AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate — Question 120

A company recently purchased Savings Plans. The company wants to receive email notification when the company’s utilization drops below 90% for a given day.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Answer options

• A. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor the Savings Plan check in AWS Trusted Advisor. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for email notification when the utilization drops below 90% for a given day.
• B. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor the SavingsPlansUtilization metric under the AWS/SavingsPlans namespace in CloudWatch. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for email notification when the utilization drops below 90% for a given day.
• C. Create a Savings Plans alert to monitor the daily utilization of the Savings Plans. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for email notification when the utilization drops below 90% for a given day.
• D. Use AWS Budgets to create a Savings Plans budget to track the daily utilization of the Savings Plans. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for email notification when the utilization drops below 90% for a given day.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because AWS Budgets allows tracking of Savings Plans utilization and can trigger notifications via SNS when the specified threshold is breached. The other options either do not specifically monitor the Savings Plans utilization or rely on services that are not designed for this requirement, such as CloudWatch alarms for unrelated metrics.