To Reduce Costs, the Director of Engineering Has Required All

question 38

Multiple Choice

To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the finance department. Which two steps should you take? Choose 2 answers.

• A) Use the - -no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM
• B) Use the - -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM
• C) Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export
• D) Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups
• E) Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM
• F) Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

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