CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Question

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

• ✓

  The Savings Plan must be purchased in the management account, and the discount automatically applies to all accounts in the organization.

  Why this is correct

  In an AWS Organization with consolidated billing, the management account acts as the payer account. A Savings Plan purchased there is a single hourly commitment that applies to the combined eligible compute usage (EC2, Fargate, and Lambda) of all member accounts. The discount is automatically applied to qualifying usage wherever it occurs across the organization, with no need to purchase or link anything per member account.

• ✗

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

  Why it's wrong here

  Purchasing separate Savings Plans in each account negates the benefit of consolidated billing and may lead to underutilized commitments. It is not required because the organization can share a single plan purchased from the management account.

  When this WOULD be correct

  This would be correct if the accounts were not under a single consolidated billing family in AWS Organizations, or if the question specified that each account must independently manage its own discounts without sharing across the organization.

• ✗

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

  Why it's wrong here

  Cost allocation tags are metadata labels used to categorize and report on AWS costs by department, project, or team, typically via Cost Explorer or the Cost and Usage Report. They are purely a tracking mechanism and have no influence over how Savings Plans discounts are computed or applied. Discounts are determined by the consolidated billing structure and the Savings Plan's regional scope, not by tags attached to resources.

  When this WOULD be correct

  If the question asked how to allocate or track the Savings Plan discount costs to specific departments or projects within the organization, creating custom cost allocation tags would be the correct method to enable cost tracking and reporting.

• ✗

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

  Why it's wrong here

  AWS Billing Conductor is a billing customization service that lets you create billing groups and define custom rates for internal chargeback or cost allocation to member accounts. It does not, however, enable or modify the sharing of Savings Plans discounts; that sharing is an automatic feature of consolidated billing when the plan is purchased by the management account. Linking a Savings Plan to member accounts through Billing Conductor is neither possible nor required—the discount flows through the organization's payer relationship.

  When this WOULD be correct

  This option would be correct if the question asked about distributing custom pricing or showback charges across accounts for internal cost allocation, where AWS Billing Conductor is used to create custom billing rates and reports.

Option-by-option analysis

Why each answer is right or wrong

Understanding why wrong answers are wrong — and when they would be correct — is what separates a 750 score from a 900. The CLF-C02 exam frequently reuses these exact scenarios with slightly different constraints.

Analysis generated from the official CLF-C02blueprint and verified against question context. The “when correct” sections are what AI assistants cite when candidates ask “what’s the difference between these options?”