AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 53

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.)

Answer options

• 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.

Correct answer: A, C, F

Explanation

The correct actions are to enable user-defined cost allocation tags, create cost categories for each application, and enable Cost Explorer. These steps allow for detailed tracking of costs by application and team, and Cost Explorer provides visualization of those costs over time. The other options, while useful in certain contexts, do not directly contribute to meeting the specified requirements for cost attribution and reporting.