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

Question 1

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 2

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?

Accepted Answer

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

A team wants to enforce that resources in a specific folder must have a label with key 'cost-center' and value 'finance'. Which Google Cloud feature can enforce this requirement?

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Organization policies with a constraint on labels. Organization policies can enforce constraints on labels. Using a custom organization policy, you can require that certain labels be present on resources within a folder. This is done via the 'constraints/gcp.resourceLabels' constraint.

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IAM Conditions

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Active Assist recommendations

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Cloud Audit Logs

Question 11

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 12

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

Question 13

A developer tries to create a new Compute Engine instance in the us-central1 region but receives an error 'Quota 'CPUS' exceeded. Limit: 24.0'. What should the developer do to resolve this?

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Request a quota increase for CPUs in us-central1. The error indicates a resource quota (CPU limit) has been reached. The correct action is to request a quota increase in the Cloud Console for the specific region and resource type (CPUs).

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Wait for the quota to reset automatically

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Use a different machine family with lower CPU count

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Delete unused instances in other regions

Question 14

Which TWO statements about committed use discounts (CUDs) are true? (Choose two.)

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CUDs can be purchased for specific resources such as vCPUs and memory.. CUDs require a commitment of 1 or 3 years and provide a discount in exchange. They apply to specific resource usage like vCPUs and memory.

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CUDs provide a discount for sustained usage without any upfront commitment.

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CUDs can be applied to any Google Cloud service automatically.

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CUDs are applied automatically without any action from the user.

Question 15

Which THREE actions can help reduce Compute Engine costs? (Choose three.)

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Purchase committed use discounts for predictable workloads.. Using preemptible VMs, rightsizing instances, and implementing committed use discounts are all effective cost reduction strategies for Compute Engine.

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Increase the number of persistent disk snapshots.

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Enable sustained use discounts by running instances continuously.