Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support

Task Statement 4.1: Compare AWS pricing models

Knowledge of:

1. Compute purchasing options (for example, On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans, Dedicated Hosts, Dedicated Instances, Capacity Reservations)
2. Data transfer charges
3. Storage options and tiers

Skills in:

1. Identifying and comparing when to use various compute purchasing options
2. Describing Reserved Instance flexibility
3. Describing Reserved Instance behavior in AWS Organizations
4. Understanding incoming data transfer costs and outgoing data transfer costs (for example, from one Region to another Region, within the same Region)
5. Understanding different pricing options for various storage options and tiers

Task Statement 4.2: Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management

Knowledge of:

1. Billing support and information
2. Pricing information for AWS services
3. AWS Organizations
4. AWS cost allocation tags

Skills in:

1. Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor
2. Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Pricing Calculator
3. Understanding AWS Organizations consolidated billing and allocation of costs
4. Understanding various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports (for example, AWS Cost and Usage Report)

Task Statement 4.3: Identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options

4.3 Knowledge of:

1. Resources and documentation available on official AWS websites AWS Support plans
2. Role of the AWS Partner Network, including independent software vendors and system integrators
3. AWS Support Center

4.3 Skills in:

1. Locating AWS whitepapers, blogs, and documentation on official AWS websites
2. Identifying and locating AWS technical resources (for example AWS Prescriptive Guidance, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS re:Post)
3. Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers (for example, customer service and communities, AWS Developer Support, AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support, AWS Enterprise Support)
4. Identifying the role of Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and the AWS Health API to help manage and monitor environments for cost optimization
5. Identifying the role of the AWS Trust and Safety team to report abuse of AWS resources
6. Understanding the role of AWS Partners (for example AWS Marketplace, independent software vendors, system integrators)
7. Identifying the benefits of being an AWS Partner (for example, partner training and certification, partner events, partner volume discounts)
8. Identifying the key services that AWS Marketplace offers (for example, cost management, governance and entitlement)
9. Identifying technical assistance options available at AWS (for example, AWS Professional Services, AWS Solutions Architects)

Cool! So we now have all the things that we will be tested on in this exam. Now we need to breakdown each module down into learnings which we can then take into the exam and pass. Easy.

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