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

Question 1

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 2

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 3

A company has a Premium support plan. They experience a critical production outage and need immediate assistance. What is the guaranteed response time for a P1 (Priority 1) case?

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15 minutes. Premium support offers a 15-minute response time for P1 cases, along with a Technical Account Manager (TAM) and other benefits.

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4 hours

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8 hours

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1 hour

Question 4

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 5

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 6

An organization wants to enforce that all Compute Engine instances must have a label 'environment' set to 'production', 'staging', or 'development'. They also want to ensure that instances in the 'production' folder cannot be created with public IP addresses. Which THREE steps should they take? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Use IAM conditions to deny the compute.instances.create permission without the label.. The correct steps are options A, C, and E. Option A uses IAM conditions to deny the compute.instances.create permission if the required 'environment' label is not present, directly enforcing the labeling requirement. Option C uses an organization policy constraint to prohibit external IP addresses on Compute Engine instances in the production folder, preventing public IPs. Option E uses a custom organization policy constraint to require the 'environment' label on all Compute Engine instances. Option B is incorrect because VPC Service Controls restrict data exfiltration, not the creation of instances with public IPs. Option D is incorrect because automatically applying labels via a Cloud Function is a remediation approach, not an enforcement mechanism; the policy constraints and IAM conditions are the appropriate enforcement tools.

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Set up VPC Service Controls to restrict access to the production VPC.

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Create a folder for each environment and apply the label automatically using a Cloud Function triggered by Resource Manager events.

Question 7

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 8

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. 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 9

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 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 10

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?

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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 11

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?

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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 12

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

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

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