Account Management, Billing, Support

Question 1

AWS Organizations

Answer 1

Manage multiple AWS accounts

Question 2

Account types in Organizations (2)

Answer 2

Master
Child

Question 3

Cost benefits of Organizations (3)

Answer 3

Consolidated billing
Volume Discounts
Reserved EC2 Pooling

Question 4

Service Control Policies used to…

Answer 4

Restrict account privileges in Organizations

Question 5

What can an API be used for in Organizations?

Answer 5

Automate AWS account creation

Question 6

Reasons to use multi-account strategy

Answer 6

Per department/cost center
dev/test/prod
Regulatory restrictions
Resource isolation
Per-account service limits
Logging

Question 7

What do SCP’s apply to?

Answer 7

Users and roles of an account

Question 8

SCP Use case

Answer 8

Restrict access to certain services/Disable services

Question 9

Are SCP’s inherited?

Answer 9

Yes, they apply to sub-OU’s

Question 10

Consolidated billing

Answer 10

Combine usage
One Bill

Question 11

Control Tower

Answer 11

Set up and govern secure and compliant multi-account

Question 12

Control tower benefits

Answer 12

Automate setup
Automate policy management
Detect policy violations
Monitor compliance

Question 13

Control Tower relationship to Organizations

Answer 13

Automatically sets up Orgs and SCP’s

Question 14

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Answer 14

Share resources (like a VPC) with other AWS accounts

Question 15

AWS Service Catalog

Answer 15

Authorized products defined by admins

Question 16

AWS Pricing Models (4)

Answer 16

Pricing models (Pay as you go)
Save when you reserve
Pay less by using more (volume discount)
Pay less as AWS grows

Question 17

Free services (6)

Answer 17

IAM
VPC
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Auto Scaling Groups
Free tier

Question 18

EC2 Pricing

Answer 18

On-demand per second
Reserved (75% off)
1-3 years commitment

Spot instances (90% discount)

Dedicated Host
Savings plan

Question 19

Lambda Pricing

Answer 19

Per Call
Per Durations

Question 20

ECS Pricing (containers)

Answer 20

EC2 Model

Question 21

Fargate pricing

Answer 21

Pay for vCPU and memory

Question 22

S3 Pricing

Answer 22

Storage class (Standard, IA, Glacier, etc.)
Number and size of objects
Number of requests
Transfer out of S3 region
S3 transfer acceleration

Question 23

EFS pricing

Answer 23

Similar to S3

Question 24

EBS pricing (Block Storage)

Answer 24

Volume type (performance)
Storage provisioned
IOPS
Snapshots
Data transfer out

Question 25

RDS Pricing

Answer 25

Per hour Database characteristics (Engine, Size, Memory) On-demand or reserved

Question 26

RDS Storage Pricing

Answer 26

Per GB IO per month Single vs. Multiple AZ Data transfer out

Question 27

CloudFront pricing

Answer 27

Per region Edge locations Transfer out HTTP/HTTPS Requests

Question 28

Network costs

Answer 28

.02/GB public IP communication .01/GB to private IP .02/GB to another region (Same AZ is cheaper)

Question 29

Savings Plan

Answer 29

Commit to sending $$$ amount per hour for 1-3 Years

Question 30

EC2 Savings Plan

Answer 30

Up to 72% Discount Commit to usage of instance families in a region (ex C5 or M5) AZ, Size, OS dont matter

Question 31

Compute Saving Plan

Answer 31

Up to 66% Savings Plan EC2, Fargate, Lambda

Question 32

Machine Learning Savings plan is for which service?

Answer 32

SageMaker

Question 33

AWS Compute Optimizer

Answer 33

Reduce costs and improve performance by using ML to analyze configs and CloudWatch metrics

Question 34

AWS Compute Optimizer savings

Answer 34

Up to 25%

Question 35

AWS Pricing Calculator

Answer 35

Estimate Cloud Costs Specific products and workloads

Question 36

Billing Dashboard

Answer 36

See monthly costs

Question 37

AWS Free Tier Dashboard

Answer 37

See free tier usage

Question 38

Cost allocation tags

Answer 38

Track costs in detail by tag

Question 39

Tag types (2)

Answer 39

AWS generated aws: User generated user:

Question 40

Tags are used for...

Answer 40

Organizing resources (costs and groups)

Question 41

How are tags edited?

Answer 41

Tag Editor

Question 42

Cost and Usage Reports

Answer 42

Detail cost report by service used by an account and IAM users

Question 43

Cost Explorer

Answer 43

Visualize AWS costs Custom reports Choose a savings plan Forecast usage up to 12 months based on previous use

Question 44

Which tool an be used to forecast costs up to 12 months?

Answer 44

Cost explorer

Question 45

Billing alarms in Cloudwatch

Answer 45

Send notifications for going over billing thresholds.

Question 46

AWS Budgets

Answer 46

Send alarms when cost exceeds budget

Question 47

AWS Budgets cost

Answer 47

2 Free, then .02/day/budget

Question 48

Cost Anomaly Detection

Answer 48

Use ML to detect unusual spends

Question 49

Service Quotas

Answer 49

CloudWatch alarms for reaching limits per service Request quota increases

Question 50

Trusted Advisor

Answer 50

Account assessment on 5 categories

Question 51

Trusted advisor categories (5) (remember)

Answer 51

Cost optimization Performance Security Fault Tolerance Service Limits

Question 52

How many Trusted Advisor Core Checks?

Answer 52

7

Question 53

7 Core checks (list) Basic & Developer Plan

Answer 53

S3 Bucket Perms Security groups (Specific ports) IAM Use (at least 1 user) MFA on Root No EBS public snapshots No RDS public snapshots Service limits

Question 54

Full Checks (5+4) Business & Enterprise support

Answer 54

Trusted Advisor 5 categories Set CloudWatch alarms Programmatic access via AWS Support API

Question 55

Support Plan Pricing Plans

Answer 55

Basic

Question 56

Basic Plan cost

Answer 56

Free

Question 57

Basic support plan includes...

Answer 57

Customer Service Communities Basic Trusted Advisor Personal Health Dashboard

Question 58

AWS Developer Support Plan

Answer 58

Basic Business hours email access Unlimited cases 1 primary contact

Question 59

AWS Developer Support Plan response time

Answer 59

General <24 hours System impaired <12 hours

Question 60

Business Support Plan

Answer 60

Full Trusted Advisor Support API 24/7 phone, email, chat support Unlimited cases Unlimited contacts Infrastructure Event Management (additional fee)

Question 61

Business Support Plan {Pricing)

Answer 61

General guidance <24 hours System impaired <12 hours Prod system impaired <4 hours Prod system down <1 hour

Question 62

AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support

Answer 62

Prod and critical workloads Business Support Plan Pool of TAM's Concierge support team Infrastructure event management Well-architected & ops reviews

Question 63

AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support response times

Answer 63

Prod system impaired <4 hours Prod system down <1 hour Business-critical system down <30 mins

Question 64

AWS Enterprise Support

Answer 64

Critical workloads Enterprise on-ramp Dedicated TAM

Question 65

AWS Enterprise Support response times

Answer 65

Prod system impaired <4 hours Prod system down <1 hour Business-critical system down <15 mins