Cost management with billing reports in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to enable billing export to BigQuery.

GCP

gcloud beta billing export bigquery set --billing-account [1] --dataset my_billing_dataset

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Abilling-export

Bmy-project-id

C012345-6789AB-CDEF01

Dmy-billing-account

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using the project ID instead of the billing account ID

Using the dataset name as billing account

The billing account ID is required to enable export. It looks like a string with numbers and letters separated by dashes.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to create a BigQuery dataset for billing export.

GCP

bq mk --dataset [1]:my_billing_dataset

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Abilling-dataset

Bmy-project-id

Cbilling-account

Dbilling-project

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using billing account ID instead of project ID

Using dataset name as project ID

The dataset must be created in the project where billing data will be stored, so the project ID is needed here.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the SQL query to calculate total cost per service.

GCP

SELECT service.description, SUM(cost) AS total_cost FROM `[1].gcp_billing_export_v1_0123456789ABCDEF` GROUP BY service.description

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Amy-project-id.billing

Bbilling-project.billing

Cbilling-account.billing

Dmy-project-id.my_billing_dataset

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using billing account ID as dataset

Using incorrect dataset name with dots

The correct dataset name must be used in the query. It should match the dataset where billing export is stored.

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hard

Fill both blanks to filter billing data for the last 30 days and group by project.

GCP

SELECT project.id, SUM(cost) AS total_cost FROM `[1].my_billing_dataset.[2]` WHERE usage_start_time >= TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 30 DAY) GROUP BY project.id

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Amy-project-id

Bgcp_billing_export_v1_0123456789ABCDEF

Cbilling_dataset

Dbilling_export

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping project ID and dataset name

Using incorrect table name

The first blank is the project ID, and the second blank is the billing export table name.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a billing alert policy using gcloud CLI.

GCP

gcloud alpha billing budgets create --billing-account=[1] --display-name=[2] --amount=[3]

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A012345-6789AB-CDEF01

B"Monthly Budget Alert"

C1000

Dmy-budget

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not quoting the display name

Using project ID instead of billing account

Using string instead of number for amount

The billing account ID is needed, then a display name in quotes, and finally the budget amount as a number.