GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

A platform engineering team wants to speed up an internal hack-week project by using Gemini Cloud Assist from Cloud Shell. Their plan is to (1) describe the desired two-tier web architecture in natural language, (2) obtain a visual architecture diagram, (3) have Gemini generate Terraform code for a GKE cluster, Cloud SQL instance, and Cloud Load Balancer, and (4) ask Gemini to run the Terraform so the environment is created immediately with its state stored in a team-shared Cloud Storage bucket. When you are asked to validate this approach, what should you tell the team?

Gemini can deploy the requested resources directly by pushing Deployment Manager templates to GitHub and managing Terraform state in Secret Manager without any additional scripting.
Gemini can create the diagram and the Terraform templates, but the team must configure remote state and run Terraform themselves because Gemini does not automatically execute Terraform or set up its backend.
Gemini will generate the diagram, run terraform apply automatically, and then prompt you to move the state file into a Cloud Storage bucket.
Gemini is limited to producing individual gcloud commands; it cannot output either architecture diagrams or Terraform code.

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Gemini Cloud Assist's strengths are design ideation and code generation. In the Application Design Center it can turn a natural-language prompt into an architecture diagram and export a matching Terraform configuration. However, it does not take control of your CI/CD workflow: it will not execute terraform init/plan/apply, nor will it configure or manage a remote backend for state storage. After downloading the generated files, the team must still check them into version control, set up a secure Cloud Storage state backend, and run Terraform from an appropriate pipeline or workstation. Therefore, advising the team that Gemini covers steps 1 and 3 but leaves backend configuration and apply steps to them is correct, while the other options overstate or understate Gemini's current capabilities.

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