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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #334

Your team has developed a stateless application which requires it to be run directly on virtual machines. The application is expected to receive a fluctuating amount of traffic and needs to scale auto

The correct answer is A. Deploy the application on a managed instance group and configure autoscaling.. Managed Instance Groups (MIGs): MIGs are designed to manage groups of identical VMs, making them ideal for running stateless applications. They provide features like auto-scaling, auto-healing, and load balancing, which are crucial for handling fluctuating traffic. Autoscaling: Y

Submitted by saadiq_pk· Mar 30, 2026Deploying and implementing a cloud solution

Question

Your team has developed a stateless application which requires it to be run directly on virtual machines. The application is expected to receive a fluctuating amount of traffic and needs to scale automatically. You need to deploy the application. What should you do?

Options

  • ADeploy the application on a managed instance group and configure autoscaling.
  • BDeploy the application on a Kubernetes Engine cluster and configure node pool autoscaling.
  • CDeploy the application on Cloud Functions and configure the maximum number instances.
  • DDeploy the application on Cloud Run and configure autoscaling.

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    92% (36)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Managed Instance Groups (MIGs): MIGs are designed to manage groups of identical VMs, making them ideal for running stateless applications. They provide features like auto-scaling, auto-healing, and load balancing, which are crucial for handling fluctuating traffic. Autoscaling: You can configure autoscaling policies to automatically add or remove VM instances based on metrics like CPU utilization, HTTP load balancing traffic, or Stackdriver Monitoring metrics. This ensures that your application can scale up to handle peak traffic and scale down during periods of low demand.

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#managed instance group#autoscaling#stateless workload#Compute Engine

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