Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Question 46

Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about account owners and office locations.
Which database type should you use?
  • Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Question 47

    Case Study: 3 - JencoMart Case Study
    Company Overview
    JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.
    Company Background
    JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.
    Solution Concept
    JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.
    Existing Technical Environment
    JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe, most applications are dual-homed.
    JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
    Application Customer loyalty portal
    LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S.
    data centers.
    Database
    * Oracle Database stores user profiles




    * PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
    -homed in US West





    Authenticates all users
    Compute
    * 30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:



    * 20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
    -core CPU


    RAID 1)

    Storage
    * Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
    * Tape backup every week
    Business Requirements
    * Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
    * Guarantee service availably and support
    * Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact.
    * Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
    * Expand services into Asia.
    Technical Requirements
    * Assess key application for cloud suitability.
    * Modify application for the cloud.
    * Move applications to a new infrastructure.
    * Leverage managed services wherever feasible
    * Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
    * Decrease latency in Asia
    CEO Statement
    JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through 'green' initiatives and polices.
    CTO Statement
    The challenges of operating data centers prevents focus on key technologies critical to our long- term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service customers.
    CFO Statement
    Since its founding JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long- term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak and reduce costs.
    For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
    JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?
  • Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Question 48

    You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud services that run on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable.
    Which three requirements should they include? Choose 3 answers
  • Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Question 49

    Your company has an application deployed on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos GKE) that is running multiple microservices. The cluster has both Anthos Service Mesh and Anthos Config Management configured. End users inform you that the application is responding very slowly. You want to identify the microservice that is causing the delay. What should you do?
  • Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Question 50

    You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?