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Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations ReliabilityFinOpsBillingCost Optimization
GCP PCA · Question 50 · Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
An enterprise wants to establish a robust FinOps culture. They need to visualize spend, allocate costs to teams, and enforce budget limits. Which THREE actions should they take? (Select THREE)
An enterprise wants to establish a robust FinOps culture. They need to visualize spend, allocate costs to teams, and enforce budget limits. Which THREE actions should they take? (Select THREE)
Answer options:
A.
Export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery.
B.
Use Looker or Data Studio to create custom billing dashboards.
C.
Set up Cloud Billing Budgets and Alerts to notify teams via Pub/Sub.
D.
Hard-cap all projects to automatically shut down VMs when budget is reached.
E.
Use the Pricing Calculator daily to estimate costs.
F.
Disable billing for projects that overspend.
How to approach this question
Identify enterprise FinOps best practices.
Full Answer
A mature FinOps practice relies on exporting billing data to BigQuery, visualizing it with BI tools, and setting up programmatic alerts. Hard-capping or disabling billing is generally avoided as it causes catastrophic outages.
Common mistakes
Selecting hard-caps, which is an anti-pattern for production workloads.
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