Cloud Cost Management
Save time, reduce effort, and save on your cloud bill with intelligent cloud cost automation. Detect and stop cloud cost anomalies as they occur, to avoid unpleasant billing surprises with a FinOps approach.
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Cloud Cost Management - Developer
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Assesses the fundamental skills to to detect and stop cloud cost anomalies as they occur.
| Topic | Material |
|---|---|
| 1. Implement and Optimize Cloud Cost Management | |
| Define and Streamline FinOps Strategies: Develop financial operations strategies to manage and optimize cloud expenses. | Key Concepts |
| Allocate and Track Cloud Expenses: Enable precise allocation and tracking of cloud expenses across different dimensions or units like "Product Squads". | Analyze costs using perspectives |
| 2. Efficiently Manage Cloud Resources | |
| Automate Resource Management: Utilize CCM features like Autostopping to optimize and automate resource utilization and management. | Cost optimization |
| Implement Asset Governance: Employ asset governance rules to manage and control cloud resources effectively, ensuring they are utilized or deprovisioned accordingly. | Summary of your asset governance rules |
| 3. Achieve Transparency in Cloud Spending | |
| Develop Insights into Spending: Employ CCM to provide a clear overview and insights into cloud spending across various resources and services. | Cost categories overview |
| Address Unallocated Costs: Utilize features that help in identifying and managing unallocated costs in cloud resources. | View Cluster Cost Dashboard |
| 4. Optimize and Right-Size Resources | |
| Implement Resource Optimization Recommendations: Utilize CCM to provide and implement recommendations to optimize resources effectively. | Cost Optimization Recommendations |
| Rightsize Cloud Resources: Ensure resources like EC2 instances are rightly sized based on usage patterns and requirements. | Detect cloud cost anomalies |
| 5. Enabling Efficient Cloud Governance and Compliance | |
| Enhance Cloud Asset Governance: Implement Cloud Asset Governance to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize unnecessary resource utilization. | Summary of your asset governance rules |
| Tag and Track AWS Resources: Automatically tag AWS resources for better governance and cost tracking. | Analyze cost for AWS |
| 6. Manage and Allocate Budgets Effectively | |
| Allocate Budgets to Different Units: Distribute budgets to various departments or units effectively, ensuring transparency and accountability. | Create a budget |
| Manage and Monitor Budgets: Implement budget alerts and monitor budget expenditure through CCM to avoid overspends. | Using the Budget Dashboard |
| 7. Provide Comprehensive Data and Analytics | |
| Enable Data Availability and Analytics: Ensure comprehensive data about cloud costs is available and easily analyzable via CCM. | Data Ingestion for Cluster Dashboard |
| Set Up and Utilize Dashboards: Implement dashboards to visualize, track, and manage cloud expenses and utilization in real-time. | Access the CCM dashboard |
Exam Details
The Cloud Cost Management Developer exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness Cloud Cost Management module.
Prerequisites
- Basic terminal skills
- Basic understanding of on premise or cloud cost structure.
Exam Details
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Question Type: Multiple choice
| Covered Domain | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Implement and Optimize Cloud Cost Management | 25% |
| Efficiently Manage Cloud Resources | 20% |
| Achieve Transparency in Cloud Spending | 15% |
| Optimize and Right-Size Resources | 10% |
| Enabling Efficient Cloud Governance and Compliance | 15% |
| Manage and Allocate Budgets Effectively | 10% |
| Provide Comprehensive Data and Analytics | 5% |
Exam Objectives
List of Objectives
The following is a detailed list of exam objectives:
| # | Objectives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Implement and Optimize Cloud Cost Management |
| 1.1 | Define and Streamline FinOps Strategies. |
| 1.2 | Allocate and Track Cloud Expenses. |
| 2 | Efficiently Manage Cloud Resources |
| 2.1 | Automate Resource Management. |
| 2.2 | Implement Asset Governance. |
| 3 | Achieve Transparency in Cloud Spending |
| 3.1 | Develop Insights into Spending. |
| 3.2 | Address Unallocated Costs. |
| 4 | Optimize and Right-Size Resources |
| 4.1 | Implement Resource Optimization Recommendations. |
| 4.2 | Rightsize Cloud Resources. |
| 5 | Enabling Efficient Cloud Governance and Compliance |
| 5.1 | Enhance Cloud Asset Governance. |
| 5.2 | Tag and Track AWS Resources. |
| 6 | Manage and Allocate Budgets Effectively |
| 6.1 | Allocate Budgets to Different Units. |
| 6.2 | Manage and Monitor Budgets. |
| 7 | Provide Comprehensive Data and Analytics |
| 7.1 | Enable Data Availability and Analytics. |
| 7.2 | Set Up and Utilize Dashboards. |
Next Steps
The Cloud Cost Management Developer exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow up to 90 mins for the exam.
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