GCP Financial Management & Budgeting 4

Question 1

Which GCP service provides a unified view of costs, usage trends, and cost recommendations across your entire organization?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Billing Reports

Answer

Cloud Billing Reports in the GCP Console provide organization-wide cost visualization, trend analysis, and filtering by project, service, and label.

Question 2

An engineer notices that egress charges are unexpectedly high. Which action would most directly identify the source of excessive network costs?

Accepted Answer

Use BigQuery billing export filtered by SKU containing 'Egress'

Answer

Querying BigQuery billing export data filtered by network egress SKUs pinpoints which projects and resources are generating the most outbound traffic charges.

Question 3

What is the key financial advantage of GCP's sustained use discounts compared to committed use discounts?

Accepted Answer

Sustained use discounts require no upfront commitment or contract

Answer

Sustained use discounts are applied automatically with no contract or upfront commitment, whereas CUDs require a 1- or 3-year commitment.

Question 4

A GCP organization has 20 projects across 3 departments. Which approach best ensures each department is accountable for its own cloud spending?

Accepted Answer

Create separate billing accounts per department

Answer

Separate billing accounts per department provide clean financial boundaries, independent invoices, and clear accountability for each team's spending.

Question 5

Which GCP feature automatically detects idle VM instances and recommends rightsizing to reduce costs?

Accepted Answer

Active Assist VM Rightsizing Recommendations

Answer

Active Assist's VM rightsizing recommender analyzes CPU and memory utilization to suggest smaller machine types for underutilized instances.

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GCP Financial Management & Budgeting 4