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Professional Cloud Architect
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Spot VMs

Professional Cloud Architect

Design, plan, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available solutions on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Architect exam Domain by Domain.

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Google Cloud feature

Spot VMs

Topic in 9 exam domains

Spot VMs · Feature
Spot VMs · Concept · Compute Engine

Also called: preemptible instance, Preemptible VM Instances, spot, spot instance, spot instances, Spot VM

Discounted Compute Engine virtual machine instances suitable for fault-tolerant workloads that can withstand disruptions.

Where this appears on the exam

9 objectives in 3 of 6 domains

Domain 1
Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
~25% of exam
1. 1.1Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
  - Cost optimization
  - Design decision trade-offs
2. 1.2Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
  - Flexibility of cloud resources
3. 1.3Designing network, storage, and compute resources
  - Choosing compute resources (e.g., spot VMs, custom machine types, and specialized workload)
4. 1.4Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and architectural diagrams)
  - Determining software license implications and financial impact
5. 1.5Envisioning future solution improvements
  - Cloud-first design approach
Domain 2
Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure
~17.5% of exam
1. 2.2Configuring individual storage systems
  - Data processing and compute provisioning
Domain 4
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
~15% of exam
1. 4.2Analyzing and defining business processes
  - Decision-making processes
  - Cost optimization/resource optimization (CapEx/OpEx)

Related topics

termination actionFeature Application Default CredentialsFeature Compute EngineService Agent PlatformService GPUConcept managed instance groupsFeature GKEService reservationsFeature managed instance groupFeature Cloud Service MeshService flex-startFeature instance flexibilityFeature instance templateConcept spot provisioning modelConcept Local SSDFeature

Spot VMsFeature

Preemptible VMFeature Cloud LoggingService Cloud MonitoringService

Points to what builds on itWorks with or alternative to

Preemptible VM is an alternative to Spot VMs
Spot VMs is part of Compute Engine
managed instance group works with Spot VMs
Agent Platform works with Spot VMs
instance flexibility works with Spot VMs
Spot VMs depends on spot provisioning model
termination action configures Spot VMs
flex-start works with Spot VMs
flex-start is an alternative to Spot VMs
GPU works with Spot VMs
Local SSD works with Spot VMs
managed instance groups works with Spot VMs
Spot VMs is part of GKE
Application Default Credentials works with Compute Engine
Application Default Credentials secures Agent Platform
Agent Platform depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials secures Compute Engine
Cloud Logging works with GKE
Compute Engine is an alternative to GKE
managed instance groups is part of Compute Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with GKE
managed instance groups depends on instance template
Cloud Service Mesh depends on GKE
Cloud Service Mesh works with GKE
instance template works with managed instance group
Local SSD is part of Compute Engine
managed instance group depends on instance template
Cloud Logging works with Compute Engine
Cloud Service Mesh works with Compute Engine
GKE depends on Compute Engine
GKE works with Local SSD
instance flexibility is part of managed instance group
instance template is part of Compute Engine
instance template configures managed instance group
Application Default Credentials works with GKE
Cloud Monitoring works with Compute Engine
managed instance group is part of Compute Engine
managed instance group works with Preemptible VM
Agent Platform works with Application Default Credentials
Agent Platform works with Cloud Logging
Agent Platform works with GKE
Application Default Credentials configures Compute Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with managed instance groups
Cloud Service Mesh works with managed instance groups
Compute Engine works with GKE
flex-start is part of GKE
flex-start works with managed instance group
flex-start is an alternative to reservations
GPU is part of Compute Engine
GPU works with Local SSD
instance flexibility is part of managed instance groups
instance flexibility works with reservations
instance template configures Local SSD
instance template is part of managed instance group
instance template works with managed instance groups
instance template configures managed instance groups
instance template configures spot provisioning model
Local SSD works with Preemptible VM
managed instance group is part of managed instance groups
reservations is part of Compute Engine

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