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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #307

To ensure that your application will handle the load even if an entire zone fails, what should you do? Select all correct options.

The correct answer is B. Spread your managed instance group over two zones and overprovision by 100%. (for Two Zone) D. Overprovision your regional managed instance group by at least 50%. (for Three Zones). B is correct if one zone fails you still have 100% desired capacity in another zone C is incorrect because it won’t be able to handle the full load since, it’s unmanaged group and won’t auto scale accordingly. D is correct since you have at least total 150% desired capacity…

Submitted by rania.sa· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Question

To ensure that your application will handle the load even if an entire zone fails, what should you do? Select all correct options.

Options

  • ADon't select the "Multizone" option when creating your managed instance group.
  • BSpread your managed instance group over two zones and overprovision by 100%. (for Two Zone)
  • CCreate a regional unmanaged instance group and spread your instances across multiple zones.
  • DOverprovision your regional managed instance group by at least 50%. (for Three Zones)

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    20% (6)
  • B
    73% (22)
  • C
    7% (2)

Explanation

B is correct if one zone fails you still have 100% desired capacity in another zone C is incorrect because it won’t be able to handle the full load since, it’s unmanaged group and won’t auto scale accordingly. D is correct since you have at least total 150% desired capacity spread over 3 zones, each zone has 50% capacity. You’ll have 100% desired capacity in two zones if any single zone failed at If you are creating a regional managed instance group in a region with at least three zones, Google recommends overprovisioning your instance group by at least 50%.

Topics

#managed instance groups#zone failure#high availability#overprovisioning

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