You work for a web development team at a small startup. Your team is developing a Node.js application using Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage and Cloud Build. The team uses a Git repository for version control. Your manager calls you over the weekend and instructs you to make an emergency update to one of the company’s websites, and you’re the only developer available. You need to access Google Cloud to make the update, but you don’t have your work laptop. You are not allowed to store source code locally on a non-corporate computer. How should you set up your developer environment?
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?
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?
You manage your company's ecommerce platform's payment system, which runs on Google Cloud. Your company must retain user logs for 1 year for internal auditing purposes and for 3 years to meet compliance requirements. You need to store new user logs on Google Cloud to minimize on-premises storage usage and ensure that they are easily searchable. You want to minimize effort while ensuring that the logs are stored correctly. What should you do?
You are running a containerized application on Google Kubernetes Engine. Your container images are stored in Container Registry. Your team uses CI/CD practices. You need to prevent the deployment of containers with known critical vulnerabilities. What should you do?
You are deploying your application on a Compute Engine instance that communicates with Cloud SQL. You will use Cloud SQL Proxy to allow your application to communicate to the database using the service account associated with the application’s instance. You want to follow the Google-recommended best practice of providing minimum access for the role assigned to the service account. What should you do?
You manage a microservice-based ecommerce platform on Google Cloud that sends confirmation emails to a third-party email service provider using a Cloud Function. Your company just launched a marketing campaign, and some customers are reporting that they have not received order confirmation emails. You discover that the services triggering the Cloud Function are receiving HTTP 500 errors. You need to change the way emails are handled to minimize email loss. What should you do?
Your operations team has asked you to create a script that lists the Cloud Bigtable, Memorystore, and Cloud SQL databases running within a project. The script should allow users to submit a filter expression to limit the results presented. How should you retrieve the data?
Your application performs well when tested locally, but it runs significantly slower when you deploy it to App Engine standard environment. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?
You are developing an application hosted on Google Cloud that uses a MySQL relational database schema. The application will have a large volume of reads and writes to the database and will require backups and ongoing capacity planning. Your team does not have time to fully manage the database but can take on small administrative tasks. How should you host the database?
