Cloud Cost Management Considerations CERTIFIED-HYBRID-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21application · medium

   A company uses Google Cloud and has noticed that its monthly bill has increased by 40% over the last three months. The finance team wants to understand which specific resources are driving the increase. The architect has access to the Cloud Billing account. Which tool or feature should the architect use first to identify the cost drivers?

   • ACloud Monitoring metrics for individual VM instances
   • BCloud Asset Inventory export
   • CCloud Billing budget alerts
   • DCloud Billing reports with grouping by service and SKU
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2. 22application · medium

   A company uses Google Cloud and has multiple projects, each belonging to a different department. The finance team wants to see a monthly breakdown of costs by department and by service. The architect has already applied labels to all resources. Which step is required to make the labels usable for cost reporting?

   • ARecreate all resources with the labels applied at creation time
   • BCreate a BigQuery export of billing data
   • CActivate the labels in the Cloud Billing account's 'Cost breakdown' settings
   • DEnable Cloud Asset Inventory for each project
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4. 23foundation · easy

   A cloud architect is designing a new application and must balance performance, reliability, and cost. Which approach best incorporates cost management into the architecture design?

   • ASelecting the cheapest services regardless of performance
   • BIgnoring cost until after deployment
   • CChoosing the most expensive services to ensure maximum performance
   • DSelecting the most cost-effective services that still meet the performance and reliability requirements
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5. 24application · medium

   A financial services firm runs a production database cluster in AWS that must be available 24/7 with no tolerance for interruption. The workload is predictable and has run at a consistent baseline for the past 12 months. The finance team wants to minimize compute cost while maintaining the availability guarantee. Which pricing model should the architect recommend for the database instances?

   • AOn-Demand instances
   • BConvertible Reserved Instances
   • CSpot Instances
   • DStandard Reserved Instances with a 3-year term and All Upfront payment
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6. 25application · medium

   A company runs a web application in AWS that serves users globally. The application stores user-uploaded images in S3. The company notices that data transfer costs are high. Which change is most likely to reduce data transfer costs?

   • AMove the S3 bucket to a region closer to the majority of users
   • BSwitch the S3 bucket to the Glacier storage class
   • CEnable S3 Transfer Acceleration
   • DEnable S3 Versioning on the bucket
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