PCNE Configuring Network Services Practice Question
Which Google Cloud service provides a managed Envoy proxy control plane for traffic management, including traffic splitting and fault injection, in a service mesh?
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Traffic Director
Traffic Director is the managed control plane for Envoy-based service mesh, providing traffic management features.
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Traffic Director
Why this is correct
Traffic Director is the managed control plane for Envoy proxies.
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Cloud Endpoints
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Endpoints is for API management, not service mesh.
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Cloud Load Balancing
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Load Balancing is for ingress traffic, not mesh internal traffic.
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Anthos Service Mesh
Why it's wrong here
Anthos Service Mesh includes Traffic Director, but the question asks for the control plane service specifically.
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