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Question 116

You installed the Google Cloud CLI on your workstation and set the proxy configuration.
However, you are worried that your proxy credentials will be recorded in the gcloud CLI logs. You want to prevent your proxy credential from being logged. What should you do?

A.Configure username and password by using gcloud config set proxy/username and gcloud config set proxy/password commands.
B.Encode username and password in sha256 encoding, and save in to a text file. Use filename as a value in the gcloud config set core/custom_ca_certs_file command.
C.Set the CLOUDSDK_PROXY_USERNAME and CLOUDSDK_PROXY_PASSWORD properties by using environment variables in your command line tool.
D.Provide values for CLOUDSDK_PROXY_USERNAME and CLOUDSDK_PROXY_PASSWORD in the gcloud CLI tool configuration file.

Question 117

You have a project for your App Engine application that serves a development environment. The required testing has succeeded and you want to create a new project to serve as your production environment. What should you do?

A.Create a Deployment Manager configuration file that copies the current App Engine deployment into a new project.
B.Deploy your application again using gcloud and specify the project parameter with the new project name to create the new project.
C.Use gcloud to create the new project, and then deploy your application to the new project.
D.Use gcloud to create the new project and to copy the deployed application to the new project.

Question 118

You have a website hosted on App Engine standard environment. You want 1% of your users to see a new test version of the website. You want to minimize complexity. What should you do?

A.Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --migrate option.
B.Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --splits option to give a weight of 99 to the current version and a weight of 1 to the new version.
C.Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application. Use the App Engine library to proxy 1% of the requests to the new version.
D.Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application. Configure your network load balancer to send 1% of the traffic to that new application.

Question 119

Your team is building a website that handles votes from a large user population. The incoming votes will arrive at various rates. You want to optimize the storage and processing of the votes. What should you do?

A.Use a dedicated instance to process the incoming votes. Send the votes directly to this instance.
B.Save the incoming votes to a JSON file on Cloud Storage. Process the votes in a batch at the end of the day.
C.Save the incoming votes to Firestore. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to periodically process the votes.
D.Save the incoming votes to Pub/Sub. Use the Pub/Sub topic to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to process the votes.

Correct Answer: D

Pub/Sub is a fully managed, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. Pub/Sub can handle fluctuating and high-volume data streams, such as votes from a large user population. You can use Pub/Sub to save the incoming votes to a topic, which is a named resource that represents the stream of messages. You can also use Pub/Sub to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to process the votes. Cloud Functions is a serverless platform that runs single-purpose functions in response to events. Cloud Functions can scale automatically based on the demand, and you only pay for the resources you use. You can use Cloud Functions to perform any logic or computation on the votes, such as counting, filtering, aggregating, or storing them.
This option is the best choice for optimizing the storage and processing of the votes, as it provides high scalability, low latency, and low cost. It also requires minimal operational and infrastructure management, as both Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions are fully managed services.
The other options are not correct because they either do not provide the required scalability, performance, or functionality. Option A is not correct because using a dedicated instance to process the incoming votes, and sending the votes directly to this instance, is not scalable, as the instance may not be able to handle the variable and high load of the votes. It is also not efficient, as the instance may be underutilized or overutilized at different times. Saving the incoming votes to a JSON file on Cloud Storage, and processing the votes in a batch at the end of the day, is not optimal, as it introduces latency and complexity in the processing. Option B is not correct because saving the incoming votes to Firestore, and using Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to periodically process the votes, is not suitable for high-volume and real-time data streams, such as votes. Firestore is a serverless, NoSQL database that is designed for structured and hierarchical data, not for unstructured and flat data, such as votes. Cloud Scheduler is a fully managed cron job service that allows you to schedule tasks at fixed intervals, not in response to events. Using Cloud Scheduler to trigger Cloud Functions may introduce unnecessary delays and overhead in the processing.
Reference:
Pub/Sub documentation
Cloud Functions documentation
Choosing a storage option
Choosing an event-driven compute platform

Question 120

You are configuring service accounts for an application that spans multiple projects. Virtual machines (VMs) running in the web-applications project need access to BigQuery datasets in crm-databases-proj. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to give access to the service account in the web-applications project.
What should you do?

A.Give "project owner" for web-applications appropriate roles to crm-databases- proj
B.Give "project owner" role to crm-databases-proj and the web-applications project.
C.Give "project owner" role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications.
D.Give bigquery.dataViewer role to crm-databases-proj and appropriate roles to web-applications.

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