Google Cloud Certified Compute and Container Services 2

Question 1

A company runs a legacy application on physical servers and wants to migrate to GCP with minimal refactoring. Which compute option is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Compute Engine VMs

Answer

Compute Engine provides full control over VM configuration, making it the best choice for lift-and-shift migrations of legacy applications.

Question 2

Which App Engine environment automatically scales to zero instances when no traffic is received?

Accepted Answer

App Engine Standard

Answer

App Engine Standard can scale to zero instances during periods of no traffic, reducing costs, while Flexible maintains at least one instance.

Question 3

A GKE workload requires access to a Cloud Storage bucket. What is the recommended way to grant this permission without using service account keys?

Accepted Answer

Use Workload Identity to bind a Kubernetes service account to a GCP service account

Answer

Workload Identity is the recommended approach for GKE pods to authenticate as a GCP service account without managing key files.

Question 4

What is the purpose of Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) in Compute Engine?

Accepted Answer

Provide discounts in exchange for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to use specific resources

Answer

Committed Use Discounts offer up to 57% discount on Compute Engine resources in exchange for committing to use them for 1 or 3 years.

Question 5

Which Cloud Run feature allows you to deploy Cloud Run services within a VPC for private access to internal resources?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Run Direct VPC Egress

Answer

Cloud Run Direct VPC Egress allows Cloud Run services to send traffic directly into a VPC without needing a Serverless VPC Access connector.

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Google Cloud Certified Compute and Container Services 2