Exam Associate Cloud Engineer topic 1 question 271 discussion

Actual exam question from Google's Associate Cloud Engineer

Question #: 271
Topic #: 1

[All Associate Cloud Engineer Questions]

Your company is running a critical workload on a single Compute Engine VM instance. Your company's disaster recovery policies require you to back up the entire instance’s disk data every day. The backups must be retained for 7 days. You must configure a backup solution that complies with your company’s security policies and requires minimal setup and configuration. What should you do?

A. Configure the instance to use persistent disk asynchronous replication.
B. Configure daily scheduled persistent disk snapshots with a retention period of 7 days.
C. Configure Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function each day that creates a new machine image and deletes machine images that are older than 7 days.
D. Configure a bash script using gsutil to run daily through a cron job. Copy the disk’s files to a Cloud Storage bucket with archive storage class and an object lifecycle rule to delete the objects after 7 days.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by RuchiMishra at July 16, 2024, 11:52 a.m.

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Ciupaz

7 months ago

Selected Answer: B

This is a native GCP feature that requires minimal configuration and is fully managed.

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33d6a28

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

The key word is 'disk'

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denno22

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

B is the answer.

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flummoxed_individual

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

You can create snapshots from persistent disks. B is the simplest option

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BuenaCloudDE

11 months ago

Selected Answer: B

B is answer.

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RuchiMishra

11 months ago

Selected Answer: B

Compute Engine snapshots provide a fast and efficient way to back up the entire disk of a VM instance, including the operating system, applications, and data. They are incremental backups, meaning they only store the changes made since the last snapshot, which helps save storage costs.

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