GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your company ExampleCorp currently operates Google Cloud resources under a single self-serve billing account funded by a U.S.-based credit card and denominated in USD. After acquiring a German subsidiary, you must ensure the new team's Google Cloud projects are charged to a separate credit card and invoiced in euros. The existing U.S. projects must keep using the current billing account without interruption. As the Cloud Billing Administrator, which approach best satisfies these requirements with the least disruption?

Create a new self-serve Cloud Billing account in Germany using the subsidiary's credit card with EUR as the account currency, then link the new projects to this account.
Add the subsidiary's projects to the current billing account and enable multi-currency billing so EUR charges are separated automatically.
Change the existing billing account's currency from USD to EUR and update its payment method to the German credit card.
Create a billing subaccount under the existing USD billing account, set the subaccount's currency to EUR, and link the subsidiary's projects to that subaccount.

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Answer Description

A Cloud Billing account's currency is permanently set when the account is created and cannot be changed later. Billing subaccounts always inherit the currency of their parent account, so they would still bill in USD. Likewise, Google Cloud does not support enabling multi-currency billing within a single account. Therefore, the correct solution is to create a separate self-serve Cloud Billing account located in Germany, select EUR as its currency during creation, attach the subsidiary's German credit card to that account, and then link the subsidiary's new projects to it. This leaves the existing U.S. projects linked to the original USD billing account and avoids any impact on their billing. Options suggesting changing the current account's currency or creating a EUR subaccount are not possible, and Google Cloud offers no multi-currency feature on one billing account.

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