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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #284

Your new customer has requested daily reports that show their net consumption of Google Cloud compute resources and who used the resources. You need to quickly and efficiently generate these daily…

The correct answer is A. Do daily exports of Cloud Logging data to BigQuery. Create views filtering by project, log type, resource, and user. Explanation/Reference: You cannot import custom or filtered billing criteria into BigQuery. There are three types of Cloud Billing data tables with a fixed schema that must further drilled- down via BigQuery views…

Submitted by khalil_dz· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

Your new customer has requested daily reports that show their net consumption of Google Cloud compute resources and who used the resources. You need to quickly and efficiently generate these daily reports. What should you do?

Options

  • ADo daily exports of Cloud Logging data to BigQuery. Create views filtering by project, log type, resource, and user.
  • BFilter data in Cloud Logging by project, resource, and user; then export the data in CSV format.
  • CFilter data in Cloud Logging by project, log type, resource, and user, then import the data into BigQuery.
  • DExport Cloud Logging data to Cloud Storage in CSV format. Cleanse the data using Dataprep, filtering by project, resource, and user.

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    88% (35)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: You cannot import custom or filtered billing criteria into BigQuery. There are three types of Cloud Billing data tables with a fixed schema that must further drilled- down via BigQuery views. https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery#setup

Topics

#Cloud Logging#BigQuery export#resource consumption reporting#log filtering

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