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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #228

Your organization mandates that all internal IP addresses used by all database VMs must be statically allocated. While analyzing your VPC IP address allocations, you observed that the database VMs…

The correct answer is A. Promote the internal IP addresses to static assignments for all database VMs. Promoting to static assignments: Google Cloud allows you to promote the existing ephemeral (dynamic) internal IP addresses of VMs to static IP addresses without requiring a VM shutdown or reconfiguration. This process preserves the current IP addresses, ensuring that there is…

Submitted by hans_de· Apr 18, 2026Implementing a Google Cloud network

Question

Your organization mandates that all internal IP addresses used by all database VMs must be statically allocated. While analyzing your VPC IP address allocations, you observed that the database VMs do not have static IP addresses. You need to configure the VPC to follow your organization's mandate without causing any disruption to current operations. What should you do?

Options

  • APromote the internal IP addresses to static assignments for all database VMs.
  • BCreate a firewall rule to allow only traffic to the IP addresses allocated to your database VMs.
  • CDefine a maintenance window to shut down the database VMs one at a time, promote the internal
  • DDefine an organization policy to allow only statically allocated IP addresses for VMs. Ensure the

How the community answered

(55 responses)
  • A
    85% (47)
  • B
    5% (3)
  • C
    7% (4)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Promoting to static assignments: Google Cloud allows you to promote the existing ephemeral (dynamic) internal IP addresses of VMs to static IP addresses without requiring a VM shutdown or reconfiguration. This process preserves the current IP addresses, ensuring that there is no disruption to database services or dependent applications. Since promoting the IP addresses does not require shutting down or restarting the VMs, the change can be applied seamlessly during normal operations.

Topics

#Internal IP addresses#Static IP allocation#VM configuration#Non-disruptive operations

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