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Objective 4.2

PCA

Analyzing and defining business processes

Objective 4.2 sits in Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes, which carries 15% of the Cloud Architect exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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A worked example

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4-2Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

A finance analyst must see the costs of every project linked to one Cloud Billing account. Which permission set does that require?

The Project Billing Costs Manager role onlyThat role scopes the view to authorized projects only.
Project cost view permissions on each projectPer-project grants would still miss projects nobody named.
A billing account role with spending informationCorrect · your answerCorrect. The grant sits on the account itself.
Owner on the organization resource nodeOrganization ownership is not what these reports check.

Correct.

Concept

Cost visibility is granted on the object that holds the money rather than on the things that spend it, so account-wide reporting is an account-level grant.

Why C

Viewing cost reports for a Cloud Billing account and all its linked projects needs a role on the billing account carrying billing.accounts.get, getIamPolicy and getSpendingInformation.

Source

To view the cost reports for your Cloud Billing account, including viewing the cost information for all of the Google Cloud projects that are linked to the billing account, you need a role on your Cloud Billing account that includes the following permissions : billing.accounts.get billing.accounts.getIamPolicy billing.accounts.getSpendingInformation

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Now you: objective 4.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

4-2Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

An analyst holds cost view permissions on ten projects but no account-wide billing access, and needs all ten aggregated into one report. Which billing account role completes that?

Sample question 2 of 3

4-2Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

A project owner wants the costs of that one project and holds no permissions at all on the Cloud Billing account. What does that allow?

Sample question 3 of 3

4-2Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

A team opens the Cloud Billing report for the first time and asks what it is showing them. Which view do the default settings present?

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