Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Question 60

Your company has an existing GCP organization with hundreds of projects and a billing account. Your company recently acquired another company that also has hundreds of projects and its own billing account. You would like to consolidate all GCP costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice. You would like to consolidate all costs as of tomorrow. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Link the acquired company's projects to your company's billing account.
• B. Configure the acquired company's billing account and your company's billing account to export the billing data into the same BigQuery dataset.
• C. Migrate the acquired company's projects into your company's GCP organization. Link the migrated projects to your company's billing account.
• D. Create a new GCP organization and a new billing account. Migrate the acquired company's projects and your company's projects into the new GCP organization and link the projects to the new billing account.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because linking the acquired company's projects to your billing account allows for immediate consolidation of costs onto a single invoice. Options B, C, and D involve additional steps that do not achieve the goal of consolidating costs as quickly as option A does.