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Question 1

Which Compute Engine pricing model offers the deepest discounts (up to 70% off on-demand) in exchange for a firm 1-year or 3-year commitment?

Accepted Answer

Committed Use Discounts (CUD)

Answer

Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) offer up to 70% off on-demand prices for a 1- or 3-year commitment to a specific machine type or resource, providing the highest discount tier.

Question 2

What happens to a Spot VM when Compute Engine needs the capacity back?

Accepted Answer

It is stopped or preempted with a 30-second warning

Answer

Spot VMs (formerly Preemptible VMs) can be preempted by Google at any time with a 30-second shutdown notice when Compute Engine needs the capacity for other workloads.

Question 3

Which GCP tool provides budget alerts and can automatically cap spending by disabling billing on a project?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Billing budgets and alerts

Answer

Cloud Billing budgets let you set a spending threshold and configure email alerts or Pub/Sub notifications; a billing account can also be programmatically disabled at threshold.

Question 4

A Compute Engine VM runs continuously for a full month. What automatic discount is applied without any commitment required?

Accepted Answer

Sustained Use Discount (SUD)

Answer

Sustained Use Discounts are automatic discounts of up to 30% applied to VMs that run for a significant portion of the billing month (no commitment required).

Question 5

Which GCP service provides rightsizing recommendations by analyzing VM CPU and memory utilization data?

Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Recommender

Answer

Google Cloud Recommender analyzes resource usage patterns and suggests cost-saving actions like rightsizing oversized VMs or removing idle resources.

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