Question 1

You are deploying a web application on Compute Engine instances located in three different regions: us-central1, europe-west1, and asia-east1. You want to provide a single global IP address to your users. Traffic should be routed to the region closest to the user, and you need to terminate SSL/TLS at the load balancer.

Which load balancer should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Match the requirements: 'global IP', 'cross-region routing', and 'SSL termination' (Layer 7).

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP ACE question?

Accepted Answer

Selecting Network Load Balancer, which is a regional pass-through load balancer and cannot fulfill the global IP or SSL termination requirements.

How to approach this question

Full Answer

Common mistakes

Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 7

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