GCP
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?
. Identify the number of virtual cores and RAM associated with the application server virtual machines align them to a custom machine type in the cloud, monitor performance, and scale the machine types up until the desired performance is reached.
You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage increases and ensure that you don't run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your requirements?
1. Enable automatic storage increase for the instance. 2. Create a Stackdriver alert when CPU usage exceeds 75%, and change the instance type to reduce CPU usage. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.
Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally. Which approach should you take?
A single Organization with Folders for each department
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study. The migration of JencoMart's application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)
A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task
Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is distributed over several Google Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery need to be billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no query costs are incurred on the projects that contain the data. Users should be able to query the datasets, but not edit them. How should you configure users' access roles?
Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of the others Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier. How should you configure the network?
Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic flow.
You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do?
Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
The application reliability team at your company has added a debug feature to their backend service to send all server events to Google Cloud Storage for eventual analysis. The event records are at least 50 KB and at most 15 MB and are expected to peak at 3,000 events per second. You want to minimize data loss. Which process should you implement?
Append metadata to file body. Compress individual files. Name files with a random prefix pattern. Save files to one bucket
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements. Considering Dress4Win's business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Ensure that the default Cloud KMS key is set before storing files in Cloud Storage.
You are tasked with building an online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tool. This requires a relational database that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google- recommended tool for such applications?
BigQuery, because it is designed for large-scale processing of tabular data
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?
Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.
You are developing a globally scaled frontend for a legacy streaming backend data API. This API expects events in strict chronological order with no repeat data for proper processing. Which products should you deploy to ensure guaranteed-once FIFO (first-in, first-out) delivery of data?
Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud SQL
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.
Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?
Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.
Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard LAMP stack replicated across two zones. It is deployed in the us-central1 region and uses autoscaled managed instance groups on all layers, except the database. Currently, only a small group of select customers have access to the portal. The portal meets a 99,99% availability SLA under these conditions. However next quarter, your company will be making the portal available to all users, including unauthenticated users. You need to develop a resiliency testing strategy to ensure the system maintains the SLA once they introduce additional user load. What should you do?
Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until resource utilization crosses 80%. Also, derive estimated number of users based on existing user's usage of the app, and deploy enough resources to handle 200% of expected load
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk's technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?
Cloud Bigtable
Your company processes high volumes of IoT data that are time-stamped. The total data volume can be several petabytes. The data needs to be written and changed at a high speed. You want to use the most performant storage option for your data. Which product should you use?
Cloud Bigtable
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?
Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery
A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment. You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager. What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? Choose 2 answers
Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources.
You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the minimum viable product release, you'd like to use a managed product that automatically "scales to zero" so you don't incur costs when there is no activity. Which primary compute resource should you choose?
Cloud Functions
Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in possible legal proceedings. Which approach should you use?
Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage.
As part of implementing their disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to replicate their production MySQL database from their private data center to their GCP project using a Google Cloud VPN connection. They are experiencing latency issues and a small amount of packet loss that is disrupting the replication. What should they do?
Configure a Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect.
You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPUload. What should you do?
Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler from the GCP Console.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?
Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.
Your customer wants to do resilience testing of their authentication layer. This consists of a regional managed instance group serving a public REST API that reads from and writes to a Cloud SQL instance. What should you do?
Configure a red replica for your Cloud SQL instance in a different zone than the master, and then manually trigger a failover while monitoring KPIs for our REST API.
You need to design a solution for global load balancing based on the URL path being requested. You need to ensure operations reliability and end-to-end in-transit encryption based on Google best practices. What should you do?
Create an HTTPS load balancer with URL maps.
You are running a cluster on Kubernetes Engine to serve a web application. Users are reporting that a specific part of the application is not responding anymore. You notice that all pods of your deployment keep restarting after 2 seconds. The application writes logs to standard output. You want to inspect the logs to find the cause of the issue. Which approach can you take?
Connect to the cluster using gcloud credentials and connect to a container in one of the pods to read the logs.
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:
Container Registry, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Load Balancing
Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep their development environment in sync with the various production services. Which technology should you choose?
Containers
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and BigQuery. What should you do?
Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost. Which two actions should you take?
Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: "30", Storage Class: "Standard", and Action: "Set to Coldline", and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: "365", Storage Class: "Coldline", and Action: "Delete".
One of your primary business objectives is being able to trust the data stored in your application. You want to log all changes to the application data. How can you design your logging system to verify authenticity of your logs?
Create a JSON dump of each log entry and store it in Google Cloud Storage.
You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute Engine and your on- premises data center. You require a connection of at least 20 Gbps. You want to follow Google- recommended practices. How should you set up the connection?
Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?
Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.
You want to automate the creation of a managed instance group and a startup script to install the OS package dependencies. You want to minimize the startup time for VMs in the instance group. What should you do?
Create a custom VM image with all OS package dependencies. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group with the VM image.
Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used heavily during regular business hours and lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the application is slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application's performance. What should you do?
Create a custom image from the existing disk. Create an instance template from the custom image.
You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a specific zone. You want to introduce high availability. What should you do?
Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use nonpreemptible Compute Engine instances.
Your company captures all web traffic data in Google Analytics 260 and stores it in BigQuery. Each country has its own dataset. Each dataset has multiple tables. You want analysts from each country to be able to see and query only the data for their respective countries. How should you configure the access rights?
Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group `all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the `all-analysis' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group.
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application environments. Developers and testers can access each other's environments and resources, but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from production. What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?
Create a project for development and test and another for staging and production.
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?
Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load.
You have created several preemptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted. What should you do?
Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdownscript in the Cloud Platform Console when you create the new virtual machine instance.
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study. The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?
Create a single G Suite account to manage users with one project for the development/test/staging environment and one project for the production environment.
You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instance in a different project in the US-East region. What steps must you take?
Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file for the root disk.
You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instances in a different project in the US-East region. What steps must you take?
Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file for the root disk.
Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest scope of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance without compromising the ability to analyze transactional data and trends relating to which payment methods are used. How should you design your architecture?
Create a tokenizer service and store only tokenized data.
Your office is connected to GCP via a VPN connection. How can you increase the speed of your VPN connection, assuming that your office Internet is not the bottleneck?
Create an additional VPN tunnel
All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using VPC firewall rules. How should you configure the firewall rules?
Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances.
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?
Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform's resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?
Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.
You are creating an App Engine application that uses Cloud Datastore as its persistence layer. You need to retrieve several root entities for which you have the identifiers. You want to minimize the overhead in operations performed by Cloud Datastore. What should you do?
Create the Key object for each Entity and run a batch get operation
You are using Cloud CDN to deliver static HTTP(S) website content hosted on a Compute Engine instance group. You want to improve the cache hit ratio.
Customize the cache keys to omit the protocol from the key.
Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable for retention and analysis. What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this data of personally identifiable information or payment card information before initial storage?
De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
Your web application must comply with the requirements of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You are responsible for the technical architecture of your web application. What should you do?
Define a design for the security of data in your web application that meets GDPR requirements.
You want to establish a Compute Engine application in a single VPC across two regions. The application must communicate over VPN to an on-premises network. How should you deploy the VPN?
Deploy Cloud VPN Gateway in each region. Ensure that each region has at least one VPN tunnel to the on-premises peer gateway.
Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment procedures to avoid this problem in the future. What should you do?
Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production.
You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an architecture that takes into account a disaster recovery plan that requires your application to fail over to another region in case of a regional outage. What should you do?
Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same project but in a different region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group in case of a disaster.
You have an App Engine application that needs to be updated. You want to test the update with production traffic before replacing the current application version. What should you do?
Deploy the update as a new App Engine application, and use Google's global HTTP load balancing to split traffic between the new and current applications.
You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-premises database. For security purposes, your on-premises database must not be accessible through the public Internet. What should you do?
Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database.
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the following stack trace. <코드> What should you do?
Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?
Directly transfer the files to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in us, eu, and asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket.
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instance keep restarting after 5 seconds. You have a health check configured, but autoscaling is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure that he can access the VMs. What should you do?
Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH keys
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution. What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?
Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1- standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk. What should they change to get better performance from this system?
Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB.
Auditors visit your teams every 12 months and ask to review all the Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) policy changes in the previous 12 months. You want to streamline and expedite the analysis and audit process. What should you do?
Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs Into a GCS bucket and delegate access to the bucket.
Your company pushes batches of sensitive transaction data from its application server VMs to Cloud Pub/ Sub for processing and storage. What is the Google-recommended way for your application to authenticate to the required Google Cloud services?
Ensure that VM service accounts are granted the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.
You set up an autoscaling instance group to serve web traffic for an upcoming launch. After configuring the instance group as a backend service to an HTTP(S) load balancer, you notice that virtual machine (VM) instances are being terminated and re-launched every minute. The instances do not have a public IP address. You have verified the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using the curl command. You want to ensure the backend is configured correctly. What should you do?
Ensure that a firewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the instances in the instance group.
You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud services that run on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable. Which three requirements should they include? Choose 3 answers
Ensure that the load tests validate the performance of Cloud Bigtable. Create a separate Google Cloud project to use for the load-testing environment. Instrument the load-testing tool and the target services with detailed logging and metrics collection.
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud Platform. Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)
Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow. Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery.
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their data stream to optimize operations. They do not have any existing code for this analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These options include a mix of batch and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and live-processing some data as it comes in. Which technology should they use for this?
Google Cloud Dataflow
You have been asked to select the storage system for the click-data of your company's large portfolio of websites. This data is streamed in from a custom website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute, with bursts of up to 8,500 clicks per second. It must been stored for future analysis by your data science and user experience teams. Which storage infrastructure should you choose?
Google Cloud Bigtable
You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting application. The data comes from 50,000 sensors sending 10 readings a second, in the format of a timestamp and sensor reading. Where should you store the data?
Google Cloud Bigtable
Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations work and code change. Which product should you use?
Google Cloud Dataproc
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study. JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform. Which Google Database should they use?
Google Cloud Datastore
Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user authentication PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4 TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication requires private address space communication. Which networking approach should you use?
Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years. Cost optimization is your top priority. Which cloud services should you choose?
Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years. Cost optimization is your top priority. Which cloud services should you choose?
Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.
Your company's test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual machines. The full test suite takes several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on premises servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce the amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as possible. Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend?
Google Compute Engine managed instance groups with auto-scaling
A development manager is building a new application He asks you to review his requirements and identify what cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The application must: 1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability 2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand 3. Support continuous software delivery 4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack 5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates 6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?
Google Compute Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing
Your company just finished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have another 9 months to design and deploy a more cloud-native solution. Specifically, you want a system that is no-ops and auto-scaling. Which two compute products should you choose? Choose 2 answers
Google Container Engine with containers Google App Engine Standard Environment
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?
Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress
Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. You want to support the data upload and collection needs of this sensor network. The receiving infrastructure needs to account for the possibility that the devices may have inconsistent connectivity. Which solution should you design?
Have devices poll for connectivity to Cloud Pub/Sub and publish the latest messages on a regular interval to a shared topic for all devices.
You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from uploaded images. You want to test the application and allow specific people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not all users have a Google Account. How should you have users upload images?
Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires after 24 hours.
An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a bettor tool to capture errors and help them analyze their historical log data. You want to help them find a solution that meets their needs, what should you do?
Help them define their requirements and assess viable logging tools.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?
Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud.
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?
Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.
You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429. How should you handle these types of errors?
Implement retry logic using a truncated exponential backoff strategy.
During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future. What should you do?
Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases.
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely.
In a secret management system
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?
In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers' IP addresses and create an inbound firewall rule
A production database virtual machine on Google Compute Engine has an ext4-formatted persistent disk for data files. The database is about to run out of storage space. How can you remediate the problem with the least amount of downtime?
In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and use the resize2fs command in Linux.
You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?
In the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging. Consult logs for Kubernetes Engine and Cloud SQL.
A recent audit revealed that a new network was created in your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open to the world. You want to discover this network's origin. What should you do?
In the Logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section. Search for the Create Insert entry
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts. You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time. Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?
Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.
Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Install gsutil on each server that contains data. Use resumable transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage.
You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. The script is printing errors that it cannot connect to BigQuery. What should you do to fix the script?
Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python
A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse many services. You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases. What should you do?
Instrument your application with Stackdnver Trace in order to break down the request latencies at each microservice.
You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your company's web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction. Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? Choose 2 answers
Introduce a green-blue deployment model. Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices.
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as -is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?
Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the migration, you want to integrate Kubernetes Engine for workload orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS- compliant. Which of the following is most accurate?
Kubernetes Engine and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant environment.
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US. Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data. What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?
Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a regional bucket and use a Cloud Dataproc cluster to finish the job.
Your company is building a new architecture to support its data-centric business focus. You are responsible for setting up the network. Your company's mobile and web-facing applications will be deployed on-premises, and all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to process and load 7 years of archived .csv files totaling 900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an existing 100-MB internet connection. What actions will meet your company's needs?
Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnect or Direct Peering connection and use it to upload files daily.
Your company plans to migrate a multi-petabyte data set to the cloud. The data set must be available 24hrs a day. Your business analysts have experience only with using a SQL interface. How should you store the data to optimize it for ease of analysis?
Load data into Google BigQuery.
Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and test the analytics features available to them there, while also retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two steps should they take? Choose 2 answers
Load logs into Google BigQuery. Upload log files into Google Cloud Storage.
Your applications will be writing their logs to BigQuery for analysis. Each application should have its own table. Any logs older than 45 days should be removed. You want to optimize storage and follow Google- recommended practices. What should you do?
Make the tables time-partitioned, and configure the partition expiration at 45 days
A lead software engineer tells you that his new application design uses websockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to help him ensure his application will run property on Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?
Meet with the cloud operations team and the engineer to discuss load balancer options.
You have been engaged by your client to lead the migration of their application infrastructure to GCP. One of their current problems is that the on-premises high performance SAN is requiring frequent and expensive upgrades to keep up with the variety of workloads that are identified as follows: 20TB of log archives retained for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500 GB of image thumbnails; 200 GB of customer session state data that allows customers to restart sessions even if off- line for several days. Which of the following best reflects your recommendations for a cost-effective storage allocation?
Memcache backed by Cloud Datastore for the customer session state data. Lifecycle- managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes.
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?
Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a Cloud Datastore server to replace the MySQL server in a high-availability configuration. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study Which Google StackDriver features should they use?
Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting
Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about account owners and office locations. Which database type should you use?
NoSQL
You want to enable your running Google Container Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes. What should you do?
Option C
Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all resources in the organization. You use Resource Manager to set yourself up as the org admin. What Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team?
Org viewer, Project viewer
Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set up yourself as the org admin. What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team'?
Org viewer, project viewer
You have a Python web application with many dependencies that requires 0.1 CPU cores and 128 MB of memory to operate in production. You want to monitor and maximize machine utilization. You also to reliably deploy new versions of the application. Which set of steps should you take?
Perform the following: 1. Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster with n1-standard-1 type machines. 2. Build a Docker image from the production branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with the version number. 3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment with the imagePullPolicy set to "IfNotPresent" in the staging namespace, and then promote it to the production namespace after testing.
You have found an error in your App Engine application caused by missing Cloud Datastore indexes. You have created a YAML file with the required indexes and want to deploy these new indexes to Cloud Datastore. What should you do?
Point gcloud datastore create-indexes to your configuration file
The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud. Which three practices should you recommend? Choose 3 answers
Port the application code to run on Google App Engine. Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment.
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study. JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key- management strategy should you recommend?
Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on- premises data center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords. What authentication strategy should they use?
Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.
Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that are not time-critical. You also need to use GCP services that are HIPAA-certified and manage service costs. How should you design to meet Google best practices?
Provisioning preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has equipped unconnected trucks with servers and sensors to collet telemetry data. Next year they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud while reducing costs. What should they do?
Push the telemetry data in Real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Google BigQuery.
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.
You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes negatively affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix it, and investigation could take up to a week. What should you do?
Revert the source code change, and rerun the deployment pipeline
Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine application is taking approximately 30 seconds to load for some of their users. This behavior was not reported before the update. What strategy should you take?
Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver Trace and logging to diagnose the problem in a development/test/staging environment.
Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users. the company has begun experimenting with a machine learning model on Google Cloud Platform to improve the quality of results. What should the customer do to improve their model's results over time?
Save a history of recommendations and results of the recommendations in BigQuery, to be used as training data.
Your company creates rendering software which users can download from the company website. Your company has customers all over the world. You want to minimize latency for all your customers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you store the files?
Save the files in multiple Multi-Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per multi-region.
You are deploying a PHP App Engine Standard service with SQL as the backend. You want to minimize the number of queries to the database. What should you do?
Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a key from the hash of the query, and return database values from memcache before issuing a query to Cloud SQL.
You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there's no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the zones within a GCP region. What should you do?
Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different subnets.
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity. Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?
Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover.
Your architecture calls for the centralized collection of all admin activity and VM system logs within your project. How should you collect these logs from both VMs and services?
Stackdriver automatically collects admin activity logs for most services. The Stackdriver Logging agent must be installed on each instance to collect system logs.
Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload requires a consistent set of hostnames even after pod scaling and relaunches. Which feature of Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this?
StatefulSets
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?
Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer's unique ID.
Your company acquired a healthcare startup and must retain its customers' medical information for up to 4 more years, depending on when it was created. Your corporate policy is to securely retain this data, and then delete it as soon as regulations allow. Which approach should you take?
Store the data using the Cloud Storage and use lifecycle management to delete files when they expire.
Your customer wants to capture multiple GBs of aggregate real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) from their game servers running on Google Cloud Platform and monitor the KPIs with low latency. How should they capture the KPIs?
Store time-series data from the game servers in Google Bigtable, and view it using Google Data Studio.
You need to upload files from your on-premises environment to Cloud Storage. You want the files to be encrypted on Cloud Storage using customer-supplied encryption keys. What should you do?
Supply the encryption key in a .boto configuration file. Use gsutil to upload the files.
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the application servers correctly. What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? Choose 3 answers
Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate. Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to. Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate.
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms?
Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.
Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization, folders, and projects. When Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy at a particular node of the hierarchy?
The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors
A news teed web service has the following code running on Google App Engine. During peak load, users report that they can see news articles they already viewed. What is the most likely cause of this problem?
The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.
Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study. JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?
Total visits and average latency for users in Asia
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation. Which two architectures should you consider? (Choose two.)
Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted. Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.
You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to access an on-premises file server. You need to install specific software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software?
Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gsutil.
Your company has multiple on-premises systems that serve as sources for reporting. The data has not been maintained well and has become degraded over time. You want to use Googlerecommended practices to detect anomalies in your company data. What should you do?
Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?
Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and stream data into BigQuery using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
Your BigQuery project has several users. For audit purposes, you need to see how many queries each user ran in the last month.
Use Cloud Audit Logging to view Cloud Audit Logs, and create a filter on the query operation to get the required information.
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an automated daily basis while managing cost. What should you do?
Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.
You need to develop procedures to test a disaster plan for a mission-critical application. You want to use Google-recommended practices and native capabilities within GCP. What should you do?
Use Deployment Manager to automate provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.
Your marketing department wants to send out a promotional email campaign. The development team wants to minimize direct operation management. They project a wide range of possible customer responses, from 100 to 500,000 click-through per day. The link leads to a simple website that explains the promotion and collects user information and preferences. Which infrastructure should you recommend? Choose 2 answers.
Use Google App Engine to serve the website and Google Cloud Datastore to store user data. Use a managed instance group to serve the website and Google Cloud Bigtable to store user data.
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company's business requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom framework. Which method should they use?
Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.
Your company wants to start using Google Cloud resources but wants to retain their onpremises Active Directory domain controller for identity management. What should you do?
Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize Active Directory usernames with cloud identities and configure SAML SSO.
You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source repository and want to ensure that code changes can be verified deploying to production. What should you do?
Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a staging environment for testing. After testing, tag the repository for production and deploy that to the production environment.
Your development team has installed a new Linux kernel module on the batch servers in Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machines (VMs) to speed up the nightly batch process. Two days after the installation, 50% of the batch servers failed the nightly batch run. You want to collect details on the failure to pass back to the development team. Which three actions should you take? Choose 3 answers
Use Stackdriver Logging to search for the module log entries. Use gcloud or Cloud Console to connect to the serial console and observe the logs. Adjust the Google Stackdriver timeline to match the failure time, and observe the batch server metrics.
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win As of a future evaluation and optimizing for performance in the cloud, Dresss4win wants to distribute its system architecture to multiple locations when Google cloud platform. Which approach should they use?
Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of virtual machines as part of a separate managed instance groups.
One of the developers on your team deployed their application In Google Container Engine with the Dockerfile below. They report that their application deployments are taking too long.
Use a slimmed-down base image like Alpine linux. Copy the source after the package dependencies (Python and pip) are installed.
You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN to maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is completed. You want to make sure all your on-premises systems remain reachable during this period. How should you organize your networking in Google Cloud?
Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range with the same IP range as you use on- premises
Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications between instances to only the paths and ports you authorize, but you don't want to rely on static IP addresses or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict communications?
Use firewall rules based on network tags attached to the compute instances
The development team has provided you with a Kubernetes Deployment file. You have no infrastructure yet and need to deploy the application. What should you do?
Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.
Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance. How should you configure the storage?
Use gcsfuse to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write backups to the mounted location using mysqldump
Your organization has 5 TB of private data on premises. You need to migrate the data to Cloud Storage. You want to maximize the data transfer speed. How should you migrate the data?
Use gsutil.
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot spoof chat messages, by providing a message were sent by a specific user. What should you do?
Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client side using the originating user's private key.
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure that people cannot spoof chat messages by proving that a message was sent by a specific user. What should you do?
Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client-side using the originating user's private key.
Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create better experiences for their developers. They need to keep the old version of the API available and deployable, while allowing new customers and testers to try out the new API. They want to keep the same SSL and DNS records in place to serve both APIs. What should they do?
Use separate backend pools for each API path behind the load balancer.
Your company places a high value on being responsive and meeting customer needs quickly. Their primary business objectives are release speed and agility. You want to reduce the chance of security errors being accidentally introduced. Which two actions can you take? Choose 2 answers
Use source code security analyzers as part of the CI/CD pipeline. Run a vulnerability security scanner as part of your continuous-integration /continuous- delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the finance department. Which two steps should you take? Choose 2 answers
Use the --no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM. Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups.
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud. What should you do?
Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.
A development team at your company has created a dockerized HTTPS web application. You need to deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and make sure that the application scales automatically. How should you deploy to GKE?
Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling on the Kubernetes cluster. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer to load-balance the HTTPS traffic.
You have an application deployed on Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echodeployment. The deployment is exposed using a Service called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do?
Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes cluster
As part of your backup plan, you set up regular snapshots of Compute Engine instances that are running. You want to be able to restore these snapshots using the fewest possible steps for replacement instances. What should you do?
Use the snapshots to create replacement instances as needed.
You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task a scheduling for compute on GCP. Leveraging Google best practices, what should you do?
Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that topic using a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.
You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup's trial usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for your product will be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google best practices. What should you do?
Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour. How should you design the data ingestion?
Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery.
You need to develop procedures to verify resilience of disaster recovery for remote recovery using GCP. Your production environment is hosted on-premises. You need to establish a secure, redundant connection between your on premises network and the GCP network. What should you do?
Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate files to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a secure connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?
Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded.
You are creating a solution to remove backup files older than 90 days from your backup Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend. What should you do?
Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil.
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the field will have a catastrophic failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?
google container engine 과 FTP가 같이 있는 그림
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks. Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and persists across sessions?
~/bin