Correct Answer: Placement Policies (Compact)
Compact Placement Policies ensure that VM instances are physically located close to each other within a data center, reducing network latency for tightly coupled HPC workloads....
Correct Answer
Placement Policies (Compact)
Why This Answer Is Correct
Compact Placement Policies ensure that VM instances are physically located close to each other within a data center, reducing network latency for tightly coupled HPC workloads.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Google Compute Engine — a core concept tested in Professional Cloud Architect. Understanding Google Compute Engine is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your organization is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application requires a specific version of a proprietary OS kernel that is not available in the public image gallery. What is the most appropriate migration path?
Your CEO wants to reduce cloud spend by 20%. You notice that many development projects have running VMs that are unused on weekends. What is the most automated way to solve this?
You are designing a solution for a company that needs to run a specialized Windows-based application that requires access to a physical USB dongle for licensing. Which GCP service supports this?
An enterprise wants to minimize the security risk of 'Credential Theft' for their VM instances. They want to avoid using traditional long-lived SSH keys. What is the Google-recommended approach?
You are migrating a legacy e-commerce application to GCP. The application requires a shared filesystem that is mountable by multiple Compute Engine VMs and supports standard NFS protocols. Which service should you choose?