Exam CV0-003 topic 1 question 63 discussion

To accurately allocate costs to specific business units in a cloud environment, it's essential to implement a robust tagging system. By applying relevant tags to cloud resources, such as applications, servers, and storage, the administrator can track and allocate costs based on business unit, department, or project

Tags are metadata or labels that can be attached to cloud resources, such as VMs, storage, or networks. Tags can help organize, identify, and manage cloud resources, as well as track their usage and costs. Tags can also be used to implement chargeback or showback policies, which are methods of allocating the cloud services bill to different departments or consumers based on their consumption of resources . Tags are needed to produce showbacks.

FIRST is in all caps. These questions are tricky.

Lookup what "Showback" is and you will not be confused why it is the answer.

"to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit" would mean its a chargeback and not a showback. You need tagging to correctly use a chargeback so you can identify each department cost Answer is tagging

Showbacks offer departmental visibility into IT resource usage without charging departments for their use. When a company implements an IT chargeback policy, they bill each department for the number of technology resources used for a given period The Answer is Tagging

I go for B because it make more sence if it defines the "unit"

Need to change my answer. Showback is a process of reporting cost and usage information to departments and users. You implement tagging whereas showback is a process. Showback provides usage and costs and they're looking to obtain this information and you need tagging in order to do so.

The applications have not yet moved to the cloud. You can't add tagging to a cloud environment that doesn't exist yet. To learn the costs BEFORE the migration.

B. Tagging Implementing tagging would be the first step to assist with reporting the cost for each business unit. Tagging resources with labels that indicate which business unit or project they belong to will enable the cloud administrator to easily separate the cost of the resources used by each unit or project. An SLA (Service Level Agreement) report would not be useful for reporting the cost for each business unit, as SLA reports focus on availability and performance metrics. Quotas are used to set limits on the amount of resources that can be consumed by a particular user or group, but they would not provide information about the cost of the resources used. Showback is a reporting mechanism that provides visibility into the cost of cloud resources used by each business unit or department, but it requires accurate cost data, which can only be obtained through the implementation of tagging or another cost allocation mechanism.

I'll go with B "Tagging helps you manage your resources more effectively by enabling you to categorize them in different ways, such as by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. By tagging resources with business unit information, you can track costs across business units and report on usage and costs by business unit"

D. before migration

Before the migration, Sorry sticking with D

B. Tagging is the most suitable option to implement first as it will allow the administrator to assign specific metadata to resources such as VMs, storage, and network interfaces, so that they can be grouped and tracked by business unit. This will help in generating the cost per business unit report that the CIO is requesting. Tagging can be done before the migration, so the administrator can ensure that the cost can be tracked and reported correctly.