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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
An e-commerce platform runs on GKE with Autopilot. The team wants to perform a canary deployment where 10% of traffic goes to a new version. They need to monitor the canary's error rate and latency, and automatically roll back if thresholds are exceeded. Which TWO services or features should they use together?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Deploy can orchestrate canary deployments with traffic splitting. Cloud Monitoring provides alerting that can trigger rollbacks. GKE Autopilot does not support node management. Traffic Director is for service mesh traffic management but not directly for canary deployments with automatic rollback. Cloud Scheduler is for cron jobs, not deployment.
Answer analysis
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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GKE Autopilot node pools
Why it's wrong here
Autopilot manages nodes automatically; node pools are not configurable for canary deployments.
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Cloud Scheduler
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Scheduler is for scheduled jobs, not for deployment orchestration.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why this is correct
Cloud Monitoring can set up alerts on error rate and latency to trigger automatic rollback.
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Cloud Deploy
Why this is correct
Cloud Deploy can manage canary deployments and traffic splitting.
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Traffic Director
Why it's wrong here
Traffic Director is for service mesh, not for canary deployment orchestration with automatic rollback.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud monitoring is the process of observing, measuring, and managing an organization's cloud infrastructure and applications to ensure performance, availability, and security.
Key term
CAN
A CAN (Controller Area Network) is a robust vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other without a host computer.
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