CLF-C02 · AWS · Billing, Pricing, and Support · Bank updated 2026-09-20
CLF-C02 practice questions: Billing, Pricing, and Support
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1/5 · Billing, Pricing, and Support · easy
At the end of every month finance tells a department manager that his teams have overspent on AWS, always too late for him to do anything about it. He wants an email from AWS during the month, while the department is merely on course to overshoot rather than after it has, and nobody is to be asked to open a console and look. What should be set up?
AAn Amazon CloudWatch billing alarm on estimated charges
BAn AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitor with alerts
CA scheduled AWS Cost and Usage Report to a bucket
DA monthly cost budget in AWS Budgets with alerts
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D is correct. Task Statement 4.2 asks candidates to distinguish AWS Budgets from AWS Cost Explorer and the neighbouring cost tools. The AWS Cost Management user guide describes 'Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account' and states that 'You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends' and that 'You can have notifications sent to an Amazon SNS topic, to an email address, or to both.' The Amazon CloudWatch user guide states of a billing alarm that 'It triggers only when the current billing exceeds the threshold. It doesn't use projections based on your usage so far in the month.' AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is described as a feature that 'uses machine learning models to detect and alert on anomalous spend patterns in your deployed AWS services'.
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2/5 · Billing, Pricing, and Support · easy
A company is moving three quiet development accounts off its paid AWS Support plan to save money. An engineer asks what those accounts will still show in AWS Trusted Advisor once that takes effect. What should the engineer be told?
AAll checks in every category, with results refreshed automatically.
BAll service limit checks and selected security and fault tolerance checks.
CNo checks at all until a paid support plan is attached to the account.
DOnly the cost optimization checks, and only when refreshed by hand.
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B is correct. Task Statement 4.3 covers the role of AWS Trusted Advisor. The AWS Support user guide states that 'Trusted Advisor draws upon best practices learned from serving hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment, and then makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, improve system availability and performance, or help close security gaps.' On access it states that 'AWS Trusted Advisor checks are available to customers with an AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations plan', that 'If you have a Basic Support plan, you can use the Trusted Advisor console to access all checks in the Service Limits category and selected checks in the Security and Fault tolerance categories', and that 'Automatic check updates aren't available in the Basic Support plan. You must manually refresh Trusted Advisor checks in the Security category.'
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3/5 · Billing, Pricing, and Support
A research group runs image-processing batches that can start at any hour and pick up from their last checkpoint if they are cut short. Nobody is waiting on a particular batch to finish. The group wants the lowest hourly compute price AWS offers for work of this shape. Which purchasing option suits it?
ASpot Instances
BOn-Demand Instances
CReserved Instances
DDedicated Hosts
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A is correct. Task Statement 4.1 asks candidates to compare compute purchasing options. The Amazon EC2 user guide states that 'A Spot Instance is an instance that uses spare EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price,' that 'Spot Instances are a cost-effective choice if you can be flexible about when your applications run and if your applications can be interrupted,' and names 'data analysis, batch jobs, background processing' among the well-suited workloads. The Amazon EC2 billing and purchasing options page describes On-Demand as paying by the second, Reserved Instances as a commitment to a consistent instance configuration for one or three years, and Dedicated Hosts as paying for a physical host.
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4/5 · Billing, Pricing, and Support · hard
A company knows it will spend a steady amount on compute for the next three years, but its teams change instance families and Regions often and some workloads are moving to AWS Fargate. The company wants a discount without freezing those choices. Which pricing model should it choose?
AStandard Reserved Instances
BCapacity Reservations
CCompute Savings Plans
DConvertible Reserved Instances
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C is correct. Task Statement 4.1 asks candidates to compare purchasing options and describe Reserved Instance flexibility. The AWS Savings Plans user guide states that they 'provide savings beyond On-Demand rates in exchange for a commitment of using a specified amount of compute power (measured per hour) for a one or three year period,' and that 'Compute Savings Plans provide lower prices on Amazon EC2 instance usage regardless of instance family, instance size, OS, tenancy, or AWS Region. This also applies to AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda usage.' The Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances page states that with Reserved Instances 'you make a commitment to a specific instance configuration,' that Standard reservations 'can only be modified' and 'can't be exchanged,' and that Convertible reservations can be exchanged for another Convertible reservation.
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5/5 · Billing, Pricing, and Support · hard
A company owns commercial software whose licence is counted against the sockets and cores of the machine it runs on. The vendor audits that count, so the company has to be able to say which machine its instances ran on. It wants to reuse the licences it already owns on AWS. Which EC2 purchasing option does AWS document for this?
ASpot Instances
BSavings Plans
CDedicated Instances
DDedicated Hosts
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D is correct. Task Statement 4.1 lists Dedicated Hosts among the compute purchasing options. The Amazon EC2 billing and purchasing options page states that with Dedicated Hosts you 'Pay for a physical host that is fully dedicated to running your instances, and bring your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses to reduce costs,' and describes Dedicated Instances as 'Pay, by the hour, for instances that run on single-tenant hardware.' The same page adds that 'Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by using your existing server-bound software licenses,' which is why the per-socket and per-core wording is what separates them here.
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