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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Data Engineer

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You have a data processing application that runs on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Containers need to be launched with their latest available configurations from a container registry. Your GKE nodes need to have GPUs, local SSDs, and 8 Gbps bandwidth. You want to efficiently provision the data processing infrastructure and manage the deployment process. What should you do?

A. Use Compute Engine startup scripts to pull container images, and use gcloud commands to provision the infrastructure.
B. Use Cloud Build to schedule a job using Terraform build to provision the infrastructure and launch with the most current container images.
C. Use GKE to autoscale containers, and use gcloud commands to provision the infrastructure.
D. Use Dataflow to provision the data pipeline, and use Cloud Scheduler to run the job.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by Atnafu at Nov. 30, 2022, 11:10 p.m.

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MaxNRG

Highly Voted 1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: B

B is the best option to efficiently provision and manage the deployment process for this data processing application on GKE:

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MaxNRG

1 year, 5 months ago

• Cloud Build allows you to automate the building, testing, and deployment of your application using Docker containers. • Using Terraform with Cloud Build provides Infrastructure as Code capabilities to provision the GKE cluster with GPUs, SSDs, and network bandwidth. • Terraform can be configured to pull the latest container images from the registry when deploying. • Cloud Build triggers provide event-based automation to rebuild and redeploy when container images are updated. • This provides an automated CI/CD pipeline to launch the application on GKE using the desired infrastructure and latest images. • Dataflow and Cloud Scheduler don't directly provide infrastructure provisioning or deployment orchestration for GKE. • gcloud commands can be used but don't provide the same automation benefits as Cloud Build + Terraform.

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