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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Question #189: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: 1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk.. Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk This document describes how to create a snapshot schedule to regularly and automatically back up your zonal and regional persistent disks. Use snapshot schedules as a best practice to back up your Compute Engine workloads. After cr

Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026

Question

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?

Options

  • A1. Update your instances' metadata to add the following value: snapshot-schedule: 0 1 * * *
  • B1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk.
  • C1. Create a Cloud Function that creates a snapshot of your instance's disk.
  • D1. Create a bash script in the instance that copies the content of the disk to Cloud Storage.

Explanation

Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk This document describes how to create a snapshot schedule to regularly and automatically back up your zonal and regional persistent disks. Use snapshot schedules as a best practice to back up your Compute Engine workloads. After creating a snapshot schedule, you can apply it to one or more persistent disks. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots

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