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Submitted by lucia.co· Mar 30, 2026

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To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the finance department. Which two steps should you take? Choose 2 answers

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  • AUse the --no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM.
  • BUse the -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM.
  • CApply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export.
  • DUse Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups.
  • EStore all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM.
  • FStore all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM.

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