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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your project stores 30 daily snapshots of a 2-TB persistent disk. To reduce costs, you plan to delete the first seven snapshots that were taken a month ago. A teammate is concerned that because Compute Engine snapshots are incremental, removing the earliest snapshots will corrupt or make later snapshots unusable. What will actually happen when you delete the oldest snapshots?

  • Google Cloud automatically turns the next snapshot into a full snapshot before allowing the deletion, so storage usage stays the same.

  • Only the data blocks that are no longer referenced are removed; later snapshots stay fully restorable.

  • All later snapshots become unusable because the incremental chain is broken.

  • Deletion is blocked until you either delete the entire snapshot chain or create a new full snapshot of the disk.

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
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