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Exam DBDEA Topics: governance Difficulty: medium

Finance needs a monthly cost breakdown of Databricks usage by team for chargeback, computed from the lakehouse itself rather than from invoices or the cloud provider's console. Which approach meets this?

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  1. A. Query system.billing.usage, filtering by workspace and tags, aggregating DBUs and dollars per team
  2. B. Parse the monthly PDF invoices with a notebook and load the results into a Delta table
  3. C. Read the cloud provider's billing export, which already itemizes Databricks DBUs per team and workspace
  4. D. Enable a workspace setting that emails each team leader their DBU total every month
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Correct answer: Query system.billing.usage, filtering by workspace and tags, aggregating DBUs and dollars per team

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/system-tables

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