2.1 Designing Pipelines PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21application · medium

   A team wants to deploy a new version of their application to GKE with a canary strategy. They want to send 10% of traffic to the new version and gradually increase to 100% if no errors occur. They also want to automatically roll back if the error rate exceeds 5%. What should they use?

   • AUse a Kubernetes Ingress with an annotation to set traffic weight
   • BUse an Istio VirtualService with weighted destinations and a Service Mesh policy for automatic rollback
   • CUse a Service with a canary selector and a Network Load Balancer to split traffic
   • DUse a Kubernetes Service with a stable selector and manually update the number of replicas for the canary deployment
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2. 22foundation · easy

   A development team wants to store and manage container images and other build artifacts in a private, centralized location on Google Cloud. Which service should they use?

   • AArtifact Registry
   • BCloud Storage
   • CContainer Registry
   • DCloud Source Repositories
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4. 23foundation · easy

   A security team wants to automatically identify known vulnerabilities in container images before they are deployed. Which Artifact Registry feature should they enable?

   • ARetention policies
   • BVulnerability scanning
   • CAccess control lists
   • DImmutable tags
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5. 24foundation · easy

   When deploying to a hybrid environment that includes GKE clusters, what is a key consideration for the CI/CD pipeline?

   • AThe pipeline must use the same artifact repository for all environments.
   • BThe pipeline must only use Google Cloud services.
   • CThe pipeline must deploy to all environments simultaneously.
   • DThe pipeline must be able to authenticate to each target environment securely.
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6. 25application · medium

   A company uses Cloud Build to deploy to multiple environments (dev, staging, prod). They want to promote the same artifact from dev to staging to prod, with a manual approval before prod. They also want to ensure that the exact same artifact is deployed to each environment. What should they do?

   • ABuild the artifact separately for each environment to ensure compatibility
   • BBuild the artifact once, store it in Artifact Registry, and reference the same artifact in each environment's deployment step, with an approval gate before prod
   • CUse a Cloud Build trigger for each environment that rebuilds from source
   • DUse a single pipeline that deploys to all environments at once
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