Google Professional Cloud Developer Exam - Topic 5 Question 128 Discussion

Question

You are designing an application that will subscribe to and receive messages from a single Pub/Sub topic and insert corresponding rows into a database. Your application runs on Linux and leverages preemptible virtual machines to reduce costs. You need to create a shutdown script that will initiate a graceful shutdown. What should you do?

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D) Write a shutdown script that publishes a message to the Pub/Sub topic announcing that a shutdown is in progress. After the application reads the message, it disconnects from the database.

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A) Write a shutdown script that uses inter-process signals to notify the application process to disconnect from the database.

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B) Write a shutdown script that broadcasts a message to all signed-in users that the Compute Engine instance is going down and instructs them to save current work and sign out.

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C) Write a shutdown script that writes a file in a location that is being polled by the application once every five minutes. After the file is read, the application disconnects from the database.