AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 560

A Chief Financial Officer has asked for a breakdown of costs per project in a single AWS account using Cost Explorer.
Which combination of options should be set to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Activate AWS Budgets.
• B. Activate cost allocation tags.
• C. Create an organization using AWS Organizations.
• D. Create and apply resource tags.
• E. Enable AWS Trusted Advisor.

Correct answer: A, B

Explanation

To categorize and view costs by project in AWS Cost Explorer, you must first apply resource tags containing project identifiers to your AWS resources. After applying them, these tags must be activated as cost allocation tags in the Billing and Cost Management console to allow Cost Explorer to filter and group costs by those specific tag keys. Other options like AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, and Trusted Advisor do not enable resource-level grouping within Cost Explorer.