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Zonal Outage DR for Compute Engine Disks | GCP PCA

30 December 2025·710 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Designing a highly available Compute Engine architecture that quickly recovers from zonal outages by balancing data availability, infrastructure complexity, and cost.

Rolling Updates for Managed Instance Groups | GCP PCA

29 December 2025·670 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Managed Instance Groups

Analyzing the safest and most operationally sound approach to deploy a non-critical update in a managed instance group.

Scale Cloud Identity With Least Privilege | GCP ACE

28 December 2025·616 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Identity

A growing fintech startup must scale their workforce and Google Cloud access from 100 to 1,000 employees securely and efficiently. We analyze cloud identity management options to maintain performance, security, and simplicity.

Managed Instance Group vs Unmanaged VMs | GCP ACE

23 December 2025·530 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Exploring the operational and architectural decisions behind dynamically provisioning VM instances in Google Compute Engine using configuration-driven approaches.

Storage Perimeter Controls vs Access Overhead | GCP PCA

22 December 2025·746 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE VPC Service Controls

A high-level summary of how to securely limit Cloud Storage bucket access by IP range while balancing operational complexity and security.

Fix Pod Pending on Preemptible Nodes | GCP ACE

21 December 2025·1090 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform ACE GCP GKE Kubernetes Preemptible VMs Pod Scheduling

Why is your GKE Pod stuck in Pending status? Learn to diagnose resource constraints, node preemption events, and cluster capacity issues in this ACE exam drill.

Firewall Logging vs Cost in VPC Security | GCP PCA

20 December 2025·712 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Firewall Insights Network Intelligence Center

A fintech startup must troubleshoot missing firewall insights data on their Compute Engine instances, balancing observability, cost, and IAM roles.

ETL Data Ingestion vs Storage Trade-offs | GCP ACE

19 December 2025·565 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Storage

Explore the best approach to ingest large quantities of unstructured data for ETL processing on Google Cloud, focusing on service suitability and operational ease.

Org Policy vs VPC Controls for External IPs | GCP PCA

18 December 2025·1146 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Organization Policy VPC Security Compute Engine

Learn how to enforce external IP restrictions across all VPCs using Organization Policy constraints instead of brittle network configurations, featuring SRE automation principles and FinOps analysis.

Choose PostgreSQL with Minimal Changes | GCP ACE

17 December 2025·493 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Cloud SQL

A fast-growing global fintech startup needs to move their strongly consistent transactional PostgreSQL app to the cloud with minimal changes, balancing ACID guarantees and cloud managed services.