Cost optimization strategies in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to select the GCP service that helps reduce costs by automatically adjusting resources.

GCP

service = "[1]"

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AAutoscaler

BCloud Storage

CBigQuery

DCloud Functions

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Common Mistakes

Choosing a storage service instead of a scaling service.

Selecting a data analytics service which doesn't manage resources automatically.

The Autoscaler service automatically adjusts the number of VM instances based on load, helping reduce costs by using only needed resources.

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medium

Complete the code to specify the billing export dataset name for cost analysis.

GCP

billing_export_dataset = "[1]"

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Acost_export

Bbilling_export

Cbilling_data

Danalytics_data

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Common Mistakes

Using generic dataset names that do not reflect billing data.

Confusing cost export with analytics data.

The billing export dataset is commonly named 'billing_export' to store detailed cost data for analysis.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly set a budget alert threshold percentage.

GCP

budget_alert_threshold = [1]

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A0.8

B"80%"

C80

D80.0

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Common Mistakes

Using a string with percent sign which causes errors.

Using a decimal instead of an integer.

The budget alert threshold should be set as an integer percentage without quotes, like 80, not as a string or decimal.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a filter that selects projects with labels for cost center and environment.

GCP

filter_expression = "labels.[1] = '[2]'"

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Acost_center

Benv

Cproduction

Dfinance

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Common Mistakes

Mixing label keys and values.

Using environment label key when cost center is required.

The filter selects projects labeled with 'cost_center' equal to 'finance'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to define a cost optimization rule that stops idle VMs after a threshold.

GCP

rule = {"action": "[1]", "resource_type": "[2]", "idle_time_minutes": [3]

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Astop

Bcompute_instance

C30

Ddelete

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'delete' which removes the VM permanently.

Using wrong resource type names.

The rule stops compute instances that have been idle for 30 minutes to save costs.