Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer Cost Optimization & Resource Management

Question 1

Which Compute Engine pricing model offers the deepest discounts (up to 70% off on-demand) in exchange for a firm 1-year or 3-year commitment?

Accepted Answer

Committed Use Discounts (CUD)

Answer

Spot VMs

Answer

Sustained Use Discounts (SUD)

Answer

Preemptible VMs

Question 2

What happens to a Spot VM when Compute Engine needs the capacity back?

Accepted Answer

It is stopped or preempted with a 30-second warning

Answer

It is migrated to another zone automatically

Answer

It is converted to a standard VM at on-demand pricing

Answer

It continues running but at a higher price

Question 3

Which GCP tool provides budget alerts and can automatically cap spending by disabling billing on a project?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Billing budgets and alerts

Answer

Cloud Monitoring dashboards

Answer

Cost table in the Billing console

Answer

Recommender API

Question 4

A Compute Engine VM runs continuously for a full month. What automatic discount is applied without any commitment required?

Accepted Answer

Sustained Use Discount (SUD)

Answer

Committed Use Discount

Answer

Spot VM discount

Answer

Free tier credit

Question 5

Which GCP service provides rightsizing recommendations by analyzing VM CPU and memory utilization data?

Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Recommender

Answer

Cloud Billing reports

Answer

Cloud Monitoring alerting

Answer

Cost Management console

Question 6

What Cloud Storage feature can automatically move objects to cheaper storage classes (e.g., Nearline, Coldline) after a set number of days?

Accepted Answer

Object Lifecycle Management

Answer

Versioning policy

Answer

Retention policy

Answer

Storage Transfer Service