Google Cloud Certified Compute and Container Services

Question 1

A team wants to run stateless containerized workloads on GCP without managing any infrastructure or Kubernetes clusters. Which service is best?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Run

Answer

GKE Standard

Answer

GCE Managed Instance Groups

Answer

GKE Autopilot

Question 2

What is the key difference between GKE Standard and GKE Autopilot?

Accepted Answer

Autopilot manages node provisioning and scaling automatically; Standard requires manual node management

Answer

Autopilot supports GPU nodes; Standard does not

Answer

Standard is serverless; Autopilot requires cluster setup

Answer

Autopilot only supports Windows containers

Question 3

Which Compute Engine feature allows you to automatically add or remove VM instances based on load?

Accepted Answer

Managed Instance Groups with Autoscaling

Answer

Unmanaged Instance Groups

Answer

Persistent Disk snapshots

Answer

Cloud Scheduler

Question 4

A company wants to run a batch data processing job on GCP that needs to start quickly and complete within a few hours at lowest cost. Which VM option is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Preemptible VMs (Spot VMs)

Answer

Standard VMs with on-demand pricing

Answer

Sole-tenant nodes

Answer

Committed Use Discounts

Question 5

Which GKE feature automatically adjusts pod CPU and memory requests based on historical usage?

Accepted Answer

Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Answer

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Answer

Cluster Autoscaler

Answer

Node Auto-Provisioner

Question 6

What is the purpose of a GCE Instance Template?

Accepted Answer

Define a reusable VM configuration for Managed Instance Groups

Answer

Store persistent disk snapshots

Answer

Configure network firewall rules

Answer

Set IAM permissions for VM access