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Question 51

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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

Question 52

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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 ans

Question 53

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A news feed 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 thi

Question 54

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An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a better tool to capture errors and help them analyze their

Question 55

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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.

Question 56

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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 re

Question 57

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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

Question 58

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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 m

Question 59

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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

Question 60

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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 tea

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Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing on a pay-per-use basis. You want to monitor queries in real time to discover the most costly queries and which users spend the most. What should you do?

Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?

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For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You start to build a new application that uses a few Cloud Functions for the backend. One use case requires a Cloud Function func_display to invoke another Cloud Function func_query. You want func_query only to accept invocations from func_display. You also want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster When releasing new versions of the application via a rolling deployment, the team has been causing outages The root cause of the outages is misconfigurations with parameters that are only used in production You want to put preventive measures for this in the platform to prevent outages What should you do?

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:

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?

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?

Question 51

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

Insert data into Google Cloud SQL

Put flat files into Google Cloud Storage

Stream data into Google Cloud Datastore

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Question 52

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

Integrate Cloud Dataflow into the application to capture real-time metrics

Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger

Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure

Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment

Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or Bigtable

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Question 53

A news feed 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 local to just a single instance

The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore

The URL of the API needs to be modified to prevent caching

The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 stop caching

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An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a better 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?

Direct them to download and install the Google StackDriver logging agent

Send them a list of online resources about logging best practices

Help them define their requirements and assess viable logging tools

Help them upgrade their current tool to take advantage of any new features

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Question 55

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

Replace the QA environment with canary releases

Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices

Reduce the platform's dependency on relational database systems

Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database

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Question 56

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 the - -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM

Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export

Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups

Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

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Question 57

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?

Flat file

NoSQL

Relational

Blobstore

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Question 58

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 rules exists to allow source traffic on HTTP/HTTPS to reach the load balancer.

Assign a public IP to each instance and configure a firewall rule to allow the load balancer to reach the instance public IP.

Ensure that a firewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the instances in the instance group.

Create a tag on each instance with the name of the load balancer. Configure a firewall rule with the name of the load balancer as the source and the instance tag as the destination.

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Question 59

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

Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope enabled

Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with that user

Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install bq.

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Question 60

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?

Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google

Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider

Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool

Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password

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