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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 4Question 41
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution InfrastructureGKESecurityAutoscaling

    GCP PCA · Question 41 · Domain 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure

    You are configuring a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The security team requires that pods must not run as the root user, and that the cluster must automatically scale the number of nodes based on resource requests. Which TWO features should you configure? (Select TWO)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Enable PodSecurity admission controller to enforce restricted policies.

    B.

    Enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA).

    C.

    Enable Cluster Autoscaler on the node pools.

    D.

    Configure Workload Identity.

    E.

    Enable Binary Authorization.

    How to approach this question

    Identify the Kubernetes feature that restricts pod privileges, and the GCP feature that scales nodes.

    Full Answer

    To prevent pods from running as root, you must enforce security standards at the cluster level using the PodSecurity admission controller (Option A). To automatically scale the underlying infrastructure (nodes) when pods cannot be scheduled due to lack of resources, you must enable the GKE Cluster Autoscaler (Option C).

    Common mistakes

    Selecting HPA (B). HPA scales pods. The prompt specifically asks to scale the 'number of nodes'.
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