4.2 Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management.
Objective 4.2 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 team must be told before monthly spend passes a fixed target, not after the money has been spent. Which capability does that?
Correct.
Concept
Cost control is only preventive if the signal arrives while there is still time to act. A projection of where the month is heading does that; a report of where it has been does not.
Why B
A cost budget with a fixed target can notify on forecasted spend as well as on accrued spend, so the alert fires while the month is still running and an action such as a restrictive IAM policy can be applied.
Source
Now you: objective 4.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A finance analyst wants 13 months of cost history, trends by service, and advice on which Reserved Instances to buy. Which tool provides that?
Sample question 2 of 3
A company moves 12 separate accounts into one organization with consolidated billing. What happens to volume and Reserved Instance discounts?
Sample question 3 of 3
An engineer tags every resource with a Cost Center key, but the key never appears in Cost Explorer. What step was missed?
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