SOA-C02 Question 306
Select 2Your organization uses AWS and wants to ensure that spending does not exceed a monthly budget of $10,000. As the SysOps Administrator, you need to set up an alert to notify your finance team when costs exceed 80% of the budget. Which steps should you take to configure this alert?
- A
Create an AWS Budget with a fixed monthly budget limit of $10,000 and set a notification threshold at 80%.
- B
Set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor AWS service usage and configure it to trigger at 80% of $10,000.
- C
Attach an Amazon SNS topic to the AWS Budget notification and subscribe the finance team to the topic.
- D
Enable detailed billing reports in AWS Cost and Usage Reports and analyze them regularly for cost overages.
- E
Use AWS Budgets to create a Cost Anomaly Detection rule to identify unexpected spikes in usage.
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To set up an effective budget alert, you need to use AWS Budgets to define the $10,000 monthly limit and configure a notification threshold at 80%. Additionally, you must attach an SNS topic to the notification and subscribe the finance team to receive the alerts. CloudWatch alarms and Cost Anomaly Detection are not designed for monitoring specific budget limits, and Cost and Usage Reports are more focused on detailed analysis rather than proactive alerts.
- A. Correct.
Correct. AWS Budgets allows you to set a fixed monthly budget limit and configure notification thresholds, making it the appropriate tool for this scenario.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect. While Amazon CloudWatch alarms are useful for monitoring metrics, they are not designed for budget notifications or cost alerts.
- C. Correct.
Correct. Attaching an SNS topic to an AWS Budget notification ensures the finance team is notified when the threshold is exceeded.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. While Cost and Usage Reports can provide insights into spending, they do not proactively notify users when a budget threshold is reached.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Cost Anomaly Detection focuses on identifying unusual patterns, not on monitoring predefined budget thresholds.