Chapter 2. Understanding Your AWS Account

Question 1 of 20

1

Which of the following EC2 services can be used without charge under the Free Tier?

Select one of the following:

Any single EC2 instance type as long as it runs for less than one hour per day
Any single EC2 instance type as long as it runs for less than 75 hours per month
A single t2.micro EC2 instance type instance for 750 hours per month
t2.micro EC2 instance type instances for a total of 750 hours per month

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

1

You want to experiment with deploying a web server on an EC2 instance. Which two of the following resources can you include to make that work while remaining within the Free Tier? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

A 5 GB bucket on S3
A t2.micro instance type EC2 instance
A 30 GB solid-state Elastic Block Store (EBS) drive
Two 20 GB solid-state Elastic Block Store (EBS) drives

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

1

Which of the following usage will always be cost-free even after your account’s Free Tier has expired? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

One million API calls/month on Amazon API Gateway
10 GB of data retrievals from Amazon Glacier per month
500 MB/month of free storage on the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
10 custom monitoring metrics and 10 alarms on Amazon CloudWatch

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

1

Which of the following tools are available to ensure you won’t accidentally run past your Free Tier limit and incur unwanted costs? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Automated email alerts when activity approaches the Free Tier limits
The Top Free Tier Services by Usage section on the Billing & Cost Management
Dashboard
Billing & Cost Management section on the Top Free Tier Services Dashboard
The Billing Preferences Dashboard

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

1

Which of the following is likely to be an accurate source of AWS pricing information?

Select one of the following:

Wikipedia pages relating to a particular service
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
AWS online documentation relating to a particular service
The AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

1

Which of the following will probably not affect the pricing for an AWS service?

Select one of the following:

Requests for raising the available service limit
AWS Region
The volume of data saved to an S3 bucket
The volume of data egress from an Amazon Glacier vault

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

1

Which of the following is a limitation of the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator?

Select one of the following:

You can calculate resource use for only one service at a time.
Not all AWS services are included.
The pricing is seldom updated and doesn’t accurately reflect current pricing.
You’re not able to specify specific configuration parameters.

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

1

Which of the following Simple Monthly Calculator selections will likely have an impact on most other configuration choices on the page? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Calculate By Month Or Year
Include Multiple Organizations
Free Usage Tier
Choose Region

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

1

Which of the following is not an included parameter in the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?

Select one of the following:

The tax implications of a cloud deployment
Labor costs of an on-premises deployment
Networking costs of an on-premises deployment
Electricity costs of an on-premises deployment

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

1

Which of the following AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator parameters is likely to have the greatest impact on cost?

Select one of the following:

Currency
AWS Region
Guest OS
Number of servers

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

1

Which of the following AWS documentation URLs points to the page containing an up-to- date list of service limits?

Select one of the following:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/limits.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html
https://aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

1

Which of the following best describes one possible reason for AWS service limits?

Select one of the following:

To prevent individual customers from accidentally launching a crippling level of resource consumption
To more equally distribute available resources between customers from different regions
To allow customers to more gradually increase their deployments
Because there are logical limits to the ability of AWS resources to scale upward

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

1

Is it always possible to request service limit increases from AWS?

Select one of the following:

Yes. All service limits can be increased.
No. A limit can never be increased.
Service limits are defaults. They can be increased or decreased on demand.
No. Some service limits are hard.

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

1

Which is the best place to get a quick summary of this month’s spend for your account?

Select one of the following:

Budgets
Cost Explorer
Cost and usage reports
Billing & Cost Management Dashboard

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

1

What is the main goal for creating a Usage budget type (in AWS Budgets)?

Select one of the following:

To correlate usage per unit cost to understand your account cost efficiency
To track the status of any active reserved instances on your account
To track particular categories of resource consumption
To monitor costs being incurred against your account

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

1

Which of the following is not a setting you can configure in a Cost budget?

Select one of the following:

Period (monthly, quarterly, etc.)
Instance type
Start and stop dates
Owner (username of resource owner)

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

1

What is the main difference between the goals of Cost Explorer and of cost and usage
reports?

Select one of the following:

Cost Explorer displays visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs, while cost and usage reports generate granular usage reports in CSV format.
Cost and usage reports display visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs, while Cost Explorer generates granular usage reports in CSV format.
Cost Explorer lets you set alerts that are triggered by billing events, while cost and usage reports help you visualize system events.
Cost and usage reports are meant to alert you to malicious intrusions, while Cost Explorer displays visualizations of high-level historical and current account costs

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

1

What is the purpose of cost allocation tags?

Select one of the following:

To associate spend limits to automatically trigger resource shutdowns when necessary
To help you identify the purpose and owner of a particular running resource to better understand and control deployments
To help you identify resources for the purpose of tracking your account spending
To visually associate account events with billing periods

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

1

Which of the following scenarios would be a good use case for AWS Organizations?
(Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

A single company with multiple AWS accounts that wants a single place to administrate everything
An organization that provides AWS access to large teams of its developers and admins
A company that’s integrated some operations with an upstream vendor
A company with two distinct operational units, each with its own accounting system and AWS account

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

1

Which of these tools lets you design graphs within the browser interface to track your account spending?

Select one of the following:

Budgets
Cost Explorer
Reports
Consolidating Billing

	Created by Julio Gutierrez about 3 years ago

Domain 4: Billing and Pricing 4.1 Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS 4.2 Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing 4.3 Identify resources available for billing support

Chapter 2. Understanding Your AWS Account

Question 1 of 20

Which of the following EC2 services can be used without charge under the Free Tier?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

You want to experiment with deploying a web server on an EC2 instance. Which two of the following resources can you include to make that work while remaining within the Free Tier? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

Which of the following usage will always be cost-free even after your account’s Free Tier has expired? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

Which of the following tools are available to ensure you won’t accidentally run past your Free Tier limit and incur unwanted costs? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

Which of the following is likely to be an accurate source of AWS pricing information?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

Which of the following will probably not affect the pricing for an AWS service?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

Which of the following is a limitation of the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

Which of the following Simple Monthly Calculator selections will likely have an impact on most other configuration choices on the page? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

Which of the following is not an included parameter in the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

Which of the following AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator parameters is likely to have the greatest impact on cost?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

Which of the following AWS documentation URLs points to the page containing an up-to- date list of service limits?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

Which of the following best describes one possible reason for AWS service limits?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

Is it always possible to request service limit increases from AWS?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

Which is the best place to get a quick summary of this month’s spend for your account?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

What is the main goal for creating a Usage budget type (in AWS Budgets)?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

Which of the following is not a setting you can configure in a Cost budget?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

What is the main difference between the goals of Cost Explorer and of cost and usage reports?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

What is the purpose of cost allocation tags?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

Which of the following scenarios would be a good use case for AWS Organizations? (Select TWO.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

Which of these tools lets you design graphs within the browser interface to track your account spending?

What is the main difference between the goals of Cost Explorer and of cost and usage
reports?

Which of the following scenarios would be a good use case for AWS Organizations?
(Select TWO.)