A company wants to use Deployment Manager to deploy a set of Compute Engine instances. They want to ensure that the instances are created in a specific order, because some instances depend on others. What should they do?

Use a startup script on each instance that waits for the previous instance to be ready.

Create separate deployments for each instance and run them sequentially.

Use a Cloud Function to orchestrate the creation of instances.

Use Deployment Manager's dependency mechanism by referencing the outputs of one resource in the properties of another.

A company is migrating a legacy application to Compute Engine. The application requires a specific operating system version that is not available in the default image list. They also need to ensure that the VM is created with a specific set of tags for network firewall rules. What should they do?

Use a snapshot of an existing VM that has the required OS.

Use a container image and deploy it to Compute Engine.

Use a custom image imported from their on-premises environment and specify network tags in the instance template.

Use a public image and modify the OS after creation using a startup script.

What is a key difference between spot VMs and standard VMs in Compute Engine?

Spot VMs cannot run container workloads

Standard VMs have a maximum lifetime of 24 hours

Spot VMs can be terminated by Compute Engine at any time

Standard VMs are always cheaper than spot VMs

What is a node pool in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?

A group of nodes within a cluster that share the same configuration

A set of services that expose an application

A collection of pods that run the same application

A storage volume attached to a cluster

A company is deploying a stateful application on GKE. The application requires persistent storage that must be available across pod rescheduling. What should they use?

Use a ConfigMap to store application data.

Use a PersistentVolumeClaim with a persistent disk storage class.

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