Objective 4.1
CLF-C02Compare AWS pricing models.
Objective 4.1 sits in Billing, Pricing, and Support, which carries 12% of the Cloud Practitioner exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Amazon Web Services (AWS) page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A nightly data analysis job can be stopped and restarted at any time. The team wants the lowest EC2 price available. Which purchase option fits?
Correct.
Checked against docs.aws.amazon.com, August 2026Concept
Price tracks the guarantee attached to capacity. Work that can be paused and resumed does not need a guarantee, so it can run on capacity the provider is willing to take back.
Why A
Spare capacity is offered well under the standard rate, and the trade is that the instance can be reclaimed. Batch analysis that restarts cleanly loses nothing when that happens.
Source
AWS Docs: Spot Instances, checked August 2026A Spot Instance is an instance that uses spare EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price.... Spot Instances are a cost-effective choice if you can be flexible about when your applications run and if your applications can be interrupted. For example, Spot Instances are well-suited for data analysis, batch jobs, background processing, and optional tasks.
Now you: objective 4.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A pilot application runs for six weeks with unpredictable hours and cannot tolerate interruption. Which purchase option should the team choose?
Sample question 2 of 3
A company will commit to a steady hourly spend, but wants the discount to follow workloads as they move between instance families, Regions and Lambda. Which option?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team buys a Reserved Instance and then cannot find the reserved server anywhere in the console. What did the purchase actually buy?
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