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CV0-004 Practice Question: Uses a cloud management platform (CMP) to…
An organization uses a cloud management platform (CMP) to orchestrate resources across multiple cloud providers. The CMP has a policy that automatically terminates any VM that exceeds 85% CPU utilization for more than 15 minutes. The operations team receives complaints that some VMs are being terminated while performing legitimate batch processing jobs. What should the operations team do to resolve this issue?
⚠ Common exam trap
Cloud+ often tests the candidate's ability to recognize that modifying thresholds (Option D) or creating new groups (Option A) are overly complex or insufficient solutions, while disabling the policy (Option B) is too drastic, and the correct answer is a targeted exclusion mechanism that preserves the original policy's intent.
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Correct answer & explanation
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Add an exclusion list for known batch processing VMs.
It allows the operations team to exclude known batch processing VMs from the automatic termination policy without disabling the policy entirely or altering its thresholds. This approach maintains the policy's protective intent for other VMs while accommodating legitimate workloads that require sustained high CPU utilization. Cloud management platforms typically support exclusion lists or tags to selectively apply or bypass policies based on VM metadata or resource groups.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Create a separate VM group with a different policy that allows higher CPU for longer.
Why it's wrong here
Creating a separate VM group with a different CPU threshold policy does not address the root cause: the CMP’s termination rule lacks awareness of batch job context, so any group still subject to the same 85%-for-15-minutes trigger would terminate legitimate workloads. This approach is tempting because grouping VMs by workload type is a standard method to apply differentiated scaling or lifecycle policies, and it would be correct if the issue were simply that all batch VMs needed a uniform, higher CPU allowance without needing to distinguish batch jobs from other processes within the same VM.
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Disable the automatic termination policy.
Why it's wrong here
Disabling the policy removes protection against runaway processes.
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Add an exclusion list for known batch processing VMs.
Why this is correct
Excluding specific VMs allows the policy to remain effective while protecting batch jobs.
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Increase the CPU threshold to 95% and extend the duration to 30 minutes.
Why it's wrong here
This may still terminate batch jobs that run longer than 30 minutes.
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