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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 7Question 33
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Subtask 5.3: Cost OptimizationCost AllocationLabelsCloud BillingBigQuery

    GCP PCA · Question 33 · Cost Optimization

    A large enterprise uses a single Shared VPC across 100 different projects. The finance team needs to implement a strict chargeback model to bill individual departments for their specific network egress costs and Compute Engine usage. What is the most reliable way to allocate these costs?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Use Network Tags on the VMs and filter the billing reports by tag.

    B.

    Apply GCP resource labels (e.g., 'department:marketing') to all resources and export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery for analysis.

    C.

    Create a separate billing account for each department and link their projects to it.

    D.

    Use the Cloud Pricing Calculator at the end of each month to estimate what each department used.

    How to approach this question

    Identify the GCP feature used for cost allocation and tracking (Labels) and the destination for detailed billing analysis (BigQuery).

    Full Answer

    B.Apply GCP resource labels (e.g., 'department:marketing') to all resources and export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery for analysis.✓ Correct
    In Google Cloud, 'Labels' are used to organize resources for billing and cost allocation. By enforcing a labeling strategy (e.g., requiring a 'cost-center' label on all VMs), the finance team can export the detailed billing data to BigQuery. In BigQuery, they can easily group and sum costs by label to generate accurate chargeback reports for each department.

    Common mistakes

    Confusing Labels with Network Tags (Option A). Network tags are strictly for network routing and firewalls; they do not show up in billing data.
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