Cloud Digital Leader How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed Practice Test 2 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An organization uses labels to track cost by environment (dev, test, prod). However, the Finance team notices that some resources are missing the 'env' label. Which service can automatically suggest labeling resources that are missing required labels?

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Active Assist Recommendations. Active Assist provides recommendations for various optimizations, including labeling. The Recommender can suggest labels for resources that are missing them, based on usage patterns.

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Cost Management dashboard

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Cloud Asset Inventory

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Organization Policy Service

Question 2

A developer needs to estimate the monthly cost of running a set of Compute Engine instances with specific machine types, persistent disks, and network egress before deploying. Which tool should they use?

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator allows users to estimate costs for various services based on their configuration, before deployment.

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Billing export to BigQuery

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Active Assist Recommendations

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Cost Management dashboard

Question 3

A company wants to receive notifications when its monthly spending exceeds 80% of a $10,000 budget. Which set of steps will achieve this?

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Set up a budget in the Billing section of Cloud Console, define the amount, and add alert thresholds at 80%. Budgets and alerts can be set up in the Cloud Console to trigger email or Pub/Sub notifications at specified thresholds (e.g., 50%, 80%, 90%).

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Create a budget alert in Cloud Monitoring with a metric threshold of 80%

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Use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to set a spending limit

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Configure a Cloud Scheduler job to check billing data in BigQuery and send a notification

Question 4

An engineer is designing a resource hierarchy for a multinational company with multiple business units. The company uses Google Workspace. What is the first step in creating the resource hierarchy?

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Link the Google Workspace account to the organization node. The organization node is automatically created when a Google Workspace or Cloud Identity account is set up. It serves as the root node for the resource hierarchy.

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Create a project for each business unit

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Create a folder for each business unit

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Enable the Cloud Resource Manager API

Question 5

An organization wants to tag resources with key-value metadata for cost allocation purposes (e.g., team: marketing, environment: prod). Which feature should be used?

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Labels. Labels are key-value pairs that can be applied to resources for billing, filtering, and cost attribution. They are visible in billing reports and the cost management dashboard.

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Organization policy constraints

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IAM custom roles

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Tags (network tags)

Question 6

A company has a production project that requires a compute quota of 500 vCPUs, but the default limit is 200. What is the correct process to request a quota increase?

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Navigate to IAM & Admin > Quotas in Cloud Console, select the metric, and request an increase. Quota increases can be requested through the Cloud Console under IAM & Admin > Quotas, where the engineer can select the metric (e.g., CPUs) and request a higher limit.

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Shut down idle VMs to free up quota

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Create a new support ticket with the Billing team

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Use the gcloud compute quotas update command

Question 7

A company wants to reserve Compute Engine instances for a 3-year term to get the maximum discount. They expect consistent usage and want the discount to apply automatically to any instance matching the configuration. Which purchasing option should they choose?

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Committed use discounts with a 3-year term. Committed use discounts (CUDs) offer significant discounts in exchange for a commitment to use a minimum level of resources for 1 or 3 years. They apply automatically to eligible instances in the specified region and machine series.

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Sustained use discounts

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Preemptible VM instances

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Reserved instances (like AWS)

Question 8

A company has multiple projects and wants to organize them by environment (dev, test, prod) and by team (engineering, marketing, finance). They also need to apply IAM policies that affect all projects in a given environment. Which TWO steps should they take?

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Apply IAM policies at the folder level. Using folders to group projects by environment allows inheritance of IAM policies. Labels are used for cost attribution and filtering, not for policy enforcement.

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Create separate billing accounts for each environment

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Use organization policies at the project level

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Use labels to group projects by environment

Question 9

A company needs to enforce that no project in the organization can create resources outside of the us-central1 region. They also need to allow the Finance team to manage billing for all projects. Which TWO steps should they take?

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Apply the `gcp.resourceLocations` organization policy constraint at the organization node. Organization policies can be applied at the organization level to restrict locations. Billing account access is controlled by IAM roles on the billing account, granting the Finance team the Billing Account Administrator role.

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Create a separate billing account for each project

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Use IAM deny policies at the organization node to block resource creation outside us-central1

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Create a folder and apply an organization policy constraint to restrict locations at the folder level

Question 10

A startup wants to organize its Google Cloud resources by separating development, staging, and production environments. They also need to apply common IAM policies across all projects in each environment. Which resource hierarchy component should they use to group projects per environment?

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Folders. Folders allow grouping of projects and are used to reflect organizational structure or environment separation. IAM policies applied at the folder level are inherited by all projects within that folder.

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Organization node

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Tags

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Labels

Question 11

A company needs to estimate the monthly cost of running a set of Compute Engine instances, including network egress and Cloud Storage usage, before deploying the architecture. Which tool should they use?

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator allows users to input their expected resource usage and receive a cost estimate before deployment.

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Active Assist recommendations

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Budget alerts

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Cost Management dashboard

Question 12

An engineer wants to analyze historical spending trends and break down costs by project, region, and service. They need to run complex SQL queries on the billing data. What is the recommended approach?

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Enable billing export to BigQuery and query the exported tables. Billing export to BigQuery sends detailed billing information (e.g., usage, cost, project, labels) into BigQuery tables, enabling complex SQL analysis.

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Set up a budget alert to receive cost reports daily

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Use the Cloud Billing API to programmatically fetch cost data

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Download the monthly invoice CSV and import it into Sheets

Question 13

An organization wants to ensure that all projects in the organization have a specific IAM policy applied, such as restricting the use of certain machine series. They also need to enforce this policy on new projects automatically. Where should they set this policy?

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At the organization node. Organization policies applied at the organization node are inherited by all projects under it, ensuring uniform enforcement across the entire hierarchy.

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At the project level for each project

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Using tags on individual resources

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At the folder level for each environment

Question 14

A company runs Compute Engine instances that experience stable, predictable usage. They want to reduce costs by committing to a 1-year term for these virtual machines. Which discount type should they use?

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Committed use discounts. Committed use discounts (CUDs) allow customers to commit to a certain amount of resources (vCPUs, memory) for 1 or 3 years in exchange for a significant discount. This is ideal for predictable workloads.

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Preemptible VMs

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Sole-tenant nodes

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Sustained use discounts

Question 15

An organization wants to tag resources with environment (dev/staging/prod) and cost center (e.g., 'marketing', 'engineering') for cost allocation and filtering in billing reports. Which feature should they use?

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Labels. Labels are key-value pairs that can be attached to resources and are used for billing cost allocation, filtering in cost reports, and resource grouping. Tags are for organization policy enforcement and network firewall rules.

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Organization policy tags

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Folders

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Network tags