Your company wants to perform complex, custom SQL analysis on their Google Cloud billing data to understand cost trends across multiple projects and labels.

Which GCP service should you export the billing data to?

Answer options:

Cloud Storage

Cloud SQL

BigQuery

Cloud Spanner

How to approach this question

Identify the GCP service designed for data warehousing and SQL analytics that integrates natively with Cloud Billing.

Full Answer

C.BigQuery✓ Correct

Google Cloud Billing provides a native feature to automatically export detailed billing data (including labels and resource-level data) directly to BigQuery. BigQuery is ideal for running complex SQL queries on large datasets.

Common mistakes

Choosing Cloud SQL because the prompt mentions 'SQL analysis', but BigQuery is the native target for billing exports.

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