AWS Cloud Practitioner — All Questions

Which support plan is the minimum required to get a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and concierge support?

• a.Business
• b.Enterprise✓
• c.Basic
• d.Developer

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.Spot pricing only
• c.Reserved Instance pricing
• 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.Spot Instances
• b.Savings Plans✓
• c.Dedicated Hosts billed hourly
• d.On-Demand Instances

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 Pricing Calculator✓
• b.AWS Cost and Usage Report
• c.AWS Cost Explorer
• d.AWS Budgets

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.Consolidated billing✓
• b.Elastic Load Balancing
• c.Cross-Region replication
• d.Service control policies

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 CloudFormation
• b.AWS Budgets✓
• c.Amazon Inspector
• d.AWS Artifact

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 Trusted Advisor
• b.AWS Pricing Calculator
• c.AWS Config
• d.AWS Cost Explorer✓

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 only applies to enterprise customers
• b.It offers some services free within limits, including 12-month, always-free, and short-term trial offers✓
• c.It makes all AWS services free forever
• 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.Free Tier
• b.Basic
• c.Business✓
• d.Developer

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 Pricing Calculator
• b.AWS Trusted Advisor
• c.AWS Artifact
• d.AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)✓

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 are required before any resource can be launched
• c.Tags let you categorize resources so costs can be tracked and allocated by project, team, or environment✓
• 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.No support plan includes Trusted Advisor
• b.The Business and Enterprise plans✓
• c.Only the Basic plan
• d.Only the Developer plan

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.

Which core AWS pricing principle is reflected by paying only for the compute you actually consume, with no long-term contract required?

• a.Pay the same amount every month regardless of usage
• b.Pay a large fixed annual fee
• c.Pay only after a three-year commitment
• d.Pay-as-you-go✓

A foundational AWS pricing principle is pay-as-you-go: you pay only for the individual services and capacity you use, for as long as you use them, without long-term contracts. This aligns spending with actual consumption.

Which AWS pricing principle explains why customers get lower per-unit prices as AWS grows and gains more customers?

• a.You always pay a single flat fee for unlimited usage of every AWS service each month
• b.Pay more to reserve capacity
• c.As AWS grows, economies of scale lower costs that are passed on to customers✓
• d.Prices increase as usage increases

One of AWS's pricing principles is that its economies of scale reduce its costs over time, and those savings are passed to customers as lower prices. This is distinct from the discounts customers earn by committing to usage.

Which EC2 pricing option offers up to about a 72% discount in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment tied to specific instance attributes?

• a.Spot Instances
• b.Standard Reserved Instances✓
• c.Dedicated Hosts billed on demand
• d.On-Demand Instances

Standard Reserved Instances provide substantial discounts (up to roughly 72%) versus On-Demand in return for a one- or three-year commitment to specific attributes such as instance type and Region. They suit steady-state, predictable workloads.

Which purchasing option provides spare EC2 capacity at the deepest discounts but can be interrupted with little notice?

• a.On-Demand Instances
• b.Spot Instances✓
• c.Standard Reserved Instances
• d.Dedicated Hosts

Spot Instances let you use unused EC2 capacity at up to about 90% off On-Demand prices, but AWS can reclaim them when it needs the capacity. They are ideal for fault-tolerant, flexible, and stateless workloads.

Compared with Reserved Instances, what added flexibility do Savings Plans generally offer?

• a.They only apply to one single specific instance type in a single Availability Zone and can never be shared or moved between accounts
• b.They apply savings across usage based on a dollars-per-hour commitment, often spanning instance families or even compute services✓
• c.They require no commitment at all
• d.They eliminate all data-transfer charges

Savings Plans commit you to a consistent amount of usage measured in dollars per hour, and Compute Savings Plans apply automatically across instance families, Regions, and even services like Fargate and Lambda. This is more flexible than Reserved Instances tied to specific attributes.

Which statement about the AWS Free Tier's three offer types is correct?

• a.It includes 12-month free offers, always-free offers, and short-term trials✓
• b.The Free Tier is available only to enterprise customers
• c.It requires purchasing the Business Support plan
• d.Everything in AWS is completely free forever once you sign up under the Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier has three categories: 12-month free offers for new accounts, always-free offers, and short-term free trials. Usage beyond the specified limits is billed at standard rates.

A new customer wants to explore AWS without incurring charges as long as they stay within limits. What should they be aware of about the Free Tier?

• a.It requires an Enterprise Support plan
• b.It never expires for any service
• c.Exceeding the Free Tier limits results in standard charges✓
• d.It automatically caps all of your account spending at exactly zero dollars

The Free Tier lets you try services within specific limits, but any usage beyond those limits is billed at normal rates, so it does not guarantee a zero bill. Monitoring usage with Budgets or the Free Tier dashboard helps avoid surprises.

Which tool provides an upfront estimate of the monthly cost of a proposed AWS architecture before you build it?

• a.AWS Cost and Usage Report
• b.AWS Pricing Calculator✓
• c.AWS Budgets
• d.AWS Cost Explorer

The AWS Pricing Calculator models a planned architecture and estimates its cost before deployment, useful for planning and comparisons. Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report analyze actual, historical usage instead.

Which service lets you set a custom threshold and receive an alert when your actual or forecasted AWS spending exceeds it?

• a.Amazon Inspector
• b.AWS Budgets✓
• c.AWS Artifact
• d.AWS CloudFormation

AWS Budgets lets you create custom cost and usage budgets and sends alerts when actual or forecasted amounts breach your thresholds. This supports proactive cost control.

Which tool is best for visualizing and analyzing historical AWS spend with graphs, filtering, and forecasting?

• a.AWS Cost Explorer✓
• b.AWS Pricing Calculator
• c.AWS Artifact
• d.Amazon Macie

AWS Cost Explorer provides an interactive interface to visualize, filter, and forecast historical costs and usage, helping identify trends and cost drivers. The Pricing Calculator, by contrast, estimates costs before deployment.

Which billing artifact provides the most granular, line-item detail of AWS usage and can be delivered to Amazon S3 for deep analysis?

• a.AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)✓
• b.AWS Pricing Calculator estimate export
• c.AWS Trusted Advisor summary
• d.AWS Budgets report

The AWS Cost and Usage Report contains the most detailed billing data available, down to the line item and hour, and can be delivered to S3 for querying with tools like Athena. It supports advanced cost analysis and chargeback.

What does consolidated billing in AWS Organizations provide?

• a.It automatically encrypts all resources
• b.A single bill across accounts, with combined usage that can unlock volume pricing tiers✓
• c.It deliberately reduces the durability of all of your stored data in order to save you money
• d.It grants every account root access to the others

Consolidated billing aggregates charges from all member accounts into one payer bill and combines usage so the group can reach volume-pricing discount tiers sooner. Each account's costs remain trackable individually.

Which feature lets a management account share the benefit of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans across accounts in an organization?

• a.VPC peering
• b.Service control policies
• c.Automatic cross-Region replication of all storage buckets in the organization
• d.Consolidated billing with sharing of reservation and Savings Plans discounts✓

Under consolidated billing, Reserved Instance and Savings Plans discounts can be shared across accounts in the organization when sharing is enabled, improving overall utilization. This maximizes the value of commitments.

How many support plans does AWS offer for customers, and what is the lowest tier?

• a.Several plans; the lowest is Basic, which is included free with every account✓
• b.Two plans; the lowest is Enterprise
• c.There is only one plan; the lowest tier is Developer, which costs a flat monthly fee
• d.One plan only, which is Business

AWS offers multiple support tiers, and Basic Support is included with every account at no additional cost, providing access to documentation, whitepapers, and account/billing support. Paid tiers add technical support and faster response times.

Which support plan is the least expensive paid tier and provides business-hours email access to a Cloud Support Associate, suited to early experimentation?

• a.Basic
• b.Business
• c.Developer✓
• d.Enterprise

The Developer Support plan is the entry-level paid tier, offering business-hours email access to support for non-production or early development use. Production workloads typically warrant Business or higher.

A company running production workloads wants 24/7 phone, email, and chat support plus full Trusted Advisor checks, but does not need a dedicated TAM. Which plan fits?

• a.Basic
• b.Business✓
• c.Developer
• d.Enterprise

The Business Support plan provides 24/7 technical support by phone, chat, and email and the full set of Trusted Advisor checks, making it appropriate for production workloads. A dedicated Technical Account Manager comes with Enterprise-level plans.

Which support plan includes a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM), concierge billing support, and the fastest response times?

• a.Business Support plan
• b.Developer
• c.Basic
• d.Enterprise✓

The Enterprise Support plan includes a designated Technical Account Manager, a concierge support team for billing and account help, and the fastest response times for critical issues. It targets large, business-critical workloads.

Which support offering gives a lower-cost path to some Enterprise-level benefits, including a pool of Technical Account Managers rather than a single designated TAM?

• a.Free Tier Support
• b.Developer Support plan
• c.Basic Support
• d.Enterprise On-Ramp✓

Enterprise On-Ramp provides a subset of Enterprise benefits at a lower cost, including access to a pool of Technical Account Managers and faster response times than Business. It bridges the gap between Business and full Enterprise support.

Which service inspects your AWS environment and gives recommendations across cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits?

• a.Amazon Inspector
• b.AWS Pricing Calculator
• c.AWS Trusted Advisor✓
• d.AWS Budgets

AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your account against best practices in five categories, including cost optimization, and recommends actions such as removing idle resources. The full set of checks is available with Business and Enterprise Support.

Which category of AWS Trusted Advisor checks would flag underutilized or idle resources to help you save money?

• a.Service limits
• b.Security
• c.Cost optimization✓
• d.Fault tolerance checks

The cost optimization category of Trusted Advisor identifies opportunities to save money, such as idle load balancers, underused EC2 instances, or unattached EBS volumes. Acting on these recommendations reduces waste.

How does resource tagging support cost management on AWS?

• a.Tags are mandatory before launching any resource
• b.Tags encrypt the billing data
• c.Applying cost allocation tags automatically lowers the hourly price of every resource they are applied to
• d.Cost allocation tags let you group and report spending by dimensions like project, team, or environment✓

Activating cost allocation tags lets you break down and report costs by categories such as project, department, or environment in Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report. This improves visibility and enables chargeback or showback.

Which AWS service uses machine learning to detect unusual spending patterns and alert you to potential cost anomalies?

• a.AWS Pricing Calculator estimates
• b.AWS Cost Anomaly Detection✓
• c.Amazon Macie
• d.AWS Artifact

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to monitor spend and alert you when it detects unexpected or unusual cost patterns. This helps catch runaway costs early.

Which statement about AWS data-transfer pricing is generally true?

• a.AWS charges a flat monthly fee that includes unlimited data transfer
• b.Data transferred into AWS is typically free, while data transferred out to the internet is usually charged✓
• c.All data transfer in and out is always free
• d.All data transferred within the same Availability Zone always costs the most of any type of transfer you can make

As a general rule, inbound data transfer into AWS is free, while outbound data transfer to the internet is metered and billed, with rates that can vary by volume and Region. Understanding this helps forecast costs for data-heavy applications.

Which of the following is a way to reduce AWS costs according to AWS best practices?

• a.Always run the single largest available instance type
• b.Disable monitoring so you cannot see usage
• c.Right-size resources and shut down idle instances✓
• d.Keep unattached storage volumes indefinitely

Cost optimization best practices include right-sizing resources to match actual needs and turning off or removing idle resources such as stopped instances or unattached volumes. Monitoring usage is essential to finding these savings.

What is the pricing model for AWS Lambda?

• a.A charge only when the account is created
• b.A fixed monthly subscription per function
• c.A one-time upfront payment that covers all future invocations of the function
• d.A charge based on the number of requests and the duration your code runs✓

AWS Lambda charges by the number of requests and the compute duration (rounded to the millisecond) that your function runs, with no charge when idle. This usage-based model aligns cost with actual execution.

For Amazon S3, which factors primarily determine your monthly cost?

• a.The number of IAM users in the account
• b.The amount of storage, the storage class, requests, and data transfer out✓
• c.Only the number of buckets you create
• d.A single flat monthly fee no matter how much or how little data you actually store

S3 costs depend on how much data you store, the storage class chosen, the number and type of requests, and data transfer out of AWS. Choosing the right storage class and lifecycle rules helps optimize these costs.

Which AWS pricing principle is demonstrated by receiving a lower per-GB price as your Amazon S3 storage volume crosses higher usage tiers?

• a.Pay only after a multi-year commitment
• b.Pay more by reserving capacity
• c.Pay a single flat rate regardless of the total volume you use
• d.Pay less per unit when you use more (volume-based discounts)✓

AWS offers tiered, volume-based pricing on some services so that the per-unit price decreases as usage grows. This is distinct from commitment-based discounts like Reserved Instances or Savings Plans.

Which tool would you use to compare the cost of running a workload on-premises versus on AWS to build a business case for migration?

• a.AWS WAF
• b.Amazon GuardDuty continuous threat-detection and account-monitoring service dashboards view
• c.Amazon Route 53
• d.A total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, for example using the AWS Pricing Calculator✓

A total cost of ownership analysis compares the full costs of on-premises infrastructure with running the same workload on AWS, and tools like the AWS Pricing Calculator help model the AWS side. This supports migration business cases.

Which statement about On-Demand pricing is correct?

• a.It is always guaranteed to be cheaper than Reserved Instances for every possible workload
• b.It is only available for storage services
• c.You pay for compute capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitment✓
• d.It requires a one-year commitment

On-Demand pricing charges for capacity by the hour or second with no upfront cost or commitment, making it flexible for unpredictable or short-term workloads. Committed options like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans trade flexibility for lower rates.

A workload runs steadily 24/7 for the next three years with predictable usage. Which purchasing approach typically minimizes cost?

• a.Dedicated Hosts billed hourly with no commitment
• b.Spot Instances only
• c.On-Demand Instances only
• d.A three-year Savings Plan or Reserved Instances✓

For steady, predictable, long-running workloads, committing to a one- or three-year Savings Plan or Reserved Instances yields the largest discounts over On-Demand. Spot suits interruptible work, and On-Demand is best for variable usage.

What does the AWS Billing Dashboard primarily let you do?

• a.View current and past charges, spending trends, and access billing tools in one place✓
• b.Trace each individual request as it travels across all of your distributed microservices
• c.Provision new EC2 instances
• d.Encrypt data stored in Amazon S3

The AWS Billing Dashboard gives a central view of current month-to-date spend, historical trends, and links to billing tools such as Cost Explorer and Budgets. It is the starting point for understanding and managing account charges.

Which is a benefit of using AWS Organizations for a company with many AWS accounts, from a cost perspective?

• a.It automatically finds and deletes any unused resources across all of the accounts to save money
• b.It guarantees a fixed monthly bill
• c.Combined usage across accounts can qualify for volume discounts under one consolidated bill✓
• d.It removes the need to monitor usage

AWS Organizations enables consolidated billing, which aggregates usage across accounts so the group can reach volume-pricing tiers and share commitment discounts under one bill. It simplifies payment while preserving per-account visibility.

Which support plan tier includes access to online resources, whitepapers, documentation, and the AWS support community at no additional charge?

• a.Business
• b.Basic✓
• c.Enterprise
• d.Developer

Basic Support is included free with every AWS account and provides access to documentation, whitepapers, support forums, and account and billing assistance. Technical support with response-time commitments requires a paid plan.

Which of the following usage would typically incur a charge even when other Free Tier limits are respected?

• a.Reading AWS documentation
• b.Using an always-free service within its stated limits
• c.Staying exactly within the twelve-month Free Tier limits for each service
• d.Exceeding the monthly Free Tier hours for an EC2 instance type✓

Exceeding a Free Tier allowance, such as running more EC2 hours than the offer includes, triggers standard pay-as-you-go charges for the overage. Staying within limits and using always-free offers within their bounds avoids charges.

What is the main advantage of the Compute Savings Plans over EC2 Instance Savings Plans?

• a.Compute Savings Plans apply broadly across instance families, Regions, and services like Fargate and Lambda✓
• b.Compute Savings Plans require no commitment
• c.Compute Savings Plans always give the single largest possible discount of any purchase option that is available
• d.Compute Savings Plans only apply to a single instance type

Compute Savings Plans offer the most flexibility, automatically applying the discount across any instance family, size, Region, tenancy, and even to Fargate and Lambda usage. EC2 Instance Savings Plans give a deeper discount but are limited to a chosen instance family in a Region.

Which action helps ensure you are notified before a project's monthly spending exceeds an approved amount?

• a.Attach an Elastic IP to every instance
• b.Turn off AWS CloudTrail
• c.Enable Amazon Macie scanning on all of your buckets
• d.Create an AWS Budget with an alert threshold✓

Creating an AWS Budget with alert thresholds sends notifications as actual or forecasted spend approaches or exceeds the limit, helping teams stay within approved amounts. It is a core proactive cost-control practice.

Which of the following would AWS Trusted Advisor NOT typically help with directly?

• a.Checking whether you are approaching service limits
• b.Identifying idle load balancers to reduce cost
• c.Flagging security groups with unrestricted access
• d.Writing the business logic of your application✓

Trusted Advisor provides best-practice checks for cost, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits, but it does not write application code. It advises on your environment's configuration and usage, not your software logic.

A startup expects highly variable, unpredictable traffic in its first months. Which pricing model best matches this uncertainty while minimizing commitment risk?

• a.On-Demand pricing✓
• b.A three-year Savings Plan
• c.Dedicated Hosts with a one-year commitment
• d.Three-year Reserved Instances

On-Demand pricing matches unpredictable, variable workloads because it requires no commitment and charges only for what is used. Long-term commitments make sense later, once usage patterns become predictable.

Which best describes how AWS charges for most services?

• a.A one-time lifetime license per service
• b.Based on actual usage of each service, such as compute time, storage, and data transfer✓
• c.A single flat monthly fee that covers completely unlimited use of every AWS service offered
• d.Only an annual subscription negotiated in advance

AWS generally bills based on metered usage of each service, such as compute hours, storage consumed, requests, and data transfer, following the pay-as-you-go model. This lets costs scale with actual consumption.

Which tool helps you allocate and track shared costs and view amortized costs of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans over time?

• a.AWS Shield
• b.AWS Cost Explorer✓
• c.Amazon Inspector service
• d.Amazon Cognito

AWS Cost Explorer can display costs including amortized views of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans and, with cost categories and allocation tags, helps allocate shared spend. It supports understanding true cost distribution over time.

Which statement about AWS support plan pricing is accurate?

• a.All support plans are free
• b.Support plans are billed only one single time, at the moment the account is first created
• c.Paid support plan cost often scales with your monthly AWS usage, subject to minimums✓
• d.Enterprise Support is cheaper than Developer Support

Paid AWS Support plans are commonly priced as the greater of a monthly minimum or a percentage of monthly AWS usage, so cost generally scales with spend. Basic Support is free, while Enterprise is the most comprehensive and costly tier.

Which service or feature would help a finance team automatically stop or receive alerts when a sandbox account's spend is abnormally high?

• a.Amazon EBS point-in-time volume snapshots scheduled hourly
• b.AWS Budgets combined with Cost Anomaly Detection✓
• c.AWS Direct Connect
• d.Amazon Route 53

AWS Budgets can alert (and trigger actions) when spend crosses thresholds, and Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to flag unusual spending. Together they help finance teams catch and respond to abnormal costs.

Why might an organization choose EC2 Instance Savings Plans over Compute Savings Plans?

• a.Because they require no commitment at all
• b.Because they automatically apply to both Lambda and Fargate compute usage across your whole account
• c.Because they are the only option that includes support
• d.To get a deeper discount in exchange for committing to a specific instance family in a Region✓

EC2 Instance Savings Plans provide a larger discount than Compute Savings Plans but restrict the commitment to a particular instance family within a Region. The trade-off is less flexibility for a deeper price reduction.

What does 'amortized cost' represent in AWS cost reporting?

• a.The total data stored in Amazon S3
• b.Upfront commitment charges spread evenly across the term they cover✓
• c.The cost of outbound data transfer only
• d.The current total number of running EC2 instances across the whole account

Amortized cost distributes upfront payments for commitments like Reserved Instances or Savings Plans evenly over the commitment term, rather than showing the full charge at purchase. This gives a smoother, more representative view of ongoing costs.

A company wants a single monthly invoice for 15 AWS accounts while keeping each team's costs visible. Which capability enables this?

• a.Consolidated billing through AWS Organizations✓
• b.AWS Direct Connect
• c.Elastic Load Balancing
• d.Automatic cross-Region replication of resources

Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations produces one invoice for the payer account across all member accounts while still allowing per-account cost tracking. It also aggregates usage for potential volume discounts.

Which is the best first step to control costs when you notice an unexpectedly high bill driven by many small services?

• a.Immediately upgrade to the Enterprise Support plan to reduce your per-service prices
• b.Immediately delete the entire AWS account
• c.Turn off all monitoring to stop the charges
• d.Use Cost Explorer to identify which services and resources are driving the spend✓

Cost Explorer lets you break down spend by service, account, and tag to pinpoint what is driving costs before taking action. Understanding the source is the essential first step to targeted cost reduction.

Which pricing benefit is unique to committing to Reserved Instances or Savings Plans rather than using On-Demand?

• a.Charges only for storage and never for compute
• b.No ability to run instances continuously
• c.Lower rates in exchange for a one- or three-year usage commitment✓
• d.Automatic elimination of every outbound data-transfer fee across all Regions

Reserved Instances and Savings Plans reduce compute costs significantly in return for committing to a one- or three-year term, unlike On-Demand which has no commitment or discount. The right choice depends on how predictable the workload is.

Which service provides on-demand access to compliance reports, and is free of charge but is not itself a cost-management tool?

• a.AWS Budgets
• b.AWS Cost Explorer
• c.AWS Artifact✓
• d.AWS Pricing Calculator

AWS Artifact offers free, on-demand access to AWS compliance reports and agreements, but it is a governance/compliance tool rather than a cost-management one. Cost management is handled by tools like Cost Explorer, Budgets, and the Pricing Calculator.

Which statement about the relationship between AWS Support plans and Trusted Advisor is correct?

• a.AWS Trusted Advisor requires a completely separate paid subscription that must be purchased outside of the standard AWS Support plans
• b.Only the Basic plan gets the full set of checks
• c.Trusted Advisor is unavailable on every plan
• d.Basic and Developer plans get a limited set of Trusted Advisor checks, while Business and Enterprise get the full set✓

All accounts get a core subset of Trusted Advisor checks, while the full set across all five categories is unlocked with Business and Enterprise (and Enterprise On-Ramp) Support. Higher tiers therefore provide deeper cost and security guidance.

Which Reserved Instance payment option provides the largest discount?

• a.Partial Upfront combined with lower monthly charges
• b.All Upfront✓
• c.Paying only after the reserved term has fully ended
• d.No Upfront, spread as equal monthly charges over the whole term with no initial payment

Reserved Instances offer three payment options, and All Upfront (paying the entire amount at purchase) gives the biggest discount. No Upfront gives the smallest discount, and Partial Upfront falls in between.