SOA-C02 Question #9: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A company's IT department noticed an increase in the spend of their developer AWS account. There are over 50 developers using the account, and the finance team wants to determine the service costs incurred by each developer. What should a SysOps administrator do to collect this information? (Choose two.)

Options

• AActivate the created By tag in the account.
• BAnalyze the usage with Amazon CloudWatch dashboards.
• CAnalyze the usage with Cost Explorer.
• DConfigure AWS Trusted Advisor to track resource usage.
• ECreate a billing alarm in AWS Budgets.

Explanation

Activating the createdBy tag (A) automatically captures which IAM user or role created each resource, enabling cost attribution per developer without manual tagging. Cost Explorer (C) then lets you filter and visualize spend by that tag, giving the finance team a per-developer breakdown directly from billing data.

Why the others are wrong:

• B (CloudWatch dashboards) tracks operational metrics like CPU and latency, not cost attribution by user.
• D (Trusted Advisor) provides best-practice recommendations (idle resources, security gaps), but does not report costs broken down by developer.
• E (AWS Budgets alarms) alerts you when spending thresholds are crossed, but doesn't identify who is responsible for the spend.

Memory tip: Think "Tag it, then analyze it" - AWS cost management always follows the pattern of labeling resources first (tags), then querying those labels in Cost Explorer. Whenever a question asks "who spent what?", look for a tagging answer paired with Cost Explorer.

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