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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your data science team runs nightly Monte-Carlo simulations that take about two hours and write checkpoints to Cloud Storage every minute. The workload is stateless and can resume from the last checkpoint if a VM disappears. The team currently uses regular N2-highcpu-16 VMs in a zonal managed instance group and wants to reduce compute costs as much as possible without adding operational complexity. What should you do?

  • Build a custom machine type with 8 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM to reduce per-VM cost and continue running the group with standard VMs.

  • Keep the current instance template but purchase one-year committed use discounts (CUDs) for the N2-highcpu-16 shape to lower the bill.

  • Set the instances' availability policy to live migrate and automatic restart so they resume if host maintenance occurs, reducing wasted work.

  • Create a new instance template that uses Spot VMs and replace the managed instance group's template with it, accepting that the instances may be preempted during the run.

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Planning and implementing a cloud solution
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