Which pricing model should you use for EC2 instances that will be used in a lab environment for several hours on a weekend and must run uninterrupted? 1. On-Demand • On-Demand is the best choice for this situation as it is the most economical option that will ensure no interruptions What types of pricing policies does AWS offer? (choose 2) 1. Pay-as-you-go • Amazon pricing includes options for pay-as-you-go, save
when you reserve and pay less by using more Which tool enables you to visualize your usage patterns over time and to identify your underlying cost drivers? 3. AWS Cost Explorer • The AWS Cost Explorer is a free tool that allows you to view charts of your costs. You can view cost data for the past 13 months and forecast how much you are likely to spend over the next three months. Cost Explorer can be used to discover patterns in how much you spend on AWS resources over time and to identify cost problem area For which services does Amazon not charge customers? (choose 2) 1. Amazon VPC • Amazon VPC and CloudFormation are free of charge, however in the case of CloudFormation you pay for the resources it
creates What is the most cost-effective support plan that should be selected to provide at least a 1-hour response time for a production system failure? 3. Business • Basic does not provide any technical support How can an organization compare the cost of running applications in an on-premise or colocation environment against the AWS cloud? 3. TCO Calculator • The TCO calculator is a free tool provided by AWS that allows you to estimate the cost savings of using the AWS Cloud vs. using an on-premised data center What is the most cost-effective EC2
pricing option to use for a non-critical overnight workload? 2. Spot • Spot instances are good for short term requirements as they can be very economical. Sometimes AWS may terminate your instance, e.g. when the market price exceeds your bid price. This is a good option for non-critical workloads that
can be terminated Which AWS support plan should you use if you need a response time of < 15 minutes for a business-critical system failure? 4. Enterprise • Both Business and Enterprise offer < 1 hour response time for the
failure of a production system Which of the following statements is correct in relation to consolidated billing? (choose 2) 1. Paying accounts are independent and cannot access resources of other accounts • AWS organizations allow you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally
manage A company would like to maximize their potential volume and RI discounts across multiple accounts and also apply service control policies on member accounts. What can they use
gain these benefits? 4. AWS Organizations • AWS Organizations enables you to create groups of AWS accounts and then centrally manage policies across those accounts. AWS Organizations provides consolidated billing in both feature sets, which allows you set up a single payment method in the
organization’s master account and still receive an invoice for individual activity in each member account. Volume pricing discounts can be applied to resources Which items should be included in a TCO analysis comparing on-premise to AWS Cloud? (choose 2) 3. Compute hardware • You need to identify the items that have a cost on-premise and that will be rolled into the service in the cloud. Compute hardware costs and data center security costs will be rolled in the service cost in the cloud so you need to include them in the model so you can really understand the true TCO on-premise vs. the cloud What are two ways an AWS customer can reduce their monthly spend? (choose 2) 1. Turn off resources that are not being used • You don’t pay for power, security groups, or data ingress to the AWS cloud so these answers are all incorrect Which AWS services can be utilized at no cost? (choose
2) 1. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Which of the following are valid types of Reserved Instance? (choose 2) 1. Convertible RI • Standard RIs: These provide the most significant discount (up to 75% off On-Demand) and are best suited for steady-state usage An architect needs to
compare the cost of deploying an on-premise web server and an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud. Which tool can be used to assist the architect? 3. AWS TCO Calculator • The TCO calculator is a free tool provided by AWS that allows you to estimate the cost savings of using the
AWS Cloud vs. using an on-premised data center Which Amazon S3 storage tier provider does not include
a data retrieval fee and has an availability SLA of 99.99%? 1. S3 Standard • All of the storage tiers listed include a data retrieval fee except for S3 Standard A company is planning to migrate some resources into the cloud. What factors need to be considered when determining the cost of the AWS Cloud? (choose 2) 2. The number of servers migrated into EC2 • AWS charge for EC2 instances and data egress. There are no charges for VPCs, IAM users or data ingress A manager needs to keep a check on his AWS spend. How can the manager setup alarms that notify him when his bill reaches a certain amount? 1. Using CloudWatch • The best ways to do this is to use CloudWatch to configure alarms that deliver a notification when activated. The alarms can use cost metrics that trigger the alarm when a certain amount of spend has been reached Which AWS support plans provide support via email, chat and phone? (choose 2) 3. Business • Only the business and enterprise plans provide support via email, chat and phone An application stores images which will be retrieved infrequently, but must be available for retrieval immediately. Which is the most cost-effective storage option that meets these requirements? 2. Amazon
S3 Standard-Infrequent Access • Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access is the most cost-effective choice To optimize pricing or ensure capacity is available reservations can be applied to which of the following services? (choose 2) 1. Amazon EC2 • Reservations apply to various services, including: EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS and
RedShift Which of the options below are recommendations in the cost optimization pillar of the well-architected framework? (choose 2) 1. Adopt a consumption model • The cost optimization pillar includes the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resource Which pricing options are available when using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances? (choose 2) 2. All upfront • Amazon EC2 Reserved
Instances (RI) provide a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand pricing and provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability Zone When deploying resources using AWS CloudFormation, what are you charged for? (choose 2) 2. Provisioned EC2 instances • You do not pay for AWS CloudFormation, just for the chargeable resources that it provisions How does the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations treat Reserved Instances that were purchased by another account in the organization? 1. All accounts in the organization are treated as one account so any account can receive the hourly cost benefit • For billing purposes, the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations treats all the accounts in the organization as one account. This means that all accounts in the organization can receive the hourly cost benefit of Reserved Instances that are purchased by any other account • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ri-behavior.html What are the charges for using Amazon Glacier? (choose 2) 2. Retrieval requests • With Amazon Glacier you pay for storage on a per GB / month basis, retrieval requests and quantity (based on expedited, standard, or bulk), and data transfer out of Glacier You need to run a production process that will use several EC2 instances and run constantly on an ongoing basis. The process cannot be interrupted or restarted without issue. What EC2 pricing model would be best for this workload? 1. Reserved instances • RIs provide you with a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand instance pricing You are concerned that you may be getting close to some of the default service limits for several AWS services. What AWS tool can be used to display current usage and limits? 3. AWS Trusted Advisor • Trusted Advisor is an online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment. Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Offers a Service Limits check (in the Performance category) that displays your usage and limits for some aspects of some services Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)? 4. Enterprise • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/ When using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing what are two valid best practices? (choose 2) 1. Always enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the root account • Best practices include: What is the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage tier for data that is not often accessed but requires high durability? 2. Amazon S3 Standard-IA • S3 Standard-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid
access when needed. S3 Standard-IA offers the high durability, high throughput, and low latency of S3 Standard Which Amazon EC2 pricing option provides significant
discounts for fixed term contracts? 1. Reserved Instances • Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time Which Amazon EC2 billing option allows gives you low cost, maximum flexibility, no upfront costs or commitment, and you only pay for what you use? 4. On-Demand Instances • With On-Demand instances you pay for hours used with no commitment. There are no upfront costs so you have maximum flexibility What pricing models are available for DynamoDB? (choose 2) 1. On-demand capacity mode • On-demand capacity mode: DynamoDB charges you for the data reads and writes your application performs on your tables. You do not need to specify how much read and write throughput you expect your application to perform because DynamoDB instantly accommodates your workloads as they
ramp up or down What are the fundamental charges for an Amazon EC2 instance? (choose 2) 1. Compute uptime • When using EC2 instances you are charged for the compute uptime of the instance based on the family and type you chose. You are also charged for the amount of data provisioned What are the fundamental charges for Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes? (choose 2) 2. The amount of data storage provisioned • With EBS volumes you are charged for the amount of data provisioned (not consumed) per month. This means you can have empty space within a volume and you still pay for it When using Amazon RDS databases, which items are you charged for? (choose 2) 2. Multi AZ • With Amazon RDS you are charged for the type and size of database, the uptime, any additional storage of backup (above the DB size), requests, deployment type (e.g. you pay for multi AZ), and data transfer outbound What billing timeframes are available for Amazon EC2 on-demand instances? (choose 2) 1.
Per second • With EC2 you are billed either by the second, for some Linux instances, or by the hour for all other instance types • https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ An organization has multiple AWS accounts and uses a mixture of on-demand and reserved instances. One account has a considerable amount of unused reserved instances. How can the organization reduce their costs?
(choose 2) 3. Create an AWS Organization configuration linking the accounts • AWS
organizations allow you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Unused reserved instances (RIs) for EC2 are applied across the group so the organization can utilize their unused reserved instance instead of consuming on-demand instances which will lower their costs To reduce the price of your Amazon EC2 instances, which term lengths are available for reserved instances? 1. 1 year • Reserved instances provide significant discounts, up to 75% compared to On-Demand pricing, by paying for capacity ahead of time. Good for applications that have predictable usage, that need reserved capacity, and for customers who can commit to a 1 or 3-year term • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/ What team is available to support AWS customers on an Enterprise support plan? 2. AWS Concierge • Included as part of the Enterprise Support plan, the Support Concierge Team are AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/ Which of the below are good use cases for a specific Amazon EC2 pricing model? (choose 2) 2. On-demand for ad-hoc requirements that cannot be interrupted • Typical use
cases for the pricing models listed are: A company wants to utilize a pay as you go cloud model for all of their applications without CAPEX costs and which is highly elastic. Which cloud delivery model will suit them best? 1. Public • The public cloud is offered under a purely pay as you go model (unless you choose to reserve), and allows companies to completely avoid CAPEX costs. The public cloud is also highly elastic so companies can grow and shrink the applications as demand changes Which AWS support plan provides email support by the Cloud Support Associates team? 2. Developer • Developer provides email support by the Cloud Support Associates team whereas Business and Enterprise provide email support by the Cloud Support Engineers team What are two correct statements about AWS Organizations with
consolidated billing? (choose 2) 2. One bill provided for multiple accounts • With AWS organizations you create a paying account and linked accounts. One bill is provided for multiple accounts within an organization. Volume pricing discounts can be applied across resources in multiple accounts Which support plan is the lowest cost option that allows unlimited cases to be open? 2. Developer • With the Developer plan you can open unlimited cases To reward customers for using their services, what are two ways AWS reduce prices? (choose 2) 1. Volume based discounts when you use more services • AWS provide volume based discount so that when you use more services you reduce the cost per service. You can also reserve capacity by locking in to fixed 1 or 3 year contracts to get significant discounts What charges are applicable to Amazon S3 Standard storage class? (choose 2) 1. Per GB/month storage fee How do AWS charge for Amazon CloudFront? (choose 2) 1. Data transfer out • With Amazon CloudFront the basic elements you are charged for include the amount of data transfer out and the number of requests. There are additional chargeable items such as invalidation requests, field-level encryption requests, and custom SSL certificates How do AWS charge for the use of NAT Gateways? (choose 2) 1. Price per gateway hour • If you choose to create a NAT gateway in your VPC, you are charged for each “NAT Gateway-hour” that your NAT gateway is provisioned and available. Data processing charges apply for each Gigabyte processed through the NAT gateway regardless of the traffic’s source or destination To reduce cost, which of the following services support reservations? (choose 2) 1. Amazon ElastiCache • Amazon ElastiCache and Redshift both support
reserved nodes Which AWS technology enables you to group resources that share one or more tags? 3. Resource groups • Resource groups make it easy to group resources using the tags that are assigned to them. You can group resources that share one or more tags • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/ Which AWS
support plans provide 24×7 access to customer service? 4. All plans • All support plans provide 24×7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums • https://digitalcloud.training/certification-training/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/aws-billing-and-pricing/ What advantages does the AWS cloud provide in relation to cost? (choose 2) 1. Fine-grained billing • With the AWS cloud you get fine-grained billing and can turn off resources you are not using easily and not have to pay for them (pay for what you use model) Which billing and account management service can be used by businesses to sell applications they have built on the AWS cloud? 3. Amazon DevPay • Amazon DevPay is a simple-to-use online billing and account management service that makes it easy for
businesses to sell applications that are built in, or run on top of, Amazon Web Services • https://aws.amazon.com/devpay/ Which of the following are the best practices when using AWS organizations?In this article, we offer best practices for organizing your resources and aligning them with your team members.. Collaborate across departments. First things first. ... . Create separate AWS accounts for your resources. ... . Use AWS tags to further organize your resources. ... . Use AWS cost allocation reports and categories.. Which of the following below are the benefits of using consolidated billing in AWS select two?Consolidated billing has the following benefits: One bill – You get one bill for multiple accounts. Easy tracking – You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data.
What is the benefit of consolidated billing for AWS accounts?Consolidated Billing enables you to see a combined view of AWS costs incurred by all accounts in your department or company, as well as obtain a detailed cost report for each individual AWS account associated with your paying account.
Which AWS service enables users to consolidated billing across multiple accounts?AWS Organizations provides consolidated billing so you can track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization. The master account receives the consolidated bill. With consolidated billing, you can combine service usage from multiple accounts into a single invoice.
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