AWS AWS Cost Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides recommendations to optimize cost by identifying idle and underutilized resources?
- AWS Trusted Advisor (Correct answer)
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- AWS Inspector
Correct answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor's cost optimization checks flag idle and underutilized resources.
Question 2: What is the primary purpose of AWS Cost Allocation Tags?
- Encrypt billing data
- Organize and track costs by resource attributes (Correct answer)
- Reserve capacity discounts
- Limit IAM permissions
Correct answer: Organize and track costs by resource attributes
Cost allocation tags let you categorize and track AWS spend by labels like project or team.
Question 3: Which purchasing option offers the deepest discount but can be interrupted by AWS with a two-minute warning?
- On-Demand
- Reserved Instances
- Spot Instances (Correct answer)
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Spot Instances
Spot Instances use spare capacity at steep discounts but can be reclaimed with a two-minute notice.
Question 4: AWS Budgets can trigger an alert based on which of the following?
- Only actual costs
- Only forecasted costs
- Actual or forecasted cost and usage thresholds (Correct answer)
- CPU utilization only
Correct answer: Actual or forecasted cost and usage thresholds
AWS Budgets supports alerts on actual and forecasted cost, usage, RI, and Savings Plans metrics.
Question 5: Which tool gives you the most granular, line-item detail of your AWS charges for custom analysis?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) (Correct answer)
- AWS Billing Dashboard
- AWS Pricing Calculator
Correct answer: AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)
The Cost and Usage Report provides the most detailed, hourly line-item billing data.
Question 6: Savings Plans offer discounts in exchange for a commitment to what?
- A fixed number of instances
- A consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) over 1 or 3 years (Correct answer)
- A specific region only
- A minimum storage volume
Correct answer: A consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) over 1 or 3 years
Savings Plans commit to a steady dollar-per-hour compute spend for one or three years in return for lower rates.
Question 7: Which AWS Organizations feature lets you combine usage across accounts to qualify for volume discounts and share RIs?
- Service Control Policies
- Consolidated Billing (Correct answer)
- Cross-account roles
- AWS Control Tower
Correct answer: Consolidated Billing
Consolidated billing aggregates usage across member accounts, enabling volume pricing and RI/Savings Plan sharing.
AWS AWS Cost Management 2
Which AWS service provides recommendations to optimize cost by identifying idle and underutilized resources?