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Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam

284 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 279 of 284

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Your company is running a critical workload on a single Compute Engine VM instance. Your company's disaster recovery policies require you to back up the entire instance’s disk data every day. The backups must be retained for 7 days. You must configure a backup solution that complies with your company’s security policies and requires minimal setup and configuration. What should you do?
AConfigure the instance to use persistent disk asynchronous replication.
BConfigure daily scheduled persistent disk snapshots with a retention period of 7 days.
CConfigure Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function each day that creates a new machine image and deletes machine images that are older than 7 days.
DConfigure a bash script using gsutil to run daily through a cron job. Copy the disk’s files to a Cloud Storage bucket with archive storage class and an object lifecycle rule to delete the objects after 7 days.
Correct Answer: B

Configure daily scheduled persistent disk snapshots with a retention period of 7 days.

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