CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Test 3 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

AWS Budgets. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets, and configure threshold-based alerts via Amazon SNS (email or other notifications). In this scenario, the finance team can create a monthly cost budget of $5,000 for the 'Project Alpha' account, then set an alert at 80% of actual costs and another alert when forecasted costs are expected to exceed the budget. Because the company uses AWS Organizations, budgets can be centrally managed from the management account, enabling the finance team to view and control budgets across member accounts without logging into each one individually.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Organizations

Question 2

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?

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AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer is the correct tool because it provides interactive graphs and filters to visualize cost and usage data over time, allows filtering by service or linked account, and identifies top cost contributors. It also supports creating custom reports that can be scheduled and emailed weekly, directly meeting all the stated requirements.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Amazon QuickSight

Question 3

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?

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Standard Reserved Instances with a 3-year term and all upfront payment. Standard Reserved Instances with a 3-year term and all upfront payment provide the highest discount (up to 72% compared to On-Demand) for workloads that run continuously and predictably. Since this server will run 24/7 for three years with no significant spikes, a 3-year all upfront Reserved Instance minimizes total cost by locking in the lowest effective hourly rate.

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On-Demand Instances

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Spot Instances

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Dedicated Hosts

Question 4

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?

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AWS Business Support. AWS Business Support is the correct choice because it is the lowest-tier plan that provides phone support for urgent billing and account issues, along with the ability to request service limit increases through the AWS Support console. Basic Support does not offer phone support, and Developer Support only provides email-based support for technical issues, not phone support for billing and account matters. Enterprise Support, while offering these features, is significantly more expensive and not necessary for a small company seeking to minimize costs.

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AWS Basic Support

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AWS Developer Support

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AWS Enterprise Support

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator. The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is specifically designed to compare the costs of on-premises infrastructure with AWS, allowing users to input detailed hardware specifications (servers, storage, networking) and generate a comprehensive report that highlights potential savings over a chosen period (e.g., three years). This tool directly addresses the finance team's need for a TCO comparison, including personnel costs, which is not a feature of other AWS calculators.

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Question 6

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?

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard. AWS Personal Health Dashboard (AWS Health) provides a personalized view of the impact of AWS service events on your specific AWS resources and subscriptions. It delivers alerts and remediation guidance when AWS experiences issues that may affect your EC2 instances in a particular Availability Zone, enabling immediate notification and a tailored impact assessment.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

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AWS CloudTrail

Question 7

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?

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AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Budgets allows the finance team to set monthly spending limits per department (using the 'Department' tag) and configure alerts at 80% of the budget. AWS Cost Explorer provides a visual dashboard to compare actual spending against budgeted amounts, enabling trend analysis and cost allocation tracking. Together, they fulfill both the alerting and visualization requirements.

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AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Budgets and Amazon QuickSight

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AWS Pricing Calculator and AWS Cost Explorer

Question 8

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?

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It aggregates the data transfer usage across all accounts, allowing the company to benefit from lower pricing tiers that are based on total usage.. Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations aggregates usage across all linked accounts. For S3 data transfer, AWS applies tiered pricing based on total monthly data transfer volume. By combining usage from the development, testing, and production accounts, the company can reach higher volume tiers, reducing the per-GB cost for all accounts. This is the primary benefit of consolidated billing for data transfer charges.

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It applies a flat 20% discount to all S3 data transfer charges across accounts.

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It allows the company to use a single payment method and automatically applies Reserved Instance pricing to data transfer.

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It creates a single combined bill and automatically applies an enterprise discount negotiated with AWS.

Question 9

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?

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Compute Savings Plans (no upfront, 3-year term). Compute Savings Plans (no upfront, 3-year term) provide the highest discount (up to 66%) while allowing flexibility to change instance families (e.g., M5 to C5), sizes, and AWS Regions. This matches the company’s requirement to minimize costs over three years without upfront payment, and the plan automatically applies to any EC2 instance usage within the chosen commitment, preserving the ability to switch instance types or Regions as needed.

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On-Demand instances

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Standard Reserved Instances (no upfront, 3-year term)

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Spot Instances

Question 10

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?

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AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer is the correct choice because it provides a visual dashboard of historical cost and usage data, including the ability to filter by EC2 instance families and sizes to identify underutilized resources. It also offers Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on historical On-Demand usage, enabling the finance team to compare costs and identify savings opportunities directly within the native AWS console.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Compute Optimizer

Question 11

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?

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AWS Cost and Usage Report. The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) is the correct choice because it provides the most comprehensive, granular cost data available, including line items for individual resources broken down by service, custom tags, and time period. It can be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket in CSV format, which is machine-readable and suitable for ingestion into the company's internal billing system for detailed monthly chargeback reports.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Consolidated Billing

Question 12

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?

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Enterprise Support. The company requires a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and the fastest possible response time for critical system failures (15-minute response). Only the Enterprise Support plan includes a designated TAM and provides a 15-minute response time for business-critical system failures. The Enterprise On-Ramp Support plan offers a TAM but has a longer 30-minute response time for critical cases, and the Business Support plan does not include a TAM at all.

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Basic Support

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Business Support

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Enterprise On-Ramp Support

Question 13

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?

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Compute Savings Plans. Compute Savings Plans offer the required flexibility: they automatically apply to EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and ECS Fargate usage, provide significant discounts (up to 66%) compared to On-Demand, and allow changes to instance families, regions, or compute services without modifying the commitment. This model is ideal for steady 24/7 workloads over a three-year term, as it combines broad compute coverage with automatic discount application.

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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (Standard)

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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (Convertible)

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AWS Savings Plans (EC2 Instance Savings Plans)

Question 14

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?

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Business Support. The Business Support plan is the correct choice because it provides a guaranteed response time of less than one hour for production system outages (production system impaired) and includes access to AWS Infrastructure Event Management for guidance during planned events. The company does not need a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), which is only available with the Enterprise Support plan, making Business Support the most cost-effective option that meets all stated requirements.

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Basic Support

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Developer Support

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Enterprise Support

Question 15

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?

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AWS Pricing Calculator. AWS Pricing Calculator (option C) is the correct tool because it allows users to input assumptions about EC2 instance types, RDS configurations, storage, and data transfer to generate a detailed monthly cost estimate before any AWS resources are created. Unlike Cost Explorer, which requires existing usage data, the Pricing Calculator is designed for upfront cost modeling and planning.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor