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An engineer needs to provision a GKE cluster with a node pool that uses preemptible VMs to reduce costs. Which gcloud command should they use?

Trap 1: gcloud container clusters update --preemptible

Preemptibility is set at node pool creation, not cluster update.

Trap 2: gcloud container clusters create --preemptible-nodes

There is no --preemptible-nodes flag; the flag is --preemptible on the node-pool create command.

Trap 3: gcloud compute instances create --preemptible

This creates a standalone VM, not a GKE node pool.

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A
gcloud container clusters update --preemptible
Why wrong: Preemptibility is set at node pool creation, not cluster update.
B
gcloud container clusters create --preemptible-nodes
Why wrong: There is no --preemptible-nodes flag; the flag is --preemptible on the node-pool create command.
C
gcloud compute instances create --preemptible
Why wrong: This creates a standalone VM, not a GKE node pool.
D
gcloud container node-pools create --preemptible
This correctly creates a node pool with preemptible VMs.

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Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure questions

An engineer needs to provision a GKE cluster with a node pool that uses preemptible VMs to reduce costs. Which gcloud command should they use?

A company uses Cloud Deployment Manager to manage infrastructure. They want to roll back to a previous deployment state after a failed update. What is the recommended approach?

A team wants to enforce that only container images signed by their CI/CD system can be deployed to GKE. They have enabled Binary Authorization with a policy that requires an attestor. What additional step must they take to bind the attestor to the image signing process?

An organization has multiple GCP projects managed by a central operations team. They want to define a common VPC configuration in a host project and allow service projects to use it. Which networking feature should they use?

A Cloud Run service needs to connect to a Cloud SQL MySQL instance privately without using public IP. What must be configured?

Which GCP service should be used to automatically scale a GKE cluster's number of nodes based on pending pods?

Which GCP service provides distributed tracing to help analyze latency in microservices applications?

A developer wants to deploy a Cloud Function that is triggered whenever a new object is created in a Cloud Storage bucket. Which trigger type should they choose?

An organization wants to ensure that all VMs in a project have the 'restricted-vm' tag to apply a firewall rule that allows only SSH from a bastion host. The VMs are created by multiple teams. Which approach ensures the tag is automatically applied to all new VMs?

A company runs a stateful workload on GKE that requires at most one pod per node. They want to survive a zonal failure with minimal downtime. The application can be restarted on a new node. Which configuration should they use?

An engineer wants to store a database password securely and allow a Cloud Run service to access it. Which GCP service should they use?

A team is building a CI/CD pipeline for a Java application that will run on GKE. They want to automatically build the application, run unit tests, create a Docker image, push it to Artifact Registry, and deploy to GKE. Which two GCP services should be combined? (Choose two.)

An organization wants to monitor and alert on custom application metrics from a GKE cluster. They also need to view logs in real-time and create metrics from log content. Which two GCP services should they use? (Choose two.)

A company uses Terraform to manage infrastructure. They want to store the Terraform state file remotely and enable state locking to prevent concurrent modifications. Which three Google Cloud services or features should they use? (Choose three.)

A DevOps team wants to automate the deployment of infrastructure on Google Cloud using a declarative configuration language. They need to support Python and Jinja templates for reusable modules. Which service should they use?

A team is using Cloud Build to deploy a microservice to Cloud Run. They want to ensure that only containers built from a specific trusted branch in their source repository are deployed to production. Which Cloud Build feature should they use?

A company runs a stateful application on GKE that requires persistent storage. They want to ensure that during cluster upgrades, pods are not disrupted and storage is preserved. Which configuration should they use?

A security team wants to enforce that only container images signed by their internal CI/CD pipeline can run on GKE clusters. They also need to ensure that unsigned images are rejected at admission time. Which combination of services and configurations should they use?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application on Google Cloud that can scale to zero when not in use and charges only for resources consumed during request processing. Which compute service should they choose?

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