PCNE Configuring Network Services Practice Question
You are deploying a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Traffic Director for traffic management. You want to implement fault injection to test the resilience of your services. Which two types of fault injection does Traffic Director support? (Choose two.)
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Delay
Traffic Director supports fault injection of delays and errors (aborts).
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Delay
Why this is correct
Introduces latency in requests.
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Abort
Why this is correct
Returns an HTTP error code.
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CPU exhaustion
Why it's wrong here
Not supported by Traffic Director.
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Packet loss
Why it's wrong here
Not supported at the application layer.
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Bandwidth throttling
Why it's wrong here
Not supported by Traffic Director; would require other tools.
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