Google Associate Cloud Engineer Question 76
Single answerGoogle Cloud PlatformYou are tasked with setting up a scalable web application on Google Cloud Platform that can efficiently handle incoming traffic from users worldwide. Which of the following Google Cloud products should you use to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances located in different regions to ensure availability and low latency?
- A
Google Cloud Load Balancing
- B
Google Cloud CDN
- C
Google Compute Engine
- D
Google Cloud Functions
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
To handle incoming traffic efficiently and ensure availability and low latency for users worldwide, Google Cloud Load Balancing should be used. It provides intelligent traffic distribution across multiple instances in different regions. This ensures that the application can scale to handle varying traffic loads while maintaining high performance and availability.
- A. Correct.
Google Cloud Load Balancing is the correct choice as it allows you to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances located in different regions, ensuring high availability and low latency for users worldwide.
- B. Incorrect.
Google Cloud CDN is used to cache content at the edge of Google's network, reducing latency for content delivery, but it does not distribute traffic across instances.
- C. Incorrect.
Google Compute Engine provides virtual machines to run applications but does not distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances by itself.
- D. Incorrect.
Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for running event-driven code but is not used for distributing traffic across multiple regions.