You need to deploy a legacy application on Compute Engine. The application has strict licensing requirements and requires exactly 6 vCPUs and 45 GB of memory. None of the predefined machine types match this exact specification, and you want to avoid over-provisioning to save costs.

Which TWO statements are true regarding creating a custom machine type for this requirement? (Select TWO)

Answer options:

You can create this instance using the gcloud compute instances create command with the --custom-cpu and --custom-memory flags.

Custom machine types are only available in specific premium regions.

The number of vCPUs must be an even number (except for 1 vCPU).

Memory must be specified in exact increments of 1024 MB (1 GB).

You must purchase a committed use discount before creating a custom machine type.

How to approach this question

Recall the rules and CLI flags for creating custom machine types in Compute Engine.

Full Answer

You can create this instance using the gcloud compute instances create command with the --custom-cpu and --custom-memory flags., The number of vCPUs must be an even number (except for 1 vCPU).

Custom machine types allow you to specify the exact number of vCPUs and memory for an instance. To do this via CLI, you use `--custom-cpu` and `--custom-memory`. Google enforces certain rules: above 1 vCPU, the vCPU count must be an even number (6 is valid), and memory must be between 0.9 GB and 6.5 GB per vCPU, specified in 256 MB increments.

Common mistakes

Assuming custom machine types can have any odd number of vCPUs (like 3 or 5).

Question 13 All questions Question 15

Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 3

50 questions · hints · full answers · grading

More questions from this exam

Q01You are starting a new project in Google Cloud and need to create a new GCP project and enable th...Easy Q02A new team member has joined your operations team. They need to be able to view all Compute Engin...Medium Q03Your company is migrating to Google Cloud. You currently manage all employee identities in an on-...Medium Q04Your development team is experimenting with new GCP services in a sandbox project. The finance te...Medium Q05Your company wants to perform complex, custom SQL analysis on their Google Cloud billing data to ...Easy

View all 50 questions →