6.7 Explain the Process of Diagnosing / Determining the Source of an Unexpected Cloud Cost Increase CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16foundation · easy

   Which billing item should be reviewed to confirm whether a support plan is contributing to a cost increase?

   • ASupport plan charges
   • BCompute usage
   • CNetwork egress
   • DStorage usage
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2. 17foundation · easy

   Which scenario is most likely to generate unexpected data transfer costs?

   • ATransferring data within the same availability zone
   • BTransferring data between two regions
   • CTransferring data from a VM to its attached disk
   • DTransferring data within the same VNet
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4. 18expert · hard

   A company's AWS bill increased by 15% this month. Cost Explorer shows the increase is in the 'EBS' category. No new volumes were created. You need to identify the cause. What should you check?

   • AReview the EBS volumes for any that are unattached or have a large amount of unused provisioned IOPS.
   • BReview the CloudWatch alarms to see if any were triggered for high disk usage.
   • CCheck the EC2 instance types to see if any were upgraded to a larger size.
   • DVerify that the EBS snapshots are being created on a regular schedule.
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5. 19foundation · easy

   Which document provides the official record of charges for a billing period, including taxes and credits?

   • ADeployment template
   • BResource group configuration
   • CBilling statement
   • DMonitoring alert
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6. 20foundation · easy

   What should be included in a cost increase report to stakeholders?

   • AThe cloud provider's stock price
   • BOnly the total amount of the increase
   • CA list of all employees
   • DRoot cause analysis and recommended actions
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