ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Question #157: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

You have a workload running on Compute Engine that is critical to your business. You want to ensure that the data on the boot disk of this workload is backed up regularly. You need to be able to restore a backup as quickly as possible in case of disaster. You also want older backups to be cleaned automatically to save on cost. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options

• ACreate a Cloud Function to create an instance template.
• BCreate a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval.
• CCreate a cron job to create a new disk from the disk using gcloud.
• DCreate a Cloud Task to create an image and export it to Cloud Storage.

Explanation

Best practices for persistent disk snapshots You can create persistent disk snapshots at any time, but you can create snapshots more quickly and with greater reliability if you use the following best practices. Creating frequent snapshots efficiently Use snapshots to manage your data efficiently. Create a snapshot of your data on a regular schedule to minimize data loss due to unexpected Improve performance by eliminating excessive snapshot downloads and by creating an image Set your snapshot schedule to off-peak hours to reduce snapshot time. Snapshot frequency limits Creating snapshots from persistent disks You can snapshot your disks at most once every 10 minutes. If you want to issue a burst of requests to snapshot your disks, you can issue at most 6 requests in 60 minutes. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices

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