Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer — Question 49

You need to reduce the cost of virtual machines (VM) for your organization. After reviewing different options, you decide to leverage preemptible VM instances.
Which application is suitable for preemptible VMs?

Answer options

• A. A scalable in-memory caching system.
• B. The organization's public-facing website.
• C. A distributed, eventually consistent NoSQL database cluster with sufficient quorum.
• D. A GPU-accelerated video rendering platform that retrieves and stores videos in a storage bucket.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Preemptible VMs are ideal for batch jobs and workloads that can tolerate interruptions, making option D, the GPU-accelerated video rendering platform, a suitable choice as it can be paused and resumed. In contrast, options A and C involve systems that require high availability, and option B is critical for the organization's online presence, making them inappropriate for preemptible instances.