Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability — GCP PCA Practice Question 50

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Identify enterprise FinOps best practices.

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Export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery. Use Looker or Data Studio to create custom billing dashboards. Set up Cloud Billing Budgets and Alerts to notify teams via Pub/Sub.

A mature FinOps practice relies on exporting billing data to BigQuery, visualizing it with BI tools, and setting up programmatic alerts. Hard-capping or disabling billing is generally avoided as it causes catastrophic outages.

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Selecting hard-caps, which is an anti-pattern for production workloads.

An enterprise wants to establish a robust FinOps culture. They need to visualize spend, allocate costs to teams, and enforce budget limits. Which THREE actions should they take? (Select THREE)

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