A company has a policy that all Compute Engine instances must have a label indicating the environment (e.g., dev, prod). They want to enforce this policy automatically. What should they do?

Use a startup script that adds labels to the instance.

Use IAM conditions to require the label when creating instances.

Use Organization Policy with a constraint that requires a label on Compute Engine instances.

Use a Cloud Function that adds labels to instances after they are created.

A company has a web application running on Compute Engine instances in a managed instance group. They want to distribute traffic across instances in multiple regions and provide automatic failover. What should they use?

A regional external TCP load balancer with backend services in each region.

A network load balancer with a single backend service.

A global external HTTP(S) load balancer with backend services pointing to the managed instance groups in each region.

A DNS-based round-robin with multiple A records.

What is the purpose of a firewall rule in a VPC network?

To control inbound and outbound traffic to and from resources

To route traffic between regions

What is a key benefit of using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Deployment Manager or Terraform?

It eliminates the need for monitoring

It automatically scales applications

Infrastructure can be provisioned consistently and repeatedly

It provides a graphical interface for managing resources

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2.3 Configuring Compute Systems PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 2)

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A company has a policy that all Compute Engine instances must have a label indicating the environment (e.g., dev, prod). They want to enforce this policy automatically. What should they do?
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A company has a web application running on Compute Engine instances in a managed instance group. They want to distribute traffic across instances in multiple regions and provide automatic failover. What should they use?
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What is the purpose of a firewall rule in a VPC network?
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A developer needs to provision a Compute Engine VM for a batch job that requires a specific CPU platform and more memory than the default. Which two parameters must be specified when creating the instance?
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What is a key benefit of using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Deployment Manager or Terraform?
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