CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Test 7 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

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AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom monthly spending limits per AWS account and configure alerts (via Amazon SNS or email) when actual or forecasted costs exceed a threshold, such as 80% of the budget. AWS Cost Explorer provides a graphical dashboard with historical cost trends and enables filtering by linked accounts, making it the correct service for visualizing trends across all accounts under AWS Organizations. Together, they satisfy the requirements for per-account limits, email alerts at 80%, and a historical cost dashboard.

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AWS Budgets and Amazon QuickSight

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AWS Cost Explorer and Amazon CloudWatch

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AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 2

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?

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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 workloads on-premises versus on AWS. It allows users to input details about their current on-premises infrastructure—including hardware, software, labor, and facilities—and generates a detailed side-by-side cost comparison over a specified period (e.g., three years). This directly addresses the CFO's need to understand potential savings from shifting from capital expenditure (CapEx) to operational expenditure (OpEx).

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 3

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?

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AWS Enterprise Support. The AWS Enterprise Support plan is the only plan that provides access to the complete set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks, including cost optimization and performance checks, along with a guaranteed response time of less than 15 minutes for critical business-impairing issues. The Business Support plan offers a 15-minute response time for critical issues but only includes core Trusted Advisor checks, not the full set. The Developer Support plan lacks both the full Trusted Advisor checks and the critical response time guarantee.

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AWS Business Support

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AWS Developer Support

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AWS Basic Support

Question 4

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?

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The EC2 instance usage will be free for up to 750 hours per month; the S3 storage will be free for the first 5 GB, with standard charges for the additional 5 GB; the RDS storage will be free for the first 20 GB.. Option B is correct because the AWS Free Tier for EC2 provides 750 hours of t2.micro instance usage per month, not total over 12 months. S3 Standard storage is free for the first 5 GB, so the additional 5 GB incurs standard charges. RDS for MySQL storage is free for the first 20 GB, so the 1 GB used is fully covered.

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All three services are completely free for the entire 12-month period because the startup is using the Free Tier.

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The EC2 instance usage will be free for up to 750 hours per month; the S3 storage will be free for up to 10 GB; the RDS storage will be free for up to 20 GB.

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The EC2 instance usage will be free for the first 750 hours total over the 12-month period; the S3 storage will be free for the first 5 GB; the RDS storage will be free for the first 20 GB.

Question 5

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?

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AWS Organizations consolidated billing. AWS Organizations consolidated billing allows you to combine usage across multiple accounts to receive a single monthly bill and aggregate usage for volume discount pricing tiers (e.g., for EC2 and S3). This feature enables the finance team to benefit from lower rates as total usage across all accounts increases, without requiring any architectural changes.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 6

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?

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Compute Savings Plans (3-year, all upfront). Compute Savings Plans (3-year, all upfront) provide the highest discount (up to 66%) for consistent, predictable workloads running 24/7 for three years, and they offer flexibility to change instance families, operating systems, or regions within the compute scope. This matches the requirement to minimize cost while maintaining the ability to switch instance families.

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On-Demand instances

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EC2 Instance Savings Plans (1-year, no upfront)

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Spot Instances

Question 7

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?

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Compute Savings Plan. The Compute Savings Plan offers the highest flexibility, automatically applying discounts to any compute usage across EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, regardless of instance family, region, or compute service. It provides up to 66% savings over On-Demand while allowing the company to change instance types, regions, or switch between compute services without losing the discount. This matches the requirement for steady baseline usage with maximum flexibility.

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Reserved Instances (Standard)

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Reserved Instances (Convertible)

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EC2 Instance Savings Plan

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

Activate the tag keys for cost allocation tracking.. Option A is correct because in AWS Organizations, custom tags must be explicitly activated for cost allocation tracking in the Management Account's Billing and Cost Management console. Without this activation, the tags exist on resources but are not recognized as cost allocation dimensions in AWS Cost Explorer, so the finance team cannot filter costs by those tags. Activating the tag keys enables Cost Explorer to ingest the tag key-value pairs and present them as filtering dimensions in cost reports.

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Enable the AWS Cost Explorer default reports.

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Create a budget using AWS Budgets with the tag filters.

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Configure the AWS Support plan to include cost analysis.

Question 9

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?

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AWS Budgets. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts when actual or forecasted costs exceed (or are expected to exceed) your budgeted thresholds. You can configure a cost budget with an alert at 80% of the monthly budgeted amount, and also create a separate budget or use a cost anomaly detection integration to trigger an alert when daily costs spike by 50% compared to the previous day. This meets both requirements using a single managed service.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS CloudTrail

Question 10

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?

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AWS Budgets with a budget action that stops EC2 instances when the threshold is exceeded. AWS Budgets allows you to set a cost budget with an associated budget action that can automatically stop EC2 instances when the actual or forecasted cost exceeds a specified threshold (e.g., $4,500). This is a fully managed, native AWS solution that requires no custom scripts or third-party tools, directly meeting the requirement to stop instances automatically based on cost.

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AWS Cost Explorer with a saved filter and manual instance termination

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AWS Trusted Advisor cost optimization checks

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AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs)

Question 11

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?

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AWS Pricing Calculator. The AWS Pricing Calculator (formerly AWS Simple Monthly Calculator) allows users to input specific configuration details such as EC2 instance types, storage volumes, data transfer amounts, and RDS database instances to generate a detailed monthly cost estimate before launching any resources. This tool is designed for upfront cost planning and provides a breakdown of estimated charges based on the user's exact specifications, making it the correct choice for the architect's requirement.

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AWS TCO Calculator

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

Question 12

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?

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AWS Cost and Usage Report. AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) is the correct choice because it provides the most detailed cost and usage data available, including resource-level attributes like instance type, usage quantity, and cost allocation tags. It can be automatically delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket on a daily basis and supports querying with standard SQL via AWS Athena or Amazon Redshift Spectrum, meeting the requirements for granular analysis and long-term retention.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 13

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?

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Apply a Service Control Policy (SCP) to deny billing-related actions for all member accounts.. Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations allow you to centrally restrict the AWS services and actions that member accounts can use. By applying an SCP that denies billing-related actions (e.g., `aws-portal:*` or `awsbilling:*`) to all member accounts, the management account can enforce that only the payer account can view and modify payment methods and receive invoices. This directly meets the requirement without affecting the management account, which is not subject to SCPs.

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Enable all features in AWS Organizations, including consolidated billing.

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Enable AWS CloudTrail to log billing events for all accounts.

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Configure AWS Cost Explorer to grant cross-account access only to the management account.

Question 14

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?

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AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer provides a graphical interface with pre-built charts and graphs that allow users to visualize historical spending trends. It supports filtering by AWS service and linked accounts, and enables custom date ranges for month-over-month analysis, making it the correct choice for the finance team's requirements.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Consolidated Billing

Question 15

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?

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Business Support. The Business Support plan is the most cost-effective option that provides phone and email support with a response time of under 1 hour for critical system failures, along with architectural guidance for cost optimization and performance improvement. The Basic and Developer plans lack phone support and the required response time SLA, while the Enterprise plan offers additional features (e.g., a Technical Account Manager) that are not needed here, making it more expensive than necessary.

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Basic Support

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Developer Support

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Enterprise Support