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

Question 1

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?

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

Accepted Answer

AWS Cost Explorer. AWS Cost Explorer is the correct choice because it provides a native interface for visualizing historical cost and usage data, identifying top spend drivers, forecasting future costs up to 12 months, and generating Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on actual usage patterns. It meets all the finance team's requirements without any third-party software.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 2

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?

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AWS Business Support. The AWS Business Support plan provides a guaranteed response time of less than 1 hour for critical system issues and grants access to the full set of AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checks, including cost optimization, security, and fault tolerance. This plan meets the company's requirements without the need for a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), which is only included in higher-tier plans like Enterprise On-Ramp or Enterprise Support.

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AWS Basic Support

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AWS Developer Support

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AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Budgets to create a budget and configure alerts, and AWS Cost Explorer to view consolidated cost data.. AWS Budgets is the correct service for setting a monthly budget of $50,000 and configuring alerts at 90% and 100% thresholds. AWS Cost Explorer provides the consolidated view of costs across all accounts in AWS Organizations. Together, they meet both requirements: Budgets handles the alerting, and Cost Explorer provides the consolidated cost visualization.

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AWS Cost Explorer to create a budget alert and AWS Budgets to view consolidated costs.

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AWS Trusted Advisor to set a cost optimization budget and AWS Cost Explorer to send alerts.

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AWS Cost and Usage Report to generate a daily report and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to send email alerts.

Question 4

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?

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AWS Cost and Usage Report. AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) is the correct choice because it provides the most granular cost and usage data available, down to individual resource IDs and hourly intervals, and supports custom cost allocation tags. It can be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket and then integrated with on-premises systems for custom reporting, meeting the finance team's requirement for detailed daily cost analysis combined with their own business data.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

Convertible Reserved Instance. Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs) allow you to change instance attributes (such as size) during the term, which fits the need to temporarily scale from db.r5.large to db.r5.xlarge for a few days each month. They offer a significant discount over On-Demand pricing (typically 30-50%) while retaining flexibility to modify the instance type. Standard RIs lock you into a specific instance family and size, making them unsuitable for this variable workload.

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Standard Reserved Instance

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Compute Savings Plan

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On-Demand

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

The Savings Plan must be purchased in the management account, and the discount automatically applies to all accounts in the organization.. When a Compute Savings Plan is purchased in the management account of an AWS Organization with consolidated billing enabled, the discount is automatically shared across all member accounts. This is because consolidated billing aggregates all usage across the organization, and Savings Plans apply discounts to the combined eligible usage, regardless of which account incurred the cost.

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The Savings Plan must be purchased separately in each account where the discount is needed.

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The finance team must create custom cost allocation tags to distribute the Savings Plan discount across accounts.

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The Savings Plan must be linked to each member account using the AWS Billing Conductor.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Compute Optimizer. AWS Compute Optimizer is the correct service because it uses machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics (such as CPU, memory, and network) of EC2 instances and provides actionable recommendations to downsize or rightsize instances. It specifically generates estimated monthly savings for each recommendation, directly addressing the need for automated, ML-based downsizing suggestions without compromising performance.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Budgets

Question 8

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?

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AWS Pricing Calculator + Developer Support. The AWS Pricing Calculator allows the startup to estimate monthly costs without any upfront commitment, which aligns with their need to avoid upfront costs and predict charges before architecting. The Developer Support plan provides a response time of less than 12 hours for production-impacting issues (specifically, a response time of 12 hours for impaired production systems under the Developer plan), meeting their support requirement while keeping costs low for a startup with limited budget.

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AWS Cost Explorer + Basic Support

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AWS Budgets + Business Support

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AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator + Enterprise Support

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

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 10

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 11

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Enterprise Support. The AWS Enterprise Support plan is the only plan that provides a guaranteed response time of less than 15 minutes for critical business-impairing issues. While both the Business and Enterprise Support plans include the full set of Trusted Advisor checks, only Enterprise meets the response time requirement. The Business Support plan offers a 1-hour response time for critical issues. The Developer Support plan has a 12-hour response time for critical issues and does not include the full set of Trusted Advisor checks. Basic Support has no technical support and limited Trusted Advisor checks.

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AWS Business Support

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AWS Developer Support

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AWS Basic Support

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

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.. 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 13

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?

Accepted Answer

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 14

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?

Accepted Answer

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 15

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