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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

You manage hundreds of Compute Engine VMs that were created from various custom images and run in several GCP projects. Security policy now requires that all Linux VMs receive critical OS security patches every Wednesday at 02:00 in the VM's local time zone and that patch compliance reports are kept for auditors. You want an automated solution that minimizes operational overhead and does not require rebuilding the VMs. What should you do?

  • Attach a custom startup script to each instance template that runs apt-get update and apt-get upgrade at system boot.

  • Enable the OS Config API in each project, verify that the OS Config agent is running on every VM, and create a weekly patch deployment in VM Manager for Wednesdays at 02:00.

  • Install a third-party configuration-management agent (e.g., Chef or Puppet) on every VM and schedule a weekly patch job from that tool's control plane.

  • Replace all custom images with the latest Container-Optimized OS image and rely on automatic image updates.

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