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Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 three.) E. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment F. Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or Bigtable

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 two.) E. Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 two.) E. Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM F. Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 toBigQuery.What should you do to fix the script?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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? E. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a snapshot of the persistent disk restore the snapshot to a new larger disk, unmount the old disk, mount the new disk and restart the database service

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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? E. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the auditor

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 have been stored for future analysis by your data science and user experience teams.Which storage infrastructure should you choose?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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's Professional Cloud Architect 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? E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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's Professional Cloud Architect 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 a99,99% 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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.You want to optimize this Dockerfile for faster deployment times without adversely affecting the app's functionality.Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.) E. Copy the source after he package dependencies (Python and pip) are installed

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user authentication PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication requires private address space communication.Which networking approach should you use?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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.Where should you store the credentials?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect 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 two.) E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources