answer 15

10 hours, 3 minutes, and 7 seconds

You are billed down to the second for an EC2 instance.

Question 16

A system administrator works for a company and manages several AWS accounts. He would like to use a Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) across different AWS accounts. How can this be set up?

Answer 16

By using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations

Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under 1 umbrella. You can allocate resources and apply policies across accounts.

Question 17

You have decided to use the AWS Cost and Usage Report to track your EC2 Reserved Instance costs. Which AWS service can be used to store AWS Cost and Usage report files?

Answer 17

An S3 bucket you own

You can use Cost and Usage Reports to publish your AWS billing reports to an S3 bucket you own. AWS updates the report in your bucket once a day in comma-separated value (CSV) format. You can view the reports using spreadsheet software or access them from an application using the Amazon S3 API

Question 18

A company would like to understand its total cost of ownership (TCO) when all workloads are moved to the cloud.

What costs should the company consider in their AWS TCO?

Answer 18

• Compute costs
• Data transfer costs
• Storage costs

Question 19

A healthcare company has nightly batch jobs that can afford to be interrupted. Which EC2 pricing model can meet this need and provide great savings by using a supply-and-demand model?

Answer 19

Spot Instances

EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

Question 20

A fantasy sports company needs to run an application for the length of a football season (5 months). They will run the application on an EC2 instance and there can be no interruption. Which purchasing option best suits this use case?

Answer 20

On-Demand

This is not a long enough term to make Reserved Instances the better option. Plus, the application can’t be interrupted, which rules out Spot Instances.