Correct Answer: Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
CUDs offer significant savings (up to 70%) for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to resource usage....
Correct Answer
Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
Why This Answer Is Correct
CUDs offer significant savings (up to 70%) for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to resource usage.
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?
A biotech company is running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads on GCE. They need to maximize network throughput and minimize latency between nodes in a cluster. Which networking feature should they enable?
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?