CV0-004 · Question #194
A cloud administrator is looking at the company's cloud services bill for the previous month. The administrator notices on the billing dashboard that certain resources are not being billed to any…
The correct answer is D. Modify the tags for all the unmapped resources. Cloud platforms use resource tags (key-value metadata applied to resources) to map resources to cost centers, departments, or projects for billing and chargeback purposes. If resources are untagged or incorrectly tagged, the billing system cannot associate them with a…
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A cloud administrator is looking at the company's cloud services bill for the previous month. The administrator notices on the billing dashboard that certain resources are not being billed to any particular department. Which of the following actions will help correct this billing issue?
Options
- ACheck the utilization of the resources.
- BModify the chargeback details of the consumer.
- CAdd the resources to the consumer monitoring group.
- DModify the tags for all the unmapped resources.
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A11% (4)
- B3% (1)
- C3% (1)
- D83% (29)
Explanation
Cloud platforms use resource tags (key-value metadata applied to resources) to map resources to cost centers, departments, or projects for billing and chargeback purposes. If resources are untagged or incorrectly tagged, the billing system cannot associate them with a department, leaving them unmapped on the dashboard. Modifying tags on unmapped resources (D) directly fixes the billing attribution issue. Checking utilization (A) monitors performance, not billing attribution. Modifying chargeback details (B) or adding to a monitoring group (C) do not resolve the root cause, which is missing or incorrect tags.
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