CCP AWS Pricing, Billing and Cost Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS pricing benefit consolidates billing for multiple accounts and applies volume discounts across the entire organization?
- Savings Plans
- Consolidated Billing (Correct answer)
- Enterprise Discount Program
- Reserved Instance Sharing
Correct answer: Consolidated Billing
Consolidated Billing through AWS Organizations combines usage across all member accounts, enabling volume pricing tiers and a single invoice.
Question 2: Which AWS tool recommends cost savings by identifying idle resources and opportunities to purchase Reserved Instances?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Trusted Advisor (Correct answer)
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- AWS Config
Correct answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your environment and provides recommendations including cost optimization checks like underutilized instances.
Question 3: What does AWS mean by 'pay-as-you-go' pricing?
- Pay a flat monthly fee regardless of usage
- Pay only for the resources you actually consume, with no upfront cost (Correct answer)
- Pay annually in advance for reserved capacity
- Pay per user rather than per resource
Correct answer: Pay only for the resources you actually consume, with no upfront cost
AWS's pay-as-you-go model means you pay only for what you use, with no minimum fees or upfront commitments required.
Question 4: Which AWS Savings Plan type offers the most flexibility by applying discounts across any EC2 instance family, region, OS, and tenancy?
- EC2 Instance Savings Plans
- Compute Savings Plans (Correct answer)
- SageMaker Savings Plans
- Reserved Instance Plans
Correct answer: Compute Savings Plans
Compute Savings Plans offer up to 66% savings and apply automatically to any EC2, Fargate, or Lambda usage regardless of instance type or region.
Question 5: Which AWS service provides recommendations to rightsize EC2 instances based on actual utilization data?
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Compute Optimizer (Correct answer)
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Amazon CloudWatch
Correct answer: AWS Compute Optimizer
AWS Compute Optimizer uses machine learning to analyze CloudWatch metrics and recommend the optimal instance type for your workloads.
Question 6: Which AWS data transfer cost is always free regardless of volume?
- Data transferred between regions
- Data transferred out to the internet
- Data transferred into AWS from the internet (inbound) (Correct answer)
- Data transferred between Availability Zones
Correct answer: Data transferred into AWS from the internet (inbound)
Inbound data transfer (from the internet into AWS) is always free; outbound and cross-region transfers incur charges.
CCP AWS Pricing, Billing and Cost Management 2
Which AWS pricing benefit consolidates billing for multiple accounts and applies volume discounts across the entire organization?