Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
A company is migrating a legacy application that uses a file server to GCP. The application requires a shared file system that supports the NFS protocol and can be mounted by multiple Compute Engine instances. The team also needs to use Cloud NAT to allow the instances to download updates. Which TWO services should they use? (Choose 2)
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud NAT
Filestore provides NFS file shares, and Cloud NAT allows instances without public IPs to access the internet for updates.
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Cloud NAT
Why this is correct
Cloud NAT enables outbound internet access for private instances.
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Cloud VPN
Why it's wrong here
Cloud VPN connects on-premises to GCP, not needed here.
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Cloud Storage Fuse
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Storage Fuse mounts Cloud Storage buckets as file systems, but it is not NFS.
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Cloud Filestore
Why this is correct
Filestore is a managed NFS file server.
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Private Google Access
Why it's wrong here
Private Google Access allows access to Google APIs, not general internet.
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Key term
Compute Engine
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google's infrastructure.
Key term
Filestore
Google Cloud Filestore is a managed file storage service that lets you mount a network file system (NFS) to multiple virtual machines simultaneously, just like a shared folder on an office network.
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