CLF-C02 Billing and Pricing 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which section of the AWS Management Console shows a month-to-date summary of charges and forecasted end-of-month costs?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Billing Dashboard (Correct answer)
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Correct answer: AWS Billing Dashboard
The AWS Billing Dashboard displays the current month's charges, payment history, and a forecast for the end of the month.
Question 2: A company wants to allocate AWS costs to different internal departments. Which feature should they use?
- AWS Organizations
- Cost Allocation Tags (Correct answer)
- Service Control Policies
- AWS Budgets
Correct answer: Cost Allocation Tags
Cost Allocation Tags let you label AWS resources and then generate cost reports broken down by tag, enabling per-department charge-back.
Question 3: Which AWS Support plan is the minimum level that offers 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via phone, chat, and email?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business (Correct answer)
- Enterprise
Correct answer: Business
The Business Support plan is the lowest tier that provides 24/7 phone, chat, and email access to Cloud Support Engineers for production issues.
Question 4: How are AWS Lambda function costs primarily calculated?
- By the number of functions deployed
- By the number of requests and duration of execution (Correct answer)
- By the amount of memory allocated only
- By the number of concurrent executions per hour
Correct answer: By the number of requests and duration of execution
Lambda charges are based on the total number of requests and the duration (in GB-seconds) each function runs, with a generous free tier included.
Question 5: A business receives a 5% discount on their AWS bill each month without any commitment. What is most likely causing this discount?
- They have a Business Support plan
- They negotiated an Enterprise Discount Program agreement (Correct answer)
- They are using Reserved Instances
- They have AWS Credits applied to the account
Correct answer: They negotiated an Enterprise Discount Program agreement
The AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) offers custom negotiated discounts based on committed annual spend, without requiring Reserved Instances.
Question 6: Which AWS service provides a single bill for multiple AWS accounts within an organization?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Organizations with Consolidated Billing (Correct answer)
- AWS Control Tower
Correct answer: AWS Organizations with Consolidated Billing
AWS Organizations with Consolidated Billing combines charges from all member accounts into a single monthly bill sent to the management account.
Question 7: What is the AWS Free Tier offer for Amazon EC2 in the first 12 months?
- 750 hours per month of t2.micro or t3.micro instances (Correct answer)
- 500 hours per month of any EC2 instance type
- Unlimited t2.nano usage for 12 months
- 1,000 hours per month of t3.small instances
Correct answer: 750 hours per month of t2.micro or t3.micro instances
The AWS Free Tier provides 750 hours per month of t2.micro (or t3.micro in regions where t2.micro is unavailable) Linux/Windows instances for 12 months.
CLF-C02 Billing and Pricing 4
Which section of the AWS Management Console shows a month-to-date summary of charges and forecasted end-of-month costs?