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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A company wants to test the performance of a new web application under high load. They need a tool that can generate traffic from multiple regions. Which Google Cloud service should they use?
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Cloud Load Testing
Cloud Load Testing (formerly Cloud Load Balancing) is a managed service that can generate load from multiple regions. Locust is an open-source tool that can be deployed on Compute Engine but is not a managed GCP service. Cloud Shell is a development environment. Cloud Run is for running containers.
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Cloud Load Testing
Why this is correct
Cloud Load Testing is the GCP managed service for generating load from multiple regions.
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Cloud Run
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Run is for running stateless containers, not for 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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Locust
Why it's wrong here
Locust is a third-party open-source tool; not a GCP managed service.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Cloud Run
Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform from Google Cloud that lets you run containerized applications in a serverless environment, automatically scaling from zero to thousands of requests.
Key term
Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing is the process of distributing incoming network traffic across multiple servers or resources in the cloud to ensure no single resource is overwhelmed, improving availability and reliability.
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