Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
You are designing a multi-region deployment for a critical application on GKE. The application must withstand a regional outage and automatically redirect traffic to the healthy region. Which THREE components must be configured? (Choose 3)
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Spanner
Multi-region GKE with global load balancing, multi-cluster ingress, and a multi-region database like Spanner are required.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Cloud Spanner
Why this is correct
Provides multi-region strongly consistent database.
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Global HTTP(S) Load Balancer
Why this is correct
Routes traffic across regions.
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Regional Cloud SQL
Why it's wrong here
Regional only, not multi-region.
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Multi-cluster Ingress
Why this is correct
Manages ingress across GKE clusters.
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Cloud NAT
Why it's wrong here
For outbound connectivity, not multi-region routing.
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Load Balancing and Autoscaling
Key term
GKE
GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in the cloud.
Key term
Regional
Regional refers to a deployment strategy where cloud resources are distributed across multiple geographic areas to improve availability, reduce latency, and meet compliance requirements.
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