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Question 1

You need to run a batch job that processes data for 2 hours and can tolerate interruption. Which Compute Engine option minimizes cost?

Accepted Answer

Spot VM (preemptible)

Answer

Spot VMs (preemptible instances) offer up to 91% discount over on-demand pricing and are ideal for fault-tolerant batch workloads.

Question 2

A developer needs read-only access to BigQuery datasets in a project but should not be able to create or delete any resources. Which predefined role is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

roles/bigquery.dataViewer

Answer

roles/bigquery.dataViewer grants read access to datasets and tables without allowing resource creation or deletion.

Question 3

You want to monitor CPU utilization of all Compute Engine VMs and receive an alert if any instance exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What should you create in Cloud Monitoring?

Accepted Answer

An alerting policy with a threshold condition

Answer

An alerting policy with a metric threshold condition on compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization triggers notifications when the condition is met.

Question 4

Which GKE feature automatically adjusts the number of nodes in a cluster based on current workload resource requests?

Accepted Answer

Cluster Autoscaler

Answer

Cluster Autoscaler adds or removes nodes from a node pool based on pending pod resource requests and current utilization.

Question 5

Your application stores session data in Cloud Memorystore for Redis. After a Redis instance restart, all session data is lost. What should you enable to persist data across restarts?

Accepted Answer

RDB snapshots or AOF persistence

Answer

Enabling RDB persistence or AOF logging in Memorystore for Redis allows data to survive instance restarts.

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Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer: Google Associate 3