Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes — GCP PCA Practice Question 31

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Identify the native GCP billing feature that supports forecasting.

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B.Create a Cloud Billing Budget for $10,000 and configure an alert rule to trigger at 100% of forecasted spend.✓ Correct

Google Cloud Billing Budgets allow you to set budget amounts and configure alert thresholds. Crucially, alerts can be triggered based on 'Actual' spend or 'Forecasted' spend. Setting an alert for 100% of forecasted spend ensures the CFO is notified early in the month if the current run rate will exceed the $10,000 limit.

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Assuming quotas can limit dollar spend (C). Quotas are resource-based, not currency-based.

Your team is deploying a new application to Google Cloud. The CFO wants to ensure that the team is alerted immediately if the monthly cloud spend is projected to exceed $10,000. How should you configure this?

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