A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to view a single, consolidated bill and take advantage of volume discounts. Which AWS feature enables this?

AWS Organizations consolidated billing

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to receive alerts when any account's spending exceeds a monthly threshold, and they want to prevent new accounts from being created without approval. Which solution should the architect implement?

Enable AWS Trusted Advisor and use its budget alerts, then configure IAM policies to deny account creation.

Use Cost Explorer to monitor spending and set up AWS CloudTrail to alert on new account creation.

Create AWS Budgets in each account and configure Amazon SNS notifications to the finance team.

Create a budget in the management account with Amazon SNS alerts, and use an SCP to deny the CreateAccount API call unless a specific condition is met.

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to set a monthly spending limit for each account and automatically stop resources when the limit is exceeded. Which solution should the architect implement?

Use service control policies (SCPs) to deny any API call that would incur cost after a certain date.

Use AWS Cost Explorer to monitor spending and manually stop resources when the limit is exceeded.

Create AWS Budgets in each account and configure Amazon CloudWatch alarms to stop EC2 instances when the budget is exceeded.

Create AWS Budgets with an Amazon SNS notification and use AWS Lambda to stop resources when the budget threshold is exceeded.

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Task 1.5: Determine Cost Optimization and Visibility Strategies. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Content Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity domain, which makes up ~25% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~18–30 in this domain), expect 4–6 from this objective — we provide 18 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to view a single, consolidated bill and take advantage of volume discounts. Which AWS feature enables this?
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A financial analyst needs to identify which AWS service accounts for the largest portion of the company's monthly bill. Which AWS tool provides a visual breakdown of costs by service?
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3application · medium
A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to receive alerts when any account's spending exceeds a monthly threshold, and they want to prevent new accounts from being created without approval. Which solution should the architect implement?
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4foundation · easy
A cloud administrator needs to view the combined AWS spending of all accounts in an AWS Organization. Which AWS tool provides a single view of costs across all member accounts?
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5application · medium
A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to set a monthly spending limit for each account and automatically stop resources when the limit is exceeded. Which solution should the architect implement?
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Questions 1–5

A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to view a single, consolidated bill and take advantage of volume discounts. Which AWS feature enables this?

A financial analyst needs to identify which AWS service accounts for the largest portion of the company's monthly bill. Which AWS tool provides a visual breakdown of costs by service?

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to receive alerts when any account's spending exceeds a monthly threshold, and they want to prevent new accounts from being created without approval. Which solution should the architect implement?

A cloud administrator needs to view the combined AWS spending of all accounts in an AWS Organization. Which AWS tool provides a single view of costs across all member accounts?

A company uses AWS Organizations with multiple accounts. The finance team wants to set a monthly spending limit for each account and automatically stop resources when the limit is exceeded. Which solution should the architect implement?

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