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

Question 1

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 2

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 3

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 4

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 is a web-based estimation tool that lets you model Compute Engine instances, Cloud Storage, and network egress charges before any resources are provisioned. It produces a shareable, itemized monthly cost estimate based on SKU-level pricing, which is exactly what pre-deployment planning requires. It is the only option designed for forward-looking cost estimation rather than monitoring actual spend.

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Active Assist recommendations

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Budget alerts

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Cost Management dashboard

Question 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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

Question 9

A team notices that their Compute Engine instances are consistently running at low CPU utilization. They want to reduce costs by receiving recommendations to resize or stop idle VMs. Which service provides these recommendations?

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Active Assist. Active Assist includes Recommender, which provides cost optimization recommendations such as rightsizing VMs, identifying idle resources, and suggesting committed use discounts.

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Cost Management dashboard

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Cloud Scheduler

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Cloud Monitoring

Question 10

An organization has multiple projects in Google Cloud. They want to enforce a policy that prevents the creation of Compute Engine instances with more than 8 vCPUs in any project under a specific folder, except for a few exempted projects. How can they achieve this with minimal overhead?

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Use organization policy with tags: define a tag 'exempt' and attach it to exempted projects; set the policy condition to apply unless the resource has the tag.. Using organization policy constraints with tags allows conditional enforcement. By attaching a tag to exempted projects and using conditions in the policy, they can apply the restriction to most projects while allowing exceptions.

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Use IAM conditions with a custom role to deny creation of large instances.

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Create a folder for exempted projects and apply a allow policy to that folder.

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Apply a custom organization policy at the folder level without tags, and add exceptions in each project individually.

Question 11

An engineer needs to increase the default limit of 24 CPUs per region for Compute Engine instances in their project. They have already consumed 20 CPUs and need to launch a new instance with 8 CPUs. What should they do?

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Request a quota increase in the Cloud Console Quotas page.. Service quotas are per-project and per-region limits. The engineer must request a quota increase via the Quotas page in the Cloud Console before exceeding the limit.

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Launch the instance anyway; Google Cloud will automatically increase the quota.

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Create a new project and launch the instance there.

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Use a different region with available quota.

Question 12

A company wants to set up cost controls and analysis. They need to receive notifications when spending exceeds certain thresholds, and also be able to run custom queries on billing data. Which TWO actions should they take? (Choose 2)

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Create a budget and set alert thresholds. To receive notifications at thresholds, they need to create a budget and set alerts. To run custom queries, they should enable billing export to BigQuery.

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Set up a Pub/Sub topic for billing alerts

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Activate the Cost Management dashboard

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Enable billing export to Cloud Storage

Question 13

A company needs to reduce costs on Compute Engine instances that run batch jobs for varying durations. They can tolerate interruptions and do not require a specific uptime guarantee. Which TWO instance types or purchasing options should they consider? (Choose 2)

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Spot VMs. Preemptible VMs can be terminated at any time but are significantly cheaper, suitable for fault-tolerant batch jobs. Spot VMs are similar to preemptible but with no maximum runtime and often lower price. Both are ideal for batch workloads that can handle interruptions.

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Sole-tenant nodes

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Committed use discounts

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Sustained use discounts

Question 14

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?

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Organization node. In Google Cloud's resource hierarchy, the organization node is the root and sits above folders and projects. IAM policies and organization policies applied at the organization node are inherited by all folders, projects, and resources beneath it. To enforce a policy such as restricting external IP addresses across all projects in the company, the organization node is the correct level because it guarantees universal inheritance.

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Resource

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Folder

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Project

Question 15

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?

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Billing export to BigQuery. Billing export to BigQuery automatically streams detailed Cloud Billing data — including cost by service, project, SKU, and labels — into a BigQuery dataset where you can run arbitrary SQL for trend analysis. It is the only option that provides granular, queryable historical billing data. The other options are for estimation, recommendations, or alerting, not detailed export and custom querying.

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Cloud Pricing Calculator

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Active Assist rightsizing recommendations

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Cloud Billing budget alerts