Google PCA Practice Question: Analysing and Optimising Technical and Business Processes
A company wants to analyze their Google Cloud spending and receive recommendations for rightsizing resources. Which tool provides this functionality?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Active Assist
Active Assist includes recommendations for rightsizing Compute Engine VMs, Cloud SQL instances, and more. BigQuery Reservations is for slot management. Cloud Billing reports show costs but not recommendations. Pricing Calculator estimates costs.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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BigQuery Reservations
Why it's wrong here
BigQuery Reservations manages slot capacity, not rightsizing recommendations.
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Active Assist
Why this is correct
Active Assist provides cost optimization recommendations, including rightsizing.
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Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
Why it's wrong here
Pricing Calculator estimates costs for new deployments, not existing usage.
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Cloud Billing reports
Why it's wrong here
Billing reports display costs but do not provide recommendations.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that lets you set up, maintain, and scale SQL databases (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server) in the cloud without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Key term
Compute Engine
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google's infrastructure.
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