GCP-ARCH-Design-Process-7-9

You need a relational database for a system that requires extremely high availability (99.999%). The system must run uninterrupted even in the event of a regional outage. Which database would you choose?

• Cloud SQL

• Firestore

• Spanner

• BigQuery

You’re creating a service and you want to protect it from being overloaded by too many client retries in the event of a partial outage. Which design pattern would you implement?

• Circuit breaker

• Truncated exponential backoff

• Overload feedback repudiation

• Lazy caching

What Google Cloud service can you use to enforce the principle of least privilege when using Google Cloud?

• IAM members and roles

• Firewall rules

• Encryption keys

• SSL certificates

Which Google Cloud features could help prevent DDoS attacks?

• HTTP global load balancer

• CDN

• Google Cloud Armor

• All of the above

What do you have to do to enable encryption when using Cloud Storage?

• Simply enable encryption when configuring a bucket.

• Enable encryption and upload a key.

• Create an encryption key using Cloud Key Management Service and select it when creating a Cloud Storage bucket.

• Nothing: encryption is enabled by default.

You made a minor update to a service and would like to test it in production by sending a small portion of requests to the new version. Which would you choose?

• Rolling update

• Blue/green deployment

• Canary deployment

• A/B test

You’re deploying test environments using Compute Engine VMs. Some downtime is acceptable, and it is very important to deploy them as inexpensively as possible. What single thing below could save you the most money?

• Committed use discount

• Sustained use discount

• Sole tenant nodes

• Preemptible machines