You are deploying a legacy application on a Compute Engine instance. The application requires a fixed, unchanging external IP address because external partners whitelist this IP in their firewalls.

Which TWO steps must you take to configure this? (Select TWO)

To provide a Compute Engine instance with a fixed external IP address, you must perform two steps. First, you reserve a static external IP address in the same region as your VM. This ensures the IP is allocated to your project and will not change. Second, you assign this reserved IP address to the network interface of the VM (either during creation or by editing an existing VM). Note that in GCP, the external IP is handled by the VPC's transparent NAT; the guest OS itself is only aware of its internal IP address.