Task 3.5: Identify Opportunities for Cost Optimizations. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

1. 26application · medium

   A company has multiple departments sharing an AWS account. The finance team wants to ensure that no department exceeds its monthly budget of $10,000. They have already implemented cost allocation tags for each department. What should they configure to proactively notify the appropriate stakeholders when a department approaches or exceeds its budget?

   • ACreate an AWS Budget in AWS Budgets for each department, filtered by the department's cost allocation tag, with alerts at 80% and 100% of the $10,000 threshold.
   • BUse Cost Explorer to create a daily report of spend per department and email it to the finance team.
   • CCreate a single AWS Budget for the entire account with a $40,000 threshold and alert when the total spend exceeds that amount.
   • DEnable AWS Cost Anomaly Detection and configure it to alert on any spend increase for the account.
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2. 27application · medium

   A company's finance team noticed that the monthly AWS bill includes charges for resources that appear to be unused. The operations team wants to identify and remove these resources. They have enabled cost allocation tags and are using Cost Explorer. Which combination of actions will most effectively identify unused resources and confirm they are safe to remove?

   • AUse AWS Trusted Advisor to check for idle resources, then review the resource's utilization metrics in CloudWatch to confirm they are consistently idle before taking action.
   • BUse AWS Budgets to create a zero-spend budget, then terminate any resource that appears in the budget report.
   • CUse Cost Explorer to identify the top-cost resources, then immediately terminate any resource that has a low hourly cost.
   • DUse Cost Explorer to filter by the cost allocation tags, then manually review each resource's CloudTrail logs to confirm no recent API activity before terminating.
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4. 28foundation · easy

   Which cost optimization practice involves adjusting the capacity of resources to match actual demand, thereby avoiding over-provisioning?

   • AReserved capacity
   • BTagging resources
   • CConsolidating accounts
   • DRight-sizing
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5. 29foundation · easy

   Which AWS resource can incur charges even when it is not attached to an instance, and should be reviewed for deletion to reduce costs?

   • AEBS volumes
   • BVPC subnets
   • CIAM roles
   • DSecurity groups
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6. 30application · medium

   A company has three projects (Project A, Project B, Project C) running in the same AWS account. The finance team wants to track costs for each project separately and receive alerts when a project's spend exceeds its budget. The team has already created cost allocation tags (e.g., project:project-a) and applied them to all resources. What is the next step to enable per-project cost tracking and alerting?

   • AEnable AWS Cost Anomaly Detection and configure it to detect unusual spending for each project.
   • BActivate the cost allocation tags in the Billing and Cost Management console, then create an AWS Budget for each project filtered by the respective tag.
   • CCreate an AWS Budget for each project immediately, as the tags are already applied to the resources.
   • DUse Cost Explorer to group by the project tag and manually review the costs each month.
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