Question 236

Your organization has decided to restrict the use of external IP addresses on instances to only approved instances. You want to enforce this requirement across all of your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). What should you do?
  • Question 237

    Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win case study
    Company Overview
    Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model.
    Company Background
    Dress4win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insufficient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.
    Solution Concept
    For the first phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.
    Existing Technical Environment
    The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location.
    Databases:
    MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
    * Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
    * Application servers:
    Tomcat - Java micro-services
    * Nginx - static content
    * Apache Beam - Batch processing
    * Storage appliances:
    iSCSI for VM hosts
    * Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
    * NAS - image storage, logs, backups
    * Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
    Data analysis
    * Real-time trending calculations
    * MQ servers:
    Messaging
    * Social notifications
    * Events
    * Miscellaneous servers:
    Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
    * Business Requirements
    * Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production. Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
    Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
    Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud. Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.
    Technical Requirements
    Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud. Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency. Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
    Use managed services whenever possible.
    Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
    Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.
    CEO Statement
    Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.
    CTO Statement
    We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our traffic patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
    CFO Statement
    Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.
    For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
    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?
  • Question 238

    Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable for retention and analysis. What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this data of personally identifiable information or payment card information before initial storage?
  • Question 239

    For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
    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?
  • Question 240

    For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
    You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' 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?