Cloud Digital Leader How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

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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 2

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 3

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 4

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?

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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.

Question 5

An organization wants to ensure that all projects under a specific folder inherit a policy that disables the creation of external IP addresses. Which Google Cloud resource hierarchy level should the policy be applied to enforce this requirement for all child resources?

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Folder. Organization policy constraints applied at the folder level are inherited by all projects and resources within that folder, ensuring consistent enforcement across the hierarchy.

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Organization node

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Resource (e.g., VM instance)

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Project

Question 6

A company has set a budget alert at 80% and 100% of $10,000 for a specific project. The project has a billing account linked. What happens when the cost reaches $8,000?

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A notification is sent to the configured Pub/Sub topic.. Budget alerts trigger notifications at the defined threshold percentages. At $8,000 (80% of $10,000), the alert fires but does not automatically stop spending.

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The project is automatically suspended.

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All resources in the project are deleted.

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The billing account is disabled.

Question 7

A developer wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a Kubernetes cluster with 3 nodes of n1-standard-4 in the us-central1 region before provisioning. Which tool should the developer use?

Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator is used to estimate costs for various services 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 8

A company has applied a deny organization policy at the folder level that prevents the use of certain machine series. An IAM policy at the project level grants a user the role of compute.instanceAdmin. The user attempts to create a VM using a denied machine series. What will happen?

Accepted Answer

The VM creation is blocked by the deny policy at the folder level.. Deny policies within organization policies override allow policies, including IAM roles. The deny at the folder level will block the VM creation even if the user has the necessary IAM permissions.

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The user is prompted to request a quota increase.

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The VM is created successfully because the IAM policy allows it.

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The deny policy is overridden by the project-level IAM policy.

Question 9

A company wants to analyze its Google Cloud spending trends by project, service, and labels. They need to run custom SQL queries on billing data and retain it for 2 years. Which approach should they use?

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Set up billing export to BigQuery.. Billing export to BigQuery allows you to export detailed billing data into BigQuery datasets, where you can run custom SQL queries and retain data for your desired period.

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Use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.

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Enable the Cost Management dashboard.

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Configure budgets and alerts.

Question 10

A team runs a production Compute Engine instance that has been running for 15 days in a 30-day month. They also have a second instance that runs occasionally for testing. They want to maximize cost savings without committing to a 1-year or 3-year term. Which discount will apply automatically?

Accepted Answer

Sustained use discount (SUD). Sustained use discounts automatically apply to instances that run for more than 25% of a month (i.e., >7.5 days). At 15 days, the instance qualifies for sustained use discounts. Committed use discounts require a pre-purchased commitment.

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Committed use discount (CUD)

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Preemptible VM discount

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No discount applies automatically.

Question 11

A company wants to assign metadata to resources for cost allocation reporting. They need to categorize resources by environment (production, staging, development) and team (engineering, marketing). They also need to use this metadata in billing exports. Which approach should they take?

Accepted Answer

Use labels.. Labels are key-value pairs that can be applied to resources and are included in billing exports for cost attribution. Tags are used for network firewall rules, not cost allocation.

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Use folder names.

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Use network tags.

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Use organization policy tags.

Question 12

A user attempts to create a new Compute Engine instance in the us-central1 region and receives an error indicating that the quota for 'CPUs' has been exceeded. Where should the user go to request a quota increase?

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Cloud Console > IAM & Admin > Quotas. Quota increases for resources like vCPUs are requested via the Cloud Console's IAM & Admin > Quotas page, not Support or Pricing Calculator.

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Cloud Console > Billing > Budgets

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator

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Cloud Console > Support > Cases

Question 13

A company has a support plan that guarantees a 15-minute response time for P1 cases and includes a Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which support plan do they have?

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Premium Support. The Premium support plan includes a 15-minute P1 response time and a TAM. Enhanced provides <1 hour, and Standard/ Basic provide limited support.

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Standard Support

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Enhanced Support

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Basic Support

Question 14

A company uses folders to separate environments (dev, test, prod) and teams (eng, data, security). An engineer needs to apply a policy that disables the use of 'g1-small' machine types only in the 'dev' folder under the 'eng' folder. The organization node has no existing constraints. What is the most specific way to apply this policy?

Accepted Answer

Apply the policy at the 'dev' folder.. Organization policies can be applied at the folder level. To be specific to 'dev' under 'eng', apply the policy to the 'dev' folder. Applying at a higher level would affect other subfolders.

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Apply the policy at the organization node.

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Apply the policy at each project individually.

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Apply the policy at the 'eng' folder.

Question 15

A company wants to receive near-real-time notifications when spending in a project exceeds 50%, 75%, and 100% of a monthly budget of $50,000. They also want to automatically disable billing for the project if spending exceeds $60,000. Which configuration should they use?

Accepted Answer

Create a budget with thresholds at 50%, 75%, 100% and set up a Cloud Function that listens to Pub/Sub messages from the budget to automatically disable billing when a 120% threshold is exceeded.. Budgets can be set with multiple threshold rules for notifications. However, automatically disabling billing requires a separate automation (e.g., Cloud Functions triggered by Pub/Sub) because budgets do not perform actions beyond notifications and Pub/Sub messages.

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Use the Cost Management dashboard to monitor spending and disable billing manually.

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Create a budget alert at 100% only and manually disable billing when alerted.

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Create a budget with thresholds at 50%, 75%, 100% and set the 'disable billing' action on the budget.