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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 5Question 40
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Subtask 5.3: Cost OptimizationCost OptimizationRightsizingActive Assist

    GCP PCA · Question 40 · Cost Optimization

    Your company's GCP bill has increased significantly. You suspect that developers are provisioning VMs that are much larger than necessary. Which TWO tools can help you identify and fix this issue? (Select TWO)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Active Assist (Recommender)

    B.

    Cloud Monitoring

    C.

    Cloud Trace

    D.

    Cloud Audit Logs

    E.

    VPC Flow Logs

    How to approach this question

    Identify the tools that provide resource utilization metrics and automated sizing advice.

    Full Answer

    Active Assist (specifically the Compute Engine Rightsizing Recommender) uses machine learning to identify idle or underutilized VMs and suggests smaller machine types. Cloud Monitoring provides the raw CPU/Memory metrics needed to validate those recommendations.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting Cloud Audit Logs (D), which tracks administrative actions, not performance metrics.
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