Budgets and Alerts
You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engine services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?
Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project.
True or False: All Google Cloud resources are charged on a per-second billing basis.
False
These are the five colors of the Olympic rings
Blue, yellow, black, green, and red
Several employees at your company have been creating projects with Cloud Platform and paying for it with their personal credit cards, which the company reimburses. The company wants to centralize all these projects under a single, new billing account. What should you do?
In the Google Cloud Platform Console, create a new billing account and set up a payment method.
You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud project. What should you do in the Cloud Console?
Go to the Cloud Logging console, review admin activity logs, and filter them for Cloud Spanner IAM roles
You are the team lead of a group of 10 developers. You provided each developer with an individual Google Cloud Project that they can use as their personal sandbox to experiment with different Google Cloud solutions. You want to be notified if any of the developers are spending above $500 per month on their sandbox environment. What should you do?
Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all of these budgets.
The most decorated Olympian of all time, with 23 Olympic gold medals
Michael Phelps
The primary purpose of the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
To estimate the projected monthly costs for Google Cloud resources based on usage specifications.
You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?
Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company.
You are building a product on top of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You have a single GKE cluster. For each of your customers, a Pod is running in that cluster, and your customers can run arbitrary code inside their Pod. You want to maximize the isolation between your customers’ Pods. What should you do?
Create a GKE node pool with a sandbox type configured to gvisor. Add the parameter runtimeClassName:gvisor to the specification of your customers’ Pods.
When and where were the first modern Olympic Games held?
Athens, Greece in 1896
How frequently are you charged for Google Cloud resource usage?
Per project billing is aggregated daily and charges are deducted monthly from your billing account.
The currency that cost estimates are shown in by default on the Pricing Calculator?
USD (United States Dollar)
You have created a new project in Google Cloud through the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and linked a billing account. You need to create a new Compute Engine instance using the CLI. You need to perform the prerequisite steps. What should you do?
Enable the compute.googleapis.com API
Your organization has strict requirements to control access to Google Cloud projects. You need to enable your Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to approve requests from the Google Cloud support team when an SRE opens a support case. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/accessapproval.approver role.
Your company publishes large files on an Apache web server that runs on a Compute Engine instance. The Apache web server is not the only application running in the project. You want to receive an email when the egress network costs for the server exceed 100 dollars for the current month as measured by Google Cloud. What should you do?
Export the billing data to BigQuery. Create a Cloud Function that uses BigQuery to sum the egress network costs of the exported billing data for the Apache web server for the current month and sends an email if it is over 100 dollars. Schedule the Cloud Function using Cloud Scheduler to run hourly.
You have designed a solution on Google Cloud that uses multiple Google Cloud products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?
For each Google Cloud product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Use the pricing calculator to total the monthly costs for each Google Cloud product.
The method for approximating the expenses associated with data movement using an online Pricing Calculator
Specify the expected data transfer volumes under the "Networking" section.
You have been asked to set up the billing configuration for a new Google Cloud customer. Your customer wants to group resources that share common IAM policies. What should you do?
Use folders to group resources that share common IAM policies.
This is the official Olympic motto
“Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger)
How can you get notified when your estimated charges hit a certain threshold?
Set up billing alerts and budgets using the Cloud Billing API or console
You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?
Visit the Cost Table page to get a CSV export and visualize it using Looker Studio.
This pricing option, often assumed to be selectable, is actually a default setting on the Pricing Calculator and does not need to be manually configured.
Per-second billing
The country that has won the most gold medals in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics
Soviet Union (now Russia)
You need to deploy an application, which is packaged in a container image, in a new project. The application exposes an HTTP endpoint and receives very few requests per day. You want to minimize costs. What should you do?
Deploy the container on Cloud Run.