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CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #340

Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud's discounts on virtual machine-based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up

The correct answer is C. 3-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs. you can get a 57% discount by agreeing to commit to a 3-year contract. Any usage over the commitment will just be billed at the standard rate. Since they only need 300 CPUs 30% of the time, will pick answer C so that we are not paying usage off 300 CPUs all of the time. This give

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Question

Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud's discounts on virtual machine-based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you choose?

Options

  • A1-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs
  • B3-year committed use discount for 300 CPUs
  • C3-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs
  • DRegular pay-as-you-go pricing

How the community answered

(17 responses)
  • A
    18% (3)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    71% (12)
  • D
    6% (1)

Explanation

you can get a 57% discount by agreeing to commit to a 3-year contract. Any usage over the commitment will just be billed at the standard rate. Since they only need 300 CPUs 30% of the time, will pick answer C so that we are not paying usage off 300 CPUs all of the time. This gives us a discount of 57% for 200 CPU's, huge cost savings.

Topics

#Committed Use Discounts#Cost Optimization#Google Cloud Pricing#Virtual Machines

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