Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Question 178
Select 2Google Cloud PlatformYour organization recently migrated a critical application to Google Cloud. The application has fluctuating workloads and a strict budget limitation. As part of your DevOps responsibilities, you are tasked with optimizing the cost and performance of the application without compromising reliability. Which Google Cloud recommenders should you consider to achieve this goal?
- A
Idle VM Recommender
- B
Rightsizing Recommender
- C
IAM Policy Recommender
- D
Unattended Project Recommender
- E
Network Performance Recommender
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
To optimize cost and performance for a critical application with fluctuating workloads, the Idle VM Recommender and Rightsizing Recommender are the most relevant tools. The Idle VM Recommender helps reduce costs by identifying underutilized or idle resources, while the Rightsizing Recommender provides suggestions to optimize instance sizes for better cost and performance efficiency. Other recommenders, such as IAM Policy Recommender and Network Performance Recommender, focus on security and network improvements, which are not the primary concerns in this case.
- A. Correct.
Idle VM Recommender identifies virtual machines that are underutilized or idle, helping you reduce costs by shutting down or resizing these instances. This aligns with the goal of optimizing cost.
- B. Correct.
Rightsizing Recommender provides insights into resizing virtual machine instances to better match their workloads, optimizing both cost and performance without sacrificing reliability.
- C. Incorrect.
IAM Policy Recommender focuses on improving the security of access policies, which is not directly related to cost or performance optimization in this scenario.
- D. Incorrect.
Unattended Project Recommender identifies projects that have been inactive for an extended period to optimize costs. However, this is not relevant to managing a critical application with fluctuating workloads.
- E. Incorrect.
Network Performance Recommender provides suggestions for improving network configurations to enhance performance, but it does not address cost optimization in this scenario.