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NEW QUESTION # 136
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.)
- A. Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database.
- B. Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.
- C. 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.
- D. Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.
- E. Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity.
Answer: D,E
NEW QUESTION # 137
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 three.)
- A. Instrument the load-testing tool and the target services with detailed logging and metrics collection
- B. Schedule the load-testing tool to regularly run against the production environment
- C. Instrument the production services to record every transaction for replay by the load-testing tool
- D. Ensure that the load tests validate the performance of Cloud Bigtable
- E. Ensure all third-party systems your services use is capable of handling high load
- F. Create a separate Google Cloud project to use for the load-testing environment
Answer: A,D,F
NEW QUESTION # 138
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model.
Company Background
Dress4win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insufficient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.
Solution Concept
For the first phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.
Existing Technical Environment
The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
Tomcat - Java micro-services
Nginx - static content
Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
Data analysis
Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
Messaging
Social notifications
Events
Miscellaneous servers:
Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
Business Requirements
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production. Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud. Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.
Technical Requirements
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud. Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency. Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.
CEO Statement
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.
CTO Statement
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our traffic patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
CFO Statement
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.
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?
- A. Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.
- B. Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.
- C. Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.
- D. Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Follow these rules of thumb when deciding whether to use gsutil or Storage Transfer Service:
When transferring data from an on-premises location, use gsutil.
When transferring data from another cloud storage provider, use Storage Transfer Service.
Otherwise, evaluate both tools with respect to your specific scenario.
Use this guidance as a starting point. The specific details of your transfer scenario will also help you determine which tool is more appropriate
NEW QUESTION # 139
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?
- A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in separate project and a different region. Use the first instance group to server traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster.
- B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance. Use the instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to an instance on your premises in case of a disaster.
- C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but in a different region.
Use the first instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster. - D. 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.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 140
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 development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle dat a. Which architecture should you recommend?
A)
B)
C)
D)
- A. Option D
- B. Option A
- C. Option B
- D. Option C
Answer: B
Explanation:
The push endpoint can be a load balancer.
A container cluster can be used.
Cloud Pub/Sub for Stream Analytics
References: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform#data_ingestion
http://www.eweek.com/big-data-and-analytics/google-touts-value-of-cloud-iot-core-for-analyzing-connected-car-data
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform#data_ingestion
http://www.eweek.com/big-data-and-analytics/google-touts-value-of-cloud-iot-core-for-analyzing-connected-car-data
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
NEW QUESTION # 141
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to files and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for reporting.
Solution Concept
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with a managed NoSQL database.
Business Requirements
Increase to a global footprint.
Improve uptime - downtime is loss of players.
Increase efficiency of the cloud resources we use.
Reduce latency to all customers.
Technical Requirements
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user profiles and game state.
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis.
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs.
Run hardened Linux distro.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
Executive Statement
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation. Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.
Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.
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?
- A. Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries.
- B. Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.
- C. Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.
- D. Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 142
You are responsible for the Google Cloud environment in your company Multiple departments need access to their own projects and the members within each department will have the same project responsibilities You want to structure your Google Cloud environment for minimal maintenance and maximum overview of 1AM permissions as each department's projects start and end You want to follow Google-recommended practices What should you do?
- A. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups Create a folder per department and grant the respective group the required 1AM permissions at the folder level Add the projects under the respective folders
- B. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups Grant each group the required I AM permissions for their respective projects
- C. Create a folder per department and grant the respective members of the department the required 1AM permissions at the folder level. Structure all projects for each department under the respective folders
- D. Grant all department members the required 1AM permissions for their respective projects
Answer: B
Explanation:
This option follows the Google-recommended practices for structuring a Google Cloud environment for minimal maintenance and maximum overview of IAM permissions. By creating a Google Group per department and adding all department members to their respective groups, you can simplify user management and avoid granting IAM permissions to individual users. By creating a folder per department and granting the respective group the required IAM permissions at the folder level, you can enforce consistent policies across all projects within each department and avoid granting IAM permissions at the project level. By adding the projects under the respective folders, you can organize your resources hierarchically and leverage inheritance of IAM policies from folders to projects. The other options are not optimal for this scenario, because they either require granting IAM permissions to individual users (B, C), or do not use Google Groups to manage users (D). References:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/system-design
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-planning
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-folders
NEW QUESTION # 143
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?
- A. Google Compute Engine with Google BigQuery
- B. Google Container Engine with Bigtable
- C. Google Cloud Dataflow
- D. Google Cloud Dataproc
Answer: C
Explanation:
Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and batch (historical) modes with equal reliability and expressiveness -- no more complex workarounds or compromises needed.
References: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/
Reference:
Dataflow is for processing both the Batch and Stream.
NEW QUESTION # 144
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the following stack trace.
What should you do?
- A. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application.
- B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application
- C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 145
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?
- A. Use the Linux dd and netcat command to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.
- B. 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.
- C. Create an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new disk from the image file, and use it to create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region
- D. Create a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36441423/migrate-google-compute-engine-instance-to-a-different-region
Topic 5, Dress4Win Case 2
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insufficient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster. Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.
Solution Concept
For the first phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.
Existing Technical Environment
The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
- Tomcat - Java
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUS
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social notifications, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS - image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Technical Requirements
Easily create non-production environment in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.
Executive Statement
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our traffic patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.
NEW QUESTION # 146
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
- A. Compute Engine with custom instance types
- B. Google App Engine Standard Environment
- C. Google Container Engine with containers
- D. Compute Engine with containers
- E. Compute Engine with managed instance groups
Answer: B,E
NEW QUESTION # 147
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?
- A. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.
- B. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.
- C. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.
- D. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.
Answer: D
Explanation:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/bigquery-data-warehouse#external_sources
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/bigquery-data-warehouse
NEW QUESTION # 148
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?
- A. NoSQL
- B. Flat file
- C. Blobstore
- D. Relational
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 149
You are configuring the cloud network architecture for a newly created project m Google Cloud that will host applications in Compote Engine Compute Engine virtual machine instances will be created in two different subnets (sub-a and sub-b) within a single region
* Instances in sub-a win have public IP addresses
* Instances in sub-b will have only private IP addresses
To download updated packages, instances must connect to a public repository outside the boundaries of Google Cloud You need to allow sub-b to access the external repository. What should you do?
- A. Configure Cloud NAT and select sub b m the NAT mapping section
- B. Enable Private Google Access on sub-b
- C. Enable Identity Aware Proxy for TCP forwarding for instances in sub-b
- D. Configure a bastion host instance in sub a to connect to instances in sub-b
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 150
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?
- A. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises datacenter using a single Cloud VPN.
- B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
- C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
- D. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single Cloud VPN.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-advanced
NEW QUESTION # 151
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?
- A. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.
- B. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
- C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.
- D. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/cloud_center_of_excellence.pdf
NEW QUESTION # 152
You are developing an application using different microservices that should remain internal to the cluster.
You want to be able to configure each microservice with a specific number of replicas. You also want to be able to address a specific microservice from any other microservice in a uniform way, regardless of the number of replicas the microservice scales to. You need to implement this solution on Google Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?
- A. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using a Service, and use the Service DNS name to address the microservice from other microservices within the cluster.
- B. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using an Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address name to address the Pod from other microservices within the cluster.
- C. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the cluster using an Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address to address the Deployment from other microservices within the cluster.
- D. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the cluster using a Service, and use the Service DNS name to address it from other microservices within the cluster.
Answer: D
Explanation:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
NEW QUESTION # 153
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