SOA-C02 Question 305
Select 3Your organization has implemented AWS Budgets to monitor and control costs. As a SysOps Administrator, you need to ensure the team is alerted when monthly costs exceed 80% of the allocated budget. Additionally, the alert should be sent to an email distribution list. What steps must you take to achieve this?
- A
Create a budget in AWS Budgets with a notification threshold set to 80%.
- B
Enable the 'Auto Adjust Budget' feature to automatically increase the budget when it is exceeded.
- C
Configure an AWS Budgets notification to trigger when 80% of the budget is reached.
- D
Specify an Amazon SNS topic in the budget notification and subscribe the email distribution list to this topic.
- E
Use AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to monitor cost trends and send alerts when anomalies occur.
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Correct answers: A, C, D
Explanation
To meet the requirements of alerting the team when costs exceed 80% of the budget, you need to create a budget in AWS Budgets, configure a notification at the 80% threshold, and use an SNS topic to send the alert to the email distribution list. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection and 'Auto Adjust Budget' are not relevant to this specific use case.
- A. Correct.
Correct: Creating a budget in AWS Budgets with a notification threshold is a fundamental step for monitoring costs.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect: The 'Auto Adjust Budget' feature is not related to sending alerts when the budget threshold is exceeded. It's used for dynamically adjusting budgets, which is not required here.
- C. Correct.
Correct: Configuring a notification at 80% of the budget ensures that alerts are triggered when the threshold is met.
- D. Correct.
Correct: Specifying an Amazon SNS topic and subscribing the email distribution list is necessary for delivering the alerts to the intended recipients.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is used for identifying unusual cost patterns, but it's unrelated to AWS Budgets or predefined threshold notifications.