GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

The Cloud SDK treats kubectl as an optional component. Running "gcloud components install kubectl" downloads and installs the kubectl component under the Cloud SDK's managed components directory, so subsequent "gcloud components update" commands will update kubectl along with the rest of the SDK. Using "gcloud components update kubectl" only works after the component is already installed, while "gcloud install" is not a valid sub-command, and manually downloading kubectl with curl places the binary outside the Cloud SDK's component management, so it will not be updated automatically.