PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER · Question #171
You support a website with a global audience. The website has a frontend web service and a backend database service that runs on different clusters. All clusters are scaled to handle at least ? of the
The correct answer is C. Drain the requests to Region 3 and redirect new requests to other regions.. A is incorrect because adding more Frontend servers will not fix the backend configuration B is incorrect because running a backend without the critical security patch is a big risk. C is correct because the remaining 3 regions can handle the total traffic load, which gives you t
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- AAdd more capacity to the frontend of Region 3.
- BRevert the Region 3 backend database and run it without the patch.
- CDrain the requests to Region 3 and redirect new requests to other regions.
- DBack up the database in the backend of Region 3 and restart the database.
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(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B9% (3)
- C71% (24)
- D18% (6)
Explanation
A is incorrect because adding more Frontend servers will not fix the backend configuration B is incorrect because running a backend without the critical security patch is a big risk. C is correct because the remaining 3 regions can handle the total traffic load, which gives you time to fix the configuration error in Region 3 and then apply the patch. D is incorrect because backing up the database will not help at this point, and the additional load on the server could make the problem worse. https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/enabling-connection-draining https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/robustsystems#distribute https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/addressing-cascading-failures/
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