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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #259
Your company has an application running on Compute Engine that allows users to play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances. Files are stored in Cloud Storage, and data is…
The correct answer is D. 1. Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances. Cache content closer to the end user to optimize delivery time and other benefits. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse#notes
Submitted by salim_om· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes
Question
Your company has an application running on Compute Engine that allows users to play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances. Files are stored in Cloud Storage, and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they sometimes need to attempt to play popular songs multiple times before they are successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should you do?
Options
- A
- Mount the Cloud Storage bucket using gcsfuse on all backend Compute Engine instances.
- B
- Create a Cloud Filestore NFS volume and attach it to the backend Compute Engine instances.
- C
- Copy popular songs into CloudSQL as a blob.
- D
- Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances.
How the community answered
(19 responses)- B11% (2)
- C5% (1)
- D84% (16)
Explanation
Cache content closer to the end user to optimize delivery time and other benefits. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse#notes
Topics
#managed instance group#Cloud CDN#content caching#streaming performance
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