3.1 Configuring Load Balancing. Considerations Include: PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–18

1. 16foundation · easy

   A team wants to gradually roll out a new version of an application by sending a small percentage of traffic to the new backend service while the rest goes to the stable backend service. Which Application Load Balancer feature should be used?

   • ASession affinity
   • BURL rewrite
   • CTraffic mirroring
   • DTraffic splitting
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2. 17application · medium

   Your company runs a web application on Compute Engine VMs in two regions: us-central1 and europe-west1. You are using an external Application Load Balancer with a global external IP address. You need to ensure that users in Europe are routed to the europe-west1 backend and users in North America are routed to the us-central1 backend. What should you configure?

   • AConfigure a health check that marks the europe-west1 backend as unhealthy for users in North America
   • BConfigure the backend service with global access enabled and let the load balancer route to the nearest healthy backend
   • CConfigure a traffic splitting policy that sends 50% of traffic to each region
   • DConfigure a URL map with host rules that route based on the user's geographic location
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3. 18foundation · easy

   A backend service must route traffic to a set of pods in a GKE cluster. The pods are not directly exposed as VM instances. Which type of backend should be configured in the backend service?

   • AA zonal managed instance group (MIG)
   • BA serverless NEG
   • CA hybrid connectivity NEG
   • DA GCE_VM_IP_PORT network endpoint group (NEG)
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