A member account in an AWS Organizations organization purchased a Savings Plan. Its own usage does not consume the full hourly commitment. What happens to the unused portion?
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Explanation
Answer: C. Commitment benefits are applied to the owning account first, and any remaining benefit is then made available to matching usage elsewhere in the organization. This is the mechanism that makes central commitment purchasing efficient, because a single plan can absorb usage across many accounts rather than stranding unused commitment. The management account controls whether Reserved Instance and Savings Plans discount sharing is enabled, and both the purchasing and the receiving account must have sharing active.
A. AWS does not refund unused commitment. The commitment is charged whether or not matching usage exists.
B. Savings Plans and capacity reservations are unrelated constructs, and no automatic conversion occurs. Savings Plans never reserve capacity.
D. Restricting a plan to its purchasing account is what happens only when discount sharing is deliberately turned off. AWS warns that doing so can raise the organization's total bill.
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A company activates a cost allocation tag in June and wants June's costs, along with the previous three months, to be broken down by that tag. Which statement is correct?
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Explanation
Answer: B. Tag activation is forward-looking by default: once a tag key is activated it becomes available as a dimension in Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report for subsequent billing data. For earlier periods, AWS provides a separate cost allocation tag backfill capability that applies the activated tag to historical data. Understanding the default behavior matters because it is the reason organizations are advised to establish and activate their tagging taxonomy early rather than when the first chargeback report is requested.
A. Activation alone does not rewrite historical billing data. That is what makes backfill a distinct, deliberate operation.
C. Reporting on earlier periods is possible through backfill, so this overstates the limitation. It is also wrong that only newly created resources are covered; the tag applies to the resources that carry it.
D. AWS Pricing Calculator plays no part in tagging or in billing data. It is a forward-looking estimation tool.
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A company operates 40 AWS accounts under one organization. Its finance team wants each business unit to see and be accountable for its own costs, while the company continues to receive a single bill and keep its pooled discounts. Which approach meets this?
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Explanation
Answer: D. Consolidated billing and per-unit accountability are not in conflict. The organization keeps one bill and pooled volume and commitment discounts, while Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report break the same data down by linked account and by activated cost allocation tag. This is the standard showback pattern: allocate visibility without fragmenting the billing relationship that produces the discounts.
A. Multiple organizations fragment usage across separate billing families, which loses the same pooled discounts and multiplies governance overhead.
B. Removing accounts from the organization would give each unit its own bill, but it would also break up the pooled usage that earns volume tiering and shared commitment discounts, raising total cost.
C. AWS issues one bill to the management account of an organization. Internal allocation is done with AWS cost management tools, not by requesting split invoices from Support.
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A company deactivates Reserved Instance and Savings Plans discount sharing for several accounts in its organization, expecting to make each account's costs more predictable. What financial effect should it anticipate?
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Explanation
Answer: B. Discount sharing is what allows a commitment to find matching usage anywhere in the organization. When it is turned off, commitment that the owning account does not consume is simply wasted, while other accounts pay On-Demand rates for usage that the commitment could have covered. AWS warns explicitly that deactivating sharing can result in higher monthly bills. Per-account predictability is a real governance benefit, but it is bought with money, and the trade-off should be made deliberately.
A. Each account being charged in isolation is precisely what produces the increase, because commitments and usage can no longer be matched across accounts.
C. Discount sharing changes which usage receives a discounted rate, so it changes the amount charged and not only the presentation.
D. Turning off sharing does not cancel commitments. The purchasing account remains liable for the full term.
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Which statement accurately describes what happens to cost data when a member account leaves an AWS Organizations organization?
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Explanation
Answer: D. While an account is a member of an organization, its costs form part of the management account's consolidated billing data, and that record belongs to the management account. When the account leaves, it loses access to the Cost Explorer history covering its membership period, and the management account keeps it. Teams planning a divestiture or account migration should export the data they will need before the account is removed, because the departing account cannot see that history again unless it rejoins the same organization.
A. There is no transfer of historical billing data between organizations when an account moves.
B. The data is not deleted. It remains available to the management account.
C. This reverses the outcome. Retention sits with the management account, which owned the consolidated billing relationship.
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Which AWS Support plan is included for every AWS customer at no additional charge?
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Explanation
Answer: B. Basic Support is included with every AWS account at no cost. It provides 24x7 access to customer service for account and billing questions, service limit increase requests, the AWS documentation, whitepapers and best practice guides, community support forums, and service health checks. It is the floor of the support model, which is why every paid plan is described in terms of what it adds on top of it.
A. AWS Unified Operations is a paid plan aimed at customers who need managed incident response, with the highest minimum commitment of all.
C. AWS Business Support+ is a paid plan with a documented minimum monthly charge and tiered pricing based on AWS usage.
D. AWS Enterprise Support is a paid plan with a minimum charge of USD 5,000 per month that adds a designated Technical Account Manager.
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Which type of support case can a customer on the Basic Support plan NOT open with AWS Support?
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Explanation
Answer: B. AWS documentation states plainly that a customer with Basic Support cannot create a technical support case. Basic Support covers account and billing questions and service limit increase requests, which are available to all customers, but any case about how a service behaves or why an application is failing requires a paid support plan. This is the single most reliable discriminator between Basic and every paid plan.
A. Service limit increase requests are one of the case types explicitly available to every customer regardless of support plan.
C. Account and billing support is available to all AWS customers, including those on Basic Support, on a 24x7 basis.
D. Account administration requests such as closing an account fall under account support, which Basic Support customers can access.
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Which AWS service inspects a customer's AWS environment and provides recommendations across categories including cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and operational excellence?
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Explanation
Answer: B. AWS Trusted Advisor runs automated checks against an AWS account and reports findings in six categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and operational excellence. Because the cost optimization checks identify things like idle and underutilized resources and low reservation utilization, Trusted Advisor is frequently the first place a team looks when asked to reduce spend without a detailed analysis project.
A. AWS Config records resource configurations and evaluates them against rules for compliance and change auditing. It does not produce cost optimization or service limit recommendations.
C. Amazon Inspector performs automated vulnerability scanning of workloads such as Amazon EC2 instances and container images. Its scope is security findings only.
D. AWS CloudTrail records API activity for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. It answers who did what, not whether the environment follows best practices.
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Which AWS resource shows a customer the health of AWS services and any events that specifically affect the resources in their own account?
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Explanation
Answer: D. The AWS Health Dashboard provides both a general view of AWS service availability and an account-specific view of events affecting the customer's own resources, including scheduled maintenance and changes that require action. It is available to all AWS customers at no additional cost and requires no setup, which makes it the first place to look when deciding whether a problem is on the AWS side or in the customer's own workload.
A. Amazon CloudWatch dashboards visualize metrics and logs from the customer's own resources and applications. They do not report on AWS service health.
B. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates an account against best practices. It reports on configuration and optimization, not on live AWS service events.
C. Systems Manager OpsCenter aggregates and helps resolve operational issues that the customer's own tooling raises. It is not a source of AWS service health information.
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Which AWS Support plan adds a designated Technical Account Manager?
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Explanation
Answer: D. A designated Technical Account Manager is the defining benefit of AWS Enterprise Support, and it also forms part of AWS Unified Operations. The TAM is a named AWS technical contact who provides strategic guidance, leads Well-Architected Reviews, and coordinates AWS resources around the customer's environment. Because the relationship is proactive and ongoing rather than case-driven, it is what distinguishes the top plans from plans that respond only when a case is opened.
A. AWS does provide designated Technical Account Managers, at the AWS Enterprise Support and AWS Unified Operations levels.
B. Basic Support includes no technical support cases at all, let alone a named technical contact.
C. AWS Business Support+ provides 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers by phone, web, and chat, plus full Trusted Advisor checks and the AWS Support API, but it does not include a designated TAM.