1Z0-997-25 Question 172
Select 2Your organization has multiple departments using separate compartments in OCI. You must prevent any compartment from incurring costs beyond an agreed monthly budget, and you also need to alert department leads daily about their spending progress. Which two strategies should you implement to satisfy these governance and cost optimization requirements?
- A
Create a usage quota policy restricting the maximum resource consumption in each compartment
- B
Enable compartment-level budgets with threshold notifications configured for daily alerts
- C
Rely exclusively on monthly cost analysis reports after the billing cycle closes
- D
Configure only cost-tracking tags without budgets or quotas to detect cost spikes
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
Enforcing governance and managing costs effectively in OCI often involves combining multiple services. Quota policies enforce hard caps on resource usage, while budgets and alerts help administrators monitor and react to spending levels in near real-time. For more details, refer to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation on Quota Policies (https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ControllingAccess/Concepts/quotaintro.htm) and Budgets (https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Billing/Concepts/budgets.htm).
- A. Correct.
Correct. Usage quota policies allow you to define and enforce hard limits on the resources that can be created or consumed in a compartment. This ensures your monthly cost threshold isn't exceeded by hard-capping resource usage.
- B. Correct.
Correct. Compartment-level budgets with threshold notifications provide daily or even more frequent alerts before costs exceed predefined limits. While budgets themselves do not block resource creation, they give timely visibility to department leads, which helps in proactive governance.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Relying on monthly cost analysis reports after the billing cycle ends offers retrospective visibility only. By the time the costs are reported, a compartment may have already exceeded the intended budget. This approach doesn't prevent overspending in real-time.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Cost-tracking tags alone can label and track resources, but they do not provide enforcement controls or automated alerts necessary to maintain a strict monthly limit or provide daily notifications.