AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 883

A company has Sales department and Marketing department. The company uses one AWS account. There is a need to determine what charges are incurred on the AWS platform by each department. There is also a need to receive notifications when a specified cost level is approached or exceeded.
Which two actions must a SysOps Administrator take to achieve both requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Use AWS Trusted Advisor to obtain a report containing the checked items in the Cost Optimization pillar.
• B. Download the detailed billing report, upload it to a database, and match the line items with a list of known resources by department.
• C. Create a script by using the AWS CLI to automatically apply tags to existing resources to each department. Schedule the script to run weekly.
• D. Use AWS Organizations to create a department Organizational Unit and allow only authorized personnel in each department to create resources.
• E. Create a Budget from the Billing and Cost Management console. Specify the budget type a Cost, assign tags for each department, define notifications, and specify any other options as required.

Correct answer: D, E

Explanation

Using AWS Organizations to create Department Organizational Units (OUs) helps structure the account environment and control resource creation access for each department. Creating a Cost Budget in the Billing and Cost Management console allows the administrator to filter costs by department tags and establish automated alerts when spending approaches or exceeds the budget, meeting both requirements with minimal administrative overhead.