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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?
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
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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