Cloud Digital Leader How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed Practice Test 5 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An organization has multiple projects with many underutilized Compute Engine instances. They want to identify idle instances and generate recommendations for downsizing or deleting them. The finance team wants to see cost savings estimates. Which tool should they use?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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Active Assist. Active Assist includes recommendations for rightsizing and idle resources, providing cost savings estimates. The Cost Management dashboard shows actual costs, not recommendations.

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator

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Billing export to BigQuery

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Cost Management dashboard

Question 2

A company wants to gain visibility into their Google Cloud spending across multiple projects. Which TWO methods allow them to analyze cost data?

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Set up billing export to BigQuery.. Billing export to BigQuery allows custom SQL analysis. The Cost Management dashboard provides visualizations. The Pricing Calculator is for estimates. Budgets only send alerts. Support plans do not provide cost analysis.

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Upgrade to Premium Support.

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Use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.

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Set up budget alerts.

Question 3

A company is planning their resource hierarchy in Google Cloud. They need to separate environments (prod, non-prod) and teams (engineering, data science). They also need to apply common policies to all prod projects. Which TWO resources should they use?

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Folders. Folders allow hierarchical grouping of projects. Organization policies can be applied at the folder level to enforce common policies. Projects are the unit of resource management. Labels are for metadata, not hierarchy. Billing accounts are separate from hierarchy.

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Billing accounts

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Labels

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Projects

Question 4

A company wants to reduce costs for their Compute Engine workloads. They have predictable baseline usage and are willing to commit to a 1-year term. They also want to automatically get discounts for instances running more than 25% of a month. Which THREE options should they use? (Select THREE)

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Apply CUDs at the project or folder level.. Committed use discounts are for predictable workloads with 1 or 3 year terms. Sustained use discounts automatically apply to instances running >25% of a month. Committed use discounts can be applied at the project or folder level. Preemptible VMs are not suitable for predictable workloads. Billing export does not reduce costs. Budgets do not provide discounts.

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Use preemptible VMs for all workloads.

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Set up billing export to BigQuery.

Question 5

A company wants to enforce a policy that prevents all projects in the organization from enabling certain Google Cloud APIs. Where should the policy be applied to ensure it is inherited by all projects, including future ones?

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On the organization node. Organization policies applied at the organization node are inherited by all folders and projects under it. This is the most efficient way to enforce a blanket restriction across the entire resource hierarchy.

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On the billing account

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On each individual project

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On the folder containing the projects

Question 6

A team wants to track costs for their development and production environments separately. They have multiple projects for each environment. Which approach should they use to group projects by environment and analyze costs by environment in billing reports?

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Add a label like 'environment:dev' or 'environment:prod' to each project. Labels are key-value pairs that can be applied to resources or projects and used for cost allocation and filtering in billing reports. Folders are for hierarchical grouping and IAM inheritance, not direct cost tracking.

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Create a folder for each environment and assign projects to the folders

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Use separate billing accounts for each environment

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Create a separate organization for each environment

Question 7

An engineer is setting up budgets and alerts to manage costs. They want to receive a notification when forecasted spend exceeds 80% of the budget amount. Which step is required to enable forecast-based alerts?

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Select 'Forecasted spend' as the alert threshold type in the budget configuration. In the budget alert configuration, you can set alert thresholds based on actual or forecasted spend. To alert on forecasted spend, you must select the 'Forecasted spend' option when defining the threshold rules.

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Enable billing export to BigQuery and set up a scheduled query

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Create a Cloud Function that checks current spend every hour

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Use the Cost Management API to query forecast data

Question 8

Which Google Cloud resource serves as the root node in the resource hierarchy and is linked to a Google Workspace or Cloud Identity account?

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Organization node. The organization node is the top-level resource in the hierarchy, linked to the domain of the Google Workspace or Cloud Identity account.

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Billing account

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Folder

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Project

Question 9

A company wants to receive a 15-minute response time for Priority 1 production issues and have a dedicated Technical Account Manager. Which support plan should they purchase?

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Premium. The Premium support plan offers a 15-minute response time for P1 issues and includes a Technical Account Manager (TAM).

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Enhanced

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Basic

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Standard

Question 10

An organization has a folder-level IAM policy that grants the 'roles/compute.instanceAdmin' role to a group. A project under that folder has a policy that denies this role to the same group. What is the effective access for the group on Compute Engine instances in the project?

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The group has no access because the deny overrides the allow. Deny policies override allow policies. Even though the group has an allowed role at the folder level, the explicit deny at the project level takes precedence, so the group will not have the role's permissions on instances in that project.

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The group has full admin access because the folder policy allows it

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The group has view access only

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The group retains permissions but cannot modify instances

Question 11

Which tool would you use to estimate the monthly cost of running a set of Compute Engine virtual machines before deploying them?

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator allows you to estimate costs for various services before deployment.

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Cost Management dashboard

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Active Assist

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Billing export

Question 12

A company wants to automatically receive a discount for running Compute Engine instances for more than 25% of a month without any upfront commitment. Which discount type applies?

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Sustained use discount. Sustained use discounts are automatically applied to Compute Engine instances that run for a significant portion of the month, with no upfront commitment required.

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Committed use discount

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CUD (Committed Use Discount)

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Preemptible VM discount

Question 13

An engineer needs to analyze detailed cost data, including resource-level usage costs and labels, to create custom reports. Which approach should they use?

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Set up billing export to BigQuery. Billing export to BigQuery allows you to export detailed, granular billing data (including labels and resource-level costs) to a BigQuery dataset for custom analysis and reporting.

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Use the Cost Management dashboard to export a CSV

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Manually review invoices

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Use the Cloud Pricing Calculator

Question 14

What is the primary purpose of a folder in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy?

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To group projects and apply policies. Folders allow you to group projects and apply IAM policies and organization policies at a level below the organization node, enabling departmental separation and delegated administration.

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To manage user identities

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To define network topologies

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To store billing information

Question 15

A company wants to reserve Compute Engine resources for a 3-year term to get a significant discount. Which discount type should they use?

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Committed use discount. Committed use discounts (CUDs) allow you to commit to a certain level of usage for 1 or 3 years in exchange for a discounted rate.

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Preemptible VM discount

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Sustained use discount

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Sole-tenant node discount