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CLF-C02 · Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support · 12% of the exam

Task 4.3: Identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options.

Support plans, Trusted Advisor, the Health Dashboard, re:Post and the documentation, and the role of AWS Partners and AWS Marketplace.

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  • Support plans, re:Post, Trusted Advisor, Health Dashboard, Partners and Marketplace

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Sample questions

Try each one before opening the answer. Every option is explained, with the AWS documentation page that proves it.

Question 1 · choose 1

A company wants a service that inspects its AWS environment and recommends ways to save money, improve availability and performance, and close security gaps. Which service does this?

  1. AAWS Health Dashboard
  2. BAWS Trusted Advisor
  3. CAWS Marketplace
  4. DAWS Pricing Calculator
Show the answer and why
  • AAWS Health Dashboard

    Incorrect

    The Health Dashboard shows events that affect AWS services and your resources, such as scheduled maintenance. It does not review your setup.

  • BAWS Trusted Advisor

    Correct

    Trusted Advisor inspects your environment and recommends actions when there are opportunities to save money, improve availability and performance, or close security gaps.

  • CAWS Marketplace

    Incorrect

    Marketplace is a catalog for finding and buying third-party software, data and services.

  • DAWS Pricing Calculator

    Incorrect

    The Pricing Calculator estimates costs for a planned workload; it does not look at what is already running.

Trusted Advisor checks a running account against best practices. Which checks you get depends on your support plan: everyone gets some, the higher plans get all of them.

Question 2 · choose 1

An operations team wants to see upcoming scheduled maintenance and service events that affect the resources in its own AWS account, without setting anything up first. What should it use?

  1. AAWS CloudTrail
  2. BAWS Config
  3. CAWS Trusted Advisor
  4. DAWS Health Dashboard
Show the answer and why
  • AAWS CloudTrail

    Incorrect

    CloudTrail records the actions taken in your account. It does not tell you about AWS events that affect your resources.

  • BAWS Config

    Incorrect

    AWS Config records how your resources are configured and how that changes; it does not announce AWS maintenance or service events.

  • CAWS Trusted Advisor

    Incorrect

    Trusted Advisor gives recommendations from best-practice checks, not a feed of AWS events.

  • DAWS Health Dashboard

    Correct

    AWS Health shows events that affect your resources and AWS services, including planned activities. The Health Dashboard needs no setup and is available to every customer at no extra cost.

AWS Health is AWS telling you about AWS: incidents in progress and planned activities that touch your resources.

Question 3 · choose 1

A startup on the Basic Support plan now runs production workloads on AWS. It needs 24x7 phone, web and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers for technical problems, but it does not need a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which is the lowest-cost AWS Support plan that meets this need?

  1. ABasic Support
  2. BAWS Business Support+
  3. CAWS Enterprise Support
  4. DAWS Unified Operations
Show the answer and why
  • ABasic Support

    Incorrect

    Basic Support covers account and billing questions, service quota increases, forums, service health checks and documentation — not technical support cases with engineers.

  • BAWS Business Support+

    Correct

    Business Support+ adds 24x7 phone, web and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers, without a designated TAM, at the lowest price of the plans that offer it.

  • CAWS Enterprise Support

    Incorrect

    Enterprise Support includes everything in Business Support+ plus a designated TAM and more, at a higher minimum price than the startup needs to pay.

  • DAWS Unified Operations

    Incorrect

    Unified Operations adds a designated TAM and Domain Specialist Engineers, critical workload reviews and more — far beyond what the startup asked for.

Match the plan to the need: engineers around the clock without a TAM is Business Support+. A designated TAM starts at Enterprise Support.

Question 4 · choose 1

A company on the AWS Business Support+ plan wants AWS Health events about its resources to flow automatically into its in-house ticketing system, through an API it can call from code. Which option should it use?

  1. AThe AWS Health Dashboard in the console
  2. BAWS Trusted Advisor
  3. CThe AWS Health API
  4. DAWS CloudTrail
Show the answer and why
  • AThe AWS Health Dashboard in the console

    Incorrect

    The dashboard needs no setup and shows events to people signed in to the console, but it is a console view, not an API for integration.

  • BAWS Trusted Advisor

    Incorrect

    Trusted Advisor gives best-practice recommendations, not a feed of AWS Health events.

  • CThe AWS Health API

    Correct

    With Business Support+, Enterprise Support or Unified Operations, you can use the AWS Health API to integrate Health events with in-house and third-party systems.

  • DAWS CloudTrail

    Incorrect

    CloudTrail records actions taken in your account, not events that AWS reports about its services and your resources.

People read the Health Dashboard; systems call the AWS Health API, which depends on the support plan.

Question 5 · choose 1

A developer at a company on the Basic Support plan has a technical question about configuring Amazon CloudFront. She wants to ask it publicly and get answers from the community and AWS experts, at no extra cost. Where should she go?

  1. AAWS re:Post
  2. BOpen a technical support case with a Cloud Support Engineer
  3. CAWS Artifact
  4. DAWS Marketplace
Show the answer and why
  • AAWS re:Post

    Correct

    re:Post is AWS's community question-and-answer site where developers discuss technical questions; community forums are available to every customer.

  • BOpen a technical support case with a Cloud Support Engineer

    Incorrect

    Basic Support covers account and billing questions and service quota increases. Technical support cases come with the paid plans.

  • CAWS Artifact

    Incorrect

    Artifact provides compliance reports and agreements, not technical answers.

  • DAWS Marketplace

    Incorrect

    Marketplace is a catalog for finding and buying third-party software, not a place to ask questions.

Without a paid support plan, the routes to technical help are the documentation, whitepapers and the re:Post community.

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