You are working with the head of the IT team and planning the move of computing systems. The questionnaire indicates that they have a reporting application that runs almost 24 hours every day of the…

Question

Options

• AUse a serverless option -App Engine Standard for Flex
• BUse a server-based option -Compute Engine.
• CUse a serverless option -Cloud Functions
• DServerless option -Cloud Run

• A
  9% (3)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  84% (27)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Cloud Functions is the recommended option here because the application processes queued tasks in an event-driven manner-it executes when work is available and idles when demand is low. Cloud Functions integrates naturally with Cloud Tasks or Pub/Sub to process queued workloads, scaling to zero when idle and scaling up automatically when tasks arrive. This matches the described pattern of queuing excess work and processing it when demand is lower. App Engine Standard/Flex (A) is better for long-running web applications. Compute Engine (B) is a server-based option that would run continuously and incur costs even during idle periods. Cloud Run (D) is container-based and better suited for HTTP-triggered workloads rather than queue-based batch processing.

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