Billing

Question 1

List the billing reports

Answer 1

Billing Report
Cost Breakdown
Cost Table Reports
Pricing report

Question 2

What are the types of Cloud Billing Accounts?

Answer 2

self-serve (online)
invoiced (offline) account

Question 3

What are the payment profiles types ?

Answer 3

Individual
Business

Question 4

Describe the charging cycle

Answer 4

For self-serve accounts:
- monthly invoices
- threshold invoices

For invoiced accounts - monthly bill

Question 5

List information you can get from Billing Report

Answer 5

view usage cost ; has multiple settings and filters

Answer questions:
- monthly cost
- forecast cost based on trends
- spent by region
- what project / service costs the most ?

Question 6

List information you can get from Cost Table Report

Answer 6

detailed information for each project, including service ID, SKU ID

Question 7

List information you can get from Cost Breakdown Report

Answer 7

waterfall overview of the monthly costs and savings

Question 8

List information you can get from Pricing Report

Answer 8

cost per SKU for a Billing Account , also displays the negociated vs list price

Question 9

What is an SKU (stock keeping unit) in Google Cloud?

Answer 9

unique identifiers for product / service