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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #370

You are developing a deep learning model that requires high-performance access to large volumes of media data currently stored in Cloud Storage. Model training will be executed on multiple VM instance

The correct answer is C. Use the gcsfuse command line tool to mount the Cloud Storage bucket as a local file system, and. Using gcsfuse lets you mount a Cloud Storage bucket so your training code can access objects through standard file system paths without building a separate storage layer. This keeps the architecture simple and avoids the added cost and management of provisioning shared file stora

Submitted by ashley.k· Mar 30, 2026Managing implementation

Question

You are developing a deep learning model that requires high-performance access to large volumes of media data currently stored in Cloud Storage. Model training will be executed on multiple VM instances with GPUs attached, but your application must interact with the data as if it were on the local file system. You need to minimize complexity and cost. What should you do?

Options

  • ACopy the data from Cloud Storage to Filestore, and then mount the Filestore volume as a local file
  • BCreate a shared persistent disk, attach the disk to your VM instances, and load data from the
  • CUse the gcsfuse command line tool to mount the Cloud Storage bucket as a local file system, and
  • DUse the gsutil command line tool to download the data to your VM instances.

How the community answered

(42 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    76% (32)
  • D
    14% (6)

Explanation

Using gcsfuse lets you mount a Cloud Storage bucket so your training code can access objects through standard file system paths without building a separate storage layer. This keeps the architecture simple and avoids the added cost and management of provisioning shared file storage for large media datasets.

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#Cloud Storage FUSE#GPU instances#deep learning#object storage mounting

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