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Foundation Cloud Quiz on GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, created by Marc Hall on 17/04/2021.

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Question 1 of 60

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What is true about a project?

Select one of the following:

  • Projects are a way of organizing and grouping resources in some logical way.

  • You can control access to resources within a project using IAM members and roles.

  • Resources within a project are billed together, so projects can be used to organize billing data.

  • All of the above.

Explanation

Question 2 of 60

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App Engine Admin is an example of what type of role?

Select one of the following:

  • Predefined

  • Primitive

  • Custom

  • Service

Explanation

Question 3 of 60

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Which API function would be used to see all the virtual machines in a project?

Select one of the following:

  • get.compute.instances

  • list.compute.instances

  • instances.list.compute

  • compute.instances.list

Explanation

Question 4 of 60

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What is true about project names versus project IDs?

Select one of the following:

  • Project IDs must be unique in all the world.

  • Project names must be unique in all the world.

  • Project names and IDs must be the same.

  • Project names are specified when making service requests.

Explanation

Question 5 of 60

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You want to add a colleague to a Google Cloud project so they can help you program it. When adding that person as a member of your project, what could you use to identify them?

Select one of the following:

  • Their Gmail account

  • A Google group

  • Their G Suite domain account

  • A service account

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 6 of 60

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What is not true about an API?

Select one of the following:

  • APIs have to be enabled within a project to be used.

  • API requests must be authenticated and the caller must be assigned a role that authorizes the API request.

  • Only IAM members working in the role of Project Owner, Project Editor or Project Developer can use an API. Other users must use the console.

  • You assign callers IAM roles to allow access to APIs.

Explanation

Question 7 of 60

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Project Editor is considered what type of role?

Select one of the following:

  • Predefined

  • Custom

  • Primitive

  • Root

Explanation

Question 8 of 60

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What best describe the relationship between Services and Service APIs?

Select one of the following:

  • Services represent the products available within Google Cloud, and each service has an API that consists of a collection of functions that can be invoked when using the service.

  • Services are things provided by humans, like a help desk of tech support. Service APIs are things that are automated in code.

  • Services are those things aimed at end users, like Google Maps or Gmail. Service APIs are those things used by programmers, like Kubernetes or App Engine.

  • All of the above are true.

Explanation

Question 9 of 60

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Let's say you wanted to control what APIs could be used by an application you are developing. What would you do?

Select one of the following:

  • Create a login using a G Suite account and programmatically impersonate that account in your code.

  • Create a Service Account with only roles required by your program and download the Service Account key. Configure your software to use that key.

  • Add an SSH key to a Compute Engine instance metadata. Then add that SSH key as an IAM member within your project. Assign the required roles to that member.

  • All of the above would work.

Explanation

Question 10 of 60

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If someone is granted the Editor role within a Project, but you want them to have read-only access to a particular bucket in Storage, what could you do?

Select one of the following:

  • Assign the Storage Object Viewer role at the Organization level. This will override the Project level permission.

  • Assign the Storage Object Viewer role at the Bucket level. This will override the Project level permission.

  • Put the bucket in a different project and assign them the Storage Object Viewer role at the bucket level.

  • You cannot remove access to the bucket, once you make them a Project Editor.

Explanation

Question 11 of 60

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Which command below could be used to create a Cloud Storage bucket named "pet_photos"?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud storage buckets create pet-photos

  • gcloud storage buckets create gs://pet-photos

  • gcloud storage create-bucket --name=pet-photos

  • gsutil mb gs://pet-photos

Explanation

Question 12 of 60

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You want to create a virtual machine using code. Which way below would not work?

Select one of the following:

  • Use a Deployment Manager template.

  • Using Google Cloud Shell, run the gcloud compute instances create command.

  • Install the Google Cloud SDK on your computer and use the gcloud compute instances create command.

  • Use the Python SDK

  • All of the above would work.

Explanation

Question 13 of 60

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You want to copy a file named "noir.jpg" to a Cloud Storage bucket named "pet-photos". What command below would most likely work?

Select one of the following:

  • gsutil cp noir.jpg gs://pet-photos

  • gcloud storage buckets copy --source=noir.jpg --target=gs://pet-photos

  • gcloud storage copy-file noir.jpg gs://pet-photos

  • gsutil copy noir.jpg gs://pet-photos

Explanation

Question 14 of 60

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What framework is used to create dynamic deployment manager templates?

Select one of the following:

  • Node.js Express

  • Python Flask

  • Python Jinja

  • All of the above

  • None of the above, you cannot create dynamic deployment manager templates.

Explanation

Question 15 of 60

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You've created a deployment manager template. Which command would most likely work to deploy the infrastructure specified in the template?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud deployment-manager deployments create deployment-name --config template-file-name

  • gcloud deployment-manager create-deployment deployment-name --config template-file-name

  • deployment-manager create deployment-name --config template-file-name

  • dmutils cd deployment-name --config template-file-name

Explanation

Question 16 of 60

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Which programming language is supported when writing applications that run on Google Cloud.

Select one of the following:

  • Go

  • Python

  • Java

  • C#

  • All of the above

  • All of the above except C#

Explanation

Question 17 of 60

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Which command below could be used to create a virtual machine with the name "web-server" in Zone A of the US Central 1 region?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud compute instances create web-server --zone=us-central1-a

  • gcloud compute instances create web-server --zone=a --region=us-central1

  • gcloud compute create-instance web-server --zone=us-central1-a

  • gcloud compute us-central1 instances create --name=web-server --zone=a

Explanation

Question 18 of 60

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You have a BigQuery table named "pets". Which command below would most likely work if you want to get all the Dogs?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud bigquery queries select --sql="select * from animals_dataset.pets where type='Dog'"

  • gcloud bigquery jobs execute --query="select * from animals_dataset.pets where type='Dog'"

  • bq query "select * from animals_dataset.pets where type='Dog'"

  • bq.pets.select(pet => pet.type == "Dog")

Explanation

Question 19 of 60

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Deployment Manager templates can be written in which format below?

Select one of the following:

  • XML

  • SQL

  • YAML

  • CSV

Explanation

Question 20 of 60

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If you install the Google Cloud SDK on your computer, and you want to set up gcloud, which command do you run?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud install

  • gcloud configure

  • gcloud init

  • gcloud config install

Explanation

Question 21 of 60

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How do you enable the Google Cloud CDN?

Select one of the following:

  • You add a CDN Distribution when configuring the service and use the distribution's URL when configuring a domain CNAME record.

  • It is enabled when you configure the backend service of an HTTP load balancer.

  • It is part of the Instance Group configuration.

  • It is enabled on a Cloud Storage bucket using the command: gsutil enable-cdn gs://bucket-name --true

Explanation

Question 22 of 60

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Where do you set up an autoscaler when deploying applications to Compute Engine?

Select one of the following:

  • In the Instance Template

  • In the Instance Group

  • In the Load Balancer Back End Service

  • In the Startup Script of the Virtual Machine Image

Explanation

Question 23 of 60

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Before connecting to a Windows server to administer it, what must you do.

Select one of the following:

  • Download the RDP key used when creating the machine.

  • Download the SSH key used when creating the machine.

  • Generate a password for the account you want use to log into the machine.

  • Use PowerShell to enable Windows Virtual Desktop on the instance you want to connect to.

Explanation

Question 24 of 60

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What best describes a Shared VPC?

Select one of the following:

  • A single VPC network that can be used by 2 or more projects.

  • A VPC network that supports external IP addresses so machines outside the network can access them.

  • A network that uses a VPN and a Cloud Router to provide access from your on-premises network.

  • A network within your on-premises data center that GCP Compute Engine Virtual Machines can be added to.

Explanation

Question 25 of 60

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What is true about Firewall Rules in Google Cloud networks.

Select one of the following:

  • Both ingress and egress rules are supported.

  • Tags or Service Accounts can be used to determine which machines in your VPC network Firewall Rules apply to.

  • CIDR addressing can be used to determine which machines outside your network can access the machines in your network.

  • All of the above are true.

Explanation

Question 26 of 60

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What protocol is used to connect to Linux machines for administration?

Select one of the following:

  • RDP

  • SSH

  • TCP

  • All of the above could be used.

Explanation

Question 27 of 60

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If you want to deploy a Web application that is highly available, what would you need to do.

Select one of the following:

  • Create at least two machines in the same zone and put a load balancer in front of them.

  • Create at least two machines in different zones and put a load balancer in front of them.

  • Create one machine in GCP and a backup in AWS. Then use a DNS health check and forwarding rule to route to the backup in the event of a failure.

  • Create a health check that monitors a machine and trigger a Cloud Function to create a new machine if the health check fails.

Explanation

Question 28 of 60

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What is an advantage of the CDN?

Select one of the following:

  • Reduced network egress cost when delivering content all over the world.

  • Reduced latency and better performance when delivering content all over the world.

  • Protection against distributed denial of service attacks.

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 29 of 60

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What protocol is used to connect to a Windows machine running in Google Cloud?

Select one of the following:

  • RDP

  • SSH

  • TCP

  • All of the above could be used.

Explanation

Question 30 of 60

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Which would be a valid internal IP address range when creating a subnet within a Google Cloud VPC network.

Select one of the following:

  • 10.128.0.0/20

  • 172.16.0.0/16

  • 192.168.1.0/24

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 31 of 60

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You're trying to SSH into a machine to administrate it, but it doesn't work. What might be the cause?

Select one of the following:

  • The machine does not have a public IP.

  • There is no firewall rule that opens port 22.

  • Your SSH key is invalid.

  • All of the above could be the problem.

Explanation

Question 32 of 60

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You have a machine in a Google Cloud network, but you don't want to give it an external IP address. How could you connect to that machine to administer it?

Select one of the following:

  • Create another machine in the same network that has an external IP and connect to it first, then connect from it to the machine that has no external IP.

  • Set up a VPN and connect through it.

  • Both of the above would work.

  • None of the above would work. You need to have an external IP address to connect to a machine from an external network.

Explanation

Question 33 of 60

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Google Cloud SQL supports which databases?

Select one of the following:

  • MySQL

  • PostgreSQL

  • SQL Server 

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 34 of 60

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Which is an example of a NoSQL database solution in GCP?

Select one of the following:

  • Spanner 

  • Bigtable 

  • BigQuery

  • Cloud SQL

Explanation

Question 35 of 60

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True or False. You enable encryption in a Cloud Storage bucket by creating an encryption key using the Key Management Service and specifying that key when creating the bucket.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 60

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You are looking for a managed database solution for storing things like user profiles, product information, product reviews and session data. What GCP solution would be most appropriate?

Select one of the following:

  • Firestore

  • Bigtable 

  • Spanner 

  • Cloud Storage

Explanation

Question 37 of 60

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What is true about Firestore?

Select one of the following:

  • It supports ACID transactions. 

  • You can create primary and secondary indexes.

  • There is a 1 GB free tier. 

  • All of the above are true.

Explanation

Question 38 of 60

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You want to deliver static web content like CSS files, JavaScript files, PDFs, and photos from a Cloud Storage bucket. What would most likely be the best Storage Class to use assuming high availability was a key requirement?

Select one of the following:

  • Multi-regional 

  • Regional 

  • Nearline 

  • Coldline

Explanation

Question 39 of 60

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What is true about Google Cloud Storage?

Select one of the following:

  • Bucket names must be unique within your project. 

  • You pay for the amount of space reserved for a bucket when it is created. 

  • Versioning can be enabled on a bucket. 

  • All of the above are true.

Explanation

Question 40 of 60

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What is NOT true about a Spanner database?

Select one of the following:

  • Can be configured to run in a single region or multiple regions. 

  • Scales by adding additional nodes.

  • Supports strong consistency and ACID transactions. 

  • It is designed for very high availability.

  • All of the above are true.

Explanation

Question 41 of 60

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Currently, you have an HBase database on-premises that you want to move to GCP. There is a lot of data and very fast writes are required. Which service on GCP would be likely most appropriate?

Select one of the following:

  • Firestore

  • Spanner

  • Bigtable

  • BigQuery

Explanation

Question 42 of 60

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The company has mandated that you store all company documents and copies of all emails and text messages for seven years just in case you ever need them for an audit. Most of the data will never be accessed, but it is important that you do not lose it. What is the best storage solution?

Select one of the following:

  • Multi-regional 

  • Regional 

  • Nearline

  • Coldline

Explanation

Question 43 of 60

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Your company is working on a new version of an enterprise inventory management system that you have sold for many years. In an effort to modernize the application you have rearchitected it using micro-services running in Docker containers. You want to simplify the deployment of the application. You also want to be able to deploy the application to any public cloud or deploy the application to customers' internal data centers, whichever they prefer. Which would you recommend below?

Select one of the following:

  • Create Terraform templates to deploy the application infrastructure on any cloud. Then, create shell scripts to deploy the application. Run the scripts from a Jenkins server when code changes are committed.

  • Create Kubernetes configuration files to deploy the application on a Kubernetes cluster. Use a script to create the Kubernetes cluster on the customers' preferred environment.

  • Create scripts to deploy the application to App Engine on GCP, Elastic Beanstalk on AWS or Azure Services. Use the appropriate script depending on the environment chosen.

  • Create a VMWare virtual machine that runs the application. Then, import that VM Image into the customers' preferred Cloud Environment when deploying the application.

Explanation

Question 44 of 60

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Which is a trigger supported in Cloud Functions?

Select one of the following:

  • Cloud Storage bucket changes

  • Pub/Sub Messages

  • HTTP requests

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 45 of 60

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You want to deploy a web service to a Kubernetes cluster. You want to have multiple instances of the service running and you want new instances created and destroyed to meet demand. Which Kubernetes components do you need to create?

Select one of the following:

  • A Deployment

  • A Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

  • A Load Balancer

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 46 of 60

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You have an existing Web application programmed in ASP.NET version 3. It's an internal app with not a lot of users or data. Currently, the data is stored on the same machine using a SQL Server Express database. You need to move the application to the cloud without rewriting it. What would you choose to deploy the application?

Select one of the following:

  • Compute Engine

  • Kubernetes

  • App Engine

  • Cloud Functions

Explanation

Question 47 of 60

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What feature of App Engine allows you to easily create Canary deployments and do A/B testing?

Select one of the following:

  • DNS Serving

  • Multi-Cast Provisioning

  • Version Selectors

  • Traffic Splitting

Explanation

Question 48 of 60

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You and a couple friends have come up with a great idea for an application. All of you can program, but none of you has a lot of experience managing compute infrastructure and networks. You also don't want to spend a lot to get started and you don't want to purchase infrastructure in case the application doesn't become popular. You have chosen Google Cloud to run your application. What service would you recommend for deploying the application?

Select one of the following:

  • Compute Engine

  • Kubernetes Engine

  • App Engine

  • Cloud Functions

Explanation

Question 49 of 60

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You have version one of an existing App Engine application running. You have created version two. You want to deploy version two to App Engine, but you want to test it before it starts handling the user requests. Which command would you use?

Select one of the following:

  • gcloud app deploy --version=two --no-promote

  • gcloud app update --version=two --no-promote

  • gcloud app-engine deployments create my-app --version=two --traffic=0

  • gcloud app-engine deployments update my-app --version=two

Explanation

Question 50 of 60

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You've creates a Kubernetes configuration file called app-config.yaml. Which statement below would you most likely use to deploy your application to a Kubernetes Cluster running in Kubernetes Engine?

Select one of the following:

  • kubectl apply -f app-config.yaml

  • gcloud kubernetes deployments create my-app --config=app-config.yaml

  • gcloud container deployments create my-app --config=app-config.yaml

  • gcloud deploy my-app--cluster=my-cluster --config=app-config.yaml

Explanation

Question 51 of 60

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You want to write a program that responds to photos being uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. When a photo appears, you want to first detect if it is inappropriate content. If it is, you want to delete it. If the content is OK, then you want to label the photos with keywords and add it to a Bigtable table that you are using for a searchable index. Which would you use to deploy your program?

Select one of the following:

  • Compute Engine VMs

  • Kubernetes

  • App Engine

  • Cloud Functions

Explanation

Question 52 of 60

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The smallest unit of deployment in a Kubernetes cluster is called what?

Select one of the following:

  • Node

  • Pod

  • Instance

  • Container

Explanation

Question 53 of 60

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You've deployed an application to App Engine. There is an occasional performance problem that you are trying to diagnose. What Stackdriver feature might help you with this?

Select one of the following:

  • Tracing

  • Alerting

  • Resource monitoring

  • Uptime checks

Explanation

Question 54 of 60

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You have an application that you want to write to the Stackdriver logs from a Compute Engine virtual machine. It is not working, what might be the cause?

Select one of the following:

  • You have to install the Stackdriver monitoring agent.

  • You have to install the Stackdriver logging agent.

  • Your machine needs full access to all Cloud APIs

  • All of the above.

Explanation

Question 55 of 60

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If you wanted to monitor memory utilization of a virtual machine running in Compute Engine, what would you have to do first?

Select one of the following:

  • Install the Stackdriver monitoring agent

  • Install the Stackdriver logging agent

  • Start the Linux resource monitoring daemon

  • You don't have to do anything, Stackdriver monitoring is enabled by default for Compute Engine VMs.

Explanation

Question 56 of 60

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Which service cannot be monitored using Stackdriver monitoring?

Select one of the following:

  • Compute Engine VM resources

  • AWS EC2 Instances

  • App Engine Usage

  • Kubernetes Clusters

  • All of these can be monitored

Explanation

Question 57 of 60

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If you were setting up an Instance Group and wanted to enable autohealing, what Stackdriver feature would you need to create?

Select one of the following:

  • An uptime check

  • A health check

  • An alerting policy

  • A log export

Explanation

Question 58 of 60

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You've deployed a new version of an App Engine application. The application worked on your developer machine and passed all of its unit testing. However, it is failing in the Cloud. What Stackdriver feature might help you track down the problem?

Select one of the following:

  • Debugging

  • Tracing

  • Error Reporting

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 59 of 60

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You want to be notified if application usage exceeds some value. What would you create?

Select one of the following:

  • A health check

  • An alerting policy

  • A logging pipeline

  • A resource monitor

Explanation

Question 60 of 60

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You want to analyze your application logs in realtime to detect anomalies. How might you do that?

Select one of the following:

  • Export the logs to Cloud Storage and create a Cloud Function to monitor changes.

  • Export the logs to Pub/Sub and create and a Dataflow job to monitor the stream for anomalies.

  • Export the logs to BigQuery and create an App Engine application to query the BigQuery data.

  • Export the logs to Datastore and monitor it with a Spark Cluster running in Dataproc.

Explanation

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