CLF-C02 Billing and Pricing 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A company wants to receive alerts when their AWS monthly charges exceed a specific threshold. Which service should they use?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets (Correct answer)
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Pricing Calculator
Correct answer: AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and sends alerts via email or SNS when those thresholds are exceeded.
Question 2: Which AWS pricing model allows customers to pay for compute capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitments?
- Reserved Instances
- Savings Plans
- On-Demand Instances (Correct answer)
- Spot Instances
Correct answer: On-Demand Instances
On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour or second with no upfront cost or long-term commitment.
Question 3: What is the primary benefit of using Consolidated Billing in AWS Organizations?
- It provides automatic cost optimization recommendations
- It combines usage across all accounts to reach higher volume discount tiers (Correct answer)
- It assigns individual cost centers to each department
- It eliminates all charges for data transfer between accounts
Correct answer: It combines usage across all accounts to reach higher volume discount tiers
Consolidated Billing aggregates usage across all member accounts, which can qualify the organization for higher volume discounts on services like S3 and EC2.
Question 4: A startup expects variable compute workloads with no predictable pattern. Which EC2 purchasing option minimizes cost while accepting possible interruption?
- On-Demand Instances
- Reserved Instances
- Spot Instances (Correct answer)
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Spot Instances
Spot Instances use spare AWS capacity and can offer up to 90% savings compared to On-Demand, but AWS can reclaim them with a two-minute warning.
Question 5: Which tool provides a visual interface to explore and analyze AWS costs and usage over time?
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Cost Explorer (Correct answer)
- AWS Billing Dashboard
- AWS Pricing Calculator
Correct answer: AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer provides interactive charts and filtering to visualize spending patterns, identify trends, and forecast future costs.
Question 6: Which of the following AWS Support plans provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Enterprise
The Enterprise Support plan is the only plan that includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) for proactive guidance.
Question 7: How does AWS charge for data transfer INTO AWS (ingress) from the internet?
- Per GB at standard data transfer rates
- Per GB at a discounted inbound rate
- Free of charge (Correct answer)
- Based on the region of origin
Correct answer: Free of charge
AWS does not charge for inbound data transfer (ingress) from the internet into AWS services; charges typically apply to outbound (egress) traffic.
CLF-C02 Billing and Pricing 2
A company wants to receive alerts when their AWS monthly charges exceed a specific threshold.
Which service should they use?