Review Questions

You can find the answers in the Appendix.

1. You are deploying a Python web application to GCP. The application uses only custom code and basic Python libraries. You expect to have sporadic use of the application for the foreseeable future and want to minimize both the cost of running the application and the DevOps overhead of managing the application. Which computing service is the best option for running the application?

   1. Compute Engine
   2. App Engine standard environment
   3. App Engine flexible environment
   4. Kubernetes Engine

2. Your manager is concerned about the rate at which the department is spending on cloud services. You suggest that your team use preemptible VMs for all of the following except which one?

   1. Database server
   2. Batch processing with no fixed time requirement to complete
   3. High-performance computing cluster
   4. None of the above

3. What parameters need to be specified when creating a VM in Compute Engine?

   1. Project and zone
   2. Username and admin role
   3. Billing...