CLF-C02 Question 309
Select 2Your company uses AWS services across multiple departments and wants to track costs for each department separately in the AWS Cost and Usage Report. Which of the following actions can help achieve this goal?
- A
Enable cost allocation tags and apply them to resources associated with each department
- B
Create separate AWS accounts for each department and consolidate them under AWS Organizations
- C
Activate AWS-generated cost allocation tags and include them in billing reports
- D
Use AWS Budgets to create cost alerts for each department based on their spending
- E
Manually calculate costs for each department by reviewing the AWS Cost and Usage Report
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To track costs for each department in the AWS Cost and Usage Report, you can use cost allocation tags. Enabling cost allocation tags (custom or AWS-generated) and applying them to resources allows you to categorize and filter costs by department. This helps in creating detailed and accurate billing reports tailored to your organizational needs.
- A. Correct.
Enabling cost allocation tags and applying them to resources allows you to group and filter costs in the AWS Cost and Usage Report according to department, making it easier to track departmental spending.
- B. Incorrect.
While creating separate AWS accounts for departments is a valid approach to manage billing, it does not directly leverage cost allocation tags or provide granular tracking within a single account using billing reports.
- C. Correct.
Activating AWS-generated cost allocation tags enables automated tagging of resources and their costs, which can then be included in billing reports for department-level cost tracking.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Budgets is useful for setting alerts based on spending thresholds but does not directly help in tracking costs by department in the AWS Cost and Usage Report using allocation tags.
- E. Incorrect.
Manually calculating costs from the AWS Cost and Usage Report is time-consuming and error-prone. Using cost allocation tags is a more efficient and accurate method.