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Difficulty: EasyCreating Billing Budgets, Alerts, and BigQuery Exports

A cloud administrator needs to ensure that team members receive email notifications whenever a Google Cloud project's monthly expenditures reach 50% and 90% of a target threshold. Which Google Cloud Billing configuration should be created to meet this requirement?

  1. Create a Cloud Billing budget scoped to the project and define threshold rules at 50% and 90% of the budgeted amount.Answer
  2. B
    Create a Cloud Billing budget with 50% and 90% thresholds and enable the default auto-capping setting to shut down VM instances when thresholds are met.
  3. C
    Grant the Project Viewer IAM role on the target project to allow Cloud Billing to automatically send budget alert emails to all project members.
  4. D
    Enable the BigQuery API in the host project to trigger built-in billing threshold email alerts automatically.

Answer

Create a Cloud Billing budget scoped to the project and define threshold rules at 50% and 90% of the budgeted amount.
Creating a Cloud Billing budget and defining explicit threshold rules (e.g., 50% and 90%) is the standard Google Cloud method to send email notifications to billing admins and project owners when spend reaches designated limits.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Navigate to the Cloud Billing section in the Google Cloud Console.
Access the billing account associated with the project.
Budgets and alerts are managed under the Billing account context.
2
Select Budgets & alerts and create a new budget.
Specify the target scope (the specific project) and set the budget amount.
Scoping ensures tracking applies specifically to the intended project.
3
Configure alert threshold rules for 50% and 90% of actual or forecasted spend.
Email notifications are configured to trigger automatically when spend reaches those levels.
Threshold rules define when alert notifications are dispatched to recipients.

Key Concept

Cloud Billing Budgets and Threshold Alerts
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Creating Billing Budgets, Alerts, and BigQuery Exports

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