ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #61
A cloud engineer has been assigned to work on a running project. He wants to know which VMs are running in the project. How could the cloud engineer get the information of the all VMs running in the…
The correct answer is D. Execute the command gcloud compute instances list. This question asks for the correct gcloud command to list all running VM instances within a Google Cloud project.
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- AExecute the command gcloud compute list
- BExecute the command gcloud list instances
- CExecute the command gcloud instances list
- DExecute the command gcloud compute instances list
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(22 responses)- B5% (1)
- C9% (2)
- D86% (19)
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This question asks for the correct gcloud command to list all running VM instances within a Google Cloud project.
`gcloud compute list` is an incomplete and incorrect command syntax for listing instances.
`gcloud list instances` is an incorrect command syntax; the `compute` subcommand and `instances` resource type are missing in the correct order.
`gcloud instances list` is an incorrect command syntax as it omits the `compute` subcommand required for Compute Engine operations.
The command `gcloud compute instances list` is the correct and standard method to retrieve a list of all Compute Engine VM instances in a Google Cloud project using the gcloud CLI.
Concept tested: GCP Compute Engine Instances Listing
Source: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/list
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