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Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect exam Exam Practice Test

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Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect exam Questions and Answers

Question 1

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company's business requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom framework. Which method should they use?

Options:

A.

Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

B.

Use Google App Engine with a JAX-RS Jersey Java-based framework. Focus on an API for the public.

C.

Use Google App Engine with the Swagger (open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for the public.

D.

Use Google Container Engine with a Django Python container. Focus on an API for the public.

E.

Use Google Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

Question 2

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.

B.

Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system.

C.

Restrict data access based on the source IP address of the partner systems.

D.

Create secondary credentials for each dealer that can be given to the trusted third party.

Question 3

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth has equipped unconnected trucks with servers and sensors to collet telemetry data. Next year they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud while reducing costs. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Have the vehicle’ computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a Google Cloud storage (GCS) Nearline bucket.

B.

Push the telemetry data in Real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Google BigQuery.

C.

Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Cloud Bigtable.

D.

Have the vehicle's computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, a Store it in a GCS Coldline bucket.

Question 4

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use one Google Container Engine cluster of FTP servers. Save the data to a Multi-Regional bucket. Run the ETL process using data in the bucket.

B.

Use multiple Google Container Engine clusters running FTP servers located in different regions. Save the data to Multi-Regional buckets in us, eu, and asia. Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket.

C.

Directly transfer the files to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in us, eu, and asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket.

D.

Directly transfer the files to a different Google Cloud Regional Storage bucket location in us, eu, and asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process to retrieve the data from each Regional bucket.

Question 5

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study

Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make operational adjustments automatically.

B.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments automatically.

C.

Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.

D.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

Question 6

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

B.

Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

C.

Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

D.

Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer local inventory by a fixed factor.

Question 7

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?

A)

Question # 7

B)

Question # 7

C)

Question # 7

D)

Question # 7

Options:

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

Question 8

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.

You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.

Which two architecture should you consider?

Choose 2 answers:

Options:

A.

Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted.

B.

Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.

C.

Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.

D.

Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E.

Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.

F.

Enclose the vehicle's drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.

Question 9

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US. Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data. What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?

Options:

A.

Move all the data into 1 zone, then launch a Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job.

B.

Move all the data into 1 region, then launch a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job.

C.

Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a multi region bucket and use a Dataproc cluster to finish the job.

D.

Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a region bucket and use a Cloud Dataproc cluster to finish the jo

Question 10

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Enable Binary Authorization on GKE, and sign containers as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

B.

Configure Jenkins to utilize Kritis to cryptographically sign a container as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

C.

Configure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create and deploy containers from the registry.

D.

Configure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to confirm that there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.

Question 11

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, configuration errors put public IP addresses on backend servers that should not have been accessible from the Internet. You need to ensure that no one can put external IP addresses on backend Compute Engine instances and that external IP addresses can only be configured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create an Organizational Policy with a constraint to allow external IP addresses only on the frontend Compute Engine instances.

B.

Revoke the compute.networkAdmin role from all users in the project with front end instances.

C.

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that maps the IT staff to the compute.networkAdmin role for the organization.

D.

Create a custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) role named GCE_FRONTEND with the compute.addresses.create permission.

Question 12

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. EHR has single Dedicated Interconnect

connection between their primary data center and Googles network. This connection satisfies

EHR’s network and security policies:

• On-premises servers without public IP addresses need to connect to cloud resources

without public IP addresses

• Traffic flows from production network mgmt. servers to Compute Engine virtual

machines should never traverse the public internet.

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new

connection design must support business critical needs and meet the same network and

security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection

B.

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G

C.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections

D.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection

Question 13

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google Kubernetes Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to reduce the attack surface?

Options:

A.

Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

B.

Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.

C.

Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

D.

Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.

Question 14

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity between EHR's on-premises systems and Google Cloud. You want to follow Google's recommended practices for production-level applications. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure two Partner Interconnect connections in one metro (City), and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

B.

Configure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.

C.

Configure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.

D.

Configure two Dedicated Interconnect connections in one metro (City) and two connections in another metro, and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

Question 15

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new connection design must support business-critical needs and meet the same network and security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.

B.

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G.

C.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections.

D.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection.

Question 16

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You want to improve publishing latency. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.

B.

Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.

C.

Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.

D.

Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.

Question 17

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR's use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Verify EHR's product usage against the list of compliant products on the Google Cloud compliance page.

B.

Advise EHR to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Google Cloud.

C.

Use Firebase Authentication for EHR's user facing applications.

D.

Implement Prometheus to detect and prevent security breaches on EHR's web-based applications.

E.

Use GKE private clusters for all Kubernetes workloads.

Question 18

You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage increases and ensure that you don’t run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your requirements?

Options:

A.

1) Enable automatic storage increase for the instance.

2) Create a Stackdriver alert when CPU usage exceeds 75%, and change the instance type to reduce

CPU usage.

3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.

B.

1) Enable automatic storage increase for the instance.

2) Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to keep CPU usage below 75%.

3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.

C.

1) Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the

instance to create more space.

2) Deploy memcached to reduce CPU load.

3) Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag.

D.

1) Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the

instance to create more space.

2) Deploy memcached to reduce CPU load.

3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag.

Question 19

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud Platform.

Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow.

B.

Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery.

C.

Draw an architecture diagram that shows how to move from a single MySQL database to a MySQL cluster.

D.

Load 10 TB of analytics data from a previous game into a Cloud SQL instance, and run test queries against the full dataset to confirm that they complete successfully.

E.

Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage.

Question 20

Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google

Cloud. You want to streamline the process and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the application platform.

B.

Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Configure these Secrets to be used by the

application platform.

C.

Configure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer Secrets Encryption, and use

Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to

be used by the application platform.

D.

Configure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed encryption keys and Cloud

Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used

by the application platform.

Question 21

You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game

programmatic access to a legacy game's Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible. What

should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, add this SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

B.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, add a second SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give the Organization Admin role to both SAs

C.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, give it the Firebase Admin role, and then migrate the new game to the legacy game's project.

D.

Create a service account (SA) in the lgacy game's Google Cloud project, give the SA the Organization Admin rule and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

Question 22

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.

B.

Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.

C.

Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity.

D.

Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database.

E.

Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.

Question 23

You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical

requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud

regions. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine

instances.

B.

Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

C.

Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

D.

Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 24

Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily.

You want to create service level indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user’s

perspective. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.

B.

Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.

C.

Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.

D.

Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Question 25

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries.

B.

Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries.

C.

Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

D.

Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

Question 26

Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can be deployed.

B.

Configure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be configured.

C.

Configure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.

D.

Configure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are created in other

regions.

Question 27

You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.

The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract

transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.

B.

Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.

C.

Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.

D.

Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.

Question 28

TerramEarth has about 1 petabyte (PB) of vehicle testing data in a private data center. You want to move the data to Cloud Storage for your machine learning team. Currently, a 1-Gbps interconnect link is available for you. The machine learning team wants to start using the data in a month. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Request Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud, export the data to appliances, and return the appliances to Google Cloud.

B.

Configure the Storage Transfer service from Google Cloud to send the data from your data center to Cloud Storage

C.

Make sure there are no other users consuming the 1 Gbps link, and use multi-thread transfer to upload the data to Cloud Storage.

D.

Export files to an encrypted USB device, send the device to Google Cloud, and request an import of the data to Cloud Storage

Question 29

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to

BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an

automated daily basis while managing cost.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process. Clean the data in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline.

B.

Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger it. Trigger the Cloud Function from a Compute Engine instance.

C.

Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the view daily, and save the result to a new table.

D.

Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.

Question 30

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.

B.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.

C.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.

D.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.

Question 31

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and BigQuery. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

B.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.

C.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

D.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Question 32

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the

ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow

Google-recommended practices.

Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?

Options:

A.

Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress

B.

Cloud IoT Core with public/private key pairs

C.

Compute Engine with project-wide SSH keys

D.

Compute Engine with specific SSH keys

Question 33

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

You start to build a new application that uses a few Cloud Functions for the backend. One use case requires a Cloud Function func_display to invoke another Cloud Function func_query. You want func_query only to accept invocations from func_display. You also want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a token and pass it in as an environment variable to func_display. When invoking func_query, include the token in the request Pass the same token to func _query and reject the invocation if the tokens are different.

B.

Make func_query 'Require authentication.' Create a unique service account and associate it to func_display. Grant the service account invoker role for func_query. Create an id token in func_display and include the token to the request when invoking func_query.

C.

Make func _query 'Require authentication' and only accept internal traffic. Create those two functions in the same VPC. Create an ingress firewall rule for func_query to only allow traffic from func_display.

D.

Create those two functions in the same project and VPC. Make func_query only accept internal traffic. Create an ingress firewall for func_query to only allow traffic from func_display. Also, make sure both functions use the same service account.

Question 34

You are migrating a Linux-based application from your private data center to Google Cloud. The TerramEarth security team sent you several recent Linux vulnerabilities published by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). You need assistance in understanding how these vulnerabilities could impact your migration. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Open a support case regarding the CVE and chat with the support engineer.

B.

Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Status Dashboard to understand the impact.

C.

Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Platform Security Bulletins to understand the impact

D.

Post a question regarding the CVE in Stack Overflow to get an explanation

E.

Post a question regarding the CVE in a Google Cloud discussion group to get an explanation

Question 35

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost.

Which two actions should you take?

Options:

A.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Delete”.

B.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Delete”.

Question 36

TerramEarth has a legacy web application that you cannot migrate to cloud. However, you still want to build a cloud-native way to monitor the application. If the application goes down, you want the URL to point to a "Site is unavailable" page as soon as possible. You also want your Ops team to receive a notification for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum cost

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a scheduled job in Cloud Run to invoke a container every minute. The container will check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

B.

Create a cron job on a Compute Engine VM that runs every minute. The cron job invokes a Python program to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

C.

Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check to validate the application URL If it fails, put a message in a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function to switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

D.

Use Cloud Error Reporting to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Question 37

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?

Options:

A.

Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

B.

Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery

C.

Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow

D.

Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow

E.

Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

Question 38

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms?

Options:

A.

Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.

B.

Unit tests are no longer required, only end-to-end tests.

C.

Tests should be applied after the release is in the production environment.

D.

Tests should include directly testing the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure.

Question 39

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?

Options:

A.

Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load.

B.

Use the existing infrastructure to test the GCP-based backend at scale.

C.

Build stress tests into each component of your application using resources internal to GCP to simulate load.

D.

Create a set of static environments in GCP to test different levels of load — for example, high, medium, and low.

Question 40

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study

Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application environments. Developers and testers can access each other's environments and resources, but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from production.

What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?

Options:

A.

Create a project for development and test and another for staging and production.

B.

Create a network for development and test and another for staging and production.

C.

Create one subnetwork for development and another for staging and production.

D.

Create one project for development, a second for staging and a third for production.

Question 41

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?

Options:

A.

Verify that the database is online.

B.

Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded.

C.

Verify that the new feature code did not introduce any performance bugs.

D.

Verify that the load-testing team is not running their tool against production.

Question 42

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:

• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.

• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.

• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.

• Deployment artifacts are immutable.

Which set of products should they use?

Options:

A.

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine

B.

Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Network Load Balancer

C.

Google Kubernetes Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer

D.

Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Question 43

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?

Options:

A.

Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B.

Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.

C.

Develop a new access request process that grants temporary SSH access to cloud VMs when an operations engineer needs to perform a task.

D.

Have the development team build an API service that allows the operations team to execute specific remote procedure calls to accomplish their tasks.

Question 44

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?

Options:

A.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

B.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

Question 45

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Install the Stackdriver agent on all of the legacy web servers.

B.

In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers' IP addresses and create an inbound firewall rule

C.

Configure their load balancer to pass through the User-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring-UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

D.

Configure their legacy web servers to allow requests that contain user-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring— UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

Question 46

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL wants better prediction

accuracy from their ML prediction models. They want you to use Google’s AI Platform so HRL can understand

and interpret the predictions. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Explainable AI.

B.

Use Vision AI.

C.

Use Google Cloud’s operations suite.

D.

Use Jupyter Notebooks.

Question 47

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Your team is in charge of creating a

payment card data vault for card numbers used to bill tens of thousands of viewers, merchandise consumers,

and season ticket holders. You need to implement a custom card tokenization service that meets the following

requirements:

• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.

• It must be able to identify duplicate credit cards and must not store plaintext card numbers.

• It should support annual key rotation.

Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?

Options:

A.

Store the card data in Secret Manager after running a query to identify duplicates.

B.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm stored in Firestore using Datastore mode.

C.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm and shard it across multiple Memorystore instances.

D.

Use column-level encryption to store the data in Cloud SQL.

Question 48

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud

infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video

encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted

after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you

do?

Options:

A.

Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for

analysis.

B.

Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.

C.

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

D.

From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are

no longer responding to health check probes.

Question 49

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. The HRL development team

releases a new version of their predictive capability application every Tuesday evening at 3 a.m. UTC to a

repository. The security team at HRL has developed an in-house penetration test Cloud Function called Airwolf.

The security team wants to run Airwolf against the predictive capability application as soon as it is released

every Tuesday. You need to set up Airwolf to run at the recurring weekly cadence. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up Cloud Tasks and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

B.

Set up a Cloud Logging sink and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

C.

Configure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function.

D.

Set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Confidential Computing to trigger a Cloud Function.

Question 50

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional

racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user

experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic

coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are

a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP

address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?

Options:

A.

glouc compute firewall rules update hlr-policy \

--priority 1000 \

target tags-sourceiplist fastly \

--allow tcp:443

B.

gcloud compute security policies rules update 1000 \

--security-policy hlr-policy \

--expression "evaluatePreconfiguredExpr('sourceiplist-fastly')" \

--action " allow"

C.

gcloud compute firewall rules update

sourceiplist-fastly \

priority 1000 \

allow tcp: 443

D.

gcloud compute priority-policies rules update

1000 \

security policy from fastly

--src- ip-ranges"

-- action " allow"

Question 51

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL is looking for a cost-effective

approach for storing their race data such as telemetry. They want to keep all historical records, train models

using only the previous season's data, and plan for data growth in terms of volume and information collected.

You need to propose a data solution. Considering HRL business requirements and the goals expressed by

CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Firestore for its scalable and flexible document-based database. Use collections to aggregate race data

by season and event.

B.

Use Cloud Spanner for its scalability and ability to version schemas with zero downtime. Split race data

using season as a primary key.

C.

Use BigQuery for its scalability and ability to add columns to a schema. Partition race data based on

season.

D.

Use Cloud SQL for its ability to automatically manage storage increases and compatibility with MySQL. Use

separate database instances for each season.

Question 52

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study

A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the application servers correctly. What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? Choose 3 answers

Options:

A.

Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one.

B.

Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate.

C.

Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate.

D.

Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to.

E.

Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and investigate.

F.

Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate.

Question 53

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform. Which Google Database should they use?

Options:

A.

Cloud Spanner

B.

Google BigQuery

C.

Google Cloud SQL

D.

Google Cloud Datastore

Question 54

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?

Options:

A.

Error rates for requests from Asia

B.

Latency difference between US and Asia

C.

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

D.

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

E.

The number of character sets present in the database

Question 55

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?

Options:

A.

Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment

B.

RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group

C.

Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode

D.

Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types

Question 56

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in

Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.

Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Encrypt data with a customer-supplied encryption key when storing files in Cloud Storage.

B.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Enable default storage encryption before storing files in Cloud Storage.

C.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Utilize Google’s default encryption at rest when storing files in Cloud Storage.

D.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Ensure that the default Cloud KMS key is set before storing files in Cloud Storage.

Question 57

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?

Options:

A.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Deployment Manager to Compute Engine. Deploy a Cloud SQL server to replace MySQL. Deploy Jenkins using Cloud Deployment Manager.

B.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Launcher. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Deployment Manager scripts.

C.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a Cloud Datastore server to replace the MySQL server in a high-availability configuration. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

D.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

Question 58

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.

What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

Options:

A.

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

B.

Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

C.

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

D.

Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 59

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?

Options:

A.

Migrate the web application layer to App Engine, and MySQL to Cloud Datastore, and NAS to Cloud Storage. Deploy RabbitMQ, and deploy Hadoop servers using Deployment Manager.

B.

Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage. Deploy Tomcat, and deploy Nginx using Deployment Manager.

C.

Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage.

D.

Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.

Question 60

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.

B.

Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.

C.

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.

D.

Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

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