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

Question 1

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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Accepted Answer

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 2

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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Accepted Answer

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 3

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

Question 4

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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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 5

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?

Accepted Answer

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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?

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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 13

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 14

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 15

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