CSLB General Building (B) — All Questions
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Which support plan is the minimum required to get a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and concierge support?
- a.Basic
- b.Developer
- c.Business
- d.Enterprise✓
The Enterprise Support plan includes a designated Technical Account Manager and access to the concierge support team, along with the fastest response times. The Business plan offers 24/7 technical support but not a dedicated TAM.
Which AWS pricing model lets you pay for compute or database capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitment?
- a.On-Demand pricing✓
- b.Reserved Instance pricing
- c.Spot pricing only
- d.Savings Plans only
On-Demand pricing charges for capacity by the hour or second with no upfront payment or long-term commitment, making it ideal for short-term or unpredictable workloads. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans trade commitment for lower prices.
Which purchasing option offers significant discounts in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage?
- a.On-Demand Instances
- b.Savings Plans✓
- c.Spot Instances
- d.Dedicated Hosts billed hourly
Savings Plans offer lower prices in return for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in dollars per hour) over a one- or three-year term. Reserved Instances offer a similar trade-off tied to specific instance attributes.
Which tool provides a free estimate of the cost of an AWS architecture before you deploy it?
- a.AWS Cost Explorer
- b.AWS Budgets
- c.AWS Pricing Calculator✓
- d.AWS Cost and Usage Report
The AWS Pricing Calculator lets you model a proposed architecture and estimate its monthly cost before deploying. Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report, by contrast, analyze actual historical spend.
Which feature of AWS Organizations combines the usage of multiple accounts so they can share volume pricing discounts and receive a single bill?
- a.Service control policies
- b.Cross-Region replication
- c.Elastic Load Balancing
- d.Consolidated billing✓
Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations aggregates usage across member accounts into one bill and can qualify the group for volume discounts. It simplifies payment while still allowing per-account cost tracking.
Which service lets you set custom cost or usage thresholds and receive alerts when spending is forecast to exceed them?
- a.AWS Budgets✓
- b.AWS Artifact
- c.Amazon Inspector
- d.AWS CloudFormation
AWS Budgets lets you define custom budgets for cost or usage and receive alerts when actual or forecasted amounts exceed your thresholds. This helps teams proactively control spending.
Which tool helps you visualize, understand, and analyze your AWS costs and usage over time with graphs and filtering?
- a.AWS Pricing Calculator
- b.AWS Cost Explorer✓
- c.AWS Trusted Advisor
- d.AWS Config
AWS Cost Explorer provides an interface to visualize and analyze historical and forecasted costs and usage, with filtering and grouping. It helps identify spending trends and cost drivers.
Which statement about the AWS Free Tier is correct?
- a.It makes all AWS services free forever
- b.It only applies to enterprise customers
- c.It offers some services free within limits, including 12-month, always-free, and short-term trial offers✓
- d.It requires an Enterprise Support plan
The AWS Free Tier includes three types of offers: 12-month free tiers for new accounts, always-free offers, and short-term trials. Usage beyond the specified limits is billed at standard rates.
Which support plan provides 24/7 access to cloud support engineers by phone, chat, and email, and is often the minimum recommended for production workloads?
- a.Basic
- b.Developer
- c.Free Tier
- d.Business✓
The Business Support plan offers 24/7 access to support engineers via phone, chat, and email, plus full access to Trusted Advisor checks, making it suitable for production workloads. The Developer plan offers only business-hours email access to support.
Which detailed billing artifact provides the most comprehensive, line-item data about your AWS usage and can be delivered to an S3 bucket for analysis?
- a.AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)✓
- b.AWS Pricing Calculator
- c.AWS Trusted Advisor
- d.AWS Artifact
The AWS Cost and Usage Report provides the most detailed, comprehensive line-item billing data available and can be delivered to Amazon S3 for analysis. It is used for deep cost analysis and chargeback reporting.
How does tagging AWS resources help with billing and cost management?
- a.Tags automatically reduce the cost of resources
- b.Tags let you categorize resources so costs can be tracked and allocated by project, team, or environment✓
- c.Tags are required before any resource can be launched
- d.Tags encrypt billing data
Cost allocation tags let you label resources so their costs can be grouped and analyzed by dimensions such as project, department, or environment. This improves visibility and enables chargeback or showback.
In which support plans is the full set of AWS Trusted Advisor checks available?
- a.Only the Basic plan
- b.Only the Developer plan
- c.The Business and Enterprise plans✓
- d.No support plan includes Trusted Advisor
The full set of Trusted Advisor checks, covering cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits, is available with Business and Enterprise Support. Basic and Developer plans include only a limited subset of checks.