You are deploying a production application on Compute Engine. You want to prevent anyone from accidentally destroying the instance by clicking the wrong button. What should you do?

The correct answer is B. Enable delete protection on the instance. Preventing Accidental VM Deletion This document describes how to protect specific VM instances from deletion by setting the deletionProtection property on an Instance resource. To learn more about VM instances, read the Instances documentation…

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Question

You are deploying a production application on Compute Engine. You want to prevent anyone from accidentally destroying the instance by clicking the wrong button. What should you do?

Options

ADisable the flag "Delete boot disk when instance is deleted."
BEnable delete protection on the instance.
CDisable Automatic restart on the instance.
DEnable Preemptibility on the instance.

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A
5% (2)
B
89% (33)
C
3% (1)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

Preventing Accidental VM Deletion This document describes how to protect specific VM instances from deletion by setting the deletionProtection property on an Instance resource. To learn more about VM instances, read the Instances documentation. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preventing-accidental-vm-deletion

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