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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question 32: Committed Use Discount Baseline

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer · Test 4 · question 2 of 10

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A company runs a database on Compute Engine VMs of a fixed machine family and size. The VMs have run 24 hours a day for a year, and the workload will continue for at least the next three years. The company wants the largest discount without risking interruptions.

What should you purchase?

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Answer:

  • C. A three year resource based committed use discount for the vCPUs and memory in use

Committed use discounts (CUDs) trade a one or three year commitment to a level of resource usage for a lower price. For steady, predictable, 24/7 workloads, a three year commitment gives the deepest discount and the VMs are unaffected, so there is no interruption risk.

Option A is cheap, but Spot VMs can be preempted at any time, which is unsuitable for a database. Option B gives smaller discounts, and they are not available for every machine series. Option D helps you monitor costs but does not lower the price of anything.

Reference: Committed use discounts

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