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Question #: 6
Topic #: 3
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For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of
Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you do?

  • A. Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for analysis.
  • B. Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.
  • C. Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.
  • D. From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are no longer responding to health check probes.
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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MamthaSJ
Highly Voted 3 years, 2 months ago
Answer is C
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khadar
2 years ago
I too got this question in 10-09-22 exam with similar option and result is pass
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mkhaired
Highly Voted 3 years, 2 months ago
C is the Correct answer C. Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations
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Gino17m
Most Recent 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
C i scorrect
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tdotcat
1 year, 8 months ago
answer C check here : https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations#viewing_idle_vm_instance_recommendations
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surajkrishnamurthy
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C is the correct answer
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megumin
1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C is ok
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zellck
2 years ago
Selected Answer: C
C is the answer which is to use recommender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBsLG4jCHJk
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satamex
2 years, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: C
Some one who can explain me why A is an answer? is it deliberate?
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randy8984
1 year, 2 months ago
because the questions says "quickly"
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Mikado211
2 years, 1 month ago
Don't pay too much attention to the "correct answer", the "most voted" is much more reliable.
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deenee
2 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C looks decent as identification has to be done quickly. Manually checking each machines will take lot of time. Moreover--- even option A says "CPUs" and not GPUs "Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for analysis."
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AzureDP900
2 years, 2 months ago
C is right
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Tillssatya12
2 years, 3 months ago
All the quesrions had come from this site , especially couple of case studies and answer is C
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mad314
2 years, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: C
Had this question on my exam.
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technodev
2 years, 8 months ago
Got this question in my exam, answered C
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hightech
2 years, 8 months ago
Did all the questions in the exam come from this site?
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Pime13
2 years, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
to me should be C -> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations#before-you-begin
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vincy2202
2 years, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C is the correct answer
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SamGCP
2 years, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations
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SamGCP
2 years, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: C
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations
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