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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #399

Your company wants to provide engineers with access to explore Google Cloud freely in a sandbox environment. The total budget for testing across your organization is $1,000. You need to ensure that…

The correct answer is B. Create a Google Cloud Folder and ensure that all sandbox projects are located under that Folder. Folders in Google Cloud allow you to group related projects for organizational and billing purposes. Budgets and alerts can be scoped to a Folder, so you can centrally track and control spend across all sandbox projects. Budget alerts can be configured to send automatic emails…

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

Question

Your company wants to provide engineers with access to explore Google Cloud freely in a sandbox environment. The total budget for testing across your organization is $1,000. You need to ensure that engineers are notified when the budget is about to be reached. You want to automate your solution as much as possible. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate a separate Cloud Billing account for all sandbox projects. Link a credit card with a limit of
  • BCreate a Google Cloud Folder and ensure that all sandbox projects are located under that Folder.
  • CCreate an email template reminding people to regularly check their Google Cloud spend. Create a
  • DConfigure a billing data export to a BigQuery dataset on the Cloud Billing account. Create a

How the community answered

(37 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    81% (30)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    11% (4)

Explanation

Folders in Google Cloud allow you to group related projects for organizational and billing purposes. Budgets and alerts can be scoped to a Folder, so you can centrally track and control spend across all sandbox projects. Budget alerts can be configured to send automatic emails to notify stakeholders (e.g., at 90% usage). This is the recommended and automated approach for managing shared budgets in GCP.

Topics

#Cloud Billing#budget alerts#folder hierarchy#sandbox environment

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