AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate — Question 72

A company wants to track its AWS costs in all member accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations. Managers of the member accounts want to receive a notification when the estimated costs exceed a predetermined amount each month. The managers are unable to configure a billing alarm. The IAM permissions for all users are correct.

What could be the cause of this issue?

Answer options

• A. The management/payer account does not have billing alerts turned on.
• B. The company has not configured AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to share billing information between the member accounts and the management/payer account.
• C. Amazon GuardDuty is turned on for all the accounts.
• D. The company has not configured an AWS Config rule to monitor billing.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because billing alerts must be enabled on the management/payer account for members to receive notifications on costs. The other options do not directly relate to the ability to configure billing alarms, as they pertain to resource sharing and monitoring rather than alarm settings.