What is the lineage of the charge?

• A. Resource and invoice user
• B. Provider, Publisher, Invoice user
• C. Customer, Service, Region
• D. Billing profile, Account, Customer

Answer: (B)

Tracing a charge’s lineage means following who creates the charge, who publishes it for billing, and who is ultimately billed. The correct sequence is provider → publisher → invoice user. The provider is the entity supplying the service and generating usage, the publisher is the party that records and publishes that usage into the billing system, and the invoice user is the recipient who receives the bill. This end-to-end flow captures who is responsible at each step in turning usage into a charge. The other options mix in attributes like resources, regions, or customer details, which don’t represent the actual progression of the charge through the billing process.