CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

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Accepted Answer

AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. AWS Organizations with consolidated billing allows the company to aggregate charges from all member accounts into a single monthly bill for the finance team. Additionally, it enables the use of cost allocation tags, including custom tags applied by each department, to track and filter costs by department in AWS Cost Explorer and cost reports.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Cost Explorer

Question 2

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?

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AWS Budgets. AWS Budgets allows you to set a monthly spending limit (budget) and configure cost alerts that trigger when actual or forecasted costs exceed a specified threshold (e.g., 80% of the limit). It also integrates with AWS Actions to automatically stop non-critical EC2 instances when the budget limit is exceeded, meeting both the alert and automated remediation requirements.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 3

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?

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AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer provides a pre-built graphical dashboard that allows you to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. It supports filtering by service (e.g., EC2, S3), AWS Region, and custom cost allocation tags, and it includes a built-in forecasting feature that can generate a 3-month cost forecast based on historical data. This directly meets all the requirements for analyzing historical spending patterns and generating a forecast.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Consolidated Billing

Question 4

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?

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Compute Savings Plans. Compute Savings Plans offer the lowest cost for a predictable, steady-state workload over 3 years while allowing flexibility to change instance families. Unlike Reserved Instances, which lock you to a specific instance family, Compute Savings Plans apply to any EC2 instance (including those in different families) within a chosen region, automatically providing the highest discount (up to 66% vs On-Demand) for consistent compute usage.

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On-Demand Instances

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Standard Reserved Instances

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Spot Instances

Question 5

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?

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AWS Budgets. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets, and you can configure alerts to notify you when your actual or forecasted usage exceeds a defined threshold. For a startup on the Free Tier, you can create a budget with a zero-spend limit or a specific usage amount, and receive email notifications when you are about to exceed the Free Tier limits, helping you avoid unexpected charges.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Billing Conductor

Question 6

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?

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AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator. The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is specifically designed to compare the costs of running on-premises infrastructure versus AWS. It accepts detailed inputs about existing on-premises servers (such as CPU, memory, and storage) and generates a comprehensive report that includes savings from avoided hardware purchases, IT labor, and data center costs over a user-specified period. This directly matches the operations team's requirement for a detailed TCO comparison.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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AWS Cost and Usage Report

Question 7

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?

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Enterprise. The Enterprise support plan is the only AWS Support plan that includes a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and a 15-minute response time for production system down cases. The company's requirement for the highest level of support with these specific features directly maps to the Enterprise plan, which is designed for mission-critical workloads.

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Developer

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Business

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Enterprise On-Ramp

Question 8

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?

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Consolidated Billing with AWS Budgets. Consolidated Billing aggregates usage across all accounts in AWS Organizations, enabling volume discounts. AWS Budgets allows setting monthly budgets per department and configuring alerts (e.g., at 80% threshold) to send email notifications via Amazon SNS. Together, they meet both centralization and notification requirements.

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AWS Cost Explorer with AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor with Consolidated Billing

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AWS Cost Explorer with AWS Organizations

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer is the correct choice because it provides an interactive, pre-built dashboard that visualizes cost and usage data over customizable time periods (up to 12 months), supports filtering by service, region, and linked account, and includes a forecasting feature that uses machine learning to predict future spending based on historical trends. It directly meets the finance team's requirement for an interactive tool with filtering and forecasting capabilities.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 10

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?

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AWS Pricing Calculator. The AWS Pricing Calculator (formerly Simple Monthly Calculator) is the correct tool for estimating monthly costs for specific AWS resources like EC2 instances, ALB, and RDS under different purchasing options (On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans). It allows you to input exact instance types, quantities, and commitment terms to generate a detailed cost estimate for the first year.

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AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

Question 11

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?

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AWS Trusted Advisor. AWS Trusted Advisor provides cost optimization checks that include identifying Amazon EC2 instances with low utilization. Specifically, the 'Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances' check flags instances that have had a CPU utilization of 10% or less for the past 14 days, enabling the finance team to stop or resize them to reduce costs.

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AWS Compute Optimizer

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

Question 12

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?

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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 granular billing data available, including hourly-level usage, resource IDs, operation types, and cost allocation tags. The report can be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket in CSV format, making it directly importable into the finance team's financial software for detailed cost analysis.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

Configure a budget action that runs an AWS Systems Manager automation document to stop the EC2 instances.. AWS Budgets supports budget actions that can automatically trigger AWS Systems Manager automation documents to stop EC2 instances when a budget threshold is exceeded. This meets the requirement of no custom scripting or additional infrastructure, as the automation document is a built-in capability of Systems Manager.

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Create a budget alert that sends an email notification to the operations team when spending reaches 90% of the budget.

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Configure a budget action that applies an IAM policy to deny the ec2:StopInstances permission for all users.

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Create a budget alert that publishes a message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic, and subscribe an AWS Lambda function to stop the instances.

Question 14

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?

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Compute Savings Plan. A Compute Savings Plan is the correct choice because it offers a 1-year hourly spend commitment with the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, regions, and even switch between EC2, Fargate, and Lambda while still receiving the discount. This plan applies to any compute usage across these services, automatically adjusting the discount to the most cost-effective instance type or compute option, meeting the finance team's need for both cost reduction and operational flexibility.

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Reserved Instances (Standard)

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Reserved Instances (Convertible)

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On-Demand

Question 15

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?

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AWS Compute Optimizer. AWS Compute Optimizer is the correct choice because it is a managed service that uses machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics (CPU, memory, etc.) over up to 93 days, identifies over-provisioned and under-provisioned EC2 instances, and generates actionable rightsizing recommendations. The question specifically requires a tool that analyzes 30 days of historical CPU and memory data with ML-driven insights, which aligns exactly with Compute Optimizer's core functionality.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets