GCP Financial Management & Budgeting 2

Question 1

A GCP project's billing account is suspended. What is the most likely immediate effect on running resources?

Accepted Answer

Resources are stopped but data is preserved temporarily

Answer

When a billing account is suspended, GCP stops running resources but preserves data for a grace period to allow payment resolution.

Question 2

Which GCP feature allows you to receive alerts when your spending is projected to exceed a certain threshold before the period ends?

Accepted Answer

Budget forecasted spend alerts

Answer

Budget forecasted spend alerts notify you when GCP's spending projection for the period is expected to exceed your defined threshold.

Question 3

You want to analyze GCP spending at the resource tag level across multiple projects. What is the best approach?

Accepted Answer

Export billing data to BigQuery and query by labels

Answer

Exporting billing data to BigQuery allows querying cost data by resource labels, enabling granular cross-project analysis.

Question 4

A company uses 50 n2-standard-4 VMs continuously for a year. Which pricing model would reduce costs the most compared to on-demand pricing?

Accepted Answer

3-year committed use discounts

Answer

3-year committed use discounts offer up to 70% off on-demand pricing, the highest discount tier for predictable long-term workloads.

Question 5

Which tool in GCP helps estimate the cost of a proposed architecture before it is deployed?

Accepted Answer

GCP Pricing Calculator

Answer

The GCP Pricing Calculator lets you configure resources and estimate monthly costs before deploying any infrastructure.

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