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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 5Question 36
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Subtask 1.2: Technical RequirementsHigh AvailabilityCompute EngineLoad Balancing

    GCP PCA · Question 36 · Technical Requirements

    You are designing a highly available web application on Compute Engine. The application must survive a single zone failure without any manual intervention. Which TWO architectural components are required? (Select TWO)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Regional Managed Instance Group (MIG)

    B.

    Zonal Managed Instance Group (MIG)

    C.

    HTTP(S) Load Balancer

    D.

    Cloud VPN

    E.

    Cloud Storage Multi-region bucket

    How to approach this question

    Identify the compute grouping and traffic routing components needed for multi-zone HA.

    Full Answer

    Regional Managed Instance Group, HTTP(S) Load Balancer
    To survive a zone failure, compute resources must span multiple zones (Regional MIG). Additionally, a Load Balancer is required to perform health checks and route incoming user traffic only to the healthy instances in the surviving zones.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting Zonal MIG (B) which provides no cross-zone redundancy.
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