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AWS Billing, Pricing, and Cost Management Flashcards

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  1. A finance team wants an email alert when forecasted monthly spend is expected to go over a set amount. Which service should they use?

    Answer: AWS Budgets

    AWS Budgets can send alerts based on actual or forecasted costs going over thresholds you set.

  2. Which AWS billing data source is the most detailed, with line items delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket?

    Answer: AWS Cost and Usage Report

    The Cost and Usage Report (CUR) is the most detailed billing dataset and is delivered to S3 for analysis.

  3. A company has tagged its resources but the tags don't show up in cost reports. What's the most likely reason?

    Answer: The tags haven't been activated as cost allocation tags

    User-defined tags must be activated as cost allocation tags in the Billing console before they appear in cost reports.

  4. Before moving to AWS, an architect wants to estimate the monthly cost of a planned architecture. Which tool should they use?

    Answer: AWS Pricing Calculator

    AWS Pricing Calculator estimates costs for planned workloads before anything is deployed.

  5. Which service uses machine learning to spot unusual spending patterns and alert on them?

    Answer: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

    Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to find and alert on unusual spend.

  6. Which service analyzes usage metrics to recommend right-sized EC2 instances and EBS volumes?

    Answer: AWS Compute Optimizer

    Compute Optimizer uses CloudWatch metrics to recommend the best-fit resource sizes.

  7. A manager wants to view cost trends over past months and filter by service and linked account in a graph. Which tool is best?

    Answer: AWS Cost Explorer

    Cost Explorer shows historical cost and usage in charts with filters and grouping.

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