Cloud & AI Cost Management
Learn Cloud & AI Cost Management through Harness University
Save time, reduce effort, and save on your cloud bill with intelligent cloud cost automation. Detect and stop cloud and AI cost anomalies as they occur, to avoid unpleasant billing surprises with a FinOps approach.
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Cloud & AI Cost Management - Developer
Product version: Harness CCM Free Plans
Assesses the fundamental skills to to detect and stop cloud cost anomalies as they occur.
Review Study Guide
1. Implement and Optimize Cloud Cost Management
Define and Streamline FinOps Strategies: Develop financial operations strategies to manage and optimize cloud expenses.
Allocate and Track Cloud Expenses: Enable precise allocation and tracking of cloud expenses across different dimensions or units like "Product Squads".
2. Efficiently Manage Cloud Resources
Automate Resource Management: Utilize CCM features like Autostopping to optimize and automate resource utilization and management.
Implement Asset Governance: Employ asset governance rules to manage and control cloud resources effectively, ensuring they are utilized or deprovisioned accordingly.
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.
Address Unallocated Costs: Utilize features that help in identifying and managing unallocated costs in cloud resources.
4. Optimize and Right-Size Resources
Implement Resource Optimization Recommendations: Utilize CCM to provide and implement recommendations to optimize resources effectively.
Rightsize Cloud Resources: Ensure resources like EC2 instances are rightly sized based on usage patterns and requirements.
5. Enabling Efficient Cloud Governance and Compliance
Enhance Cloud Asset Governance: Implement Cloud Asset Governance to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize unnecessary resource utilization.
Tag and Track AWS Resources: Automatically tag AWS resources for better governance and cost tracking.
6. Manage and Allocate Budgets Effectively
Allocate Budgets to Different Units: Distribute budgets to various departments or units effectively, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Manage and Monitor Budgets: Implement budget alerts and monitor budget expenditure through CCM to avoid overspends.
7. Provide Comprehensive Data and Analytics
Enable Data Availability and Analytics: Ensure comprehensive data about cloud costs is available and easily analyzable via CCM.
Set Up and Utilize Dashboards: Implement dashboards to visualize, track, and manage cloud expenses and utilization in real-time.
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
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
Next Steps
The Cloud Cost Management Developer exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow up to 90 mins for the exam.
Create an account in Harness University
Register for an exam
Take the exam
Cloud & AI Cost Management - Administrator
Product version: Harness CCM Paid Plans
Assess key technical job functions and advanced skills in design, implementation and management of CCM.
Review Study Guide
1. Cloud Cost Management Fundamentals
Explain the core concepts and principles of cloud cost management.
Identify key cost drivers and factors affecting cloud expenses.
Understand the financial implications of different cloud service models (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
2. Cloud Cost Monitoring and Analysis
Set up cost monitoring and reporting tools within Harness.
Analyze cloud cost data to identify cost optimization opportunities.
Create customized cost reports and dashboards for different stakeholders.
3. Resource Tagging and Allocation
Implement a resource tagging strategy for tracking cloud costs.
Allocate costs to specific departments, teams, or projects based on resource tags.
Ensure accurate and granular cost allocation to improve cost visibility.
4. Cost Optimization Strategies
Develop cost optimization strategies tailored to specific cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
Identify and implement cost-saving measures, such as reserved instances, spot instances, and scaling policies.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of cost optimization efforts.
5. Budgeting and Forecasting
Create and manage budgets for cloud spending.
Forecast future cloud costs based on historical data and usage trends.
Implement alerts and notifications to proactively manage budget overruns.
6. Cost Allocation and Chargeback
Establish a cost allocation framework to distribute cloud costs accurately among business units or customers.
Implement chargeback mechanisms to invoice internal or external stakeholders based on their cloud resource consumption.
Ensure compliance with cost allocation and chargeback policies.
7. Security and Compliance in Cost Management
Address security considerations when dealing with cost management data and tools.
Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR) in handling cost-related information.
Implement role-based access control (RBAC) to secure cost management resources.
8. Integration with Cloud Services
Integrate Harness Cloud Cost Management with various cloud service providers and data sources.
Automate data collection and ingestion processes for real-time cost tracking.
Leverage APIs and connectors for seamless integration with cloud platforms.
9. Cost Management Best Practices
Promote best practices for cost management across the organization.
Collaborate with stakeholders to align cost management efforts with business goals.
Stay updated with the latest cloud cost management trends, tools, and industry benchmarks.
Exam Details
The Cloud Cost Management Administrator exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness Cloud Cost Management module.
Prerequisites
Basic terminal skills
Intermediate understanding of on-premise or cloud architecture
This exam builds upon the Cloud Cost Management Developer Exam
Exam Details
Knowledge Exam
90 minutes
Hands On Exam
120 minutes
1. Cloud Cost Management Fundamentals
15%
2. Cloud Cost Monitoring and Analysis
10%
3. Resource Tagging and Allocation
10%
4. Cost Optimization Strategies
10%
5. Budgeting and Forecasting
15%
6. Cost Allocation and Chargeback
10%
7. Security and Compliance in Cost Management
10%
8. Integration with Cloud Services
10%
9. Cost Management Best Practices
10%
Exam Objectives
Next Steps
The Cloud Cost Management Administrator exam can start immediately after registering. Please allow up to 90 mins for the knowledge exam and up to 2 hours for the hands on exam.
Create an account in Harness University
Register for an exam. There is a $50 fee for the exam
Review the instructions for the Hands On Exam
Take the exams
There will be a knowledge and hands on portion.
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