Identify opportunities for cost optimizations.
12 practice questions under this official exam objective (SAP-C02), each with the answer key, an option-by-option explanation and instant feedback.
Questions under this objective
12 total · page 1 of 1Use AWS Cost Anomaly Detection with an AWS services monitor to pinpoint waste
A developer occasionally leaves test resources running, so the bill creeps up unpredictably. The operations team must be told which spend rose and rou
Trigger instance cleanup from the Trusted Advisor cost optimization check via EventBridge
A company on AWS Business Support wants to stop underutilized development EC2 instances, defined as ten percent or less average daily CPU and five MB
Cut S3 video costs by expiring incomplete multipart uploads and using S3 Standard-IA after
An application stores user-uploaded videos larger than 100 MB in S3 Standard. Videos are accessed frequently for the first 180 days and rarely after,
Centralize cost allocation and CUR analysis in the management account with Athena and Quic
A company runs applications for separate business units across multiple accounts in an organization, and every cloud resource already carries a Busine
Cut ticketing platform cost with a gateway S3 endpoint and scheduled scaling
An events ticketing platform runs on ECS over EC2 On-Demand instances in an Auto Scaling group with predictive scaling, and the cluster downloads tick
Run interruptible batch simulations on AWS Batch with Spot Instances only
Large batch simulation jobs read 15 to 20 GB each from an S3 bucket and write results to a different bucket. The results are not time sensitive, the p
Renew EC2 Reserved Instances and add a Compute Savings Plan for serverless
A company optimized costs three years ago and bought EC2 Standard Reserved Instances that have now expired, and it needs EC2 for three more years. It
Control external API consumption with an API key, usage plan, throttling, and quotas
An API Gateway API backed by Lambda functions is shared with an external development team as its sole consumer, and usage spikes at specific times are
Store VPC flow logs in Apache Parquet with hourly partitions for Athena
VPC flow logs from many accounts are published as gzip-compressed text files to a centralized S3 bucket, retained indefinitely, and occasionally queri
Replace an idle EC2 crawling fleet with Lambda and write results to S3
A fleet of t2.micro instances pulls URLs from an SQS queue, crawls each in ten seconds or less, and writes .csv results to a shared EFS volume. URLs a
Archive zipped image batches to S3 Glacier Deep Archive with a DataSync Hyper-V agent
An on-premises application zips images into single files and archives them to an NFS server. The company has a Hyper-V environment, spare compute capa
Right-size with an Auto Scaling group of 4 baseline instances scaling to 28
A stateless application runs 24 hours a day on 20 EC2 On-Demand instances behind an NLB across two Availability Zones, with CPU at ten percent during