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Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam Actual Questions

315 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 109 of 315

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Your company is running its application workloads on Compute Engine. The applications have been deployed in production, acceptance, and development environments. The production environment is business-critical and is used 24/7, while the acceptance and development environments are only critical during office hours. Your CFO has asked you to optimize these environments to achieve cost savings during idle times. What should you do?
ACreate a shell script that uses the gcloud command to change the machine type of the development and acceptance instances to a smaller machine type outside of office hours. Schedule the shell script on one of the production instances to automate the task.
BUse Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function that will stop the development and acceptance environments after office hours and start them just before office hours.
CDeploy the development and acceptance applications on a managed instance group and enable autoscaling.
DUse regular Compute Engine instances for the production environment, and use preemptible VMs for the acceptance and development environments.
Correct Answer: B

Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function that will stop the development and acceptance environments after office hours and start them just before office hours.

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