Preemptible Vms — Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Practice Questions
Preemptible VMs (now called Spot VMs in GCP) are short-lived Compute Engine instances offered at significantly reduced prices compared to standard on-demand instances, with the trade-off that Google can reclaim them with a 30-second notice when capacity is needed. The Professional Cloud Architect exam tests understanding of which workloads are appropriate candidates, specifically batch jobs, data processing pipelines, and fault-tolerant stateless services that can checkpoint state and resume after interruption. Candidates should know how to configure instance groups with preemptible VMs, handle the preemption signal gracefully, and combine preemptible capacity with standard instances for hybrid pools. This topic intersects with cost optimization and high-availability design patterns.
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