Compute commands (instances, disks) in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to list all Compute Engine instances in the current project.

GCP

gcloud compute instances [1]

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Adelete

Bstart

Clist

Dcreate

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'create' instead of 'list' will try to make a new instance.

Using 'delete' will remove instances.

The list command shows all instances in your project.

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medium

Complete the command to create a new persistent disk named 'my-disk' of size 100GB in zone us-central1-a.

GCP

gcloud compute disks create my-disk --size=[1] --zone=us-central1-a

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A100GB

B1TB

C10GB

D50GB

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Omitting the unit 'GB' causes errors.

Using a smaller size than requested.

The --size flag sets the disk size. Here, 100GB is the requested size.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to start an instance named 'web-server' in zone us-east1-b.

GCP

gcloud compute instances [1] web-server --zone=us-east1-b

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Astop

Bcreate

Cdelete

Dstart

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'stop' will turn off the instance.

Using 'delete' removes the instance permanently.

The start command powers on a stopped instance.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a new instance named 'app-server' in zone us-west1-b with machine type n1-standard-1.

GCP

gcloud compute instances [1] app-server --zone=[2] --machine-type=n1-standard-1

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Acreate

Bdelete

Cus-west1-b

Dus-central1-a

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'delete' instead of 'create'.

Specifying the wrong zone.

Use create to make a new instance and specify the correct zone us-west1-b.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to attach a disk named 'data-disk' to instance 'db-server' in zone us-east1-c with device name 'data1'.

GCP

gcloud compute instances [1] db-server --zone=[2] --disk=[3] --device-name=data1

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Aattach-disk

Bus-east1-c

Cdata-disk

Ddetach-disk

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'detach-disk' instead of 'attach-disk'.

Wrong zone or disk name.

Use attach-disk to add a disk, specify the correct zone us-east1-c, and the disk name data-disk.