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Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam Actual Questions

315 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 247 of 315

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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?
ALog into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for analysis.
BUse the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.
CUse the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.
DFrom the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are no longer responding to health check probes.
Correct Answer: C

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

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