AWS : Cloud Practitioner Exam — Part 4
A Quick Review about Billing & Pricing
Part 4 : Billing & Pricing (16% of exam)
- Understand pricing model of AWS cloud
- Understand resource for billing & pricing support
1. The company board decides to move and run all services to AWS cloud. Looking at the change from a financial perspective, which of the following is true ?
less upfront cost & less variable cost
2. Which of the Reserved Instance(RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value ?
Convertible RI
You can exchange one or more Convertible Reserved Instances for another Convertible Reserved Instance with a different configuration, including instance family, operating system, and tenancy.
There are no limits to how many times you perform an exchange, as long as the target Convertible Reserved Instance is of an equal or higher value than the Convertible Reserved Instances that you are exchanging.
3. Which of the following options will get you the highest cost savings when using Reserved Instances (RI) compared to On-demand Instances?
3 year commitment, all upfront, standard RI
4. Which AWS EC2 pricing model can provide discounts going up to 90% ?
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
5. Which of the following tools can help your cost estimation within AWS ?
- AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
- AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
- AWS Cost Explore
6. Which of the following AWS services could help you with cost optimization for your AWS infrastructure ?
AWS Trusted Advisor
7. As you progress and grow your usage within AWS, you are now looking to consolidate and centrally manage billing and access of multiple AWS accounts.
Which AWS service can help you reach your goal ?
AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your workloads on AWS.
Whether you are a growing startup or a large enterprise, Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts
For billing purposes, AWS treats all the accounts in the organization as if they were one account. Some services, such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, have volume pricing tiers across certain usage dimensions that give you lower prices the more you use the service.
With consolidated billing, AWS combines the usage from all accounts to determine which volume pricing tiers to apply, giving you a lower overall price whenever possible.
8. The Finance department in your organization is asking you for your help. The CFO asks how could you track and categorize spending on a detailed level in AWS. What AWS feature or service can help you solve this request ?
A tag is a label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. Each tag consists of a key and a value. A key can have more than one value.
After you activate cost allocation tags, AWS uses the cost allocation tags to organize your resource costs on your cost allocation report, to make it easier for you to categorize and track your AWS costs.
9. Which of the following AWS services can help when comparing costs in a traditional DC with running your applications in AWS Cloud ?
AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
10. Which of the following are taken into consideration in regards to RDS billing?
- Number of requests
- Data Transfer Out of AWS
- Clock hours of server time
11. For which of the following you will not be charged by AWS ?
- Data Transfer Into AWS
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Cloud Formation
- Elastic BeanStalk
- VPC
There is no additional charge for using these resource, You still have to pay for AWS underlying resources (e.g. EC2 instances or S3 buckets) you create to store and run your application.
12. What is included in Basic Support for all AWS customers ?
- Customer Service & Communities — 24x7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums.
- AWS Trusted Advisor — Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to provision your resources following best practices to increase performance and improve security.
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard — A personalized view of the health of AWS services, and alerts when your resources are impacted.
13. Which AWS support plans is recommended if you are experimenting or testing in AWS ?
Developer
- 7 core AWS Trusted Advisor
- Business hours** email access to Cloud Support Associates
- Unlimited cases / 1 primary contact
- General guidance: < 24 hours
- System impaired: < 12 hours
14. What is the same between AWS Support Plan Business and Enterprise ?
- Full set of AWS Trusted Advisor
- 24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers
- Unlimited cases / unlimited contacts (IAM supported)
- Production system impaired: < 4 hours
- Production system down: < 1 hour
15. What is the privilege of AWS Support Plan Enterprise ?
- Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes
- Technical Account Manager
- Consultative review and guidance based on your applications
- Access to online self-paced labs
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