GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
Your organization's finance department wants a weekly dashboard that compares actual Google Cloud spend against predefined limits for each cost center. They also want an automated notification sent to a Pub/Sub topic when 80 % of any limit is reached. As the cloud architect, which approach should you recommend?
Enable Cloud Monitoring billing metrics, set an alerting policy at 80 % of monthly cost, and visualize spending with Metrics Explorer charts.
Purchase committed use discounts per cost center, schedule weekly PDF Billing Reports emails, and configure Eventarc triggers to relay any budgetExceeded events to Pub/Sub.
Turn on the Recommender API for cost insights, forward recommendation notifications to Pub/Sub, and rely on the console's Cost Table report for weekly reviews.
Create separate Cloud Billing budgets for each cost center with an 80 % threshold that publishes to Pub/Sub, export billing data to BigQuery, and build a Looker Studio dashboard on that dataset.
Cloud Billing Budgets can be created per cost center (using billing sub-accounts, projects or labels) with threshold rules that publish budgetExceeded messages to Pub/Sub. Detailed cost data can be exported continuously to BigQuery, where Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) can build a weekly dashboard that slices spend by cost center. The other options miss one or both requirements: Cloud Monitoring billing metrics do not provide fine-grained cost-center breakdowns; Recommender APIs and console cost tables cannot automate Pub/Sub alerts; committed use discounts and PDF reports do not satisfy the near-real-time alerting or interactive dashboard needs.
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