Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam - Topic 1 Question 102 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam

Question #: 102
Topic #: 1

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[Optimizing service performance]

Your company runs an ecommerce website built with JVM-based applications and microservice architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) The application load increases during the day and decreases during the night Your operations team has configured the application to run enough Pods to handle the evening peak load You want to automate scaling by only running enough Pods and nodes for the load What should you do?

AConfigure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler but keep the node pool size static

BConfigure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler and enable the cluster autoscaler

CConfigure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler but keep the node pool size static

DConfigure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable the cluster autoscaler

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Suggested Answer: D

by Juliann at Mar 06, 2026, 10:29 PM

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