6.7 Explain the Process of Diagnosing / Determining the Source of an Unexpected Cloud Cost Increase CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–29

1. 26foundation · easy

   A billing statement shows a significant increase in compute charges. Which report would help correlate this increase with specific resource usage?

   • ASecurity audit log
   • BNetwork flow log
   • CPatch compliance report
   • DUsage report
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2. 27application · medium

   After a thorough investigation, you determined that a cost increase was caused by a development team leaving a large GPU instance running over the weekend. You need to communicate this finding to stakeholders. What should you include in your report?

   • AA list of all resources in the account and their current cost, without focusing on the specific issue.
   • BThe name of the developer who left the instance running, to assign blame.
   • CA request to increase the monthly budget to accommodate future similar incidents.
   • DThe root cause, the specific resource, the cost impact, and a recommendation to implement auto-shutdown policies.
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4. 28expert · hard

   A company's Azure bill increased by 25% this month. Cost analysis shows the increase is in the 'Virtual Network' category, but no new VNets were created. The operations team confirms no new VMs were deployed. You need to identify the cause. What is the most likely source of the increase?

   • AA new Azure DNS zone was created for the VNet.
   • BA change in the VNet address space that increased the number of subnets.
   • CAn increase in the number of network security group rules.
   • DA new VPN gateway connection or an increase in data transfer through an existing VPN gateway.
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5. 29application · medium

   A company's Google Cloud bill increased by 15% this month. The cost breakdown by service shows Compute Engine costs are flat, but the 'Networking' category shows a significant increase. You need to understand what is driving the networking cost. What should you do?

   • AContact Google Cloud support to ask for a detailed breakdown of the networking charges.
   • BOpen the billing report and filter the Networking category by 'Inter-region egress' and 'Internet egress' to see the breakdown.
   • CReview the Cloud CDN configuration to see if caching was disabled for any content.
   • DCheck the VPC firewall rules to see if any new rules were added that allow more traffic.
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