Google Associate Cloud Engineer Question 53
Select 3Google Cloud PlatformYou are a Cloud Engineer tasked with setting up billing exports for your organization to track cloud spending. Which of the following steps should you perform to enable billing export to BigQuery on Google Cloud Platform?
- A
Create a BigQuery dataset to store the exported billing data.
- B
Enable the Cloud Billing API for your Google Cloud project.
- C
Assign the 'Billing Account Viewer' IAM role to the BigQuery dataset.
- D
Configure the billing export feature from the Google Cloud Console's Billing section.
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
To set up billing exports to BigQuery, you must first create a BigQuery dataset to receive the exported data. Enabling the Cloud Billing API is necessary to allow interaction between billing data and Google Cloud services. Finally, you must configure the billing export within the Google Cloud Console to direct the billing data to the BigQuery dataset. Assigning specific IAM roles to the dataset is not directly part of the steps to enable billing export, although access permissions might need to be configured separately.
- A. Correct.
Creating a BigQuery dataset is necessary to store the exported billing data once it is enabled.
- B. Correct.
The Cloud Billing API must be enabled for the project to allow exporting billing data to other services like BigQuery.
- C. Incorrect.
While IAM roles are important for permissions, 'Billing Account Viewer' is not specifically required for enabling billing export. This role is more about viewing billing account details.
- D. Correct.
Configuring the billing export feature from the Billing section in the Google Cloud Console is required to start exporting data to BigQuery.