CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing & Support Models 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which payment option for Reserved Instances provides the largest discount?
- No Upfront
- Partial Upfront
- All Upfront (Correct answer)
- Monthly On-Demand
Correct answer: All Upfront
Paying All Upfront for a Reserved Instance provides the highest discount because AWS receives the full payment immediately, reducing financial risk for AWS.
Question 2: A company uses AWS Support and wants to get guidance on migrating a legacy application to AWS. Which support feature provides this architectural guidance?
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Consultative reviews with a TAM (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Consultative reviews with a TAM
A Technical Account Manager (TAM) available in Enterprise Support provides consultative architectural reviews and migration guidance tailored to your specific workloads.
Question 3: What does the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator help organizations determine?
- Exact monthly AWS bills after deployment
- Cost comparison between on-premises infrastructure and AWS (Correct answer)
- Reserved Instance pricing for specific instance types
- Savings Plan commitment levels
Correct answer: Cost comparison between on-premises infrastructure and AWS
The TCO Calculator (now part of AWS Pricing Calculator) helps businesses compare the cost of running workloads on-premises versus on AWS, including hardware, facilities, and staffing costs.
Question 4: Which feature of AWS Organizations allows the management account to pay for all member accounts' charges?
- Service Control Policies
- Consolidated Billing (Correct answer)
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS Config Aggregator
Correct answer: Consolidated Billing
Consolidated Billing in AWS Organizations designates a single management (payer) account that receives one combined bill covering usage charges from all member accounts.
Question 5: An e-commerce company runs high-traffic workloads during holiday seasons and minimal workloads the rest of the year. Which pricing model is MOST cost-effective for their baseline compute needs?
- On-Demand Instances for all workloads
- Reserved Instances for baseline, On-Demand or Spot for peak (Correct answer)
- Spot Instances for all workloads
- Dedicated Hosts for all compute
Correct answer: Reserved Instances for baseline, On-Demand or Spot for peak
Using Reserved Instances for predictable baseline capacity and On-Demand or Spot instances for seasonal peaks is the most cost-optimized approach for variable workloads.
Question 6: Which AWS Support plan is recommended for a company running non-critical development and test workloads that only needs email-based support during business hours?
- Basic
- Developer (Correct answer)
- Business
- Enterprise On-Ramp
Correct answer: Developer
The Developer Support plan provides email support during business hours and is designed for customers experimenting with AWS or running development workloads at a low cost.
Question 7: Which AWS tool provides real-time recommendations to help reduce costs by identifying idle EC2 instances, underutilized EBS volumes, and unassociated Elastic IPs?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- AWS Trusted Advisor (Correct answer)
- AWS Budgets
Correct answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides actionable recommendations across cost optimization, performance, security, and fault tolerance categories.
CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing & Support Models 5
Which payment option for Reserved Instances provides the largest discount?