CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support — All Questions With Answers

Question 1mediummultiple choice

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A company runs multiple workloads on Amazon EC2 instances. They expect consistent usage for the next three years but want the flexibility to change instance families (for example, from M5 to C5) if performance requirements shift. Which AWS pricing model meets these requirements while providing a significant discount over On-Demand pricing?

Question 2mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to proactively monitor its AWS spending and receive email notifications when actual or forecasted costs exceed a defined threshold. The company has a monthly budget of $10,000 and wants to be alerted when costs reach 80% of the budget. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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A company operates five separate AWS accounts for different business units. The finance team wants to aggregate the usage across all accounts to benefit from volume pricing discounts and to receive a single monthly bill. The company does not need to centrally manage permissions or apply service control policies at this time. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 4mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to review its AWS spending for the past six months to identify which services and business units are driving costs. The finance team needs to interactively examine cost trends, filter by service and account, and visualize the data without setting up complex reports. Which AWS service or tool should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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A company is launching a critical production application on AWS. The operations team requires technical support with a response time of less than 1 hour for urgent system issues. They also need access to AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checks for cost optimization and security. Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the lowest cost?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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A company operates separate AWS accounts for its engineering, marketing, and finance departments. The CFO wants to consolidate billing to receive a single monthly invoice and to benefit from volume pricing discounts. The security team also requires a centralized mechanism to prevent users in any department from launching Amazon EC2 instances outside of the us-east-1 and eu-west-1 Regions to meet data residency compliance. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet both requirements?

Question 7mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a batch processing workload on Amazon EC2 instances. The finance team has set a monthly budget of $10,000 for this workload. They want to automatically stop the batch processing instances if the accumulated costs for the month exceed $8,000, to prevent overspending. The company needs a native AWS solution that can monitor the costs and take corrective action automatically. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 8mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a mix of Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Fargate containers. The CFO wants to reduce costs by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $ per hour) for a 1-year term. The company expects to change instance families and regions occasionally and needs the flexibility to apply the savings to both EC2 and ECS Fargate usage. Which AWS pricing option should the company choose?

Question 9mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. The Chief Financial Officer wants to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the current on-premises infrastructure against running equivalent workloads on AWS. The company needs a tool that allows them to input details about their existing servers, storage, and network usage to generate a detailed cost comparison report. Which AWS tool should the company use to meet this requirement?

Question 10mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations with separate accounts for development, testing, and production. The finance team wants to track monthly spending by internal project, but a single project may use resources across multiple accounts. The team has applied a 'Project' tag to all resources. They need a detailed billing report that shows costs grouped by this Project tag, combining data from all accounts. Which AWS feature should they enable to meet this requirement?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate its on-premises database and web application to AWS. The solutions architect needs to provide a detailed monthly cost estimate for the AWS resources that will be used, including Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS database instances, and Amazon S3 storage. The architect wants to specify instance types, storage sizes, data transfer amounts, and other parameters to get a precise estimate before building the environment. Which AWS tool should the architect use?

Question 12easymultiple choice

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A company operates 10 AWS accounts, each managed by a separate team. Each account runs its own Amazon EC2 instances and stores data in Amazon S3. The CFO wants to minimize overall costs by taking advantage of volume discount pricing tiers that AWS offers (e.g., lower per-GB storage costs as total S3 usage increases). Which AWS feature should the company use to combine usage from all accounts so they benefit from the highest possible volume discounts?

Question 13mediummultiple choice

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A company has been using AWS for six months and wants to predict their expected spending for the next quarter. They have historical cost data and need to use an AWS tool that can analyze past usage patterns and generate a monthly cost forecast. Which AWS tool should they use?

Question 14mediummultiple choice

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A company's finance team wants to receive an email alert when monthly AWS costs exceed 80% of the budgeted amount. Additionally, they want to automatically apply a specific IAM policy to restrict further resource provisioning if costs exceed 100% of the budget. Which AWS feature should the team configure to meet both requirements?

Question 15mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a fleet of production Amazon EC2 instances that operate 24/7 throughout the year. The CFO wants to reduce compute costs by committing to a consistent usage level. The finance team needs a tool that analyzes the company's historical EC2 usage and provides recommendations for the most cost-effective purchase options, including recommendations for both Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, with support for instance size flexibility. Which AWS tool should the finance team use?

Question 16mediummultiple choice

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A company runs development and test environments on Amazon EC2 instances in separate AWS accounts. The finance team wants to automatically stop all non-production EC2 instances if the monthly development account costs exceed $1,000. The team needs a solution that requires no manual intervention and uses only AWS-native features. Which AWS feature should the team configure to meet these requirements?

Question 17mediummultiple choice

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A company is evaluating a migration of its on-premises data center to AWS. The CIO wants a detailed report that compares the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the current on-premises infrastructure versus running the equivalent workloads on AWS. The report should include costs for hardware, software, labor, power, cooling, and facilities. Which AWS tool should the company use to generate this comparison?

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a critical production application on AWS. The internal team is unable to resolve intermittent errors that are impacting the application. The company currently has the AWS Basic Support plan and requires access to AWS technical support with a faster response time for production issues. Due to budget constraints, the company wants the most cost-effective support plan that provides a response time of 1 hour for production system impaired cases. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a large-scale e-commerce platform on AWS and is preparing for a major product launch. The company needs the highest level of AWS support, including a response time of 15 minutes or less for critical business-impacting issues. Additionally, the company wants a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to provide proactive guidance and a personalized onboarding plan. Which AWS Support plan should the company select?

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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A company runs separate AWS accounts for development, testing, and production workloads. The finance team wants a single view that shows the total spending across all accounts. Additionally, the team wants to benefit from volume discount pricing by aggregating usage across all accounts. The team also needs to allocate costs to individual projects based on custom tags applied to resources. Which AWS feature should the finance team use to meet all these requirements?

Question 21mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to set a monthly cost budget of $5,000 for the 'Project Alpha' account. They want to receive an email notification when the actual costs reach 80% of the budget and again when the forecasted costs are expected to exceed the budget. The team also needs to centrally manage these budgets from the management account. Which AWS service should the team use to meet these requirements?

Question 22mediummultiple choice

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A company has been running multiple workloads on AWS for several months. The finance team notices that monthly costs have increased significantly but cannot identify which services or linked accounts are driving the increase. The team needs a tool that provides interactive graphs and filters to visualize cost and usage data over time, allows filtering by service or linked account, and identifies the top cost contributors. They also need to create custom reports that can be emailed on a weekly schedule. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to meet these requirements?

Question 23mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to analyze its AWS spending at the most granular level, including every resource usage line item and custom tags applied to resources. The company wants to download a raw, uncompressed CSV file of this data for integration with its on-premises business intelligence (BI) tool. The file must be automatically delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket on a daily basis. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 24mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a steady-state web server to AWS. The server is expected to run continuously (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) for the next three years. The workload has predictable CPU and memory usage and does not experience significant spikes. The company wants to minimize the total cost of running this server over the three-year period. Which AWS EC2 pricing model should the company choose?

Question 25mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a critical e-commerce platform on AWS. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) wants a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who will provide proactive architectural guidance, conduct regular operational reviews, and maintain a deep understanding of the company's AWS environment. The company also requires a response time of 15 minutes for business-critical system issues, 24/7 access to senior AWS engineers, and access to the AWS Infrastructure Event Management service for planned launches. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 26mediummultiple choice

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A small company operates a single AWS account and currently uses the Basic Support plan. The company's administrator needs to be able to contact AWS Support by phone for urgent billing and account issues. Additionally, the administrator wants to request service limit increases through the AWS Support console. The company wants to minimize costs while meeting these requirements. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. The finance team needs to compare the current on-premises infrastructure costs (including servers, storage, networking, and personnel) against the projected costs of running identical workloads on AWS over a three-year period. The team wants to input detailed specifications of their existing hardware and get a comprehensive report that highlights potential savings and provides a total cost of ownership (TCO) comparison. Which AWS tool should the finance team use?

Question 28mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a critical application on Amazon EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone. The operations team wants to be notified immediately if AWS experiences a service disruption that could affect their instances. They also want a personalized view of the impact of AWS service events on their specific AWS resources. Which AWS tool should they use?

Question 29mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple departments (HR, Finance, Engineering) sharing a single AWS account. Each department tags its resources with a 'Department' tag (e.g., Department:HR). The finance team wants to set monthly spending limits for each department and receive email alerts when a department's spending reaches 80% of its limit. They also want a visual dashboard to compare actual spending against the budgeted amounts. Which combination of AWS services should the finance team use?

Question 30easymultiple choice

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A company operates three separate AWS accounts: development, testing, and production. Each account independently incurs Amazon S3 data transfer charges. The company signs up for AWS Organizations and enables consolidated billing. How does consolidated billing affect the S3 data transfer pricing for the company?

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production application on a mix of Amazon EC2 instance families (e.g., M5, C5, R5) across two AWS Regions. The application runs 24/7 and is expected to continue for the next three years. The company wants to minimize compute costs while retaining the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, or Regions if needed. The company also prefers to avoid any upfront payment to preserve cash flow. Which AWS pricing option should the company choose?

Question 32mediummultiple choice

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A company has been using Amazon EC2 instances for a production application for the past 12 months. The finance team wants to understand historical spending patterns and identify opportunities to reduce costs. Specifically, they need to see which EC2 instance families and sizes are being underutilized and get recommendations for purchasing Reserved Instances to save money compared to current On-Demand pricing. The team wants to use a native AWS tool that provides a visual dashboard of costs, usage trends, and actionable recommendations. Which AWS tool should the finance team use?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts for different departments (Engineering, Marketing, Sales). The finance team needs to create detailed monthly chargeback reports showing each department's usage and costs, broken down by service (e.g., Amazon EC2, Amazon S3) and by custom tags (e.g., Project). The reports must be in a machine-readable format (CSV) so they can be ingested into the company's internal billing system. The team wants the most comprehensive, granular cost data available from AWS, including line items for individual resources. Which AWS tool should the finance team configure to meet these requirements?

Question 34mediummultiple choice

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A company operates a critical e-commerce platform on AWS that generates significant revenue. The management team requires a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to provide proactive guidance and operational best practices. Additionally, they need the fastest possible response time for critical system failures, targeting a response within 15 minutes. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production web application that uses Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon ECS tasks. The application runs 24/7 and the company expects steady usage for the next three years. The company wants to commit to a flexible pricing model that provides significant discounts compared to On-Demand and automatically applies to usage across all three compute services. The company also wants the flexibility to change instance families, regions, or even migrate between compute services (e.g., from EC2 to Lambda) without needing to modify the commitment. Which AWS pricing model should the company choose?

Question 36mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production web application on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The internal IT team needs a support plan that provides a guaranteed response time of less than one hour for a production system outage. Additionally, the company wants access to AWS Infrastructure Event Management, which includes guidance from AWS experts during planned events such as product launches or migrations. The company does not require a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 37mediummultiple choice

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A startup is planning to migrate its web application to AWS. The CTO wants to estimate the monthly cost of running the application on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, including data transfer costs. The team has not yet created any AWS accounts or resources. They need a tool that allows them to input assumptions about instance types, storage, and data transfer to generate a detailed cost estimate. Which AWS tool should they use?

Question 38mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts used by different departments (Finance, Marketing, Engineering). The finance team wants to see a single monthly bill that aggregates charges from all accounts. Additionally, they want to track costs by department using custom cost allocation tags that each department applies to its resources. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet both requirements?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The finance team wants to set a monthly spending limit for the application and receive email alerts when the actual cost exceeds 80% of that limit. Additionally, they want the system to automatically stop non-critical EC2 instances if the cost exceeds the limit. Which AWS service should they use to meet these requirements?

Question 40mediummultiple choice

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A company has been running workloads on AWS for over a year. The finance team needs to analyze historical spending patterns. They want a graphical dashboard that shows costs by service (e.g., EC2, S3), by AWS Region, and by custom cost allocation tags over the last 12 months. Additionally, they need to generate a 3-month cost forecast based on this historical data. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to meet these requirements?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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A company plans to run a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances continuously for 3 years to support a steady-state application. The company wants the lowest possible cost for this predictable workload while maintaining the flexibility to change instance families if needed. Which AWS purchasing option should the company choose?

Question 42easymultiple choice

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A startup company is using the AWS Free Tier to run a small web application. They want to ensure they receive a notification if their usage is about to exceed the Free Tier limits for any service, to avoid unexpected charges. Which AWS service or feature should they use to set up this alert?

Question 43mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate its on-premises infrastructure to AWS. The operations team wants to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) between running workloads on-premises and running them on AWS. They need a tool that can accept details about their current on-premises servers (number of servers, CPU, memory, storage) and produce a detailed report comparing costs over a specified period, including savings from avoided hardware purchases, IT labor, and data center costs. Which AWS tool should the operations team use?

Question 44mediummultiple choice

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A company is deploying a mission-critical application on AWS. The application requires the highest level of support available, including a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and a response time of 15 minutes or less for production system down cases. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 45mediummultiple choice

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A company has 20 AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to centralize billing so that the company receives volume discounts for the aggregated usage across all accounts. Additionally, the team needs to set monthly budgets for each department and automatically receive email notifications when a department's spending reaches 80% of its budget threshold. Which combination of AWS features or services should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts that are consolidated under AWS Organizations. The company uses cost allocation tags to track costs by project. The finance team now wants an interactive tool that can visualize the company's AWS spending over the past 6 months, break down costs by the 'Project' tag, and allow filtering by service, region, and linked account. The team also wants to forecast future spending based on historical trends. Which AWS service or feature should the finance team use?

Question 47mediummultiple choice

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A solutions architect is planning a new web application on AWS. The workload will include 3 Amazon EC2 instances (t3.medium) running 24/7, an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL db.t3.small database. The architect needs to estimate the monthly cost for the first year, considering different purchasing options (On-Demand, 1-year All Upfront Reserved Instance, and Compute Savings Plan). Which AWS tool should the architect use to create this estimate?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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A company runs several Amazon EC2 instances for development and testing purposes. The finance team wants to identify any instances that have been running with very low CPU utilization (less than 10%) over the past two weeks so they can stop or resize them to reduce costs. Which AWS tool provides this specific recommendation as part of its cost optimization checks?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The finance team needs to perform a detailed cost analysis by joining AWS usage data with their internal accounting system. They require hourly-level billing data that includes resource IDs, operation types, and cost allocation tags. The data must be available in a CSV file that can be imported into their financial software. Which AWS tool or service should the finance team use to meet this requirement?

Question 50mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a mix of production and non-production Amazon EC2 instances. The finance team uses AWS Budgets to monitor monthly spending. For the development accounts, the team wants to automatically stop all running EC2 instances when the account's monthly spending reaches 90% of the budgeted amount. The team wants a solution that does not require custom scripting or additional infrastructure. Which AWS Budgets feature should the team configure to meet this requirement?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a diverse workload on AWS that includes Amazon EC2 instances of various families and sizes across multiple regions, Amazon RDS databases, and a serverless application using AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. The finance team wants to reduce compute costs by making a 1-year hourly spend commitment, but they need the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, regions, or switch between EC2, Fargate, and Lambda without losing the discount. Which AWS pricing model should the finance team choose to meet these requirements?

Question 52mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a mix of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple AWS Regions to support its e-commerce platform. The finance team wants to reduce compute costs by right-sizing resources. They need a managed tool that analyzes historical CPU and memory utilization over 30 days, uses machine learning to identify over-provisioned and under-provisioned instances, and provides actionable recommendations to adjust instance sizes. Which AWS tool should the finance team use?

Question 53mediummultiple choice

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A company spends over $75,000 per month on AWS services and needs ongoing, proactive cost optimization guidance from a designated AWS expert. The company also requires a 15-minute response time for their most critical production incidents. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 54mediummultiple choice

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A company has an AWS Basic Support plan. The operations team wants to use AWS Trusted Advisor to receive recommendations for cost optimization, such as identifying idle load balancers and underutilized Amazon EC2 instances. They log into the AWS Management Console and navigate to Trusted Advisor, but they only see a limited set of checks, such as S3 bucket permissions and service limits. Which action should the team take to access the complete library of Trusted Advisor checks, including the cost optimization recommendations?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts for different departments. The finance team applies tags to resources to track costs by department (e.g., Marketing, Engineering) and environment (e.g., Production, Development). However, many resources lack the required tags. The team needs a tool that can automatically allocate costs for untagged resources to specific departments and environments based on rules, and then generate reports that show cost breakdowns by these custom dimensions. The solution must not require custom scripts or manual allocation. Which AWS feature should the finance team use?

Question 56mediummultiple choice

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A company runs non-production Amazon EC2 instances for development and testing. The finance team wants to automatically stop all non-production instances if the monthly spending exceeds $5,000. The team wants to set this up without writing custom scripts or using third-party tools. Which AWS feature should the finance team use to meet this requirement?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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A company manages multiple AWS accounts under a single AWS Organizations structure with consolidated billing. The finance team needs to analyze historical cost and usage data across all accounts for the past six months. They want to filter the data by service (e.g., Amazon EC2, Amazon S3), AWS Region, and individual account. Additionally, they want to generate a line chart showing monthly trends and a forecast of future costs based on historical usage patterns. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to meet all of these requirements?

Question 58mediummultiple choice

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A startup is designing a new application on AWS. They have selected specific Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volumes, and estimated data transfer. The team wants to compare the monthly cost of running the application using On-Demand instances versus 1-year All Upfront Reserved Instances before they commit to any resources. Which AWS tool should they use to generate this cost estimate?

Question 59mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a critical database to Amazon RDS. The database must run continuously for the next 3 years to support the company's operations. The finance team wants to minimize compute costs for this database. However, they have a limited budget and cannot make large upfront payments. They want to commit to a 3-year term to receive the highest possible discount without paying anything upfront. Which pricing option should the finance team select for the DB instance?

Question 60mediummultiple choice

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A company uses a variety of AWS services and wants to automatically detect unexpected cost spikes that might indicate resource misuse, billing errors, or unauthorized activity. The company needs a managed service that uses machine learning to analyze spending patterns and provide alerts when costs deviate from expected trends. The finance team does not want to manually define thresholds for every service. Which AWS service should the finance team use?

Question 61mediummultiple choice

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A company tags all Amazon EC2 instances with a 'Project' tag to track costs. The finance team reviews cost data in AWS Cost Explorer but cannot filter or group by the 'Project' tag. The tags are visible in the EC2 console. What is the most likely reason the tags are not appearing in Cost Explorer?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production e-commerce application on AWS. The CIO requires that the company have access to AWS technical support with a response time of under 1 hour for critical production system failures. Additionally, the operations team wants to use AWS Trusted Advisor to get recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security for all AWS resources. The company already pays for AWS Business Support for its development account but wants the minimum-cost support plan that meets these requirements for its production account. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose for the production account?

Question 63mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a containerized application on Amazon ECS using a mix of Amazon EC2 On-Demand instances from different instance families (e.g., M5, C5, R5). The workload is consistent, and the company is willing to commit to a 1-year term to reduce costs. However, the team expects to change instance families within the next 12 months due to new hardware requirements and wants the flexibility to switch instance families without incurring a financial penalty. Which pricing option best meets these requirements?

Question 64mediummultiple choice

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A company operates three separate AWS accounts, one for production, one for development, and one for testing. The finance team wants to receive a single monthly invoice that shows the total charges from all three accounts combined. They also want to aggregate usage across accounts to benefit from volume discounts on Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. Additionally, the team wants to apply a single payment method (credit card) to cover charges for all accounts. Which AWS feature should the finance team use to meet these requirements?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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A company manages 15 AWS accounts through AWS Organizations. The finance team needs to perform custom analysis of monthly costs across all accounts. They want to download a detailed, hourly-level CSV file that breaks down usage and costs by service, by member account, and by user-defined cost allocation tags. The file must be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket daily, and the team will then query the data using Amazon Athena and create dashboards in Amazon QuickSight. Which AWS feature should they configure to meet these requirements?

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A company runs multiple workloads on AWS, each in separate AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to set a monthly cost threshold of $5,000 for the 'development' account. If the actual or forecasted costs exceed 80% of this threshold, the team wants to receive an email alert so they can review usage and take corrective action if needed. They also want to track costs against this threshold over time using a dashboard. Which AWS service should the finance team use to set up this threshold and receive the alerts?

Question 67easymultiple choice

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A company currently runs its infrastructure in a colocation data center. The CIO wants to estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) of migrating the existing workload to AWS, compared to continuing with the on-premises solution. The company has detailed data on current server specifications, power, cooling, and labor costs. Which AWS tool should the company use to perform this analysis?

Question 68mediummultiple choice

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A healthcare company runs a production application on AWS that stores protected health information (PHI). The company needs a support plan that provides a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who will perform quarterly business reviews, offer proactive architectural guidance, and help optimize the environment. The company also requires a 15-minute response time for critical system failures. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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A company operates over 100 AWS accounts consolidated under AWS Organizations. The finance team needs to analyze the company's historical AWS spending across all accounts for the past 6 months. They want to understand which services and regions drive the most costs, and they also need a 3-month forecast of future spending to inform budget planning. The team needs a visual dashboard that allows interactive filtering by account, service, and region without requiring custom scripts. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to meet these requirements?

Question 70mediummultiple choice

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A startup is planning a new web application on AWS. The architecture will use Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon RDS for the database, and Amazon S3 for static assets. The team needs to estimate the monthly cost of running this application before building it. They want to compare costs across different instance types, regions, and pricing models (On-Demand vs. Reserved Instances), and they also need to account for data transfer costs. Which AWS tool should the team use to create this estimate?

Question 71mediummultiple choice

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A company runs hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple accounts. The finance team wants to identify over-provisioned instances that are using more memory or CPU than necessary, so that they can downsize them and reduce monthly costs. The team needs automated, ongoing recommendations based on the actual utilization metrics of the instances. Which AWS service should the team use to meet these requirements?

Question 72mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts consolidated under AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to set a hard monthly cost limit for a development account. If the forecasted costs for the month exceed that limit, the team wants AWS to automatically stop all non-critical Amazon EC2 instances in that account to prevent overspending. The team also needs to receive an email alert when the cost threshold is first crossed. Which AWS service or feature should the team use to define the budget and configure the automated action?

Question 73mediummultiple choice

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A company recently signed up for AWS and is using the 12-month Free Tier offer. In the first month, they launched a single Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance and used it for exactly 750 hours. In the second month, they launched a second t2.micro instance and ran both instances simultaneously for 500 hours each (a total of 1,000 instance-hours for the month). Which statement accurately describes the charges for the second month under the Free Tier?

Question 74mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts that are consolidated under AWS Organizations. The finance team receives a single monthly bill for all accounts. The team needs to allocate costs to individual departments based on which department owns each resource. They want to see a breakdown of costs by department in the monthly cost report without manually combining data from each account. Which action should the finance team take to meet these requirements?

Question 75mediummultiple choice

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A company's finance team needs to analyze AWS spending in detail. They require a report that includes hourly cost data for each AWS service, each individual resource (e.g., a specific EC2 instance), and any cost allocation tags applied. The team plans to export this data to an Amazon S3 bucket and then import it into a custom business intelligence (BI) analytics dashboard. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to generate this level of detailed cost data?

Question 76mediummultiple choice

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A company has migrated to AWS and uses multiple accounts under AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team needs a monthly cost breakdown by business unit. Each business unit's AWS resources are tagged with a 'BusinessUnit' tag (e.g., 'Marketing', 'Engineering'). However, some resources are not tagged. The team wants to see both the cost per business unit (based on tagged resources) and the total cost of untagged resources, all in one view. They also need the ability to filter by AWS service (e.g., EC2, S3) for each business unit. Which AWS tool or feature should the finance team use to meet these requirements?

Question 77mediummultiple choice

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A company has a monthly budget of $10,000 for its development AWS account. The project manager wants to receive an automated email alert when the actual costs for the current month reach 80% of the budget. The project manager does not want to build any custom code or manage any infrastructure for this alert. Which approach should the project manager take to meet these requirements?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS and wants to estimate the monthly cost of running the new workload. The company needs to compare costs across different Amazon EC2 instance types, regions, and pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot). The team also wants to include estimated costs for related services such as Amazon EBS storage and data transfer. Which AWS tool should the company use to generate this cost estimate?

Question 79mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production web application on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. The company's IT team needs technical support from AWS engineers with a guaranteed response time of less than one hour for issues where production systems are impaired. Additionally, the team wants to receive cost optimization recommendations through AWS Trusted Advisor. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 80mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production workload on Amazon EC2 instances that must be available continuously. The workload has predictable usage patterns. The company wants to minimize compute costs while maintaining high availability. Which pricing model should they choose?

Question 81mediummultiple choice

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A company uses separate AWS accounts for development, testing, and production. The finance team wants to receive a single monthly invoice that covers all accounts and to benefit from volume pricing discounts across the entire organization. Which AWS feature should the company use to achieve this?

Question 82mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a steady, predictable workload on a diverse mix of Amazon EC2 instances spanning multiple instance families (e.g., M5, C5, R5) and AWS Regions. The company wants to maximize cost savings while retaining the ability to freely change instance families and Regions during the commitment term without losing the discount. Which AWS pricing model should the company use?

Question 83mediummultiple choice

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A company has been running multiple workloads on AWS for over six months. The finance team needs to gain visibility into historical cost and usage data, identify which services are driving the most spend, forecast future monthly costs, and receive recommendations for purchasing Reserved Instances to achieve the highest savings. The team wants to use a native AWS tool that provides this functionality without requiring any third-party software. Which AWS tool should the finance team use?

Question 84mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production workload on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The operations team needs technical support with a guaranteed response time of less than 1 hour for critical system issues. They also require access to the full set of AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checks, including cost optimization, security, and fault tolerance recommendations. The company does not want to pay for a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 85mediummultiple choice

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A company manages multiple AWS accounts through AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to receive a consolidated view of costs across all accounts and track costs against a monthly budget of $50,000 for the entire organization. They want to be alerted when actual costs reach 90% of the budget and again when they exceed 100%. Which combination of AWS services should the finance team use?

Question 86mediummultiple choice

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A company runs multiple applications across hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in several AWS accounts. The finance team needs to perform daily cost analysis by combining detailed usage data (including instance type, operating system, and custom cost allocation tags) with their own business data stored in an on-premises data warehouse. They want to export cost and usage data from AWS at the most granular level possible (down to each individual resource and hour) into their on-premises system for custom reporting. Which AWS tool should they use to achieve this?

Question 87mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production MySQL database on Amazon RDS. The workload has a steady baseline usage that requires a db.r5.large instance most of the time, but during end-of-month processing, the database needs to scale up to a db.r5.xlarge for a few days. The company wants to maximize cost savings while retaining the ability to temporarily scale up the instance during those peaks and still receive a discounted rate. Which purchasing option should the company choose?

Question 88mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations with consolidated billing enabled. The company purchases a 3-year Compute Savings Plan to reduce costs on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda usage. The finance team wants the discount from the Savings Plan to apply to eligible usage across all accounts in the organization. What configuration is required to achieve this?

Question 89mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production web application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The operations team has observed that most instances have an average CPU utilization below 10% over the past month. They want to receive automated, ML-based recommendations for downsizing these instances to smaller instance types to reduce costs without compromising performance. The team also wants to see the estimated monthly savings for each recommendation. Which AWS service should the operations team use?

Question 90mediummultiple choice

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A startup is planning to build and launch a new mobile application on AWS. The team expects very low initial traffic but hopes to scale rapidly. They have a limited budget and want to avoid any upfront costs. They are unsure which AWS services they will need and want to estimate their monthly AWS charges before committing to an architecture. Additionally, they need access to technical support to help troubleshoot issues that arise during development and production, with a guaranteed response time of less than 12 hours for production-impacting issues. Which combination of AWS tool and support plan should the startup choose to meet these requirements?

Question 91mediummultiple choice

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A company manages multiple AWS accounts under AWS Organizations. The finance team needs to set a monthly spending limit for each account, receive automatic email alerts when spending reaches 80% of that limit, and also view a graphical dashboard showing historical cost trends across all accounts. Which combination of AWS services should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 92mediummultiple choice

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A company is evaluating a migration of its on-premises virtualized workloads to AWS. The CFO wants to understand the potential cost savings over a three-year period by shifting from capital expenditure (hardware purchases) to operational expenditure (pay-as-you-go). The team needs a tool that can provide a detailed comparison of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the current on-premises environment versus running the same workloads on AWS, including hardware, software, labor, and facilities costs. Which AWS tool should the team use?

Question 93mediummultiple choice

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A company currently uses the AWS Basic Support plan. The CTO wants to access the complete set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks, including those related to cost optimization and performance. Additionally, the CTO requires a guaranteed response time of less than 15 minutes for critical business-impairing issues. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose to meet all of these requirements?

Question 94mediummultiple choice

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A startup is building a prototype web application on AWS and is eligible for the AWS Free Tier. They plan to use a single t2.micro Amazon EC2 instance running continuously (24 hours per day, 7 days per week), 10 GB of Amazon S3 Standard storage, and 1 GB of Amazon RDS for MySQL storage. Which of the following statements accurately describes how these services will be billed during the first 12 months under the Free Tier, assuming they stay within the Free Tier limits for each service?

Question 95mediummultiple choice

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A company manages multiple AWS accounts, each used by a separate business unit. The finance team wants to obtain a single monthly bill that aggregates charges from all accounts and to benefit from volume discount pricing tiers on services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 across the entire organization. Which AWS feature or service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 96mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a set of Amazon EC2 instances that handle a consistent, predictable workload 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The company expects to continue running this workload for the next three years. The finance team wants to minimize the total cost of these EC2 instances while maintaining flexibility to change instance families if needed. Which AWS pricing option should the company choose to meet these requirements?

Question 97mediummultiple choice

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A company expects a steady baseline usage of AWS compute services (Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate) over the next three years. They want to reduce costs compared to On-Demand pricing while maintaining the flexibility to change instance families, regions, or even switch between compute services (e.g., from EC2 to Lambda) without losing their discount. Which AWS pricing option should the company choose?

Question 98mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to see a consolidated view of all costs across accounts, and also wants to filter costs by specific projects using custom tags that are applied to resources. The team has already created tag keys and applied them to resources in all accounts. What additional step must the team take in the Management Account to ensure these tags appear as cost allocation dimensions in AWS Cost Explorer?

Question 99mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The finance team wants to receive a notification when the overall monthly spending in any account reaches 80% of the budgeted amount. Additionally, the team wants to be alerted if there is an unexpected daily spike in costs, such as a 50% increase compared to the previous day, so they can investigate anomalies early. Which AWS feature should the finance team configure to meet both requirements with a single managed service?

Question 100mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a development environment composed of multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The finance team has set a monthly budget of $5,000 for this environment and wants to automatically stop all EC2 instances if the accumulated cost reaches $4,500 before the end of the month. The team needs a managed AWS-native solution that does not require custom scripts or third-party tools. Which AWS feature or service should the company use to meet this requirement?

Question 101mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate its on-premises workloads to AWS. The cloud architect needs to create a detailed estimate of the monthly AWS bill based on specific configuration details, such as the number of Amazon EC2 instances with particular instance types, storage volumes, data transfer amounts, and Amazon RDS database instances. The architect wants to input these known specifications and obtain an estimated monthly cost breakdown before launching any resources. Which AWS tool should the architect use to meet this requirement?

Question 102mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts and needs to perform granular cost and usage analysis using standard SQL queries. The cloud operations team requires the most detailed data possible, including resource-level attributes such as instance type, usage quantity, and cost allocation tags. This data must be automatically delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket on a daily basis for long-term retention and querying. Which AWS service should the company use to generate this dataset?

Question 103mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing across multiple member accounts. The finance team requires that only the management account (payer account) can view and modify payment methods and receive invoices. Member accounts must be prevented from accessing billing and payment information in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Which AWS feature should be configured to enforce this restriction?

Question 104mediummultiple choice

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A company has been running multiple workloads on AWS for the past six months. The finance team needs to analyze historical spending to identify month-over-month trends by AWS service and by individual linked accounts. The team requires a graphical, interactive tool that allows them to apply custom date ranges and filters, and view the results as customizable charts and graphs. Which AWS service should the finance team use to meet this requirement?

Question 105mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a production workload on AWS and needs technical support that includes phone and email access with a response time of less than 1 hour for critical system failures. The company also wants architectural guidance for cost optimization and performance improvement. The company currently has an AWS account with the Basic Support plan. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose to meet these requirements at the most cost-effective price?

Question 106mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a mix of Amazon EC2 instances (different instance families) and AWS Fargate tasks across multiple AWS Regions. The cloud operations team wants to reduce costs while retaining maximum flexibility to change instance families, operating systems, and compute platforms (EC2 or Fargate) without losing the discount. They are willing to commit to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1-year term. Which AWS pricing model should they choose?

Question 107mediummultiple choice

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A startup is running a pilot application on AWS and wants to control costs strictly. The finance team sets a monthly budget of $1,000. They need to receive an email notification when actual or forecasted spending reaches 80% of the budget. Additionally, if the budget is exceeded, they want to automatically stop a non-critical Amazon EC2 instance to prevent further cost overruns. Which combination of AWS services should they use to meet all these requirements with minimal operational overhead?

Question 108mediummultiple choice

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A company plans to migrate its on-premises workload to AWS. The finance team wants to compare the total cost of ownership between running the workload on-premises and running it on AWS. They need to estimate monthly costs for different Amazon EC2 instance types, pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved, Spot), and storage options before making any commitment. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to create this detailed cost estimate?

Question 109mediummultiple choice

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A startup recently signed up for AWS and is using the AWS Free Tier to run a small web application. The startup's finance lead wants to monitor the team's usage of AWS services to ensure they do not exceed the Free Tier limits and incur unexpected charges. The finance lead needs a tool that can proactively send an alert when the team approaches 80% of the Free Tier limit for a specific service, such as Amazon EC2. Which AWS service or feature should the finance lead use to set up this alert?

Question 110mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS for multiple workloads across several linked accounts under AWS Organizations. The finance team needs to analyze historical cost and usage data to identify monthly spending trends by service (e.g., Amazon EC2, Amazon S3) and by linked account. They also need to filter the data by date range and view the top cost drivers. The team prefers a built-in AWS tool that provides an interactive interface with graphs and tables, without requiring them to download or process raw data. Which AWS service or tool should the finance team use?

Question 111mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a business-critical workload on AWS. The workload must have a 15-minute response time from AWS Support if it becomes unavailable. Additionally, the company wants a dedicated technical account manager (TAM) who will proactively review the architecture and provide best practice recommendations. Which AWS Support plan should the company choose?

Question 112mediummultiple choice

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A company operates multiple AWS accounts for separate departments. The finance team wants to simplify monthly billing by receiving a single consolidated invoice that covers all accounts. Additionally, the company wants to aggregate usage across accounts to qualify for lower volume-based pricing tiers. Which AWS feature should the company enable to meet these requirements?

Question 113mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a combination of Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions for its applications. The finance team wants to reduce costs by making a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in dollars per hour) for a 1-year term. The team wants the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, and AWS regions, and also wants the commitment to cover both EC2 and Lambda usage. Which AWS pricing option should the team purchase?

Question 114mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The solutions architect needs to estimate the monthly cost of running Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, and Amazon S3 storage. The architect wants to compare different instance types, storage classes, and pricing models (e.g., On-Demand vs. Reserved Instances) to find the most cost-effective configuration. The team requires a tool that provides a detailed, itemized cost estimate without incurring any actual charges, and allows saving and sharing the estimate with stakeholders. Which AWS tool should the solutions architect use?

Question 115mediummultiple choice

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A company runs several applications in a single AWS account. Each application belongs to a different project (Project Alpha, Project Beta, Project Gamma). The company has already applied tags with the key "Project" and the corresponding project name to all AWS resources used by each project. The finance team wants to use AWS Cost Explorer to view and filter monthly costs by project. However, after tagging all resources, the "Project" tag does not appear as a filter option in Cost Explorer. What must the finance team do to make the "Project" tag available for cost filtering in Cost Explorer?

Question 116mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS for its development environment. The finance team wants to set a monthly budget of $10,000. They want to receive an email notification when the actual costs reach 80% of the budget ($8,000) and again when costs exceed the budget. The team needs a managed AWS service that can automatically send these alerts without requiring custom code or third-party tools. Which AWS service should the team use?

Question 117mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a customer-facing web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to have access to technical support with a guaranteed response time of 1 hour for critical production system failures. The company also needs access to AWS Trusted Advisor to get cost optimization recommendations. Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements?

Question 118mediummultiple choice

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A company operates in three separate AWS accounts: one for development, one for testing, and one for production. The company wants to take advantage of volume pricing discounts across all accounts for services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The finance team also wants to view a single, consolidated monthly bill that aggregates charges from all accounts. Which AWS feature should the company implement?

Question 119mediummultiple choice

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A startup is using the AWS Free Tier for the first time. They have launched an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance and are storing 10 GB of data in Amazon S3 Standard. The startup wants to ensure they do not incur any charges beyond the Free Tier limits. They need a managed AWS service that can automatically monitor their usage against the Free Tier allowances and send them a notification if they are approaching or exceeding those limits. Which AWS service should the startup use?

Question 120mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team needs to generate custom cost and usage reports that include every line item, all user-defined cost allocation tags, and resource-level details. The team also needs the ability to query the data using standard SQL tools for in-depth analysis. Which AWS feature should the team use to meet these requirements?

Question 121mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a set of steady-state workloads on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon ECS Fargate tasks. The company expects consistent usage for the next 3 years and wants to reduce compute costs. The company prefers flexibility to move workloads between different instance families and across different AWS compute services (EC2, ECS, and Lambda) without committing to a specific instance type or family. Which AWS pricing model meets these requirements?

Question 122mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a variety of workloads on AWS and wants to be notified when their monthly spending behaves unusually compared to past patterns. They want a managed service that uses machine learning to detect cost anomalies and provides root cause analysis. Which AWS service or feature should they use?

Question 123mediummultiple choice

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A company has been using AWS for several months. The finance team wants to view a graphical dashboard of their monthly spending trends for the past 6 months and also obtain a forecast of their expected costs for the next month. The team needs an AWS managed service that provides this visualization and forecasting without requiring any additional data export or third-party tools. Which AWS service should the team use?

Question 124mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts and wants to enforce cost governance. The company needs to set a monthly cost budget of $10,000 for each account. When an account's actual or forecasted costs exceed this budget, the company wants to automatically apply a restrictive IAM policy that prevents the creation of new resources in that account. Additionally, the company wants to receive an email notification when the budget is exceeded. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 125mediummultiple choice

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A company manages multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The company purchases a Standard Reserved Instance (RI) for an Amazon EC2 m5.large instance in a member account (the production account). The finance team wants the discount from this RI to apply to any m5.large instance usage across all accounts in the organization. What must the company do to achieve this?

Question 126mediummultiple choice

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A company plans to migrate a three-tier web application to AWS. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances, use an Amazon RDS database, and an Application Load Balancer. The CFO needs a detailed monthly cost estimate before migration. The solutions architect needs to model different instance types, storage sizes, and data transfer volumes, and then share the estimate with the finance team. Which AWS service should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question 127mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts and wants to perform detailed custom cost analysis using a third-party business intelligence (BI) tool. The company needs the most granular cost and usage data available, including resource-level details such as instance type, region, and tags. The BI tool can read CSV files from an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants a managed AWS service that automatically exports this detailed data to an S3 bucket on a daily basis with no additional coding. Which AWS service should the company use?

Question 128mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS for multiple projects. Each project's resources have been tagged with 'Project' and 'Team' tags. The finance team wants to view a cost breakdown in AWS Cost Explorer using these tags. The tags are already applied to existing resources. However, when the finance team opens Cost Explorer, the tags are not available for filtering. What must the finance team do to see costs by these tags?

Question 129mediummultiple choice

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A company runs 200 Amazon EC2 instances for its web application. The finance team wants to identify instances that are over-provisioned or underutilized to reduce costs. The team needs automated recommendations that consider the instance's CPU, memory, and network utilization patterns over the past 14 days. Which AWS service should the team use?

Question 130mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a mix of Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate containers, and AWS Lambda functions across multiple AWS Regions. The company wants to reduce costs by making a 1-year commitment for compute usage. The company needs a flexible purchasing option that automatically applies the discounted rate to any EC2 instance, Fargate, or Lambda usage, regardless of region, instance family, or size. Which AWS purchasing option should the company use?

Question 131mediummultiple choice

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A company operates 10 AWS accounts, each managed by a different department. The finance team wants to combine the usage of all accounts to qualify for lower volume-based pricing tiers for services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. Additionally, they want a single monthly bill that aggregates charges from all accounts. Which AWS feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question 132mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a business-critical workload to AWS. The company wants to ensure it has access to a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who will provide proactive guidance, architectural reviews, and operational support. Additionally, the company requires the Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) service to assist with the migration launch, and it wants the full set of AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checks across all categories (cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits). Which AWS Support plan should the company select?

Question 133mediummultiple choice

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A company has a development environment running on Amazon EC2 instances. To control costs, the team wants to set a monthly budget of $5,000 for this environment. If the forecasted cost for the month exceeds $6,000 (20% over budget), they want AWS to automatically stop all non-critical EC2 instances to prevent further spending. Which AWS feature should the team use to implement this automated cost control?

Question 134mediummultiple choice

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A company operates 10 AWS accounts under AWS Organizations. Each account runs multiple projects, and the company tags all resources with a 'Project' tag (e.g., 'Project-A', 'Project-B'). The finance team wants to view the consolidated monthly bill broken down by the value of the 'Project' tag across all accounts. Which AWS feature should the team use to achieve this?

Question 135mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a steady-state production workload on a fixed number of m5.large EC2 instances in the us-east-1 region. The workload runs 24/7 and the instance type and region are not expected to change. The company wants to obtain the highest possible discount for this workload with a 3-year commitment. Which purchasing option should the company choose?

Question 136mediummultiple choice

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A company archives historical transaction records in Amazon S3. The records are accessed frequently for the first 30 days after creation. After 30 days, access drops sharply to only a few times per year, but the company must be able to retrieve any record within 5 minutes if needed. The company wants to minimize storage costs while meeting the retrieval time requirement. Which combination of S3 storage classes should the company use?

Question 137mediummultiple choice

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A company runs database servers that require consistent EC2 capacity 24/7 for the next 3 years. Which EC2 purchasing option provides the greatest discount compared to On-Demand pricing?

Question 138easymultiple choice

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A company runs non-critical batch analytics jobs that can be paused and restarted if interrupted. The jobs are flexible regarding when they run. Which EC2 purchasing option offers the lowest possible cost for this workload?

Question 139easymultiple choice

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A solutions architect is designing a new architecture on AWS that includes EC2, RDS, S3, and data transfer. Before deploying anything, they want to estimate the monthly cost of running this architecture. Which AWS tool should they use?

Question 140easymultiple choice

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A finance team wants to view and analyse their AWS spending patterns over the past 12 months, filter costs by service and linked account, and identify which teams are spending the most. Which AWS tool provides this historical cost analysis?

Question 141easymultiple choice

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A company wants to automatically receive an email alert whenever their monthly AWS spend is forecasted to exceed $10,000, or if it actually exceeds $10,000. Which AWS service provides this capability?

Question 142mediummultiple choice

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A company operates 8 separate AWS accounts for different departments. They want to receive one consolidated monthly bill and benefit from combined usage discounts across all accounts for services like S3 and data transfer. Which AWS feature provides this?

Question 143easymultiple choice

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A large enterprise runs business-critical workloads on AWS and needs 24/7 phone and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers, a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM), and access to proactive guidance and architectural reviews. Which AWS Support plan includes all of these features?

Question 144mediummultiple choice

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A company runs mixed workloads on AWS — some on EC2, some on Lambda, and some on Fargate — and wants to commit to a consistent hourly spend on compute to receive discounts similar to Reserved Instances, but with the flexibility to apply those discounts across different compute services and instance types. Which purchasing option provides this flexibility?

Question 145easymultiple choice

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A new AWS customer wants to explore AWS services for the first time. They launch a t2.micro EC2 instance and use up to 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage. They want to understand if these will incur charges. Which AWS programme provides limited free usage of many services for new accounts during the first 12 months?

Question 146easymultiple choice

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A company wants to purchase and deploy a third-party security software solution (a firewall appliance) directly to their AWS environment, with licensing costs added to their AWS monthly bill. Where can they find and subscribe to this software?

Question 147mediummultiple choice

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A company's IT director wants to present a business case for migrating from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. They need to compare the full cost of running on-premises (hardware, facilities, power, labour) against the cost of running equivalent workloads on AWS. Which AWS tool helps create this comparison?

Question 148mediummultiple choice

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A company's finance team needs the most granular AWS billing data available, including cost and usage data at the hourly level, broken down by resource ID and cost allocation tags, delivered to Amazon S3 for analysis with their BI tools. Which AWS service provides this?

Question 149mediummultiple choice

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A company needs 24/7 phone and chat access to AWS support engineers, full access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks, and a response time of less than 1 hour for production system outages. Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that meets all these requirements?

Question 150mediummultiple choice

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A company runs workloads for multiple teams in a single AWS account and wants to track and report costs per team in their monthly AWS bill. Which feature allows them to categorise and report AWS costs by team?

Question 151mediummultiple choice

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A company has bring-your-own-license (BYOL) server software that is licensed per physical CPU socket. They need to run this software on AWS and require visibility into and control over the physical host their instances run on. Which EC2 option meets this requirement?

Question 152easymultiple choice

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A startup has a development AWS account and wants the minimum paid AWS Support plan that provides email-based technical support from AWS staff. They do not need 24/7 phone access. Which is the minimum support plan that provides access to AWS technical support engineers?

Question 153easymultiple choice

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Which AWS pricing model provides the largest discount compared to On-Demand pricing in exchange for a 1 or 3-year commitment with full upfront payment?

Question 154mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. Which service allows them to share Reserved Instance discounts and Savings Plans across all accounts in the organization?

Question 155easymultiple choice

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Which AWS support plan provides access to AWS Infrastructure Event Management (IEM) for product launches and migrations at no additional charge?

Question 156mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to receive alerts when their AWS spend exceeds a specific threshold. Which AWS service should they use to configure these alerts?

Question 157mediummultiple choice

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Which tool allows a company to estimate the monthly cost of running a new AWS architecture before deploying any resources?

Question 158mediummultiple choice

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A company is evaluating whether to use AWS Compute Savings Plans or EC2 Instance Savings Plans. Which statement correctly describes when EC2 Instance Savings Plans provide the highest discount?

Question 159easymultiple choice

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Which AWS Cost Management tool provides daily forecasts and allows customers to track Reserved Instance and Savings Plans utilization and coverage?

Question 160mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use AWS free tier for testing new services. Which statement about the AWS Free Tier is accurate?

Question 161easymultiple choice

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Which AWS support plan is the minimum level required to access the full set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks?

Question 162hardmultiple choice

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A company has unpredictable, short-lived batch processing workloads that can be interrupted. Which EC2 purchasing option would provide the lowest cost for these workloads?

Question 163mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations. They want to ensure that member accounts cannot turn off CloudTrail or AWS Config in their accounts. What is the most effective way to enforce this?

Question 164easymultiple choice

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Which AWS service provides detailed billing reports that can be delivered hourly to Amazon S3 for custom analysis with tools like Amazon Athena or Redshift?

Question 165mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to purchase EC2 capacity that provides a discount over On-Demand pricing and is available only when AWS has excess capacity, with the option of interruption with a 2-minute warning. Which option is this?

Question 166easymultiple choice

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Which AWS service provides recommendations to help reduce costs, such as identifying idle EC2 instances, underutilized EBS volumes, and unassociated Elastic IPs?

Question 167mediummultiple choice

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A company received an unexpected AWS bill that was much higher than expected. Which AWS service would help them understand which resource or service caused the cost spike?

Question 168mediummultiple choice

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A company is considering Reserved Instances to reduce costs. Which type of Reserved Instance provides the flexibility to change the instance family, OS, and tenancy, and can be used across any Region?

Question 169easymultiple choice

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Which AWS pricing concept means you pay a lower per-unit price when you use more of a service, such as S3 charging less per GB as storage volume increases?

Question 170mediummultiple choice

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A company is using several AWS services and has noticed their bill has been increasing. They want to identify which team or project is responsible for each cost. Which AWS feature enables tracking costs by team, project, or environment?

Question 171mediummultiple choice

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Which AWS support feature provides a dedicated technical contact who provides proactive guidance, acts as an advocate for the customer, and helps with architectural reviews?

Question 172hardmultiple choice

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A company is using Amazon EC2 and wants to understand the difference between Compute Savings Plans and EC2 Instance Savings Plans. Which statement is accurate?

Question 173easymultiple choice

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Which AWS Support plan provides 24/7 phone and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers with a 1-hour response time for production system outages?

Question 174mediummultiple choice

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A company processes large amounts of data with Amazon EC2 and exports the results to customers globally via the internet. Which AWS cost component will be their largest variable cost?

Question 175easymultiple choice

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Which AWS feature allows multiple AWS accounts to be managed under one umbrella, receive a single consolidated bill, and potentially share volume discounts?

Question 176mediummultiple choice

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Which AWS support plan includes access to AWS Incident Detection and Response as an add-on service for proactive incident management?

Question 177mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to ensure they never spend more than $500 per month on AWS services. Which AWS feature can automatically stop or terminate resources when cost projections reach a threshold?

Question 178easymultiple choice

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Which statement about AWS data transfer pricing is correct?

Question 179mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use AWS for a short-term proof-of-concept project lasting one month. They need EC2 instances and RDS databases but don't want any long-term commitment. Which pricing model is most appropriate?

Question 180mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to purchase AWS support for their production environment. They need 24/7 phone support, a response time of less than 1 hour for critical issues, and access to Infrastructure Event Management. Which support plan provides all of these?

Question 181easymultiple choice

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Which AWS feature provides personalized recommendations about your account's security and cost optimization, available at no cost for all AWS customers?

Question 182mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Organizations. The management account receives the consolidated bill. Which statement about Reserved Instance discount sharing in AWS Organizations is correct?

Question 183mediummultiple choice

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A company has committed to a 1-year Compute Savings Plan at $100/hour. During a given hour, their actual compute usage is only worth $80 at On-Demand rates. How does the Savings Plan apply?

Question 184hardmultiple choice

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A company's cloud finance team wants to implement cloud financial management (FinOps) on AWS. Which combination of AWS services provides the most comprehensive cost visibility, budgeting, and optimization capabilities?

Question 185easymultiple choice

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A company is concerned about unexpected AWS charges from development instances that developers forget to stop. Which AWS service provides a simple dashboard showing AWS service health events and can also be used to stay informed about account-level events?

Question 186mediummultiple choice

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A company running large-scale scientific simulations needs EC2 instances with exclusive access to a physical host for software licensing reasons (per-socket licensing). Which EC2 option provides this?

Question 187mediummultiple choice

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A company's AWS bill has increased significantly. The finance team wants to implement cost governance best practices. Which action represents a foundational cost governance control?

Question 188easymultiple choice

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Which AWS pricing benefit means that the more AWS services you use across your organization, the greater the volume discounts you receive on some services?

Question 189mediummultiple choice

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A company needs an AWS support plan that provides access to online training, use case guidance, and architectural support for non-production environments. Which is the minimum plan that provides direct technical guidance from AWS engineers (not just documentation)?

Question 190easymultiple choice

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Which AWS service provides a marketplace where customers can find, buy, and deploy software from third-party vendors that runs on AWS infrastructure?

Question 191mediummultiple choice

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A company is considering AWS for their new application. Which tool allows them to compare the cost of running their workloads on AWS versus on-premises, and estimate the potential savings?

Question 192easymultiple choice

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Which statement about Amazon EC2 On-Demand pricing is accurate?

Question 193mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to implement governance controls that prevent their developers from provisioning expensive instance types. Which approach is most effective?

Question 194mediummultiple choice

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Which AWS service provides a concierge-like experience for navigating AWS services and finding the right resources, primarily available to Enterprise Support customers?

Question 195hardmultiple choice

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A company has 10 EC2 On-Demand instances running. They purchase a 1-year Compute Savings Plan for a commitment equivalent to 6 instances. What happens to the remaining 4 instances' cost?

Question 196mediummultiple choice

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A company is reviewing their AWS bill and notices charges for Amazon CloudWatch. Which specific CloudWatch usage would NOT incur additional charges beyond the CloudWatch free tier?

Question 197easymultiple choice

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Which AWS service or feature provides a notification when AWS is performing planned maintenance that may affect your resources?

Question 198mediummultiple choice

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A company has unused Reserved Instances that don't match their current infrastructure. What option allows them to recoup some cost from unused RIs?

Question 199mediummultiple choice

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A company's finance team wants to forecast their AWS spending for the next 12 months to set accurate budget targets. Which AWS service provides cost forecasting based on historical usage patterns?

Question 200easymultiple choice

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Which AWS offering provides free, self-paced online training courses, videos, and labs to help customers learn AWS services and pass certification exams?

Question 201mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to receive a notification whenever a new AWS root account sign-in occurs. Which combination of services achieves this?

Question 202easymultiple choice

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Which statement correctly describes how Amazon S3 pricing works?

Question 203mediummultiple choice

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A company currently pays $50,000/month for on-premises infrastructure. They project that running the equivalent workload on AWS will cost $35,000/month including all data transfer. What is the annual AWS cost savings?

Question 204mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Support and wants to know which plan provides the fastest response time for a business-critical system outage causing complete service disruption.

Question 205easymultiple choice

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What does the AWS Free Tier offer to new AWS customers?

Question 206mediummultiple choice

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A company has predictable workloads running 24/7. Which EC2 pricing option would provide the most significant cost savings compared to On-Demand pricing?

Question 207easymultiple choice

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Which AWS tool provides recommendations to help reduce costs, improve performance, enhance security, and increase fault tolerance?

Question 208mediummultiple choice

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A startup wants to receive alerts when their AWS spending approaches a set threshold. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 209hardmultiple choice

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Which AWS pricing model allows customers to commit to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3-year term in exchange for significant discounts, without being locked to specific instance types?

Question 210mediummultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts for different departments. Which AWS feature enables them to receive a single monthly bill and potentially lower rates through combined usage?

Question 211easymultiple choice

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Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) and proactive guidance for workload optimization?

Question 212mediumdrag order

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Drag and drop the steps to set up a VPC with a public subnet and an internet gateway in the correct order.

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Question 213mediumdrag order

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Drag and drop the steps to set up CloudFront with an S3 origin in the correct order.

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Question 214mediummatching

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Match each AWS compute service to its typical use case.

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Full control over virtual servers

Run code without provisioning servers

Run containerized applications

Run Kubernetes containers

Serverless compute for containers

Question 215mediummatching

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Match each AWS security service to its function.

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Manage user access and permissions

Create and manage encryption keys

DDoS protection

Web application firewall

Compliance reports and agreements