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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your company has about 500 Compute Engine VMs running Debian and CentOS across several projects. A critical CVE must be fixed on every VM within two days. Security says patches must run in a single 4-hour maintenance window, you must avoid logging in to instances, and you must produce a success/failure report afterward. With the least operational effort, what should you do?

  • Create new instance templates using the latest OS images, migrate all workloads into new managed instance groups during the window, and delete the original VMs afterward.

  • Write a Cloud Function that uses OS Login over SSH to connect to every VM during the window, run the appropriate yum or apt commands, and export the output to Cloud Logging for later analysis.

  • Enable VM Manager by turning on the OS Config API in each project, verify the OS Config agent is installed on every VM, and schedule a patch deployment that targets the Debian and CentOS instances during the maintenance window.

  • Build custom patched images for Debian and CentOS, store them in Artifact Registry, and use Terraform to destroy and recreate each VM from the new images during the maintenance window.

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