Practice Test 1 | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | CLF-C01 | Dumps | Mock Test

Answer: A

• Option A is CORRECT. Cost Explorer is a free service that helps me view my cost data (bill) as a graph. For instance, I would like to see my EC2 service utilization whether it is going up or down. The tool also allows me to filter the graph by values like API Operations, Cost allocation tags (e.g., Any EC2 instances tagged as Development), AZ, EC2 instance types etc…With consolidated billing, the filter can also be applied to Member Accounts. From historical data, I can also see forecasts of future costs. Using this data, I can make informed decisions of further improving my costs using this data.
• Option B is incorrect. AWS Budgets is a planning tool that allows me to plan service usage, service costs, instance reservations by setting up a Budget. For example, if my budget for EC2 instance use is $800 per month, I can set up a budget for that and have the system alert me when it reaches 70% of the usage cost. AWS Budgets can be viewed as an enabler of Cost Explorer that helps to visualize incurred costs & usage.
• Option C is incorrect. AWS Organizations help me consolidate my billing within a large organization that uses multiple accounts. This streamlines the billing process & makes it central, avoiding the overhead of billing management over hundreds ao different accounts.
• Option D is incorrect. CloudWatch is a monitoring tool that tracks resource metrics using alarms & dashboards. CloudWatch dashboards can help provide trend settings from resource utilization. But it is restricted to do so using basic or custom metrics compared to a large spectrum of visual cost usage display provided by Cost Explorer.

References:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-what-is.html