October 2026
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
24h 25m
English
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Appendix B. Answer Keys
Chapter 1 Answer Key
D. Backup and DR Service provides policy-driven scheduling (intraday/four-hour intervals), enforces multiyear retention, and lets you store backups in a separate region’s vault to survive a regional outage—all as a managed service with no custom scripting. WAF pillar: reliability.
A. and C. A regional MIG distributes instances across zones in the region, so the loss of one zone leaves capacity running in the others without manual action. autohealing driven by an application health check recreates instances that have crashed, frozen, or become unresponsive, restoring availability automatically. WAF pillar: reliability.
D. Sole-tenant nodes are dedicated physical Compute Engine servers that run only this project’s VMs, satisfying the BYOL physical-isolation mandate, and they still qualify for sustained use discounts. WAF pillar: security, privacy, and compliance.
B. Evaluating long-term TCO (including operational and hidden costs) against expected ROI gives sponsors the financial basis to compare lift-and-shift versus refactor. WAF pillar: cost optimization.
C. Gemini Cloud Assist delivers AI-assisted provisioning guidance, rightsizing, and cost/config recommendations directly inside console and operations workflows, matching the stated need. WAF pillar: operational excellence.
Chapter 2 Answer Key
B. Rapid elasticity lets Cymbal scale up for peak events and back down afterward, paying only for what they use—moving spend from a ...
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