After creating a custom image, how can an engineer use it to create a new Compute Engine instance?

Use the image as a snapshot in the instance creation command

Import the image into a bucket and reference it in the instance template

Specify the image in the --image flag of gcloud compute instances create

Attach the image as a data disk during instance creation

An engineer wants to create a Kubernetes Pod from a YAML manifest. Which kubectl command applies the manifest?

kubectl deploy -f manifest.yaml

kubectl create pod -f manifest.yaml

An engineer needs to establish a secure shell connection to a Linux Compute Engine instance from their local workstation. Which command initiates an SSH connection using the gcloud CLI?

gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE_NAME

gcloud compute connect INSTANCE_NAME

gcloud compute ssh-key add INSTANCE_NAME

gcloud compute instances start INSTANCE_NAME

What is the primary purpose of Agent Runtime in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform?

To run and serve AI agents in a managed environment

To manage IAM policies for agents

To store training data for machine learning models

To provide a development environment for writing agent code

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Domain 3Objective 1

3.1 Managing Compute Resources ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution domain, which accounts for ~30% of the ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER exam.

52questions here

11free pages

22concepts

~30%of the exam

22 Concepts in This Objective

Remote Connection to Compute Engine
Listing Compute Engine Instances
Creating and Managing Snapshots
Creating and Managing Images
Viewing GKE Cluster Inventory
Configuring GKE for Artifact Registry
Managing GKE Node Pools
Working with Kubernetes Resources
Configuring Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
Configuring Vertical Pod Autoscaling
Managing GKE Autopilot Pod Resource Requests
Deploying Cloud Run Revisions
Traffic Splitting in Cloud Run
Traffic Splitting in Cloud Run Functions
Traffic Splitting in GKE
Configuring Cloud Run Autoscaling
Attaching GPUs to Compute Resources
Attaching TPUs to Compute Resources
Deploying Agents to Agent Runtime
Managing Notebooks in Workbench
Managing Notebooks in BigQuery
Managing Cloud Workstations

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After creating a custom image, how can an engineer use it to create a new Compute Engine instance?
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An engineer wants to create a Kubernetes Pod from a YAML manifest. Which kubectl command applies the manifest?
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An engineer wants to deploy an agent to Agent Runtime on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Which service is used to deploy the agent?
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An engineer needs to establish a secure shell connection to a Linux Compute Engine instance from their local workstation. Which command initiates an SSH connection using the gcloud CLI?
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What is the primary purpose of Agent Runtime in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform?
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