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

Question 1

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?

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

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 2

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 in Google Cloud are key-value pairs that can be attached to resources and are propagated to billing exports, making them ideal for cost allocation by environment and team. They are designed for organizational metadata and can be used in billing reports to break down costs. Labels are the recommended approach for this use case.

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Use folder names.

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Use network tags.

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Use organization policy tags.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Console > IAM & Admin > Quotas. Quota increases in Google Cloud are requested through the Cloud Console under IAM & Admin > Quotas, where you can filter by service (Compute Engine), locate the specific quota (CPUs in us-central1), and submit an increase request. This is the standard, supported workflow for adjusting project quotas. The request is then reviewed and typically approved automatically or by Google support depending on the size.

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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 4

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. Premium Support is the only Google Cloud support plan that guarantees a 15-minute response time for P1 cases and includes a named Technical Account Manager (TAM). Enhanced Support offers a 1-hour P1 response and no TAM, while Standard and Basic offer progressively slower responses. The combination of 15-minute P1 SLA and TAM uniquely identifies Premium.

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Standard Support

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Enhanced Support

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Basic Support

Question 5

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 are hierarchical and inherit downward, so applying the constraint at the 'dev' folder scopes it precisely to that folder and its projects without affecting sibling folders or the parent 'eng' folder. This is the most specific node that matches the requirement of restricting only the 'dev' environment.

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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 6

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.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

Active Assist. Active Assist is Google Cloud's portfolio of intelligent recommendations, including the VM rightsizing recommender and idle VM recommender, which analyze usage metrics and suggest downsizing or deleting underutilized instances with estimated cost savings. It surfaces these directly in the console and via API, matching the finance team's need for savings estimates.

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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator

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Billing export to BigQuery

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Cost Management dashboard

Question 8

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.. Option B is correct because exporting billing data to BigQuery gives granular, queryable cost and usage data (via the Cloud Billing export, including detailed usage cost and pricing data) that can be analyzed with SQL across multiple projects linked to the billing account. Option D is correct because the Cost Management dashboard (Cloud Billing reports) provides built-in visibility into spend by project, service, SKU, and labels, allowing cost analysis across projects. Option A is incorrect because Premium Support is a support plan and does not itself provide cost analysis tooling. Option C is incorrect because the Pricing Calculator only estimates future costs for planned configurations, not actual historical spending. Option E is incorrect because budget alerts only notify you when spending approaches or exceeds a threshold; they do not provide analytical breakdowns of cost data.

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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 9

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 (B) are the correct resource for modeling the hierarchy: you can nest folders under the organization to represent environments (prod, non-prod) and teams (engineering, data science), and IAM policies and Organization Policies inherit down through the folder tree to all contained projects. Organization policies (C) are the mechanism to apply common constraints (e.g., restrict VM external IPs, allowed locations) that inherit to every project under the prod folder, satisfying the requirement to enforce common policies across all prod projects. Billing accounts (A) only link projects to a payment method and do not model environment/team separation or policy inheritance. Labels (D) are metadata for filtering, reporting, and billing attribution, not a policy or hierarchy boundary. Projects (E) are the leaf resources that hold workloads; they cannot themselves group other projects or enforce inherited common policies across a set.

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Billing accounts

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Labels

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Projects

Question 10

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 11

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 12

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?

Accepted Answer

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 13

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 root node in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy and is automatically created when a Google Workspace or Cloud Identity account is linked to Google Cloud. It sits above folders and projects, and serves as the root for applying organization-level IAM policies and constraints.

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Billing account

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Folder

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Project

Question 14

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. Google Cloud Premium support provides a 15-minute response time for Priority 1 issues and includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). This plan is designed for enterprises with mission-critical workloads that require rapid response and personalized support. Enhanced support offers a 1-hour response for P1 and no dedicated TAM.

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Enhanced

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Basic

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Standard

Question 15

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 is a web-based tool that allows you to estimate the cost of Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine VMs, before deploying them. It lets you configure VM types, regions, usage hours, and other parameters to get a detailed monthly cost estimate.

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Cost Management dashboard

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Active Assist

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Billing export