Cloud Digital Leader How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed Practice Test 3 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An engineer needs to organize resources for multiple departments and enforce organization-wide policies such as restricting VM external IP addresses. Which GCP resource hierarchy level should the policy be applied at to ensure all projects inherit it?

Accepted Answer

Organization node. Organization policies applied at the organization node are inherited by all folders and projects under it.

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Resource

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Folder

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Project

Question 2

A company wants to analyze their GCP spending trends by service and project over the past year. They need to export detailed billing data to a BigQuery dataset for custom queries. Which feature should they use?

Accepted Answer

Billing export to BigQuery. Billing export to BigQuery sends detailed usage and cost data to a BigQuery dataset for analysis.

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Cloud Pricing Calculator

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Active Assist rightsizing recommendations

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Cloud Billing budget alerts

Question 3

An organization has a folder for each department, with multiple projects under each folder. The security team wants to deny the creation of VMs with public IPs in all projects under the 'production' folder, except for the 'web-server' project where public IPs are required. How can they implement this using IAM and Organization Policies?

Accepted Answer

Apply a deny policy at the folder level, then use tags with organization policy conditional enforcement to allow the exception project.. Set an organization policy at the folder level to deny public IPs, then create a policy tag to allow public IPs on the specific project.

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Apply an allow policy at the project level and a deny policy at the resource level.

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Apply a deny policy at the organization node and an allow policy at the project level.

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Use IAM roles to restrict VM creation only in the production folder.

Question 4

A startup wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a managed Kubernetes cluster with specific node configurations before deploying. Which GCP tool should they use?

Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator allows pre-deployment cost estimation by specifying resources like GKE clusters.

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Active Assist recommendations

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Cost Management dashboard

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Billing export to BigQuery

Question 5

A company runs Compute Engine instances for batch processing that are shut down on weekends. They want to automatically reduce costs without committing to a 1-year or 3-year term. Which discount type applies?

Accepted Answer

Sustained use discount. Sustained use discounts automatically apply for instances running more than 25% of a month, with no upfront commitment.

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Sole-tenant node discounts

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Preemptible VM discounts

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Committed use discount

Question 6

A developer wants to label resources with key-value pairs to track cost by team. Which GCP feature should they use?

Accepted Answer

Labels. Labels are key-value metadata that can be applied to resources for cost tracking and filtering.

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Tags

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Folders

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Organization policy tags

Question 7

A company needs to set a budget for their GCP project and receive notifications when spending reaches 50%, 90%, and 100% of the budget. Which action should they take?

Accepted Answer

Configure a budget alert in Cloud Billing with threshold rules at 50%, 90%, and 100%.. Create a budget with alert thresholds at the desired percentages to receive notifications.

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Enable Committed Use Discounts to reduce costs.

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Set up billing export to BigQuery with scheduled queries.

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Use Active Assist to set cost thresholds.

Question 8

A company uses a single billing account for multiple projects. The finance team needs to see costs broken down by team (based on a label 'team'). However, some resources are missing the label. What is the most efficient way to identify unlabeled resources and enforce labeling?

Accepted Answer

Export billing data to BigQuery and query for resources missing the label.. Use the Cost Management dashboard to filter by missing labels and create a report, then enforce labeling via organization policies or CI/CD pipelines.

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Use the gcloud command 'gcloud compute instances list --filter labels:team' to list resources with the label.

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Use the Cloud Console to manually check each resource.

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Set up a budget alert for resources without labels.

Question 9

An organization wants to allow their finance team to view billing account cost information but prevent them from making any changes to the billing account. Which IAM role should they grant?

Accepted Answer

Billing Account Viewer. Billing Viewer role provides read-only access to billing account information.

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Billing Account Admin

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Project Billing Manager

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Billing Account User

Question 10

A company has a fixed budget for GCP and wants to prevent any cost overrun by automatically disabling all resources when the monthly budget is exceeded. Which approach should they use?

Accepted Answer

Create a Cloud Function triggered by a budget alert Pub/Sub message to stop resources.. GCP does not have a built-in mechanism to automatically disable resources when a budget is exceeded. Budget alerts trigger notifications but do not take action. The best practice is to monitor alerts and manually take action, or use Cloud Functions to automate shutdown based on budget alerts.

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Use the Cost Management dashboard to manually stop resources.

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Use Active Assist to automatically stop idle resources.

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Set up a budget alert with the 'disable resource' action.

Question 11

Which GCP support plan provides 15-minute response time for P1 incidents and a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Accepted Answer

Premium. Premium Support offers the fastest response times and a TAM.

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Enhanced

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Standard

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Basic

Question 12

A company wants to reduce costs for their long-running Compute Engine instances by committing to a 1-year term. Which type of discount should they use?

Accepted Answer

Committed use discount. Committed use discounts offer reduced prices in exchange for a 1 or 3 year commitment.

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Sole-tenant node discount

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Preemptible VM discount

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Sustained use discount

Question 13

A company needs to organize their GCP resources into a hierarchy that reflects their departments: Engineering, Marketing, and Finance. Each department has multiple projects. They also want to apply common policies to all departments except Finance, which has special compliance requirements. Which TWO steps should they take?

Accepted Answer

Apply organization policies at the organization node and override them for the Finance folder using tags.. Create folders for each department, and apply policies to the organization node with exceptions via tags.

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Use labels to differentiate departments instead of folders.

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Apply separate IAM policies for each project within a folder.

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Create a project for each department and place resources in it.

Question 14

A company has a multi-project GCP environment with a single billing account. They want to receive alerts when any project's spending exceeds its allocated budget, and they want to analyze cost trends by project and service. Which THREE services should they use together?

Accepted Answer

Labels on resources. Use budgets for alerts, billing export to BigQuery for analysis, and labels for cost attribution.

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Committed use discounts

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Active Assist idle resource recommendations

Question 15

A developer is troubleshooting why a Compute Engine instance cannot start in a specific region. The error indicates a quota limit. Which TWO steps should the developer take?

Accepted Answer

Check the current quota for the resource in that region via the Quotas page in Cloud Console.. Check current quotas in the region and request a quota increase if needed.

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Delete unused resources in the same region to free up quota automatically.

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Change the project to a different billing account.

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Use a different machine type that uses fewer vCPUs.