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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Question #145: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is C: Create a managed instance group based on the instance template. Configure autoscaling based. A Is not correct because the Load Balancer will just load balance access to the uploaded image itself, and not create or autoscale VMs based on that image. B Is not correct because while the App Engine can scale as a proxy, all requests will still end up on the same Compute Engin

Submitted by saadiq_pk· Mar 30, 2026

Question

You have a definition for an instance template that contains a web application. You are asked to deploy the application so that it can scale based on the HTTP traffic it receives. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate a VM from the instance template. Create a custom image from the VM's disk. Export the
  • BCreate a VM from the instance template. Create an App Engine application in Automatic Scaling
  • CCreate a managed instance group based on the instance template. Configure autoscaling based
  • DCreate the necessary amount of instances required for peak user traffic based on the instance

Explanation

A Is not correct because the Load Balancer will just load balance access to the uploaded image itself, and not create or autoscale VMs based on that image. B Is not correct because while the App Engine can scale as a proxy, all requests will still end up on the same Compute Engine instance, which needs to scale itself. C is correct because a managed instance group can use an instance template to scale based on D is not correct because unmanaged instance groups do not offer autoscaling. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance- groups/#managed_instance_groups_and_autoscaling https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/export-image https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/adding-a-backend-bucket-to-content- based-load-balancing

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