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CPE301:GAE Qualification Exam - Cloud Platform Training

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CPE301:GAE Qualification Exam

Thisexaminationtestsyourunderstandingofthe
fundamentalsofGoogleAppEngineandyourabilitytoapply
thisknowledgetobasicproblems.Currentversionis1.5,
publishedinFebruary2015.
Inparticularyoushouldunderstandandbeabletodefinethe
following:

Scalability,Reliability,AutoScale
StaticandDynamicfileservers
AppEnginefrontend,AppserversandStaticservers
Multitenancy,Runtimes,InstancesandInstancehours
PendingrequestqueueandPendinglatency
IdleandDynamicinstances
Static,DynamicandWarmuprequests
Requestscheduling
CloudEndpoints
AppID/ProjectIDandApplicationVersions
SystemstatusandAdminconsole
RequesthandlerandRequestlogs

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Quotas
UsersAPI
EdgecachingandMemcache
EventualandStrongconsistency
Kind,Entity,KeyProperties
Entitygroup,Ancestors,Filters,Querysorting
Singlepropertyindex,Compositeindexes
Parallelization,Task,andDeferredTask
Taskqueue,PushqueueandScheduledtasks(cron)

Youshouldalsobeabletoexplainandperformthefollowing:

AppEngineBasics
GAEvsPaaS
ThetopographyofAppEnginearchitecture
TheruntimeenvironmentsavailableforApp
Engine
Whatinstancesare,includingabasicconceptof
aManagedVM
HowAppEngineimplementsautoscaling
ThedesigngoalsofAppEngine
ThelifeofarequestinAppEngine
HowtomanuallytuneautoscalingonGAE
Howtomanagependingrequests
Howwarmuprequestscanmitigateapp
initializationlatency
HowCloudEndpointscanbeused
CreatealocalAppEngineapp
DeploytoanAppEngineproject
Viewarunninginstance
BuildingandManagingApplications
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TheusecasesfortheCloudSDKvsthe
DeveloperConsole
HowtodiscernbetweenAppEnginesystem
issuesandApplicationspecificissues
TheuniqueadvantagesofAppEnginelogging
HowtousetheGAEdevelopmentserver
HowtodeploytoGAE
Howtoversionanapp
Howtouserequesthandlerstorouterequests
HowAppEngineallocatesinstances
Costvs.performancebenefitsofapplication
scalingsettings
Pickthemostappropriatetoolformanagingan
application
Configureanapplicationfordeployment
Deployanapplicationtothelocaldevelopment
serverandalsotoproduction
KnowhowtofindtheirwayaroundtheAdmin
Console
Accessapplicationlogs
CheckAppEnginestatus

AuthenticatingUsers
Authenticationconfiguration
Differencebetweenauthenticationand
authorization
Whenandhowtoimplementcustom
authentication(ie,SSO)
Whenandwheretoencryptdata
Whattypeofdataisassociatedwithusers
Configuretheauthenticationforanapplication
UsetheUsersAPItomanageaccesstoan
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application
Manageregistereddevelopersforanapplication
Restrictaccesstoanappforadminsonly
Caching
Whycachingisimportant
Whentouseacache
Howedgecachingworks
Theprogrammaticoptionsforaccessing
memcache
Theconstraintsofusingmemcache
EnableedgecachinginAppEngine
Implementread/writeoperationsinmemcache
DataStore
Whatanentityandkindis
Whenstrongconsistencyisguaranteed
Costofindexing
Howtoperformqueries
ConfigureindexesforDatastore
FilterDatastorequeriesbyancestor
Crossentitygrouptransactions
Whatanancestoris
Optimisticconcurrency
Whathappensifawritefailureoccurs
Performanancestorquery
ManageDatastoretransactions
SchedulingandQueues
HowacronjobinvokescommandswithinApp
Engine
Basicarchitectureofpushqueuesandscheduled
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tasks
Understandtaskparameters
UnderstandthetaskHTTPrequest
Configureataskqueue
Enqueueatask
Addtaskstothedefaultpushqueue
Definetaskhandlers
ManagetasksintheDeveloperconsole

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