Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Question 133

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?

Answer options

• A. Create a single budget for all projects and configure budget alerts on this budget.
• B. Create a separate billing account per sandbox project and enable BigQuery billing exports. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per billing account.
• C. Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all of these budgets.
• D. Create a single billing account for all sandbox projects and enable BigQuery billing exports. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per project.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because creating a budget for each project allows you to monitor spending individually and set alerts for when costs exceed $500. Options A and D do not provide the granularity needed for individual project alerts, while option B complicates the setup with separate billing accounts instead of using a straightforward budgeting approach.