You need to reduce GCP service costs for a division of your company using the fewest possible steps. You need to turn off all configured services in an existing GCP project. What should you do?

The correct answer is A. 1. Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project.. What stands out at me is the paragraph "Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google Cloud and Google APIs services

Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026Setting up a cloud solution environment

Question

You need to reduce GCP service costs for a division of your company using the fewest possible steps. You need to turn off all configured services in an existing GCP project. What should you do?

Options

A
1. Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project.
B
1. Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project.
C
1. Verify that you are assigned the Organizational Administrator IAM role for this project.
D
1. Verify that you are assigned the Organizational Administrators IAM role for this project.

How the community answered

(45 responses)

A
93% (42)
B
2% (1)
D
4% (2)

Explanation

What stands out at me is the paragraph "Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google Cloud and Google APIs services becomes inaccessible." https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/6251787?hl=en#

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#project shutdown#cost reduction#GCP billing#project deletion

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