You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you

The correct answer is A. When creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96.. N1 machine series have up to 96 vCPUs, 6.5 GB of memory per vCPU, and are available on Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, and Skylake CPU platforms. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types

Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 30, 2026Deploying and implementing a cloud solution

Question

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?

Options

AWhen creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96.
BWhen creating the VM, use Intel Skylake as the CPU platform.
CCreate the VM using Compute Engine default settings. Use gcloud to modify the running instance
DStart the VM using Compute Engine default settings, and adjust as you go based on Rightsizing

How the community answered

(50 responses)

A
88% (44)
B
6% (3)
C
4% (2)
D
2% (1)

Explanation

N1 machine series have up to 96 vCPUs, 6.5 GB of memory per vCPU, and are available on Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, and Skylake CPU platforms. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types

Topics

#Compute Engine#machine types#vCPUs#lift-and-shift migration

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice