Which services are free to use in AWS?
IAM, VPC, Consolidated Billing, and Elastic Beanstalk
These services are free to use. Be careful, the resources created in Elastic Beanstalk (as well as in CloudFormation and Auto Scaling Groups) are not free.
Which tool allows you to centrally manage all users and roles permissions in your organization?
Service control policies
Service control policies (SCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization. An SCP spans all IAM users, groups, and roles, including the AWS account root user.
CloudFront pricing is the same in every geographic region.
False
CloudFront pricing is different across different geographic regions.
When you reserve, the larger the upfront payment, the smaller the discount.
False, the larger the upfront, the bigger the discount
When the upfront payment is higher, the discount is bigger.
Which of the following is NOT a pricing factor in S3?
Data transfer into S3
Inbound data transfer in the S3 region is free.
You would like to automatically set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment with best practices for your organization. Which AWS tool can you use?
Control Tower
AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.
A company would like recommendations regarding their performance, security, and fault tolerance. What can it use?
Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices, including performance, security, and fault tolerance, but also cost optimization and service limits.
Which of the following is INCORRECT regarding AWS Organizations?
Faster access to the AWS Support
AWS Organizations does not offer faster access to the AWS Support.
EBS Snapshots are added cost in GB per month.
True
The added data storage by EBS Snapshots are added cost in GB per month to EBS pricing. Other EBS pricing factors are: Volume type, Provisioned storage volume, IOPS, etc.
What is the most cost-effective option to have 24x7 phone, email, and chat support?
Business Support Plan
Business Support Plan is the most cost-effective option that offers 24x7 phone, email, and chat support.
Which of the following options can provide up to 66% discount compared to On-demand for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for 1 or 3 years and offers the possibility to change EC2 instances family type?
Compute Savings Plans
Compute Savings Plans provide the most flexibility and help to reduce your costs by up to 66% in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for a 1 or 3 year term. These plans automatically apply to EC2 instance usage regardless of instance family, size, AZ, region, OS or tenancy, and also apply to Fargate or Lambda usage.
You are running an on-demand Linux EC2 instance, what timing is applied regarding billing?
Pay per second
With Linux EC2 instances, you pay per second of compute capacity. There is also a minimum of 60s of use.
Which pricing model allows you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets and comply with long-term requirements, and is available for EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, and Redshift?
Save when you reserve
Reservations are available for EC2 Reserved Instances, DynamoDB Reserved Capacity, ElastiCache Reserved Nodes, RDS Reserved Instance, Redshift Reserved Nodes. Reservations allow you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets and comply with long-term requirements.
What can you use to estimate the cost of your architecture solution?
Simple Monthly Calculator/Pricing Calculator
The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator is an easy-to-use online tool that enables you to estimate their architecture solution monthly cost of AWS services for your use case based on your expected usage. It is being replaced by AWS Pricing Calculator.
The Enterprise Support Plan comes with a business-critical system down response under 15 minutes and offers access to a Technical Account Manager, as well as a Concierge Support Team.
True
The Enterprise Support Plan comes with a business-critical system down response under 15 minutes and offers access to a Technical Account Manager, as well as a Concierge Support Team. It is the only plan to have these features.
A company is not sure whether or not it is cost-effective to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which service can help the executive board make a decision?
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
The TCO calculators allow you to estimate the cost savings when using AWS and provide a detailed set of reports that can be used in executive presentations.
Which RDS pricing option is the most cost-effective if you need capacity for 3 years?
Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances are good and more cost-effective (up to 69% discount compared to On-demand pricing, depending on the upfront) for long workloads. You can reserve instances for 1 or 3 years in RDS.
What do Resource Groups rely on to group your resources?
Tags
You can assign metadata to your AWS resources in the form of tags. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources.
A company would like to choose the best Savings Plan and forecast its cost in the next 3 months. Which AWS service can help?
Cost Explorer
Cost Explorer can be used to forecast usage up to 3 months based on the previous usage. It can also be used to choose an optimal Savings Plan. Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
What can you use to get alerts when your costs and usage are exceeding or are forecasted to exceed your budgeting amount?
Budgets
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. Difference with CloudWatch Billing Alarms: CloudWatch Billing Alarms only send alerts when your costs and usage are exceeding your budget, not when it is forecasted to exceed your budget, while AWS Budgets does both.