Billing, Pricing, and Support

1. A student wants to run a t2.micro EC2 instance for testing without being charged. Which AWS Free Tier category provides 750 hours per month of t2.micro usage, but only for the first 12 months after account creation?

• A.The Permanently Free tier, which has no expiration date for eligible services.
• B.The 12-Month Free tier, which offers usage limits that reset monthly for one year.✓ Correct
• C.The AWS Free Trial tier, which is limited to 30 days from first service activation.
• D.The Always Free tier, which applies only to serverless and managed AWS services.

2. AWS Lambda offers 1 million free requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute per month with no expiration. Which AWS Free Tier category does this represent?

• A.The 12-Month Free tier, available only during the first year of an AWS account.
• B.The Short-Term Trial tier, offered for specific services on a one-time basis.
• C.The Permanently Free tier, which never expires and applies across all AWS accounts.✓ Correct
• D.The Reserved Capacity tier, which requires an upfront commitment to unlock free usage.

3. A cloud administrator needs a single location in the AWS Management Console to view the current month's charges, payment history, and activate IAM user billing access. Which tool provides all of these capabilities?

• A.AWS Cost Explorer, which visualizes historical and forecasted spending trends over time.
• B.AWS Budgets, which sends alerts when spending thresholds are exceeded or forecasted.
• C.The AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard, which centralizes billing data and account settings.✓ Correct
• D.AWS Trusted Advisor, which offers cost optimization checks and service limit monitoring.

4. By default, IAM users cannot view billing information even if they have administrator permissions. What must the root account user do to grant IAM users access to the Billing and Cost Management Dashboard?

• A.Create a custom IAM policy with the billing:ViewAccount action and attach it to the IAM user.
• B.Activate IAM user and role access to billing information in the account settings via the root user.✓ Correct
• C.Add the IAM user to the BillingAdmins group, which is automatically created for all AWS accounts.
• D.Enable AWS Organizations so that billing data is shared across all member accounts automatically.

5. A company wants to receive an email notification when their monthly EC2 costs are forecasted to exceed $500 before the month ends. Which AWS service and budget type should they configure?

• A.AWS Cost Explorer with a scheduled report filtered by EC2 service costs sent via email weekly.
• B.AWS Budgets with a Cost budget, setting an alert threshold based on forecasted spending.✓ Correct
• C.Amazon CloudWatch with a billing alarm that triggers when the EC2 spend metric exceeds $500.
• D.AWS Trusted Advisor with a cost optimization check enabled for EC2 over-provisioned instances.