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A company's factory and automation applications are running in a single VPC. More than 20 applications run on a combination of Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic
Container Service (Amazon ECS), and Amazon RDS.
The company has software engineers spread across three teams. One of the three teams owns each application, and each time is responsible for the cost and performance of all of its applications. Team resources have tags that represent their application and team. The teams use IAM access for daily activities.
The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs from the last 12 months and to help forecast costs for the next 12 months. A solutions architect must recommend an AWS Billing and
Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

  • A. Activate the user-define cost allocation tags that represent the application and the team.
  • B. Activate the AWS generated cost allocation tags that represent the application and the team.
  • C. Create a cost category for each application in Billing and Cost Management.
  • D. Activate IAM access to Billing and Cost Management.
  • E. Create a cost budget.
  • F. Enable Cost Explorer.
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Suggested Answer: ACF 🗳️
by pkboy78 at Aug. 20, 2021, 4:02 a.m.
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Jupi
Highly Voted 3 years, 2 months ago
A: After you create and apply user-defined tags, you can activate them for cost allocation. D. By default, IAM users don't have access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. You or your account administrator must grant users access. F You can explore your usage and costs using the main graph, the Cost Explorer cost and usage reports, or the Cost Explorer RI reports. You can view data for up to the last 12 months, forecast how much you're likely to spend for the next 12 months, and get recommendations for what Reserved Instances to purchase.
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hilft
2 years, 4 months ago
ADF is the answer
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Shanmahi
3 years, 1 month ago
Agree Jupi. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/control-access-billing.html By default, IAM users dont have access to Billing & Cost Mgmt. One of the ask is that the users should be able to create reports of usage and forecast, for which they will require access to the billing console.
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sergioandreslq
3 years, 1 month ago
Agree: ADF A: Key line in Question: "Team resources have tags that represent their application and team", meaning that the teams are using Tags, So, It is required to enable "Cost Allocation Tags "User-defined". Then: D: Key question:"each time is responsible for the cost", meaning, they need to access the AWS billing and cost management. remember than only root account is able to access billing, so, It is required to enable the IAM access to the teams to controls their cost. then, F: to be able to see the cost using the cost allocation tags, It is required to enable "Cost Explorer".
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tgv
3 years, 1 month ago
I disagree on --> D: Key question:"each time is responsible for the cost"" I believe the Key is in the request: "The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team" and for this I will choose C over D
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dmscountera
2 years, 1 month ago
ACF Not D: Important Activating IAM access alone doesn't grant IAM users and roles the necessary permissions for these Billing console pages. In addition to activating IAM access, you must also attach the required IAM policies to those users or roles. For more information, see Using identity-based policies (IAM policies) for AWS Billing. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/control-access-billing.html
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tgv
Highly Voted 3 years, 1 month ago
AAA CCC FFF --- A: After you create and apply user-defined tags, you can activate them for cost allocation C: I believe the Key is in the request: "The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team" F: You can explore your usage and costs using the main graph, the Cost Explorer cost and usage reports, or the Cost Explorer RI reports. You can view data for up to the last 12 months, forecast how much you're likely to spend for the next 12 months
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tgv
3 years, 1 month ago
C: The COMPANY and not the IAM users
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sashenka
3 years ago
Then how do you suggest you satisfy the requirement that "each team is responsible for the cost and performance of all of its applications"? We also are given that they use IAM for their daily use. We are also given that “teams rely on IAM access for day-to-day operations.” Only possible solution here is D.
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dev112233xx
Most Recent 1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: ACF
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/tagging-best-practices/building-a-cost-allocation-strategy.html
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AwsBRFan
2 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: ADF
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/tutorial_billing.html "IAM users cannot access billing data until the account owner activates IAM access and also attaches policies that provide billing actions to the user or role."
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dmscountera
2 years, 1 month ago
Important Activating IAM access alone doesn't grant IAM users and roles the necessary permissions for these Billing console pages. In addition to activating IAM access, you must also attach the required IAM policies to those users or roles. For more information, see Using identity-based policies (IAM policies) for AWS Billing.
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Enigmaaaaaa
2 years, 4 months ago
ACF E - Incorrect - no need for budgets here B - Incorrect - need to create custom cost allocation tags not to use the default ones D - Incorrect -This is a consolidated billing organization - IAM access to billing is enabled by default https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/tutorial_billing.html#tutorial-billing-step1 "Note If you create a member account using AWS Organizations, this feature is enabled by default." all other answers make sense A C F - Cost categories + user defined CAT + enable CE
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wassb
2 years, 1 month ago
There is no AWS ORGANIZATION in the question
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TechX
2 years, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: ACF
Answer: ACF Explanation: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-categories/
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Kb80
2 years, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: ACF
I tend to lean towards ACF for the reason that the teams can manage their billing through cost explorer without needing to be provided access to the billing and cost management portal. By default a member account will have access to cost explorer and you can control what they have access to (or revoke access). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-enable.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-access.html
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jyrajan69
2 years, 9 months ago
Has to be A,D,F. C is wrong as it only refers to application, and the question clearly says ether Team or Application
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lifebegins
2 years, 9 months ago
Answer is ACF: 1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-cost-categories.html 2.https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-cost-categories.html 3. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-enable.html
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cannottellname
2 years, 10 months ago
Team already includes tags then why activate that? CDF seems better to me.
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vbal
2 years, 11 months ago
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cost-explorer-analyze-spending-and-usage/ ; ACF.
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Ni_yot
2 years, 11 months ago
ACF for me. you can create a cost category for each team. Since its the org that needs the info no need for users to have access to billing/cost explorer.
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Gaurav_GGG
3 years ago
It's A, C, F. For A and F agree with other comments. C is because in Question it's said they each Software team manages each Application so in C you can create category for each Application and monitor corresponding cost using Tags.
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andylogan
3 years, 1 month ago
It's A D F I am with D, not C because you can't create cost category for application, below link also suggest to manage by team: "You can create groupings of costs using cost categories. For example, assume that your business is organized by teams and that each team has multiple accounts within. To build this structure in cost categories, create a cost category named Team. Then, you can map costs to a cost category value that's named Team 1" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-cost-categories.html#cost-categories-dimensions
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johnnsmith
3 years, 1 month ago
C is wrong. The requirement is "application or team". C only allows application.
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Kopa
3 years, 1 month ago
Im for A,C,F im for C because it is saying the company not users. Users doesn't need access to Bill Mgm.
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Bigbearcn
3 years, 1 month ago
ACF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-cost-categories.html
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