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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #278

You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows…

The correct answer is C. Change the filter to metric.label.state = 'used' AND metric.label.state = 'buffered' AND. in minutes which is not the case its percentage % and not time based. metric.label.state = 'cached' AND metric.label.state = 'slab'. (this gives total memory used) need to change the the percent_used to percent_free)…

Submitted by jaden.t· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring solution and operations reliability

Question

You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows: - Metric identifier: agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used - Filter: metric.label.state = 'used' - Target utilization level: 80 - Target type: GAUGE You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?

Options

  • AChange the Target type to DELTA_PER_MINUTE. (in this case the utlization tagret need to be
  • BChange the Metric identifier to agent.googleapis.com/memory/bytes_used. (not applicable)
  • CChange the filter to metric.label.state = 'used' AND metric.label.state = 'buffered' AND
  • DChange the filter to metric.label.state = 'free' and the Target utilization to 20. (you would still

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  • B
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  • C
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  • D
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Explanation

in minutes which is not the case its percentage % and not time based. metric.label.state = 'cached' AND metric.label.state = 'slab'. (this gives total memory used) need to change the the percent_used to percent_free) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69267526/what-is-disk-data-cached-in-the-memory-usage- chart-metrics-of-gcp-compute-in https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-cloud-monitoring-metricset.

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#Compute Engine autoscaling#Cloud Monitoring#memory metrics#autoscaling policy

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