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Subtask 4.1: Technical ProcessesCapacity PlanningQuotasOperations

GCP PCA · Question 34 · Technical Processes

Your team is planning a massive load testing event for a new application. You anticipate needing to provision 5,000 Compute Engine instances with GPUs in the us-central1 region for a 48-hour period next weekend. What must you do to ensure the resources are available?

Answer options:

A.

Write a Terraform script to provision the instances; Terraform automatically bypasses quota limits.

B.

Submit a quota increase request to Google Cloud Support well in advance of the test.

C.

Use Preemptible/Spot VMs, as they do not consume standard compute quotas.

D.

Create multiple GCP projects and distribute the instances across them to avoid project-level quotas.

How to approach this question

Recognize that massive resource provisioning requires administrative approval via quotas.

Full Answer

B.Submit a quota increase request to Google Cloud Support well in advance of the test.✓ Correct
Submit a quota increase request to Google Cloud Support well in advance of the test.
Capacity planning in GCP requires managing Quotas. Default quotas for high-value resources like GPUs are relatively low. Before any massive scaling event (like a load test or a product launch), you must proactively request a quota increase via the IAM & Admin console.

Common mistakes

Assuming the cloud has 'infinite' capacity available instantly without administrative limits (A).

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