Question 126

Your company is designing its application landscape on Compute Engine. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, the application should be restored in another zone as quickly as possible with the latest application dat a. You need to design the solution to meet this requirement. What should you do?
  • Question 127

    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?
  • Question 128

    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?
  • Question 129

    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?
  • Question 130

    Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games
    Company Overview
    Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
    Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
    Their current model is to write game statistics to files and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for reporting.
    Solution Concept
    Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with a managed NoSQL database.
    Business Requirements
    Increase to a global footprint.
    * Improve uptime - downtime is loss of players.
    * Increase efficiency of the cloud resources we use.
    * Reduce latency to all customers.
    * Technical Requirements
    Requirements for Game Backend Platform
    Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
    * Connect to a transactional database service to manage user profiles and game state.
    * Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis.
    * As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs.
    * Run hardened Linux distro.
    * Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
    Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
    * Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
    * Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
    * Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
    * Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
    * Executive Statement
    Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation. Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.
    Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.
    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?