AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C01 (billing and pricing)

Which of the following support plans features access to AWS Support via email only during business hours?. Developer. Basic. Enterprise. Business.

You need to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. Which TOOL will allow you to do this?. AWS organizations. CloudWatch. AWS cloudtrail. Cost Allocation Tags.

Your company has entered into a 3-year contract with a government agency. Your best option for EC2 is Reserved Instances. Which AWS feature would you use to track your Reserved Instance usage?. AWS CloudTrail. Trusted Advisor. AWS Organizations. AWS Cost and Usage Report.

A company is migrating its workloads to AWS. Which tool will help the company estimate their potential cloud bill and calculate their overall total cost of ownership (TCO) based on their current workloads?. The company can use the AWS Pricing Calculator. The company can open an account and billing support case with AWS Support to get help with estimating the TCO. The company can research the published prices of the AWS services and manually calculate the estimate. The company can use the Cost Explorer to visualize its estimated TCO.

You are an AWS Enterprise customer with questions about billing and your overall AWS account. Which of the following AWS Support personnel should you contact?. AWS Technical Account Manager. AWS Concierge. AWS Billing and Accounts. AWS Support.

Why would you use tags in AWS?. To organize your resources. To store code. For a NoSQL data store. To store passwords for your servers.

A company would like someone to help them coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts when they need help. Which support plan do they need to have?. Developer Support. Basic Support. Business. Enterprise.

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 ADITIONAL FEE) should you upgrade to?. Upgrade to Developer plan. Do nothing. It is included in the Basic plan. Upgrade to the Business plan. No other steps are necessary. Upgrade to Enterprise plan.

A company would like to understand its total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving workloads to the cloud. Which should the company consider in their overall TCO? (3 options). 1-Building security costs. 2-Data transfer costs. 3-Infrastructure costs. 4-Storage costs. 5-Compute costs.

Which AWS service would enable you to view the spending distribution in 1 of your AWS accounts?. AWS Spending Explorer. AWS Organizations. Billing Advisor. AWS Cost Explorer.

Which of the following are AWS EC2 Reserved Instances pricing types? (3 options). Convertible. Scalable. Scheduled. Compute. Standard.

A company would like to understand its total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving workloads to the cloud. Which should the company consider in their overall TCO? (3 options). Data transfer costs. Compute costs. Storage costs. Infrastructure costs. Building security costs.

A small software company is starting to work with the AWS Cloud. Which service will allow them to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS?. AWS Marketplace. Service Catalog. Organizations. ElastiCache.

Your Finance Department has instructed you to save costs wherever possible when using the AWS Cloud. You notice that using reserved EC2 instances on a 1-year contract will save money. What payment method will save the most money?. All Upfront. Deferred. Partial Upfront. No Upfront.

An independent developer needs help with monitoring service limits to ensure they don't exceed free-tier usage on their account. Which services will help them monitor service limits?. Trusted Advisor. GuardDuty. Config. Inspector. CloudWatch.

You need to purchase Reserved Instances for a 3-year project. But a company initiative may change all the company compute operating systems from Windows to Linux midway through this project. What type of Reserved Instance should you purchase?. Standard. Automatic. Convertible. Zonal.

You have a web application that needs to run for a short period of time. It is all right if there are interruptions in the application. Which EC2 instance type would be best for this use case?. On-Demand Instance. Spot Instance. Dedicated Instance. Reserved Instance.

Which of the following AWS Support levels offers 24x7 support via phone or chat?. Basic. Individual. Developer. Business.

A company has multiple AWS accounts across many departments. They are considering using Organizations to group all their accounts under 1 master payer account. What are the benefits of using Organizations?. They can receive 1 bill for all their AWS accounts. They can reduce costs by sharing resources across accounts. They can automatically be alerted when new accounts are set up. The IAM integration allows for IAM users to be deleted automatically when an account is closed. They can easily add new accounts or create new accounts.

Your Development team uses 4 On-Demand EC2 instances. Your QA team has 5 Reserved Instances, only 3 of which are being used. Assuming all AWS accounts are under a single AWS Organization, how will the Development team's instances be billed?. The Dev team will be billed for 2 instances at On-Demand prices and 2 instances at the Reserved Instance price. All the Dev team's instances will be billed at the On-Demand rate. The pricing for the Reserved Instances will shift from QA to Dev. All the Dev team's instances will be billed at the Reserved Instance rate.

Which of the following services are available 24x7 for all AWS Support plans? (3 options). Support forums. AWS documentation. Customer service. Cloud Support Engineers.

Which of the following EC2 instance types will realize a savings over time in exchange for a contracted term-of-service?. On-Demand Instances. Reserved Instances. Spot Instances. Discount Instances.

You work for a financial company that has several mission-critical workloads running on AWS. Which AWS Support plan should you use if you want response times in under 15 minutes when issues occur?. business. enterprise. developer. basic.

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. < 15 minutes response time support when your production system goes down. < 24 hours response time support when your production system goes down. < 15 minutes response time support if your business-critical system goes down.

Which of the following support plans features a < 4-hour response time in the event of an IMPAIRED production system?. Individual. developer. basic. business.

A user is looking to buy a prebuilt solution that runs on AWS that allows them to track projects. Where can the user go to find a catalog of AWS-recognized providers selling third-party solutions to individuals?. Consulting partner from the AWS Partner Network (APN). Managed Services. AWS Community Forums. Marketplace.

A large company is using multiple AWS accounts and would like to benefit from available volume discounts in AWS. Which AWS feature will enable the company to get volume discounts?. Upgrade to an Enterprise Support plan. Use AWS Organizations and its consolidated billing feature to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts. Contact AWS to request volume discounts. Use free tier as much as possible.

If you want access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks, which of the AWS Support plans will provide that?. enterprise. basic. developer. business.

You have many database backups you need to store for an indefinite amount of time. If the backups are ever needed, they just need to be retrieved within 6 hours. What is the lowest cost solution for this scenario?. Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval. Amazon S3 Standard-IA. Amazon S3. Amazon EFS.

Which S3 storage class is the best value for long-term archive?. S3 Standard. S3 Intelligent-Tiering. S3 Standard Infrequent-Access. Glacier.

What can we do in AWS to receive the benefits of volume pricing for your multiple AWS accounts?. Use AWS Trusted Advisor. Use consolidated billing in AWS Organizations. Purchase services in bulk from AWS Marketplace. You will receive volume pricing by default.

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. Dedicated Host. Virtual instances. Reserved Instances.

Your company is considering migrating its data center to the cloud. Which of the following is an advantage of the AWS Cloud over an on-premises data center?. Replace upfront operational expenses with low variable operational expenses. Replace low variable costs with upfront capital expenses. Replace upfront capital expenses with low variable costs. Maintain physical access to the new data center but share responsibility with AWS.

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?. Spot Instance. On-Demand Instance. Reserved Instance. Dedicated Host.

For enhanced technical support, some AWS Support plans enable you to have an unlimited number of contacts that can open an unlimited amount of cases. Which of the following choices offer this feature?. enterprise. basic. developer. business.

You want to monitor the cost of using your AWS services and receive alerts when the thresholds you define are met. Which of the following AWS Budgets types should you create?. Reservation budget. Cost budget. Savings Plans budget. Usage budget.

Which of the following are support levels offered by AWS?. developer. basic. start-up. business. individual.

A project manager wants to identify, organize, search for, and filter all EC2 instances belonging to the Marketing department for budget management purposes. What is the best strategy for the project manager to identify Marketing resources?. Use tags. Talk with a Technical Account Manager (TAM). Open a case with AWS Support. Use Systems Manager.

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?. Reserved. On-Demand. Spot. Dedicated.

Which of the following support services do all accounts receive as part of the AWS Support Basic tier?. Architectural support. Technical Account Manager. Billing support. 24/7 support via phone and chat.

Which of the following are criteria affecting your billing for RDS?. Standard monitoring services. Number of requests. Additional storage. Data transferred in. Running duration of the RDS instances.

What tool allows you to compare your estimated service costs by region?. AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Pricing Calculator. AWS Budgets. AWS Cost and usage reports.

What is the easiest way for an AWS Basic Support plan customer to increase service limits?. Open a service limit increase support case by phone. Open a support case via chat. Open a support case from the Support Center. Open a service limit increase support case via email.

Which cost management tool allows you to view costs for the last 12 months, current detailed costs, and forecast costs for up to 3 months?. aws budgets. aws cost explorer. aws cost and usage reports. saving plans.

Which cost management tool allows you to see the most detailed information about your AWS bill?. AWS cost and usage reports. AWS Budgets. CloudWatch billing alarm. AWS Cost Explorer.

Which of the following uses will always be free even after the 12-month free tier plan has expired?. 1 million AWS Lambda requests per month. 5,000 images processed by Amazon Rekognition. 750 hours of Amazon EC2 compute capacity. 750 hours of elastic load balancing. (ELB).

Which service allows you to simplify billing by using a single payment method for all your accounts?. aws managed services. aws cost explorer. aws organizations. aws budgets.

What cost management tool gives you the ability to receive alerts when actual or projected cost and usage exceed a desired threshold?. aws budgets. aws cost explorer. reserved instance reporting. aws cost and usage reports.

Why is AWS cheaper than traditional data centers for applications with different compute workloads?. EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed. Users can permanently run enough instances to handle increased workloads. Users maintain full administrative access to their Amazon instances. EC2 costs are billed monthly.

Which of the following is not an AWS core charge?. data entry. data output. storage. computing.

Which of the following EC2 instance types will achieve savings over time in exchange for a contracted term of service?. reserved instances. spot. On demand.

Which of the following aws Support plans provides enhanced technical support ONLY during business hours via email?. business. basic. developer. enterprise.

True or false? With consolidated billing, the paying account can make changes, such as altering access to resources, to any of the resources owned by a linked account. true. false.

Which of the following support plans has a response time < 4 hours in case of a damaged production system?. basic. business. developer. individual.