MLA-C01 Practice Question 59: Budget Forecast Alerts
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) · Test 6 · question 9 of 10
An ML platform team has a monthly allowance of $20,000 for Amazon SageMaker AI. Last month a forgotten GPU endpoint pushed spending over the limit, and finance found out only after the invoice arrived. The team lead wants an email as soon as SageMaker AI spending is *projected* to exceed $20,000 for the month, so the team can act before the money is spent.
What should the team set up?
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Answer:
AWS Budgets cost budgets set a spending limit, can be filtered to a specific service, and send alerts when costs approach or exceed a threshold. Alerts can trigger on *actual* spend, which has already accrued, or on *forecasted* spend, which is predicted before it accrues. A forecasted alert warns the team partway through the month that it is on track to pass $20,000, which is exactly the early warning the team lead asked for (option C).
- A is wrong because a saved report depends on someone reading it on schedule. It sends no alert and can miss a week of runaway spending. - B is wrong because EstimatedCharges tracks charges that have already accrued. The alarm fires only once spending actually reaches $20,000, too late to act on a projection. - D is wrong because Trusted Advisor's cost checks flag optimization opportunities, such as idle or underused resources. They do not track spending against a budget or forecast the month's total.
Reference: Managing your costs with AWS Budgets