Your company is planning a massive marketing campaign that will require spinning up 5,000 new Compute Engine instances in the us-central1 region. What should you do first to ensure the capacity is available?

Answer options:

Write a Terraform script to deploy the instances.

Purchase Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for 5,000 instances.

Request a quota increase for Compute Engine CPUs in the us-central1 region.

Create a Managed Instance Group with a target size of 5,000.

How to approach this question

Recognize the administrative limits GCP places on new projects.

Full Answer

C.Request a quota increase for Compute Engine CPUs in the us-central1 region.✓ Correct

Google Cloud uses quotas to protect both the customer (from accidental massive bills) and Google (from capacity exhaustion). Before launching a massive workload, you must proactively request a quota increase via the IAM & Admin console.

Common mistakes

Assuming CUDs (B) guarantee capacity. (Note: GCP does offer 'Reservations' for capacity guarantees, but quota must still be addressed).

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