Which service below allows for effective cost management of multiple aws accounts?

Which service below allows for effective cost management of multiple aws accounts?

Chris Kuo/Dr. Dataman

Aug 6, 2021

15 min read

This post is the Pricing Section of the study guide for the exam. As you plan and manage your AWS deployments, keeping costs within your organization’s budget is a critical aspect. In this post, you will understand how AWS bills its services, and how you can access and monitor the pricing information.

CLF-C01 Part 2

1. A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to simplify and consolidate its billing process.
Which AWS service will achieve this?

  • A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports
  • B. AWS Organizations
  • C. AWS Cost Explorer
  • D. AWS Budgets

2. A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data. Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement?

  • A. Amazon CloudFront
  • B. AWS Direct Connect
  • C. Amazon Route 53 global DNS
  • D. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) transfer acceleration

3. Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses?

  • A. On-premises
  • B. Hybrid
  • C. Cloud
  • D. Platform as a service

4. How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?

  • A. AWS provides a Configuration Management Database that users can maintain.
  • B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer’s behalf.
  • C. Amazon EC2 automatically generates an asset report and places it in the customer’s specified Amazon S3 bucket.
  • D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.

5. What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?

  • A. Snapshots
  • B. Automatic patching and updating
  • C. Cross-Region read replicas
  • D. Provisioned IOPS

6. Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant access only to the resources needed to perform a task is a concept known as:

  • A. restricted access.
  • B. as-needed access.
  • C. least privilege access.
  • D. token access.

7. Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.)

  • A. Enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS account root user.
  • B. Create separate accounts for each department.
  • C. Use Reserved Instances whenever possible.
  • D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.
  • E. Pay bills using purchase orders.

8. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following?

  • A. Securing the hardware, software, facilities, and networks that run all products and services.
  • B. Providing certificates, reports, and other documentation directly to AWS customers under NDA.
  • C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.
  • D. Obtaining industry certifications and independent third-party attestations.

9. Which managed AWS service provides real-time guidance on AWS security best practices?

  • A. AWS X-Ray
  • B. AWS Trusted Advisor
  • C. Amazon CloudWatch
  • D. AWS Systems Manager

10. Which feature adds elasticity to Amazon EC2 instances to handle the changing demand for workloads?

  • A. Resource groups
  • B. Lifecycle policies
  • C. Application Load Balancer
  • D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

11. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.)

  • A. Visualization management
  • B. Hardware management
  • C. Encryption management
  • D. Facilities management
  • E. Firewall management

12. Which AWS hybrid storage service enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage through standard file-storage protocols?

  • A. AWS Direct Connect
  • B. AWS Snowball
  • C. AWS Storage Gateway
  • D. AWS Snowball Edge

13. What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model?

  • A. Updating the network ACLs to block traffic to vulnerable ports.
  • B. Patching operating systems running on Amazon EC2 instances.
  • C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.
  • D. Updating the security group rules to block traffic to the vulnerable ports.

14. Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode?

  • A. Implement loose coupling.
  • B. Design for failure.
  • C. Automate everything that can be automated.
  • D. Use services, not servers.

15. What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users?

  • A. It is granting permissions to a single user only.
  • B. It is granting permissions using AWS IAM policies only.
  • C. It is granting AdministratorAccess policy permissions to trustworthy users.
  • D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.

16. What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design?

  • A. It facilitates low-latency request handling.
  • B. It allows applications to have dependent workflows.
  • C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.
  • D. It allows companies to focus on their physical data center operations.

17. A company’s web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails. Applying which AWS Cloud design principle will address the current design issue?

  • A. Implementing elasticity, enabling the application to scale up or scale down as demand changes.
  • B. Enabling several EC2 instances to run in parallel to achieve better performance.
  • C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.
  • D. Doubling EC2 computing resources to increase system fault tolerance.

18. A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet. Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity?

  • A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT Gateway
  • B. AWS Direct Connect
  • C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Transfer Acceleration
  • D. AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)

19. How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.)

  • A. Configure AWS Certificate Manager
  • B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • C. Use Amazon Cognito to manage access
  • D. Configure a strong password policy
  • E. Enable AWS Organizations

20. What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access across multiple accounts?

  • A. AWS Service Catalog
  • B. AWS Config
  • C. AWS Trusted Advisor
  • D. AWS Organizations

21. Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount?

  • A. AWS Cost and Usage reports
  • B. AWS Budgets
  • C. AWS Cost Explorer
  • D. AWS Trusted Advisor

22. What can users access from AWS Artifact?

  • A. AWS security and compliance documents
  • B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources
  • C. Training materials for AWS services
  • D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud

23. Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides designated Technical Account Managers?

  • A. Enterprise
  • B. Business
  • C. Developer
  • D. Basic

24. Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability?

  • A. Deployment to a single Availability Zone
  • B. Ability to recover from failure
  • C. Design for cost optimization
  • D. Perform operations as code

25. Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped or terminated?

  • A. Amazon EBS
  • B. Amazon EC2 instance store
  • C. Amazon EFS
  • D. Amazon S3

26. What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution?

  • A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.
  • B. Users can utilize existing hardware contracts for purchases.
  • C. Users can fix costs no matter what their traffic is.
  • D. Users can avoid audits by using reports from AWS.

27. Which of the following is an AWS-managed compute service?

  • A. Amazon SWF
  • B. Amazon EC2
  • C. AWS Lambda
  • D. Amazon Aurora

28. Which of the following is an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications?

  • A. Store data and backups in the same region.
  • B. Design tightly coupled system components.
  • C. Avoid multi-threading.
  • D. Design for failure

29. Which mechanism allows developers to access AWS services from application code?

Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts?

Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain volume discounts? Use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts or multiple Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL) accounts.

Which AWS service can you use to help ensure you don't have cost overruns for your AWS resources?

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

Which AWS cost management tool allows you to view the most granular data about your AWS bill?

AWS Cost Explorer helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over a daily or monthly granularity. You can also access your data with further granularity by enabling hourly and resource level granularity.

Which of the following can be used to view one bill when you have multiple AWS accounts?

Consolidated Billing Receive one bill for multiple AWS Accounts, with cost breakdowns for each account. Usage is combined, enabling you to more quickly reach lower-priced volume tiers.