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Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
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Google Cloud Architect Professional PDF 297 Questions

Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

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?

  1. Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one for development/test/staging and one for production.
    Each account should contain one project for every application
  2. Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one with a single project for all development applications and one with a single project for all production applications
  3. Create a single G Suite account to manage users with each stage of each application in its own project
  4. 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

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Note: The principle of least privilege and separation of duties are concepts that, although semantically different, are intrinsically related from the standpoint of security. The intent behind both is to prevent people from having higher privilege levels than they actually need

Principle of Least Privilege: Users should only have the least amount of privileges required to perform their job and no more. This reduces authorization exploitation by limiting access to resources such as targets, jobs, or monitoring templates for which they are not authorized.
Separation of Duties: Beyond limiting user privilege level, you also limit user duties, or the specific jobs they can perform. No user should be given responsibility for more than one related function. This limits the ability of a user to perform a malicious action and then cover up that action.


Reference:

https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/separation-of-duties




Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

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 three.)

  1. Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one
  2. Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate
  3. Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate
  4. Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to
  5. Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and investigate
  6. Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate

Answer(s): C,D,E

Explanation:

D: Handling "Unable to connect on port 22" error message
Possible causes include:
There is no firewall rule allowing SSH access on the port. SSH access on port 22 is enabled on all Compute Engine instances by default. If you have disabled access, SSH from the Browser will not work. If you run sshd on a port other than 22, you need to enable the access to that port with a custom firewall rule.
The firewall rule allowing SSH access is enabled, but is not configured to allow connections from GCP Console services. Source IP addresses for browser-based SSH sessions are dynamically allocated by GCP Console and can vary from session to session.
F: Handling "Could not connect, retrying..." error
You can verify that the daemon is running by navigating to the serial console output page and looking for output lines prefixed with the accounts-from-metadata: string. If you are using a standard image but you do not see these output prefixes in the serial console output, the daemon might be stopped. Reboot the instance to restart the daemon.


Reference:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser




Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

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?

  1. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs)
  2. Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs
  3. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs
  4. Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Migrating data to Google Cloud Platform
Let's say that you have some data processing that happens on another cloud provider and you want to transfer the processed data to Google Cloud Platform. You can use a service account from the virtual machines on the external cloud to push the data to Google Cloud Platform. To do this, you must create and download a service account key when you create the service account and then use that key from the external process to call the Cloud Platform APIs.


Reference:

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#migrating_data_to_google_cloud_platform




Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

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?

  1. Error rates for requests from Asia
  2. Latency difference between US and Asia
  3. Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia
  4. Total visits and average latency for users from Asia
  5. The number of character sets present in the database

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

From scenario:
Business Requirements include: Expand services into Asia
Technical Requirements include: Decrease latency in Asia




Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

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 three.)

  1. A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput
  2. A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task
  3. A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances
  4. Fewer virtual machines (VMs) in GCP than on-premises machines
  5. A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task
  6. Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

Answer(s): A,C,F




Company Overview

JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background

JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept

JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.

JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.

Application: Customer loyalty portal

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles

- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials

- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:

- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:

- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location

Tape backup every week

Business Requirements

Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods

Guarantee service availability and support

Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact

Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase

Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements

Assess key application for cloud suitability

Modify applications for the cloud

Move applications to a new infrastructure

Leverage managed services wherever feasible

Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers

Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement

JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through "green" initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement

The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement

Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.

JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform.

Which Google Database should they use?

  1. Cloud Spanner
  2. Google BigQuery
  3. Google Cloud SQL
  4. Google Cloud Datastore

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Common workloads for Google Cloud Datastore:
User profiles

Product catalogs

Game state


Reference:

https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview




Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular 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
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services
CEO 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.
CTO Statement
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.
CFO Statement
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not confident that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically impacts our revenue.

Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms?

  1. Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches
  2. Unit tests are no longer required, only end-to-end tests
  3. Tests should be applied after the release is in the production environment
  4. Tests should include directly testing the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

From Scenario:
A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform include: Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity




Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular 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
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services
CEO 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.
CTO Statement
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.
CFO Statement
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not confident that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically impacts our revenue.

Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a through 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?

  1. Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load
  2. Use the existing infrastructure to test the GCP-based backend at scale
  3. Build stress tests into each component of your application using resources internal to GCP to simulate load
  4. Create a set of static environments in GCP to test different levels of load ­ for example, high, medium, and low

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

From scenario: Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro



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