Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) (Professional-Cloud-Architect) Free Practice Test
Question 1
You are working at a sports association whose members range in age from 8 to 30. The association collects a large amount of health data, such as sustained injuries. You are storing this data in BigQuery. Current legislation requires you to delete such information upon request of the subject. You want to design a solution that can accommodate such a request. What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 2
Case Study: 1 - Mountkirk Games Case Study
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based. multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms.
Company Background
Mountkirk Games builds all of their games with some server-side integration and has historically used cloud providers to lease physical servers. A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Mountkirk's 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.
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 customized Linx 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, resuming 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 gams 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.
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based. multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms.
Company Background
Mountkirk Games builds all of their games with some server-side integration and has historically used cloud providers to lease physical servers. A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Mountkirk's 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.
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 customized Linx 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, resuming 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 gams 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.
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 3
Case Study: 13 - KnightMotives Automotive
Company Overview
KnightMotives is a car manufacturer specializing in autonomous, self-driving vehicles, including Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), hybrids and traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. While KnightMotives has made strides with the in-vehicle experience in their BEV fleet, the hybrid and ICE vehicles have yet to implement these new systems and are viewed poorly by critics and drivers. The lack of modern in-vehicle technology in hybrid and ICE vehicles has resulted in declining sales and customer satisfaction.
KnightMotives wants to modernize the consumer experience across all vehicles within five years Artificial Intelligence offers a unique opportunity to revolutionize the in-vehicle experience, as well as the shopping buying and service/maintenance experience. Investment in this new technology will require a shift in financial priorities on a global scale.
KnightMotives also wants to improve their online ordering system, which is unreliable. Systems for customers to build their vehicle online for acquisition through a dealer are not delivering the data or reliability that dealers need, causing. A strain in the relationship between KnightMotives and dealers. Service technicians and sales staff need better tooling to enhance dealer successes, including built-to-order vehicles.
Solution Concept
KnightMotives wants to shift from manufacturing cars to creating a complete and compelling
"automotive experience." Then strategy prioritizes delivering a consistent experience across all models, developing AI-powered features, generating new revenue from data monetization, adopting a digital focus to differentiate their brand from competitors, and developing better tools for mechanics and salespeople.
Existing Technical Environment
KnightMotives's IT is largely on-premises with some applications on major cloud platforms. Their supply chain runs on an outdated mainframe, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is also outdated, making new promotions and dealer discounts difficult to implement. Dealers have no budget for new equipment. There is fragmentation across vehicles with multiple code bases, and significant technical debt from supporting backwards compatibility. Network connectivity to manufacturing plants and vehicle connectivity in rural areas are challenges.
Business Requirements
Key business requirements include fostering a personalized relationship with the driver and delivering a cohesive experience across all models. Creating a better build-to-order model will reduce time on the lot and provide transparency for both dealers and customers. Additionally, KnightMotives seeks to monetize corporate data to finance new technology investments, as their current AI infrastructure is obsolete and corporate data remains siloed. Security is a paramount concern due to past data breaches Adherence to European Union (EU) data protection regulations, especially for emerging autonomous platforms, is critical.
KnightMotives plans to make significant investments in fully autonomous driving capabilities, with initial implementation targeting regions with favorable regulatory environments. Prioritizing employee upskilling, attracting top-tier talent, and fostering better communication between business and technical teams are also critical objectives.
Technical Requirements
- Modernizing the in-vehicle experience includes developing a consistent user experience (UX)
that seamlessly integrates AI-powered features across all models, updating in-vehicle hardware and software in legacy models to support new UX features and AI capabilities, and ensuring reliable network connectivity, especially in rural areas, to support real-time AI features and data transmission.
- Network upgrades are necessary to support increased data traffic and improve connectivity
between plants and headquarters.
- IT infrastructure modernization requires adopting a hybrid cloud strategy to leverage the
benefits of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, and gradually modernizing or replacing legacy systems to improve efficiency and agility.
- Autonomous vehicle development and testing requires investing in cutting-edge AI and machine
learning technologies, building a robust simulation environment, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations related to autonomous vehicles.
- Data monetization and insights requires implementing a robust data management platform,
strict data security and privacy measures, and a scalable AI/ML infrastructure.
- Increased focus on security and risk management involves implementing a comprehensive
security framework to protect against cyber threats and data breaches, developing an incident response plan, and providing security awareness training to employees.
- Providing a delightful experience for dealers and customers requires improving the online build-
to-order system; developing modern dealer tools to streamline dealer operations, including sales, service, and inventory management; and implementing a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to track customer interactions personalize experiences, and improve customer satisfaction.
Executive Statement
KnightMotives is committed to enhancing safety and saving lives by leveraging an extensive body of data - encompassing driving, road conditions, behavioral studies, and crash safety statistics - to create compelling digital experiences for drivers. Our AI consistently outperforms national safety statistics, ensuring the unique and coveted KnightMotives experience is aligned across all our vehicle models.
Michael Knight, KnightMotives CEO
For this question, refer to the KnightMotives Automotive case study. KnightMotives wants to personalize the dealer experience for its customers and has decided to train its own AI models for personalized recommendations. The company will start collecting personally identifiable information (PII) from its customers to use as part of the models' training data. KnightMotives wants to ensure maximum security and compliance worldwide. You need to ensure the data is encrypted both at rest and during AI model training without impacting the models' accuracy. What should you do?
Company Overview
KnightMotives is a car manufacturer specializing in autonomous, self-driving vehicles, including Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), hybrids and traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. While KnightMotives has made strides with the in-vehicle experience in their BEV fleet, the hybrid and ICE vehicles have yet to implement these new systems and are viewed poorly by critics and drivers. The lack of modern in-vehicle technology in hybrid and ICE vehicles has resulted in declining sales and customer satisfaction.
KnightMotives wants to modernize the consumer experience across all vehicles within five years Artificial Intelligence offers a unique opportunity to revolutionize the in-vehicle experience, as well as the shopping buying and service/maintenance experience. Investment in this new technology will require a shift in financial priorities on a global scale.
KnightMotives also wants to improve their online ordering system, which is unreliable. Systems for customers to build their vehicle online for acquisition through a dealer are not delivering the data or reliability that dealers need, causing. A strain in the relationship between KnightMotives and dealers. Service technicians and sales staff need better tooling to enhance dealer successes, including built-to-order vehicles.
Solution Concept
KnightMotives wants to shift from manufacturing cars to creating a complete and compelling
"automotive experience." Then strategy prioritizes delivering a consistent experience across all models, developing AI-powered features, generating new revenue from data monetization, adopting a digital focus to differentiate their brand from competitors, and developing better tools for mechanics and salespeople.
Existing Technical Environment
KnightMotives's IT is largely on-premises with some applications on major cloud platforms. Their supply chain runs on an outdated mainframe, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is also outdated, making new promotions and dealer discounts difficult to implement. Dealers have no budget for new equipment. There is fragmentation across vehicles with multiple code bases, and significant technical debt from supporting backwards compatibility. Network connectivity to manufacturing plants and vehicle connectivity in rural areas are challenges.
Business Requirements
Key business requirements include fostering a personalized relationship with the driver and delivering a cohesive experience across all models. Creating a better build-to-order model will reduce time on the lot and provide transparency for both dealers and customers. Additionally, KnightMotives seeks to monetize corporate data to finance new technology investments, as their current AI infrastructure is obsolete and corporate data remains siloed. Security is a paramount concern due to past data breaches Adherence to European Union (EU) data protection regulations, especially for emerging autonomous platforms, is critical.
KnightMotives plans to make significant investments in fully autonomous driving capabilities, with initial implementation targeting regions with favorable regulatory environments. Prioritizing employee upskilling, attracting top-tier talent, and fostering better communication between business and technical teams are also critical objectives.
Technical Requirements
- Modernizing the in-vehicle experience includes developing a consistent user experience (UX)
that seamlessly integrates AI-powered features across all models, updating in-vehicle hardware and software in legacy models to support new UX features and AI capabilities, and ensuring reliable network connectivity, especially in rural areas, to support real-time AI features and data transmission.
- Network upgrades are necessary to support increased data traffic and improve connectivity
between plants and headquarters.
- IT infrastructure modernization requires adopting a hybrid cloud strategy to leverage the
benefits of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, and gradually modernizing or replacing legacy systems to improve efficiency and agility.
- Autonomous vehicle development and testing requires investing in cutting-edge AI and machine
learning technologies, building a robust simulation environment, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations related to autonomous vehicles.
- Data monetization and insights requires implementing a robust data management platform,
strict data security and privacy measures, and a scalable AI/ML infrastructure.
- Increased focus on security and risk management involves implementing a comprehensive
security framework to protect against cyber threats and data breaches, developing an incident response plan, and providing security awareness training to employees.
- Providing a delightful experience for dealers and customers requires improving the online build-
to-order system; developing modern dealer tools to streamline dealer operations, including sales, service, and inventory management; and implementing a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to track customer interactions personalize experiences, and improve customer satisfaction.
Executive Statement
KnightMotives is committed to enhancing safety and saving lives by leveraging an extensive body of data - encompassing driving, road conditions, behavioral studies, and crash safety statistics - to create compelling digital experiences for drivers. Our AI consistently outperforms national safety statistics, ensuring the unique and coveted KnightMotives experience is aligned across all our vehicle models.
Michael Knight, KnightMotives CEO
For this question, refer to the KnightMotives Automotive case study. KnightMotives wants to personalize the dealer experience for its customers and has decided to train its own AI models for personalized recommendations. The company will start collecting personally identifiable information (PII) from its customers to use as part of the models' training data. KnightMotives wants to ensure maximum security and compliance worldwide. You need to ensure the data is encrypted both at rest and during AI model training without impacting the models' accuracy. What should you do?
Correct Answer: D
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Question 4
Your company has an application running on Compute Engine that allows users to play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances. Files are stored in Cloud Storage, and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they sometimes need to attempt to play popular songs multiple times before they are successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 5
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth
Company Overview
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About
80% of their business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.
Solution Concept
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second.
Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced.
The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the field with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second with 22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
Existing Technical Environment
TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S. west coast based data center. These systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.
Business Requirements
- Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week.
- Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better
position new products and services
- Have the ability to partner with different companies - especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers
in the fast-growing agricultural business - to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
Technical Requirements
- Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American Midwest and east
coast.
- Create a backup strategy.
- Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter.
- Improve data in the data warehouse.
- Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs.
Application 1: Data ingest
A custom Python application reads uploaded datafiles from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage
Application 2: Reporting
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5 west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
- Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
- A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0
Executive Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through incremental innovations.
You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Company Overview
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About
80% of their business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.
Solution Concept
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second.
Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced.
The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the field with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second with 22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
Existing Technical Environment
TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S. west coast based data center. These systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.
Business Requirements
- Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week.
- Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better
position new products and services
- Have the ability to partner with different companies - especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers
in the fast-growing agricultural business - to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
Technical Requirements
- Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American Midwest and east
coast.
- Create a backup strategy.
- Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter.
- Improve data in the data warehouse.
- Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs.
Application 1: Data ingest
A custom Python application reads uploaded datafiles from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage
Application 2: Reporting
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5 west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
- Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
- A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0
Executive Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through incremental innovations.
You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Correct Answer: D
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Question 6
Case Study: 12 - Altostrat Media
Company Overview
Altostrat is a prominent player in the media industry, with an extensive collection of audio and video content that comprises podcasts, interviews, news broadcasts, and documentaries. Their success in delivering premium content to a diverse audience requires a content management system that can keep pace with the dynamic media landscape.
Solution Concept
Altostrat seeks to modernize its content management and user engagement strategies using Google Cloud's generative AI. They want a platform that empowers customers with personalized recommendations, natural language interactions and seamless self-service support.
Simultaneously, they want to drive revenue growth through dynamic pricing targeted marketing, and personalized product suggestions.
The seamless integration of AI-powered tools into the existing Google Cloud environment will enable Altostrat to efficiently manage their vast media library, enhance user experiences, and unlock new revenue streams. Google Cloud's generative AI will solidify their leadership in the media industry.
Existing Technical Environment
Altostrat's content management and delivery platform leverages GKE for scalability and high availability, essential for handling their vast media library. Their extensive media library spanning various documents, audio and video formats is stored in Cloud Storage. To gain valuable insights into user behavior, content consumption patterns, and audience demographics, Altostrat leverages BigQuery as their primary data warehouse. Additionally, they use Cloud Run functions for serverless execution of event-driven tasks such as video transcoding metadata extraction, and personalized content recommendations.
While Altostrat has made significant strides in cloud adoption, they also maintain some legacy on- premises systems for specific workflows like content ingestion and archival. These systems are slated for modernization and migration to Google Cloud in the near future. User management and authentication are currently handled through a combination of Google Identity and third-party identity providers. For monitoring and observability, Altostrat relies on a mix of native Google Cloud tools like Cloud Monitoring and open-source solutions like Prometheus, with alerts primarily delivered via email notifications.
Business Requirements
- Accelerate and enhance the reliability of operational workflows across all environments. [Google
Cloud + On-premises]
- Simplify infrastructure management for rapid application deployment.
- Optimize cloud storage costs while maintaining high availability and scalability for media
content.
- Enable natural language interaction with the platform with 24/7 user support.
- Automatically generate concise summaries of media content.
- Extract rich metadata from media assets using NLP and computer vision.
- Detect and filter inappropriate content.
- Analyze media content to identify trends and extract insights.
- Inform content strategy and decision making with data.
Technical Requirements
- Modernize CI/CD for containerized deployments with a centralized management platform.
- Secure, high-performance hybrid cloud connectivity for data ingestion.
- Provide scalable, performant kubernetes environments both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Optimize cloud storage costs for growing media volumes.
- Design AI-powered detection of harmful content.
- Ensure that AI systems are auditable and their decisions can be explained.
- Leverage LLMs and conversational AI for personalized experiences and content virality.
- Develop advanced chatbots with natural language understanding to provide personalized
assistance.
- Automated summarization for diverse media.
Executive Statement
At Altostrat, we are embracing the next frontier of artificial intelligence to revolutionize our content strategy. By harnessing the power of generative AI, we will create an unparalleled user experience by empowering our audience with intelligent toots for content discovery, personalized recommendations, and seamless interaction. Reliability and cost management are our top priorities. This strategic initiative will deepen engagement, foster customer loyalty, and unlock new revenue streams through targeted marketing and tailored content offerings. We see a future where Al-driven innovation is central to our business, leading to greater success for our company and delivering exceptional value to our customers.
For this question, refer to the Altostrat Media case study. Altostrat's development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?
Company Overview
Altostrat is a prominent player in the media industry, with an extensive collection of audio and video content that comprises podcasts, interviews, news broadcasts, and documentaries. Their success in delivering premium content to a diverse audience requires a content management system that can keep pace with the dynamic media landscape.
Solution Concept
Altostrat seeks to modernize its content management and user engagement strategies using Google Cloud's generative AI. They want a platform that empowers customers with personalized recommendations, natural language interactions and seamless self-service support.
Simultaneously, they want to drive revenue growth through dynamic pricing targeted marketing, and personalized product suggestions.
The seamless integration of AI-powered tools into the existing Google Cloud environment will enable Altostrat to efficiently manage their vast media library, enhance user experiences, and unlock new revenue streams. Google Cloud's generative AI will solidify their leadership in the media industry.
Existing Technical Environment
Altostrat's content management and delivery platform leverages GKE for scalability and high availability, essential for handling their vast media library. Their extensive media library spanning various documents, audio and video formats is stored in Cloud Storage. To gain valuable insights into user behavior, content consumption patterns, and audience demographics, Altostrat leverages BigQuery as their primary data warehouse. Additionally, they use Cloud Run functions for serverless execution of event-driven tasks such as video transcoding metadata extraction, and personalized content recommendations.
While Altostrat has made significant strides in cloud adoption, they also maintain some legacy on- premises systems for specific workflows like content ingestion and archival. These systems are slated for modernization and migration to Google Cloud in the near future. User management and authentication are currently handled through a combination of Google Identity and third-party identity providers. For monitoring and observability, Altostrat relies on a mix of native Google Cloud tools like Cloud Monitoring and open-source solutions like Prometheus, with alerts primarily delivered via email notifications.
Business Requirements
- Accelerate and enhance the reliability of operational workflows across all environments. [Google
Cloud + On-premises]
- Simplify infrastructure management for rapid application deployment.
- Optimize cloud storage costs while maintaining high availability and scalability for media
content.
- Enable natural language interaction with the platform with 24/7 user support.
- Automatically generate concise summaries of media content.
- Extract rich metadata from media assets using NLP and computer vision.
- Detect and filter inappropriate content.
- Analyze media content to identify trends and extract insights.
- Inform content strategy and decision making with data.
Technical Requirements
- Modernize CI/CD for containerized deployments with a centralized management platform.
- Secure, high-performance hybrid cloud connectivity for data ingestion.
- Provide scalable, performant kubernetes environments both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Optimize cloud storage costs for growing media volumes.
- Design AI-powered detection of harmful content.
- Ensure that AI systems are auditable and their decisions can be explained.
- Leverage LLMs and conversational AI for personalized experiences and content virality.
- Develop advanced chatbots with natural language understanding to provide personalized
assistance.
- Automated summarization for diverse media.
Executive Statement
At Altostrat, we are embracing the next frontier of artificial intelligence to revolutionize our content strategy. By harnessing the power of generative AI, we will create an unparalleled user experience by empowering our audience with intelligent toots for content discovery, personalized recommendations, and seamless interaction. Reliability and cost management are our top priorities. This strategic initiative will deepen engagement, foster customer loyalty, and unlock new revenue streams through targeted marketing and tailored content offerings. We see a future where Al-driven innovation is central to our business, leading to greater success for our company and delivering exceptional value to our customers.
For this question, refer to the Altostrat Media case study. Altostrat's development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 7
You are launching a data fabric service on Google Cloud in ten weeks and need to transfer 2 petabytes of historical data from your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You want to securely transfer the data with low latency. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 8
Your company has an application that is running on multiple instances of Compute Engine. It generates 1 TB per day of logs. For compliance reasons, the logs need to be kept for at least two years. The logs need to be available for active query for 30 days. After that, they just need to be retained for audit purposes. You want to implement a storage solution that is compliant, minimizes costs, and follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
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Question 9
Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used heavily during regular business hours and lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the application is slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application's performance. What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 10
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for 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
- Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
- Connect to a transactional database service to manage user profiles and game state.
- Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis.
- As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs.
- Run hardened Linux distro.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
- Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
- Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
- Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
- Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
- Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
Executive 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.
Additionally, 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.
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for 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
- Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
- Connect to a transactional database service to manage user profiles and game state.
- Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis.
- As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs.
- Run hardened Linux distro.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
- Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
- Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
- Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
- Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
- Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
Executive 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.
Additionally, 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.
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,D
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Question 11
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 a 99,99% 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?
Correct Answer: B
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