Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect — Question 219

Your company is expanding its AI-powered operations nationwide and has chosen accelerator-based compute for the AI workloads. The batch image processing workloads are not time-sensitive and can tolerate interruptions. You need to rapidly deploy cost-effective accelerator nodes for these batch tasks, ensuring rapid deployment and data persistence when necessary. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Deploy standard VMs with configured accelerators and attached persistent disks.
• B. Deploy spot VMs with attached persistent disks and implement checkpoint mechanisms.
• C. Deploy spot VMs with local SSD to reduce time for bursty workloads
• D. Deploy Cloud Run functions with ephemeral local SSD.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because deploying spot VMs with attached persistent disks and implementing checkpoint mechanisms allows for cost savings and data retention during interruptions. Option A is less cost-effective, while C does not provide the necessary data persistence, and D does not meet the requirement for data persistence at all.