EMT Practice Test

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Question1: TerramEarth has equipped all connected trucks with servers and sensors to collect telemetry data. Next
year they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud
while reducing costs.
What should they do?

Question2: Your company's test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual
machines. The full test suite takes several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on-premises
servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce
the amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as
possible.
Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend?

Question3: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their
solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become
available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)

Question4: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in
Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file
storage cost.
Which two actions should you take?

Question5: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises
architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.
What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

Question6: Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy
services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy.
What should they do?

Question7: At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of
database backup files.
The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center.
How should he proceed?

Question8: All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on
specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using
VPC firewall rules.
How should you configure the firewall rules?

Question9: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical
architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk
Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Question10: Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

Question11: You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there's no downtime in case
of a data center outage in any of the zones within a GCP region. What should you do?

Question12: Your company creates rendering software which users can download from the company website. Your
company has customers all over the world. You want to minimize latency for all your customers. You want
to follow Google-recommended practices.
How should you store the files?

Question13: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical
architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business
and technical requirements, what should you do?

Question14: Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase
their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating
efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field.
How can you accomplish this goal?

Question15: You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with
HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429.
How should you handle these types of errors?

Question16: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation,
TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months
when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and
BigQuery. What should you do?

Question17: To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit
data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the
start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the
solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections.
What should you do?

Question18: Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated
application environments. Developers and testers can access each other's environments and resources,
but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some
services from production.
What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?

Question19: The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new
database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their
performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8
virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk.
What should they change to get better performance from this system?

Question20: JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application
servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need
access to Datastore to upload the data.
What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?

Question21: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets
Mountkirk's technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?

Question22: As part of Dress4Win's plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging
and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load.
They want to ensure that:
* The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of
usage throughout the day
* Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.
* They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many
hosts
Which Google StackDriver features should they use?

Question23: Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their data stream to optimize
operations. They do not have any existing code for this analysis, so they are exploring all their options.
These options include a mix of batch and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and
live-processing some data as it comes in.
Which technology should they use for this?

Question24: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in
1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO
has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you
configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize
the ROI?

Question25: A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his requirements and identify
what cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The application must:
1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability
2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
3. Support continuous software delivery
4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack
5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates
6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL
Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?

Question26: Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new
feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but
many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?

Question27: You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine.
You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted.
What should you do?

Question28: You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a
majority of time saving by reducing customer's wait time for parts. You decided to focus on reduction of the
3 weeks aggregate reporting time.
Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?

Question29: You have an App Engine application that needs to be updated. You want to test the update with production
traffic before replacing the current application version.
What should you do?

Question30: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP
solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth.
Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Question31: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way
to test the analytics platform's resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?

Question32: The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a
least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development
resources.
What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?

Question33: The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company's business
requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus
creating a custom framework.
Which method should they use?

Question34: As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves.
The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images.
Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly
on the main application page when they log in.
Which configuration should Dress4Win use?

Question35: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how
would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?

Question36: You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine
VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to access an on-premises file server. You need
to install specific software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software?

Question37: You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your
company's web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction.
Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? Choose 2 answers.

Question38: Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small
services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following
requirements:
Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe

Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet

They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services

Deployment artifacts are immutable

Which set of products should they use?

Question39: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in
Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and
assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the
simplest design to meet the requirements.
Considering Dress4Win's business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Question40: You want to establish a Compute Engine application in a single VPC across two regions. The application
must communicate over VPN to an on-premises network. How should you deploy the VPN?

Question41: You are running a cluster on Kubernetes Engine to serve a web application. Users are reporting that a
specific part of the application is not responding anymore. You notice that all pods of your deployment
keep restarting after 2 seconds. The application writes logs to standard output. You want to inspect the
logs to find the cause of the issue. Which approach can you take?

Question42: TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to
20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour.
How should you design the data ingestion?

Question43: The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on
Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage
Google Cloud Storage objects.
What can they do?

Question44: Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from
their existing backends on the other platforms?

Question45: Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload
requires a consistent set of hostnames even after pod scaling and relaunches.
Which feature of Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this?

Question46: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the
ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices.
Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?

Question47: Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third
parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated
authorization against this data.
What should you do?

Question48: You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors
for at least 10 years.
Cost optimization is your top priority.
Which cloud services should you choose?

Question49: Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the
cloud.
They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the
migration.
Which approach should you recommend?

Question50: Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants
detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and
set up yourself as the org admin.
What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security
team?

Question51: Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that
are not time-critical. You also need to use GCP services that are HIPAA-certified and manage service
costs.
How should you design to meet Google best practices?

Question52: Your architecture calls for the centralized collection of all admin activity and VM system logs within your
project.
How should you collect these logs from both VMs and services?

Question53: TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location, its
telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US, Europe, or Asia). The CTO
has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after
100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data.
What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?

Question54: Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying
some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation.
What should you advise?

Question55: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their
current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google
Cloud Platform.
Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)

Question56: JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform.
Which Google Database should they use?

Question57: Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users.
the company has begun experimenting with a machine learning model on Google Cloud Platform to
improve the quality of results.
What should the customer do to improve their model's results over time?

Question58: For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend
Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API.
You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?

Question59: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to
BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an
automated daily basis while managing cost.
What should you do?

Question60: Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a
through testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want
the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?

Question61: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated
as -is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?

Question62: Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to.
How should you proceed?

Question63: Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users.
the company has begun experimenting with a machine learning model on Google Cloud Platform to
improve the quality of results.
What should the customer do to improve their model's results over time?

Question64: Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of
increased Google Cloud Platform adoption?

Question65: You are tasked with building an online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tool.
This requires a relational database that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google-
recommended tool for such applications?

Question66: Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the migration, you want to
integrate Kubernetes Engine for workload orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-
compliant. Which of the following is most accurate?

Question67: Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must
meet their technical requirements.
Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?

Question68: You are using Cloud CDN to deliver static HTTP(S) website content hosted on a Compute Engine instance
group. You want to improve the cache hit ratio.
What should you do?

Question69: You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN
to maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is
completed. You want to make sure all your on-premises systems remain reachable during this period. How
should you organize your networking in Google Cloud?

Question70: For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should
you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?

Question71: 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?

Question72: TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately
when a vehicle in the field will have a catastrophic failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the
vehicle data.
Which architecture should you recommend?
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B:

C:

D:

Question73: For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win
must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of
resources on Google Cloud.
What should you do?