What is the primary benefit of using OS Login for SSH access to Compute Engine VMs?

It provides a graphical interface for SSH sessions

It eliminates the need for SSH keys entirely

It allows SSH access to be managed through IAM roles and policies

It automatically encrypts all SSH traffic

A research team is training a large language model using TensorFlow. They need high throughput for matrix operations and the workload is expected to run for several weeks. Which compute resource should they use?

Standard Compute Engine VMs with high CPU

A company wants to deploy a serverless application that processes images uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. The processing should trigger automatically when a new object is uploaded. Which approach should they use?

Deploy a GKE cluster with a cron job.

Use Cloud Scheduler to run a script that checks the bucket.

Deploy a Compute Engine VM that polls the bucket every minute.

Deploy a Cloud Run function with a Cloud Storage trigger.

What is a key characteristic of Spot VMs in Compute Engine?

They cannot be used with managed instance groups

They are significantly cheaper than standard VMs

They are guaranteed to run for at least 24 hours

They have higher performance than standard VMs

Which command is used to install kubectl on Linux?

gcloud components install kubectl

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

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Domain 2Objective 1

2.1 Planning and Implementing Compute Resources ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 6)

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

Questions 26–30

26foundation · easy
What is the primary benefit of using OS Login for SSH access to Compute Engine VMs?
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27application · medium
A research team is training a large language model using TensorFlow. They need high throughput for matrix operations and the workload is expected to run for several weeks. Which compute resource should they use?
Select an answer first
28application · medium
A company wants to deploy a serverless application that processes images uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. The processing should trigger automatically when a new object is uploaded. Which approach should they use?
Select an answer first
29foundation · easy
What is a key characteristic of Spot VMs in Compute Engine?
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30foundation · easy
Which command is used to install kubectl on Linux?
Select an answer first

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