Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Reliability — GCP PCA Practice Question 30

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Look for 'analyze billing data' + 'SQL queries'. BigQuery is the destination for billing exports.

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C.Enable Cloud Billing export to BigQuery.✓ Correct

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery enables you to export detailed Google Cloud billing data (such as usage, cost estimates, and pricing data) automatically throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset. This is the foundational step for any FinOps practice, allowing teams to use SQL or BI tools to analyze costs by project, service, or custom labels.

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Relying only on the Cloud Console (D). The console is limited. For deep, custom analysis, exporting to BigQuery is required.

The CFO of your company wants to create custom dashboards to analyze Google Cloud spending across different departments. They want to write SQL queries to find out exactly how much the 'Marketing' department spent on BigQuery last month. How should you configure the billing data to enable this?

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