6.7 Explain the Process of Diagnosing / Determining the Source of an Unexpected Cloud Cost Increase CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21application · medium

   A company's monthly Azure bill increased by 40% compared to the previous month. The finance team reviewed the invoice and confirmed the increase is spread across multiple resource groups. The operations team suspects a new deployment, but no one can confirm. You need to identify which specific resource or service is driving the increase. What should you do first?

   • AOpen Azure Cost Management, group costs by resource, and compare the current month's usage against the previous month.
   • BCheck the Azure Advisor recommendations for idle virtual machines and stop them immediately.
   • CReview the Azure Activity Log to find who created a new virtual machine in the last 30 days.
   • DContact Azure support to request a detailed breakdown of the invoice by service.
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2. 22foundation · easy

   After diagnosing the root cause of a cloud cost increase, what is the next step in the troubleshooting process?

   • ADocument the root cause and recommend corrective actions
   • BImmediately delete all resources
   • CChange the billing account
   • DIgnore the increase and monitor next month
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4. 23foundation · easy

   A cloud engineer needs to determine which team is responsible for a cost increase. Which feature should be used to group resources by team?

   • AAvailability sets
   • BNetwork security groups
   • CLoad balancer rules
   • DCost allocation tags
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5. 24expert · hard

   A company's AWS bill increased by 50% this month. Cost Explorer shows the increase is in the 'EC2-Other' category. You need to determine the cause. What should you do?

   • AVerify that the EC2 instances are using the correct instance type for their workload.
   • BCheck the EC2 instance status to see if any instances were stopped and started frequently.
   • CReview the CloudWatch alarms to see if any were triggered for high CPU usage.
   • DUse Cost Explorer to group by 'Usage Type' within the EC2-Other category to see if the increase is from EBS snapshots or Elastic IP addresses.
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6. 25foundation · easy

   Which grouping strategy helps isolate cost increases by environment (e.g., production vs. development)?

   • AConfiguring identical security rules for all resources
   • BPlacing all resources in a single resource group
   • CUsing the same instance type for all resources
   • DApplying environment tags to resources
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