I.4 module quiz
Ten questions. 80% to pass (8 of 10). Open book, unlimited retakes.
Answers are collapsed under each question. Answer first, then check.
Q1
Which environment do real customers use?
A. Development
B. Staging
C. Production
D. Sandbox
Show answer
Correct: C. Production is the live system. Development, staging and sandboxes are non-production copies used for building and testing.
Q2
A team’s dev machines are used only in working hours but left on all week. Roughly what share of the paid hours are unused?
A. More than two thirds
B. About one tenth of them
C. About one quarter
D. None of them
Show answer
Correct: A. About 50 of the 168 hours in a week are working hours, so roughly 118 hours (about 70%) are paid for and unused.
Q3
On Azure, what is the smaller folder inside a subscription that usually holds one application or environment?
A. A project
B. A resource group
C. A billing account
D. An availability zone
Show answer
Correct: B. Azure resources sit in resource groups inside subscriptions. Projects and billing accounts are Google Cloud terms, and an availability zone is a location.
Q4
On AWS, what is the main folder that has its own resources and its own section of the bill?
A. A resource group
B. A project
C. A management group
D. An account
Show answer
Correct: D. AWS uses accounts, grouped with AWS Organizations. Projects are Google Cloud’s equivalent and subscriptions are Azure’s.
Q5
Why do tags matter for cost?
A. They let the bill be split by team, project or environment
B. They make each tagged resource cheaper to run each month
C. They stop resources from being deleted by mistake
D. They move resources into a cheaper region
Show answer
Correct: A. Tags appear on the bill, so they let you say whose cost is whose. They do not change prices or locations.
Q6
In Google Cloud, what actually pays for a project’s resources?
A. The project’s owner, by credit card per resource
B. The billing account linked to the project
C. The availability zone the resources run in
D. The organization’s IAM policy
Show answer
Correct: B. Each project is linked to a billing account, and several projects can share one.
Q7
What does the principle of least privilege say?
A. Give everyone owner access so nobody waits
B. Give access only during working hours
C. Give each person only the access their job needs
D. Give access only to people in finance
Show answer
Correct: C. Least privilege means just enough access for the job, which also limits who can start spending.
Q8
What does a typical budget alert do when spending nears the limit?
A. Sends a warning, without stopping the spending itself
B. Deletes the most expensive resources automatically
C. Moves everything to a cheaper region straight away
D. Cancels the account until the next month begins
Show answer
Correct: A. A budget alert usually just warns the people you choose. Stopping the spending is still a human (or separately automated) decision.
Q9
Which of these is NOT a common cause of cloud sprawl?
A. Temporary copies that are never given an end date
B. Resources with no tag and no clear owner
C. Disks and snapshots left behind after machines are deleted
D. Choosing a region close to customers for production
Show answer
Correct: D. Placing production near customers is a sound choice. A, B and C are all classic causes of resources piling up.
Q10
Which is a sign of sprawl you can see on a bill?
A. Higher cost in a month when customer numbers doubled
B. Costs in a region the company does not use on purpose
C. A production database billed every month
D. A charge for data sent to customers
Show answer
Correct: B. Spend in a region nobody chose on purpose usually means something was created there and forgotten. The others are normal running costs.
What’s next
Back to How teams actually use it.