Financial Governance and Managing Cloud Costs CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–24

1. 21expert · hard

   A company wants to analyze cost trends and forecast future spending. They have been exporting billing data to BigQuery. What additional step will help them forecast?

   • AUse BigQuery ML to build a forecasting model on the billing data.
   • BUse Cloud Billing Reports to view historical costs.
   • CCreate a budget with a threshold alert to notify when costs are high.
   • DSet up a Cloud Monitoring dashboard for cost metrics.
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2. 22foundation · easy

   What is the purpose of cost allocation in cloud financial management?

   • ATo assign cloud costs to specific projects, teams, or business units
   • BTo negotiate lower prices with cloud providers
   • CTo predict future costs using machine learning
   • DTo automatically reduce costs by shutting down idle resources
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4. 23expert · hard

   A company runs a batch processing job that takes 3 hours and runs nightly. They want to minimize costs while ensuring the job completes. What is the best approach?

   • AUse Cloud Functions with a 3-hour timeout.
   • BUse preemptible VMs with a fallback to regular VMs if preempted.
   • CPurchase a committed use discount for the nightly job.
   • DUse regular VMs with sustained use discounts.
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5. 24application · easy

   A company wants to identify which projects are generating the most cost and compare spending across departments. What should they use?

   • ACloud Logging to review resource usage logs.
   • BCloud Billing Reports with filters by project and folder.
   • CCloud Asset Inventory to list all resources and their costs.
   • DCloud Monitoring dashboards for resource utilization.
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