Exam Professional Cloud Architect topic 1 question 44 discussion

Sustained are automatic discounts for running specific GCE a significant portion of the billing month: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts Committed is for workloads with predictable resource needs between 1 year or 3 year, discount is up to 57% for most resources: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts

I would choose "B"

1. Free Tier: Google Cloud's Free Tier allows you to use certain services for free, up to specified limits. This is ideal for a startup testing the platform and controlling costs during the trial phase. 2. Sustained Use Discounts: These discounts are automatically applied to your bill when you use eligible services for a significant portion of the billing month. This is beneficial for a startup that might have unpredictable usage patterns during the trial phase, as it doesn't require any upfront commitment. 3. Training for cost management: Educating your team about cost management best practices empowers them to make cost-effective decisions from the start. This includes understanding pricing models, monitoring resource usage, and optimizing configurations.

The recommended approach for minimizing GCP service costs and adhering to Google best practices are: - Free tier: Google Cloud offers a free tier of services that allows you to try out many of its products for free, up to certain usage limits. Utilizing the free tier can help you minimize your GCP service costs while you are in the trial usage phase. - Committed use discounts: Committed use discounts are a type of discount that you can apply to certain GCP products by committing to a certain level of usage over a one- or three-year period. Committed use discounts can help you save on your GCP service costs, but they require you to commit to a certain level of usage, which may not be suitable if you are unsure of your future demand. - Providing training to the team about service cost management: It is important that your team is aware of the different options available for minimizing GCP service costs and understands how to manage and monitor their usage of GCP services. Providing training on service cost management can help your team make informed decisions about how to use GCP services in the most cost-effective way.

Sustained use discounts - Compute Engine - Google Cloudhttps://cloud.google.com › ... › Documentation Compute Engine offers sustained use discounts on resources that are used for more than 25% of a billing month - There trial could be more than 7 or 8 days , at this point commitment of use can not be provided due to trails stage of gcp use

The answer is B, because Sustained use discount can give up to 30% and requires no commitment.

ok for B

committed use discounts are for long-run discounts which in the case of startup they're trying GCP. So options C and D are out B is the correct answer

I will choose B, D is only long term commitment

B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.

Sustained use discount makes sense over committed as not enough info to know what to comit to. Provide staff training on how to keep things cheap gonna further keep cost down.

B is the correct option

free tier (monthly discounts) does not make sense combined with committed use discounts - anual base, dont't you think so?

B is the correct answer

Answer is B

Answer B Sustained use discounts are applied on incremental use after you reach certain usage thresholds. This means that you pay only for the number of minutes that you use an instance, and Compute Engine automatically gives you the best price. There's no reason to run an instance for longer than you need it. - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts Committed use discounts are ideal for workloads with predictable resource needs. When you purchase a committed use contract, you purchase compute resource (vCPUs, memory, GPUs, and local SSDs) at a discounted price in return for committing to paying for those resources for 1 year or 3 years. The discount is up to 57% for most resources like machine types or GPUs. The discount is up to 70% for memory-optimized machine types. For committed use prices for different machine types, see VM instances pricing. - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts

Answer is B