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Start How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed PracticeAn engineer wants to export billing cost data to BigQuery for custom reporting. They have created a BigQuery dataset and linked it to the billing account. However, the billing export tables are not being populated. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: Billing export to BigQuery requires the billing account to be linked to a project that contains the dataset, and the dataset must be in the same location (e.g., US or EU) as the billing account's default region.
A team needs to analyze spending patterns across projects using BigQuery. The billing export is already configured. However, the team cannot see any data in the billing export dataset. What is the most likely reason?
Explanation: Billing export tables are typically populated within a few hours to a day. If no data is visible, the most common cause is that the team lacks necessary IAM permissions (e.g., BigQuery Data Viewer) on the export dataset. Dataset location does not need to match a billing account region, and export tables are not monthly.
A company needs to optimize costs for Compute Engine VMs. They have a mix of workloads: some are batch jobs that can be interrupted, while others are critical services that must run 24/7. The company wants to use the most cost-effective options without sacrificing reliability for critical services. Which THREE strategies should they implement?
Explanation: Committed use discounts provide larger discounts for predictable, always-on workloads. Rightsizing VMs using Active Assist recommendations helps eliminate wasted resources by matching VM sizes to actual usage. Preemptible/Spot VMs are ideal for fault-tolerant batch jobs. The other options are not effective cost optimization strategies.
A company needs to track spending per team by tagging resources with a 'team' label. However, some engineers are not applying consistent labels, leading to untagged resources. How can they enforce that all new resources are created with a specific label?
Explanation: Organization policies can be used to enforce that resources must have certain labels by defining a custom constraint that requires the 'team' label on all resources. This denies resource creation if the label is missing.
A developer wants to create a new project in Google Cloud. They have the Project Creator role at the organization level. Which of the following is NOT required to create a project?
Explanation: The Google Cloud CLI installed locally is NOT required to create a project, because projects can be created via the Cloud Console, the gcloud CLI, the Resource Manager REST API, or client libraries — no local CLI installation is mandatory. The other options are all genuinely required or relevant: B (resourcemanager.projects.create permission) is the IAM permission needed to create a project, which the Project Creator role grants; C (a billing account linked to the project) is required to use billable services and is part of the normal project-creation flow; and D (enabling the Cloud Resource Manager API) is needed for programmatic project creation via the API. Thus only A is not a requirement.
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