Your company pushes batches of sensitive transaction data from its application server VMs to Cloud Pub/Sub for processing and storage. What is the Google-recommended way for your application to authenticate to the required Google Cloud services?

An application development team has come to you for advice.They are planning to write and deploy an HTTP(S) API using Go 1.12. The API will have a very unpredictable workload and must remain reliable during peaks in traffic. They want to minimize operational overhead for this application. What approach should you recommend?

You have deployed an application on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos GKE). According to the SRE practices at your company you need to be alerted if the request latency is above a certain threshold for a specified amount of time. What should you do?

You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot spoof chat messages, by providing a message were sent by a specific user.
What should you do

Your company has an application running on Google Cloud that is collecting data from thousands of physical devices that are globally distributed. Data is publish to Pub/Sub and streamed in real time into an SSO Cloud Bigtable cluster via a Dataflow pipeline. The operations team informs you that your Cloud Bigtable cluster has a hot-spot and queries are taking longer man expected You need to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future What should you do?