PCD — questions

You plan to make a simple HTML application available on the internet. This site keeps information about FAQs for your application. The application is static and contains images, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. You want to make this application available on the internet with as few steps as possible. What should you do?

Your company has deployed a new API to App Engine Standard environment. During testing, the API is not behaving as expected. You want to monitor the application over time to diagnose the problem within the application code without redeploying the application. Which tool should you use?

You want to use the Stackdriver Logging Agent to send an application's log file to Stackdriver from a Compute Engine virtual machine instance. After installing the Stackdriver Logging Agent, what should you do first?

Your company has a BigQuery data mart that provides analytics information to hundreds of employees. One user of wants to run jobs without interrupting important workloads. This user isn't concerned about the time it takes to run these jobs. You want to fulfill this request while minimizing cost to the company and the effort required on your part. What should you do?

You want to notify on-call engineers about a service degradation in production while minimizing development time. What should you do?

You are writing a single-page web application with a user-interface that communicates with a third-party API for content using XMLHttpRequest. The data displayed on the UI by the API results is less critical than other data displayed on the same web page, so it is acceptable for some requests to not have the API data displayed in the UI. However, calls made to the API should not delay rendering of other parts of the user interface. You want your application to perform well when the API response is an error or a timeout. What should you do?

You are creating a web application that runs in a Compute Engine instance and writes a file to any user's Google Drive. You need to configure the application to authenticate to the Google Drive API. What should you do?

You are creating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and run this command: The command fails with the error: You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?

You are parsing a log file that contains three columns: a timestamp, an account number (a string), and a transaction amount (a number). You want to calculate the sum of all transaction amounts for each unique account number efficiently. Which data structure should you use?

Your company has a BigQuery dataset named "Master" that keeps information about employee travel and expenses. This information is organized by employee department. That means employees should only be able to view information for their department. You want to apply a security framework to enforce this requirement with the minimum number of steps. What should you do?

You have an application in production. It is deployed on Compute Engine virtual machine instances controlled by a managed instance group. Traffic is routed to the instances via a HTTP(s) load balancer. Your users are unable to access your application. You want to implement a monitoring technique to alert you when the application is unavailable. Which technique should you choose?

You are load testing your server application. During the first 30 seconds, you observe that a previously inactive Cloud Storage bucket is now servicing 2000 write requests per second and 7500 read requests per second. Your application is now receiving intermittent 5xx and 429 HTTP responses from the Cloud Storage JSON API as the demand escalates. You want to decrease the failed responses from the Cloud Storage API. What should you do?

Your application is controlled by a managed instance group. You want to share a large read-only data set between all the instances in the managed instance group. You want to ensure that each instance can start quickly and can access the data set via its filesystem with very low latency. You also want to minimize the total cost of the solution. What should you do?

You are developing an HTTP API hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that needs to be invoked by multiple clients within the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You want clients to be able to get the IP address of the service. What should you do?

Your application is logging to Stackdriver. You want to get the count of all requests on all /api/alpha/* endpoints. What should you do?

You want to re-architect a monolithic application so that it follows a microservices model. You want to accomplish this efficiently while minimizing the impact of this change to the business. Which approach should you take?

Your existing application keeps user state information in a single MySQL database. This state information is very user-specific and depends heavily on how long a user has been using an application. The MySQL database is causing challenges to maintain and enhance the schema for various users. Which storage option should you choose?

You are building a new API. You want to minimize the cost of storing and reduce the latency of serving images. Which architecture should you use?

Your company's development teams want to use Cloud Build in their projects to build and push Docker images to Container Registry. The operations team requires all Docker images to be published to a centralized, securely managed Docker registry that the operations team manages. What should you do?

You are planning to deploy your application in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. Your application can scale horizontally, and each instance of your application needs to have a stable network identity and its own persistent disk. Which GKE object should you use?