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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on GKE. You need to back up the cluster's state and application data. Which TWO services should you use together? (Choose 2)
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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Velero (formerly Heptio Ark)
Velero is the standard tool for backing up GKE clusters and can store backups in Cloud Storage. Cloud Storage provides durable and versioned storage for backup artifacts. Filestore is for file storage, not cluster backups; Cloud SQL is for databases; Pub/Sub is for messaging.
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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Velero (formerly Heptio Ark)
Why this is correct
Velero is used for GKE backup and restore.
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Pub/Sub
Why it's wrong here
Pub/Sub is for messaging.
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Cloud SQL
Why it's wrong here
Cloud SQL is a database service.
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Filestore
Why it's wrong here
Filestore is for file storage, not cluster backups.
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Cloud Storage
Why this is correct
Velero uses Cloud Storage as a backup target.
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