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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 2Question 12
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2.2: Planning and configuring compute resourcesCloud RunServerlessContainersCompute Selection

    GCP ACE · Question 12 · Domain 2.2: Planning and configuring compute resources

    Your team has developed a stateless, containerized web application. Traffic is highly unpredictable, sometimes dropping to zero and other times spiking massively. You want to deploy this application with the least amount of operational overhead, paying only when the application is actively processing requests.

    Which compute service should you choose?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Compute Engine

    B.

    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    C.

    Cloud Run

    D.

    App Engine Standard

    How to approach this question

    Look for keywords: 'containerized', 'stateless', 'scales to zero', 'least operational overhead'.

    Full Answer

    C.Cloud Run✓ Correct
    Cloud Run is the ideal choice for stateless containers with variable traffic. It abstracts away all infrastructure management (lowest overhead) and scales down to zero, meaning you are billed only for the exact compute time used during request processing.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing GKE because it supports containers, ignoring the 'least operational overhead' and 'scale to zero' requirements.
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