A developer accidentally misconfigured a Compute Engine instance, and it is now unresponsive. You need to restart the instance using the gcloud CLI.

Which command should you use?

Answer options:

gcloud compute instances restart [INSTANCE_NAME]

gcloud compute instances reset [INSTANCE_NAME]

gcloud compute instances stop [INSTANCE_NAME] --force

gcloud compute instances reboot [INSTANCE_NAME]

How to approach this question

Know the specific verb used by gcloud to perform a hard reboot on a VM.

Full Answer

B.gcloud compute instances reset [INSTANCE_NAME]✓ Correct

gcloud compute instances reset [INSTANCE_NAME]

To forcefully restart an unresponsive VM in GCP, you use the `gcloud compute instances reset` command. This performs a hard reset, wiping the memory contents and rebooting the OS.

Common mistakes

Guessing 'restart' or 'reboot', which are common terms but not valid gcloud commands.

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