Question 1

You are designing a batch processing architecture to render 3D video frames. The rendering jobs are fault-tolerant; if a job is interrupted, it can simply be restarted from the beginning without issues. The rendering process takes about 15 hours to complete in total, but individual frame jobs take only 10 minutes. You want to minimize compute costs.

Which Compute Engine feature should you utilize?

Accepted Answer

Identify the workload characteristics: fault-tolerant, short individual tasks, cost-sensitive. This is the textbook use case for Preemptible/Spot VMs.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP ACE question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Sustained Use Discounts, forgetting that they only apply if the VM runs for more than 25% of the month.

How to approach this question

Full Answer

Common mistakes

Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 6

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