Billing accounts and budgets in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to list all billing accounts using gcloud CLI.

GCP

gcloud [1] billing accounts list

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Abilling

Bcompute

Cbeta

Dprojects

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3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'compute' or 'projects' instead of 'billing' causes the command to fail.

Omitting the billing group results in an invalid command.

The gcloud billing accounts list command lists all billing accounts accessible to you.

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medium

Complete the code to create a budget for a billing account using gcloud CLI.

GCP

gcloud beta billing budgets create --billing-account=[1] --amount=1000 --display-name="My Budget"

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Aus-central1

Bbudget-123

C012345-6789AB-CDEF01

Dmy-project

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3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using project ID instead of billing account ID.

Using region names instead of billing account ID.

The billing account ID looks like a string with numbers and letters separated by dashes, e.g., 012345-6789AB-CDEF01.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to update a budget amount.

GCP

gcloud beta billing budgets update [1] --amount=1500

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Abudget-123

B--billing-account=012345-6789AB-CDEF01

C012345-6789AB-CDEF01

D--budget-id=budget-123

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using flags instead of positional argument for budget ID.

Confusing billing account ID with budget ID.

The update command requires the budget name or ID as a positional argument, not flags.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a budget filter for projects and services.

GCP

gcloud beta billing budgets create --billing-account=[1] --filter='projects:[2]'

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A012345-6789AB-CDEF01

Bmy-project-1

Cmy-project-2

Dus-central1

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using region names instead of billing account or project IDs.

Mixing billing account ID with project ID.

The billing account ID is needed first, then the project ID is used in the filter.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to list budgets for a billing account with gcloud CLI.

GCP

gcloud beta billing budgets list --billing-account=[1] --format=[2] --filter=[3]

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A012345-6789AB-CDEF01

Bjson

C"displayName:My Budget"

Dtable

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using JSON format when table is clearer for beginners.

Not quoting the filter string properly.

Use the billing account ID, format as table for readability, and filter by display name.