DevOps, SRE & Cloud
Cost & FinOps
6 practice questions. Free questions open a full answer guide; the rest unlock with Pro.
- Finance wants you to buy a three-year Savings Plan to cut the cloud bill. Walk me through how you'd reason about committing versus the risk of locking in spend.
- How do you decide between On-Demand, Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, and Spot for a workload, and what's the failure mode of over-committing?Go Pro
- Your Kubernetes bill keeps climbing but no single team feels responsible for it. How do you get cost under control and make teams actually own their spend?Go Pro
- Why are cost allocation tags important in a cloud account, and what goes wrong when resources aren't tagged?Go Pro
- What are the main ways a cloud provider lets you pay for compute, and how would you match each to a workload to keep costs down?Go Pro
- Your cloud bill is climbing and leadership wants accountability by team. How do you set up cost allocation, and what's the difference between showback and chargeback?Go Pro
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