# Skills Boost Arcade Trivia August 2025 Week 4 (Solution)

## Overview

Welcome to Skills Boost Arcade Trivia August 2025! Give your career a boost with hands-on experience with different Google Cloud and partner services.

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P.S. You don't need the GCP Console for this, but you do need to keep this quiz open for a minimum of 3 minutes.

## Quiz

1. **Which Terraform command initializes a working directory containing Terraform configuration files?**
    
    *Select ONE answer that would be relevant*
    
    * <mark>terraform init</mark>
        
    * terraform start
        
    * terraform show
        
    * terraform get
        
2. **In Terraform, which command executes the actions proposed in a Terraform plan?**
    
    *Select ONE answer that would be relevant*
    
    * Ansible apply
        
    * Chef apply
        
    * <mark>terraform apply</mark>
        
    * CloudFormation
        
3. **What gcloud command initiates a VPC peering connection?**
    
    *Select ONE answer that would be relevant*
    
    * <mark>gcloud compute networks peerings create</mark>
        
    * gcloud vpc peerings create
        
    * gcloud compute peerings setup
        
    * gcloud networks vpc peerings connect
        
4. **In Google Cloud, what must be unique between two VPC networks to enable peering (i.e., they cannot overlap)?**
    
    Select ONE answer that would be relevant
    
    * Firewall rules
        
    * <mark>Subnet ranges</mark>
        
    * Project IDs
        
    * Region names
        
5. **What Google Cloud feature allows you to automatically schedule VM instances to start and stop, reducing costs when not in use?**
    
    *Select ONE answer that would be relevant*
    
    * Scheduled Snapshots
        
    * Auto-Shutdown
        
    * <mark>Instance Schedules</mark>
        
    * Instance Lifecycle Policies
        
6. **Which Google Cloud CLI command lets you change the machine type of a VM instance for cost optimization?**
    
    *Select ONE answer that would be relevant*
    
    * cloud compute instances update
        
    * gcloud compute instances modify
        
    * gcloud compute instances stopg
        
    * <mark>cloud compute instances set-machine-type</mark>
        

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