ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Question #384: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Your company runs a variety of applications and workloads on Google Cloud and you are responsible for managing cloud costs. You need to identify a solution that enables you to perform detailed cost analysis You also must be able to visualize the cost data in multiple ways on the same dashboard What should you do?

Options

• AUse the cost breakdown report with the available filters from Cloud Billing to visualize the data
• BEnable the Cloud Billing export to BigQuery, and use Looker Studio to visualize the data
• CRun Queries in Cloud Monitoring Create dashboards to visualize the billing metrics
• DEnable Cloud Monitoring metrics export to BigQuery and use Looker to visualize the data

Explanation

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery allows you to perform detailed, granular analysis of your cost data by writing custom SQL queries. Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) enables flexible, customizable dashboards, letting you visualize cost data in multiple ways (e.g., by project, service, labels). This combination is the Google-recommended solution for in-depth cost reporting and visualization.

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