ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Question #224: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

You manage three Google Cloud projects with the Cloud Monitoring API enabled. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to visualize CPU and network metrics for all three projects together. What should you do?

Options

• A1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard
• B1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.
• C1 Create a Service Account and apply roles/viewer on the three projects
• D1. Create a fourth Google Cloud project

Explanation

To visualize metrics from multiple Google Cloud projects collectively, the recommended practice is to create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard in a designated 'scoping project' which can aggregate metrics from all associated monitored projects.

Common mistakes.

• A. This option is identical to B, describing the correct method for aggregating and visualizing metrics across multiple projects in Cloud Monitoring.
• C. Creating a service account and granting viewer roles is for programmatic access control to projects, not the mechanism for aggregating and visualizing metrics from multiple projects in a single monitoring view.
• D. Creating a fourth Google Cloud project is not inherently the step to aggregate monitoring; while that project could become the scoping project, the key action is the dashboard setup within Cloud Monitoring (and project association), not just creating a project.

Concept tested. Cross-project Cloud Monitoring dashboards

Reference. https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/create-project-multi-project

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