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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)
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 (Recommender), Cloud Monitoring
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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