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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #47
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 reso
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Submitted by lucia.co· Mar 30, 2026Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
Question
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
Options
- 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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Topics
#persistent disks#BigQuery billing export#cost labels#VM lifecycle