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You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You…

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Submitted by salim_om· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Question

You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instances in a different project in the US-East region. What steps must you take?

Options

  • AUse the Linux dd and netcat command to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual
  • BCreate a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a
  • CCreate an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new disk from the image
  • DCreate a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the

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  • A
    12% (2)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • D
    82% (14)

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#Compute Engine#Custom Images#Snapshots#Cross-Region Deployment

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