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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

During a Google Cloud Well-Architected review, you discover that a business unit runs several hundred Compute Engine instances across multiple projects and routinely provisions them at peak capacity. The finance team demands a concrete plan to lower unpredictable spending while keeping current service levels intact. Which recommendation most closely aligns with the Cost Optimization pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework for this scenario?

  • Configure autoscaling policies to add additional VM instances when CPU utilization exceeds 70 %, ensuring services remain highly available during traffic spikes.

  • Migrate workloads to larger custom machine types now to accommodate expected traffic growth over the next 12 months and avoid future performance issues.

  • Implement VPC Service Controls for all projects and forward all network logs to Cloud Logging to reduce data-exfiltration risk and simplify security audits.

  • Export Compute Engine rightsizing and idle-VM recommendations to BigQuery, trigger a Cloud Function to automatically resize or shut down inefficient instances, and monitor savings with Cloud Billing reports.

GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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