AWS - Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP) - Billing and Pricing

Which of the following Cost Management Tools allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

• AWS Cost and Usage report

• AWS Budgets

• AWS Cost Explorer

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  AWS Price List Bulk API

Answer explanation

The Cost and Usage Report digunakan untuk melihat rincian data mengenai biaya dan penggunaan AWS. Fitur ini juga memberikan beberapa akses seperti

1. Tracking penggunaan EC2 Reserved Instance.

AWS Cost Explorer kurang tepat karena ini digunakan untuk menganalisis biaya penggunaan dan melakukan forecast / perkiraan biaya menggunakan data penggunaan sebelumnya

AWS Budget kurang tepat karena ini digunakan untuk menentukan batas budget penggunaan dengan memberikan alarm.

A company is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS. Which of the following options can they use to help them estimate their costs?

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  AWS Cost Explorer

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  Cost allocation tag

• AWS Pricing Calculator

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  Consolidated Billing

Answer explanation

AWS Pricing Calculator digunakan untuk estimasi biaya, biasa digunakan untuk perusahaan baru yang merencanakan pindah ke cloud dan ingin memperkirakan biaya per layanan.

Cost allocation tag kurang tepat karena ini digunakan untuk mengkategorikan biaya berdasarkan tag

Consolidated Billing kurang tepat karena ini digunakan untuk menggabungkan biaya diseluruh akun AWS yang terhubung di organisasi kita.

Cost Explorer kurang tepat, mungkin ini sama fungsinya digunakan untuk forecast. Namun di layanan ini membutuhkan data penggunaan sebelumnya untuk melakukan estimasi / prediksi biaya. Berbeda dengan AWS Pricing Calculator yang melakukan estimasi tanpa memerlukan data penggunaan sebelumnya.

Which of the following allows you to set coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define?

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  AWS Trusted Advisor

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  AWS Budgets

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  Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarm

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  AWS Cost Explorer

Answer explanation

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

Which of the following provides you access to Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your past usage and indicate potential opportunities for savings as compared to On-Demand usage?

• AWS Cost and Usage report

• AWS Billing Dashboard

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  AWS Cost Explorer

• 
  AWS Budgets

Which of the following allows you to categorize and track your AWS costs on a detailed level?

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  Amazon Aurora Backtrack

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  Cost allocation tags

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  Consolidated Billing

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  AWS Budgets

Which of the following provides you the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage and also load that information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS QuickSight, or a tool of your choice?

• AWS Cost and Usage Reports

• Consolidated Billing

• 
  AWS Cost Explorer

• AWS Budgets

A manufacturing company has multiple AWS accounts for various departments. As the company grows, they are experiencing an increase in its AWS costs and want to optimize its expenses by taking advantage of any available discounts.

Which of the following actions below will allow you to take advantage of volume discounts in AWS?

• Move all of your AWS resources from multiple accounts to a single global account.

• Opt for an All upfront Convertible Reserved Instance pricing for a 3-year term.

• Upgrade to an AWS Enterprise support plan.

• Use AWS Organizations and enable the consolidated billing feature.

Which of the following actions will AWS charge you for?

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  Setting up additional VPCs in your account

• Provisioning elastic IPs and attaching them to running EC2 instances

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  Network charges for the transfer of data from your data center to S3 through a VPN

• Transfer of EC2 files between two AWS Regions

Which of the following purchase options offers the most significant discount compared to On-Demand instance pricing to process steady-state workloads that will continuously be running for a year and also provide capacity reservation?

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  Savings Plans

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  Convertible Reserved Instance

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  Standard Reserved Instance

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  Dedicated Instance

In Amazon EC2, which pricing construct adjusts its price based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

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  On-Demand Instance

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  Spot Instance

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  Standard Reserved Instance

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  Convertible Reserved Instance