What is the purpose of an autoscaler attached to a managed instance group?

To distribute incoming traffic across instances

To automatically add or remove instances based on load

To patch operating systems on instances

How can you create a Compute Engine VM with a custom machine type?

By selecting a predefined machine type

By attaching a larger persistent disk

By specifying the number of vCPUs and amount of memory

After installing kubectl, what must be configured to allow it to communicate with a GKE cluster?

A firewall rule allowing port 6443

A kubeconfig file with cluster credentials

A company runs a high-performance database on a Compute Engine VM. The database requires very low latency and high IOPS. They are considering using local SSDs, but they are concerned about data durability. What should they do to balance performance and durability?

Use a regional persistent disk for durability.

Use Hyperdisk Extreme for high performance.

Use a zonal persistent disk with higher IOPS.

Use local SSDs for the database and configure a replication mechanism to another zone.

What is the purpose of an OS patch deployment in VM Manager?

To install operating system updates on VMs

To create a snapshot of VM disks

To change the machine type of VMs

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Domain 2Objective 1

2.1 Planning and Implementing Compute Resources ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Planning and implementing a cloud solution domain, which accounts for ~30% of the ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER exam.

36questions here

8free pages

12concepts

~30%of the exam

12 Concepts in This Objective

Compute options selection
Compute Engine instance provisioning
Compute Engine storage selection
Managed instance group autoscaling
OS Login configuration
VM Manager configuration
Spot VMs and custom machine types
kubectl installation and configuration
GKE cluster deployment configurations
Containerized application deployment to GKE
Serverless application deployment
GPU and TPU selection

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A company runs a high-performance database on a Compute Engine VM. The database requires very low latency and high IOPS. They are considering using local SSDs, but they are concerned about data durability. What should they do to balance performance and durability?
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