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You are managing a Cloud Dataproc cluster. You need to make a job run faster while minimizing costs, without losing work in progress on your clusters. What should you do?

  • A. Increase the cluster size with more non-preemptible workers.
  • B. Increase the cluster size with preemptible worker nodes, and configure them to forcefully decommission.
  • C. Increase the cluster size with preemptible worker nodes, and use Cloud Stackdriver to trigger a script to preserve work.
  • D. Increase the cluster size with preemptible worker nodes, and configure them to use graceful decommissioning.
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AzureDP900
Highly Voted 1 year, 4 months ago
D is right https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/configuring-clusters/scaling-clusters#using_graceful_decommissioning
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rocky48
Most Recent 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
D is right https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/configuring-clusters/scaling-clusters#using_graceful_decommissioning
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Prakzz
1 year, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: A
Should be A. You can configure the preemptible worker to gracefull decommission, its for non preemptible worker nodes.
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wan2three
1 year, 3 months ago
nope, they are not only for non-preeemtible workers
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yafsong
1 year, 4 months ago
graceful decommissioning: to finish work in progress on a worker before it is removed from the Cloud Dataproc cluster. https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/configuring-clusters/scaling-clusters
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odacir
1 year, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: D
All your workers need to be the same kind. Use Graceful Decommissioning for don't lose any data and add more(increase the cluster) preemptible workers because there are more cost-effective .
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skp57
1 year, 5 months ago
A. "graceful decommissioning" is not a configuration value but a parameter passed with scale down action - to decrease the number of workers to save money (see Graceful Decommissioning as an option to use when downsizing a cluster to avoid losing work in progress)
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John_Pongthorn
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: D
https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/configuring-clusters/scaling-clusters Why scale a Dataproc cluster? to increase the number of workers to make a job run faster to decrease the number of workers to save money (see Graceful Decommissioning as an option to use when downsizing a cluster to avoid losing work in progress). to increase the number of nodes to expand available Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) storage
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hauhau
1 year, 6 months ago
This weird. The question mentions that increase cluster, but Graceful Decommissioning use in downscale the cluster
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odacir
1 year, 4 months ago
All your workers need to be the same kind. Use Graceful Decommissioning for don't lose any data and add more preemptible workers because there are more cost-effective
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AWSandeep
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D. Increase the cluster size with preemptible worker nodes, and configure them to use graceful decommissioning.
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