A company has a Compute Engine VM in a custom VPC subnet that needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket to read configuration files. The VM has no external IP address. The bucket is in the same region as the VM. What should they do to allow the VM to access the bucket without traversing the public internet?

Enable Private Google Access on the subnet and add a route for the restricted.googleapis.com destination.

Use VPC peering with the Cloud Storage service.

Assign an external IP address to the VM and configure a firewall rule to allow outbound HTTPS.

Create a Cloud NAT gateway and attach it to the subnet.

A company has a fleet of Compute Engine VMs running Ubuntu. They want to automate security patching but need to ensure that the VMs are not rebooted during business hours. What should they do?

Use OS Config patch deployments with a maintenance window that excludes business hours and configure the VMs to reboot if required.

Use a startup script that runs apt-get update and upgrade on every boot.

Use a Cloud Scheduler job that runs a command on each VM via Cloud IAP.

Manually SSH into each VM and run apt-get upgrade during off-hours.

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A company has a Compute Engine VM in a custom VPC subnet that needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket to read configuration files. The VM has no external IP address. The bucket is in the same region as the VM. What should they do to allow the VM to access the bucket without traversing the public internet?
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An architect is provisioning a GKE cluster and needs to ensure that the cluster's nodes run in a specific geographic location. Which parameter must be set during cluster creation?
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A team wants to organize Compute Engine instances by cost center and environment. Which resource configuration should they apply to each VM?
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A developer wants to run a containerized web service that scales automatically based on HTTP traffic. Which serverless option is most appropriate?
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A company has a fleet of Compute Engine VMs running Ubuntu. They want to automate security patching but need to ensure that the VMs are not rebooted during business hours. What should they do?
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An architect is provisioning a GKE cluster and needs to ensure that the cluster's nodes run in a specific geographic location. Which parameter must be set during cluster creation?

A team wants to organize Compute Engine instances by cost center and environment. Which resource configuration should they apply to each VM?

A developer wants to run a containerized web service that scales automatically based on HTTP traffic. Which serverless option is most appropriate?

A company has a fleet of Compute Engine VMs running Ubuntu. They want to automate security patching but need to ensure that the VMs are not rebooted during business hours. What should they do?

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