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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A company wants to perform load testing on a new microservice deployed on GKE. They need to simulate thousands of concurrent users with realistic traffic patterns. They also want to monitor latency and error rates during the test. Which Google Cloud tool should they use?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Load Testing
Cloud Load Testing (formerly known as Cloud Load Testing) is a managed service for creating load tests with distributed agents. It can simulate thousands of users and integrates with Cloud Monitoring. Locust is an open-source tool but not managed by GCP. Cloud Deploy is for continuous delivery. Cloud Shell is a command-line environment.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Locust
Why it's wrong here
Locust is an open-source tool; it can be used but is not a Google Cloud managed service.
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Cloud Load Testing
Why this is correct
Cloud Load Testing is a managed service for load testing with distributed agents and monitoring integration.
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Cloud Deploy
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Deploy is for CI/CD pipelines, not load testing.
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Cloud Shell
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Shell is a browser-based terminal, not a load testing tool.
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