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

Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform for stateless containers that abstracts all infrastructure management.

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

GKE Autopilot fully manages node infrastructure including provisioning and scaling, while GKE Standard gives you direct control over nodes.

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

Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) with autoscaling automatically adjust the number of VM instances based on CPU utilization, load balancing metrics, or custom signals.

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

Preemptible (Spot) VMs offer significant discounts (up to 91%) for short-lived workloads that can tolerate interruption, ideal for batch processing.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Answer

Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) recommends and optionally applies CPU and memory request adjustments based on actual pod usage history.

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test

Google Cloud Certified Compute and Container Services