You have created a subnet named subnetace1 with 16,382 addresses using 192.168.0.0. Later you realize that you won't require too many addresses, and so you want to reduce addresses to 254. Which of the following command would you use?

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D. There is no command in google cloud to reduce the number of available addresses in a subnet. Google Cloud Platform does not provide a direct command to reduce the IP address range of an existing subnet. Subnets can be expanded to include more addresses, but their size cannot be contracted, as this could lead to IP address conflicts or service disruptions if resources are already using addresses within the range to be removed.

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A. gcloud compute networks subnets expand-ip-range subnetace1 --prefix-length=28 The `expand-ip-range` command is used to increase the size of a subnet, not decrease it, and specifying `--prefix-length=28` for an existing range would not reduce it if the original range was larger.

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B. gcloud compute networks subnets expand-ip-range subnetace1 --size=248 The `expand-ip-range` command is used to increase the size of a subnet, not decrease it, and the `--size` flag is not a valid parameter for specifying subnet size reduction.

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C. gcloud compute networks subnets expand-ip-range subnetace1 --prefix-length=-12 The `expand-ip-range` command is for increasing the subnet size, not decreasing it, and a negative prefix length value is not a valid parameter.

You have created a subnet named subnetace1 with 16,382 addresses using 192.168.0.0. Later you realize that you won't require too many addresses, and so you want to reduce addresses to 254. Which of th

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