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Objective 6.3

PCA

Deployment and release management

Objective 6.3 sits in Ensuring solution and operations excellence, which carries 12.5% of the Cloud Architect exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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6-3Ensuring solution and operations excellence

A team releases with the standard strategy and asks how traffic is divided between old and new during that rollout. What happens?

Traffic moves in configured percentagesStaged percentages belong to the progressive strategy.
There is no split between old and newCorrect · your answerCorrect. One version replaces the other outright.
Half the traffic goes to the new versionAn even split is a canary example rather than this strategy.
The split is chosen per target runtimeThe runtime does not decide the strategy for you.

Correct.

Concept

A strategy that changes everything at once is not a weaker version of a progressive one; it is the choice you make when exposure is controlled somewhere else, such as by rolling back quickly.

Why B

The standard strategy deploys to the target runtimes without progressing in stages and without splitting between the old and new versions, while still supporting rollback, verification and parallel deployment.

Source

The standard deployment strategy simply deploys an application to a target runtime or runtimes. The deployment is not performed progressively, and there is no splitting between the old and new versions of your application. With a standard deployment, you can easily roll back your release, you can verify your deployment, and you can deploy to more than one target at the same time.

Use a deployment strategy, Cloud Deploy documentation, checked August 2026
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Now you: objective 6.3 questions

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Sample question 1 of 2

6-3Ensuring solution and operations excellence

A team proposes a canary progression of 20.5 percent followed by 50 percent for a release. What does Cloud Deploy accept?

Sample question 2 of 2

6-3Ensuring solution and operations excellence

A team deploys an application to a target for the very first time with the canary strategy, and the rollout jumps straight to the stable phase. What accounts for that?

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