Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Practice Questions Answers

Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer Questions and Answers

Question 1

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

Options:

Use gcloud config configurations describe to review the output.

Use gcloud config configurations activate and gcloud config list to review the output.

Use kubectl config get-contexts to review the output.

Use kubectl config use-context and kubectl config view to review the output.

Question 2

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

Options:

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

Question 3

You need to update a deployment in Deployment Manager without any resource downtime in the deployment. Which command should you use?

Options:

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create --config

gcloud deployment-manager deployments update --config

gcloud deployment-manager resources create --config

gcloud deployment-manager resources update --config

Question 4

Your company runs one batch process in an on-premises server that takes around 30 hours to complete. The task runs monthly, can be performed offline, and must be restarted if interrupted. You want to migrate this workload to the cloud while minimizing cost. What should you do?

Options:

Migrate the workload to a Compute Engine Preemptible VM.

Migrate the workload to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with Preemptible nodes.

Migrate the workload to a Compute Engine VM. Start and stop the instance as needed.

Create an Instance Template with Preemptible VMs On. Create a Managed Instance Group from the template and adjust Target CPU Utilization. Migrate the workload.

Question 5

Your organization uses Active Directory (AD) to manage user identities. Each user uses this identity for federated access to various on-premises systems. Your security team has adopted a policy that requires users to log into Google Cloud with their AD identity instead of their own login. You want to follow the Google-recommended practices to implement this policy. What should you do?

Options:

Sync Identities with Cloud Directory Sync, and then enable SAML for single sign-on

Sync Identities in the Google Admin console, and then enable Oauth for single sign-on

Sync identities with 3rd party LDAP sync, and then copy passwords to allow simplified login with (he same credentials

Sync identities with Cloud Directory Sync, and then copy passwords to allow simplified login with the same credentials.

Question 6

You have successfully created a development environment in a project for an application. This application uses Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. Now, you need to create a production environment for this application.

The security team has forbidden the existence of network routes between these 2 environments, and asks you to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Create a new project, enable the Compute Engine and Cloud SQL APIs in that project, and replicate the setup you have created in the development environment.

Create a new production subnet in the existing VPC and a new production Cloud SQL instance in your existing project, and deploy your application using those resources.

Create a new project, modify your existing VPC to be a Shared VPC, share that VPC with your new project, and replicate the setup you have in the development environment in that new project, in the Shared VPC.

Ask the security team to grant you the Project Editor role in an existing production project used by another division of your company. Once they grant you that role, replicate the setup you have in the development environment in that project.

Question 7

You manage an App Engine Service that aggregates and visualizes data from BigQuery. The application is deployed with the default App Engine Service account. The data that needs to be visualized resides in a different project managed by another team. You do not have access to this project, but you want your application to be able to read data from the BigQuery dataset. What should you do?

Options:

Ask the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Job User.

Ask the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Data Viewer.

In Cloud IAM of your project, ensure that the default App Engine service account has the role of BigQuery Data Viewer.

In Cloud IAM of your project, grant a newly created service account from the other team the role of BigQuery Job User in your project.

Question 8

You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (loT) application. The loT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data to your backend in the cloud. You want to build a highly available and resilient architecture based on Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Stream data to Pub/Sub, and use Dataflow to send data to Cloud Storage

Stream data to Pub/Sub. and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Dataprep by Trifacta to send data to Bigtable.

Question 9

You have a workload running on Compute Engine that is critical to your business. You want to ensure that the data on the boot disk of this workload is backed up regularly. You need to be able to restore a backup as quickly as possible in case of disaster. You also want older backups to be cleaned automatically to save on cost. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Create a Cloud Function to create an instance template.

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval.

Create a cron job to create a new disk from the disk using gcloud.

Create a Cloud Task to create an image and export it to Cloud Storage.

Question 10

An application generates daily reports in a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM). The VM is in the project corp-iot-insights. Your team operates only in the project corp-aggregate-reports and needs a copy of the daily exports in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage. You want to configure access so that the daily reports from the VM are available in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage and use as few steps as possible while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Move both projects under the same folder.

Grant the VM Service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-aggregate-reports-storage.

Create a Shared VPC network between both projects. Grant the VM Service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-iot-insights.

Make corp-aggregate-reports-storage public and create a folder with a pseudo-randomized suffix name. Share the folder with the IoT team.

Question 11

You have files in a Cloud Storage bucket that you need to share with your suppliers. You want to restrict the time that the files are available to your suppliers to 1 hour. You want to follow Google recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -m 1h gs:///*.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -d 1h gs:///**.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -p 60m gs:///.

Create a JSON key for the Default Compute Engine Service Account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -t 60m gs:///***

Question 12

Your team is running an on-premises ecommerce application. The application contains a complex set of microservices written in Python, and each microservice is running on Docker containers. Configurations are injected by using environment variables. You need to deploy your current application to a serverless Google Cloud cloud solution. What should you do?

Options:

Use your existing CI/CD pipeline Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Run. Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

Use your existing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Function. Use the same configuration as on-premises.

Use the existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Function Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

Use your existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Run Use the same configurations as on-premises.

Question 13

You have been asked to set up the billing configuration for a new Google Cloud customer. Your customer wants to group resources that share common IAM policies. What should you do?

Options:

Use labels to group resources that share common IAM policies

Use folders to group resources that share common IAM policies

Set up a proper billing account structure to group IAM policies

Set up a proper project naming structure to group IAM policies

Question 14

Your company set up a complex organizational structure on Google Could Platform. The structure includes hundreds of folders and projects. Only a few team members should be able to view the hierarchical structure. You need to assign minimum permissions to these team members and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Add the users to roles/browser role.

Add the users to roles/iam.roleViewer role.

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/browser role.

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/iam.roleViewer role.

Question 15

You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google's recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?

Options:

Invite the user to transfer their existing account

Invite the user to use an email alias to resolve the conflict

Tell the user that they must delete their existing account

Tell the user to remove all personal email from the existing account

Question 16

You need to migrate invoice documents stored on-premises to Cloud Storage. The documents have the following storage requirements:

• Documents must be kept for five years.

• Up to five revisions of the same invoice document must be stored, to allow for corrections.

• Documents older than 365 days should be moved to lower cost storage tiers.

You want to follow Google-recommended practices to minimize your operational and development costs. What should you do?

Options:

Enable retention policies on the bucket, and use Cloud Scheduler to invoke a Cloud Function to move or delete your documents based on their metadata.

Enable retention policies on the bucket, use lifecycle rules to change the storage classes of the objects, set the number of versions, and delete old files.

Enable object versioning on the bucket, and use Cloud Scheduler to invoke a Cloud Functions instance to move or delete your documents based on their metadata.

Enable object versioning on the bucket, use lifecycle conditions to change the storage class of the objects, set the number of versions, and delete old files.

Question 17

You are asked to set up application performance monitoring on Google Cloud projects A, B, and C as a single pane of glass. You want to monitor CPU, memory, and disk. What should you do?

Options:

Enable API and then share charts from project A, B, and C.

Enable API and then give the metrics.reader role to projects A, B, and C.

Enable API and then use default dashboards to view all projects in sequence.

Enable API, create a workspace under project A, and then add project B and C.

Question 18

You need to set up permissions for a set of Compute Engine instances to enable them to write data into a particular Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Create a service account with an access scope. Use the access scope ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.write_only’.

Create a service account with an access scope. Use the access scope ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform’.

Create a service account and add it to the IAM role ‘storage.objectCreator’ for that bucket.

Create a service account and add it to the IAM role ‘storage.objectAdmin’ for that bucket.

Question 19

You need to produce a list of the enabled Google Cloud Platform APIs for a GCP project using the gcloud command line in the Cloud Shell. The project name is my-project. What should you do?

Options:

Run gcloud projects list to get the project ID, and then run gcloud services list --project .

Run gcloud init to set the current project to my-project, and then run gcloud services list --available.

Run gcloud info to view the account value, and then run gcloud services list --account .

Run gcloud projects describe to verify the project value, and then run gcloud services list --available.

Question 20

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?

Options:

When creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96.

When creating the VM, use Intel Skylake as the CPU platform.

Create the VM using Compute Engine default settings. Use gcloud to modify the running instance to have 96 vCPUs.

Start the VM using Compute Engine default settings, and adjust as you go based on Rightsizing Recommendations.

Question 21

Your learn wants to deploy a specific content management system (CMS) solution lo Google Cloud. You need a quick and easy way to deploy and install the solution. What should you do?

Options:

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Use gcloud CLI to deploy the solution.

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Deploy the solution directly from Cloud Marketplace.

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Use Terraform and the Cloud Marketplace ID to deploy the solution with the appropriate parameters.

Use the installation guide of the CMS provider. Perform the installation through your configuration management system.

Question 22

You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?

Options:

Add the network tag allow-udp-636 to the VM instance running the LDAP server.

Create a route called allow-udp-636 and set the next hop to be the VM instance running the LDAP server.

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance. Create a firewall rule to allow ingress on UDP port 636 for that network tag.

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance running the LDAP server. Create a firewall rule to allow egress on UDP port 636 for that network tag.

Question 23

Your company wants to migrate their on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. The current on-premises workloads consist of:

• A Flask web application

• AbackendAPI

• A scheduled long-running background job for ETL and reporting.

You need to keep operational costs low You want to follow Google-recommended practices to migrate these workloads to serverless solutions on Google Cloud. What should you do?

Options:

Migrate the web application to App Engine and the backend API to Cloud Run Use Cloud Tasks to run your background job on Compute Engine

Migrate the web application to App Engine and the backend API to Cloud Run. Use Cloud Tasks to run your background job on Cloud Run.

Run the web application on a Cloud Storage bucket and the backend API on Cloud Run Use Cloud Tasks to run your background job on Cloud Run.

Run the web application on a Cloud Storage bucket and the backend API on Cloud Run. Use Cloud Tasks to run your background job on Compute Engine

Question 24

You need to enable traffic between multiple groups of Compute Engine instances that are currently running two different GCP projects. Each group of Compute Engine instances is running in its own VPC. What should you do?

Options:

Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organization. Create a new VPC and add all instances.

Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organization. Share the VPC from one project and request that the Compute Engine instances in the other project use this shared VPC.

Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both projects. Create two new VPCs and add all instances.

Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both projects. Create a new VPC and add all instances.

Question 25

Your company has an existing GCP organization with hundreds of projects and a billing account. Your company recently acquired another company that also has hundreds of projects and its own billing account. You would like to consolidate all GCP costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice. You would like to consolidate all costs as of tomorrow. What should you do?

Options:

Link the acquired company’s projects to your company's billing account.

Configure the acquired company's billing account and your company's billing account to export the billing data into the same BigQuery dataset.

Migrate the acquired company’s projects into your company’s GCP organization. Link the migrated projects to your company's billing account.

Create a new GCP organization and a new billing account. Migrate the acquired company's projects and your company's projects into the new GCP organization and link the projects to the new billing account.

Question 26

You have created an application that is packaged into a Docker image. You want to deploy the Docker image as a workload on Google Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?

Options:

Upload the image to Cloud Storage and create a Kubernetes Service referencing the image.

Upload the image to Cloud Storage and create a Kubernetes Deployment referencing the image.

Upload the image to Container Registry and create a Kubernetes Service referencing the image.

Upload the image to Container Registry and create a Kubernetes Deployment referencing the image.

Question 27

You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a non-default region and zone. You want to start a new Compute Engine instance in these two Google Cloud Platform accounts using the command line interface. What should you do?

Options:

Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [NAME]. Run gcloud config configurations activate [NAME] to switch between accounts when running the commands to start the Compute Engine instances.

Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [NAME]. Run gcloud configurations list to start the Compute Engine instances.

Activate two configurations using gcloud configurations activate [NAME]. Run gcloud config list to start the Compute Engine instances.

Activate two configurations using gcloud configurations activate [NAME]. Run gcloud configurations list to start the Compute Engine instances.

Question 28

Your VMs are running in a subnet that has a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240. The current subnet has no more free IP addresses and you require an additional 10 IP addresses for new VMs. The existing and new VMs should all be able to reach each other without additional routes. What should you do?

Options:

Use gcloud to expand the IP range of the current subnet.

Delete the subnet, and recreate it using a wider range of IP addresses.

Create a new project. Use Shared VPC to share the current network with the new project.

Create a new subnet with the same starting IP but a wider range to overwrite the current subnet.

Question 29

You host a static website on Cloud Storage. Recently, you began to include links to PDF files on this site. Currently, when users click on the links to these PDF files, their browsers prompt them to save the file onto their local system. Instead, you want the clicked PDF files to be displayed within the browser window directly, without prompting the user to save the file locally. What should you do?

Options:

Enable Cloud CDN on the website frontend.

Enable ‘Share publicly’ on the PDF file objects.

Set Content-Type metadata to application/pdf on the PDF file objects.

Add a label to the storage bucket with a key of Content-Type and value of application/pdf.

Question 30

For analysis purposes, you need to send all the logs from all of your Compute Engine instances to a BigQuery dataset called platform-logs. You have already installed the Stackdriver Logging agent on all the instances. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?

Options:

1. Give the BigQuery Data Editor role on the platform-logs dataset to the service accounts used by your instances.2. Update your instances’ metadata to add the following value: logs-destination: bq://platform-logs.

1. In Stackdriver Logging, create a logs export with a Cloud Pub/Sub topic called logs as a sink.2. Create a Cloud Function that is triggered by messages in the logs topic.3. Configure that Cloud Function to drop logs that are not from Compute Engine and to insert Compute Engine logs in the platform-logs dataset.

1. In Stackdriver Logging, create a filter to view only Compute Engine logs.2. Click Create Export.3. Choose BigQuery as Sink Service, and the platform-logs dataset as Sink Destination.

1. Create a Cloud Function that has the BigQuery User role on the platform-logs dataset.2. Configure this Cloud Function to create a BigQuery Job that executes this query:INSERT INTO dataset.platform-logs (timestamp, log)SELECT timestamp, log FROM compute.logsWHERE timestamp > DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)3. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger this Cloud Function once a day.

Question 31

Your company has multiple projects linked to a single billing account in Google Cloud. You need to visualize the costs with specific metrics that should be dynamically calculated based on company-specific criteria. You want to automate the process. What should you do?

Options:

In the Google Cloud console, visualize the costs related to the projects in the Reports section.

In the Google Cloud console, visualize the costs related to the projects in the Cost breakdown section.

In the Google Cloud console, use the export functionality of the Cost table. Create a Looker Studiodashboard on top of the CSV export.

Configure Cloud Billing data export to BigOuery for the billing account. Create a Looker Studio dashboard on top of the BigOuery export.

Question 32

You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

Options:

Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Update the existing project to link it to the existing billing account.

Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Create a new billing account and link the new billing account to the existing project.

Verify that you are Billing Administrator for the billing account. Create a new project and link the new project to the existing billing account.

Verify that you are Billing Administrator for the billing account. Update the existing project to link it to the existing billing account.

Question 33

You have an application that receives SSL-encrypted TCP traffic on port 443. Clients for this application are located all over the world. You want to minimize latency for the clients. Which load balancing option should you use?

Options:

HTTPS Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

SSL Proxy Load Balancer

Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancer. Add a firewall rule allowing ingress traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 on the target instances.

Question 34

Your auditor wants to view your organization's use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?

Options:

Assign the appropriate permissions, and then use Cloud Monitoring to review metrics

Use the export logs API to provide the Admin Activity Audit Logs in the format they want

Turn on Data Access Logs for the buckets they want to audit, and Then build a query in the log viewer that filters on Cloud Storage

Assign the appropriate permissions, and then create a Data Studio report on Admin Activity Audit Logs

Question 35

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses multiple GCP products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?

Options:

For each GCP product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Use the pricing calculator to total the monthly costs for each GCP product.

For each GCP product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Create a Google Sheet that summarizes the expected monthly costs for each product.

Provision the solution on GCP. Leave the solution provisioned for 1 week. Navigate to the Billing Report page in the Google Cloud Platform Console. Multiply the 1 week cost to determine the monthly costs.

Provision the solution on GCP. Leave the solution provisioned for 1 week. Use Stackdriver to determine the provisioned and used resource amounts. Multiply the 1 week cost to determine the monthly costs.

Question 36

You are migrating a business critical application from your local data center into Google Cloud. As part of your high-availability strategy, you want to ensure that any data used by the application will be immediately available if a zonal failure occurs. What should you do?

Options:

Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk. If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.

Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.

Store the application data on a regional persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk. If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.

Store the application data on a regional persistent disk If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.

Question 37

You are planning to migrate your on-premises data to Google Cloud. The data includes:

• 200 TB of video files in SAN storage

• Data warehouse data stored on Amazon Redshift

• 20 GB of PNG files stored on an S3 bucket

You need to load the video files into a Cloud Storage bucket, transfer the data warehouse data into BigQuery, and load the PNG files into a second Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and avoid writing any code for the migration. What should you do?

Options:

Use gcloud storage for the video files. Dataflow for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

Use Transfer Appliance for the videos. BigQuery Data Transfer Service for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

Use Storage Transfer Service for the video files, BigQuery Data Transfer Service for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

Use Cloud Data Fusion for the video files, Dataflow for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

Question 38

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn’t exist yet. What should you do?

Options:

Using the Cloud SDK, create a new project, enable the Compute Engine API in that project, and then create the instance specifying your new project.

Enable the Compute Engine API in the Cloud Console, use the Cloud SDK to create the instance, and then use the ––project flag to specify a new project.

Using the Cloud SDK, create the new instance, and use the ––project flag to specify the new project.

Answer yes when prompted by Cloud SDK to enable the Compute Engine API.

Enable the Compute Engine API in the Cloud Console. Go to the Compute Engine section of the Console to create a new instance, and look for the Create In A New Project option in the creation form.

Question 39

Your web application has been running successfully on Cloud Run for Anthos. You want to evaluate an updated version of the application with a specific percentage of your production users (canary deployment). What should you do?

Options:

Create a new service with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running.

Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running.

Create a new service with the new version of the application. Add an HTTP Load Balancer in front of both services.

Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Add an HTTP Load Balancer in front of both revisions.

Question 40

The DevOps group in your organization needs full control of Compute Engine resources in your development project. However, they should not have permission to create or update any other resources in the project. You want to follow Google's recommendations for setting permissions for the DevOps group. What should you do?

Options:

Grant the basic role roles/viewer and the predefined role roles/compute.admin to the DevOps group.

Create an IAM policy and grant all compute. instanceAdmln." permissions to the policy Attach the policy to the DevOps group.

Create a custom role at the folder level and grant all compute. instanceAdmln. * permissions to the role Grant the custom role to the DevOps group.

Grant the basic role roles/editor to the DevOps group.

Question 41

You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?

Options:

Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 0 and maxUnavailable set to 1.

Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 1 and maxUnavailable set to 0.

Create a new managed instance group with an updated instance template. Add the group to the backend service for the load balancer. When all instances in the new managed instance group are healthy, delete the old managed instance group.

Create a new instance template with the new application version. Update the existing managed instance group with the new instance template. Delete the instances in the managed instance group to allow the managed instance group to recreate the instance using the new instance template.

Question 42

You are designing an application that uses WebSockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to ensure the application runs properly on Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?

Options:

Meet with the cloud enablement team to discuss load balancer options.

Redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on WebSockets and HTTP sessions.

Review the encryption requirements for WebSocket connections with the security team.

Convert the WebSocket code to use HTTP streaming.

Question 43

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at a large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput – up to thousands of events per hour per device – and need to retrieve consistent data based on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?

Options:

Create a file in Cloud Storage per device and append new data to that file.

Create a file in Cloud Filestore per device and append new data to that file.

Ingest the data into Datastore. Store data in an entity group based on the device.

Ingest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp.

Question 44

You are hosting an application from Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) in us–central1–a. You want to adjust your design to support the failure of a single Compute Engine zone, eliminate downtime, and minimize cost. What should you do?

Options:

– Create Compute Engine resources in us–central1–b.

–Balance the load across both us–central1–a and us–central1–b.

– Create a Managed Instance Group and specify us–central1–a as the zone.

–Configure the Health Check with a short Health Interval.

– Create an HTTP(S) Load Balancer.

–Create one or more global forwarding rules to direct traffic to your VMs.

– Perform regular backups of your application.

–Create a Cloud Monitoring Alert and be notified if your application becomes unavailable.

–Restore from backups when notified.

Question 45

You have a project for your App Engine application that serves a development environment. The required testing has succeeded and you want to create a new project to serve as your production environment. What should you do?

Options:

Use gcloud to create the new project, and then deploy your application to the new project.

Use gcloud to create the new project and to copy the deployed application to the new project.

Create a Deployment Manager configuration file that copies the current App Engine deployment into a new project.

Deploy your application again using gcloud and specify the project parameter with the new project name to create the new project.

Question 46

You need to manage multiple Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects in the fewest steps possible. You want to configure the Google Cloud SDK command line interface (CLI) so that you can easily manage multiple GCP projects. What should you?

Options:

1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.

2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects.

1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.

2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project

1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.

2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects.

1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.

2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project.

Question 47

Every employee of your company has a Google account. Your operational team needs to manage a large number of instances on Compute Engine. Each member of this team needs only administrative access to the servers. Your security team wants to ensure that the deployment of credentials is operationally efficient and must be able to determine who accessed a given instance. What should you do?

Options:

Generate a new SSH key pair. Give the private key to each member of your team. Configure the public key in the metadata of each instance.

Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to send you their public key. Use a configuration management tool to deploy those keys on each instance.

Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to add the public key to their Google account. Grant the “compute.osAdminLogin” role to the Google group corresponding to this team.

Generate a new SSH key pair. Give the private key to each member of your team. Configure the public key as a project-wide public SSH key in your Cloud Platform project and allow project-wide public SSH keys on each instance.

Question 48

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?

Options:

Navigate to Cloud Logging and view the application logs.

Connect to the instance’s serial console and read the application logs.

Configure a Health Check on the instance and set a Low Healthy Threshold value.

Install and configure the Cloud Logging Agent and view the logs from Cloud Logging.

Question 49

You have an application on a general-purpose Compute Engine instance that is experiencing excessive disk read throttling on its Zonal SSD Persistent Disk. The application primarily reads large files from disk. The disk size is currently 350 GB. You want to provide the maximum amount of throughput while minimizing costs. What should you do?

Options:

Increase the size of the disk to 1 TB.

Increase the allocated CPU to the instance.

Migrate to use a Local SSD on the instance.

Migrate to use a Regional SSD on the instance.

Question 50

You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. What should you do?

Options:

When creating the instances, specify a Service Account for each instance

When creating the instances, assign the name of each Service Account as instance metadata

After starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to specify a Service Account for each instance

After starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to assign the name of the relevant Service Account as instance metadata

Question 51

You need to manage a Cloud Spanner Instance for best query performance. Your instance in production runs in a single Google Cloud region. You need to improve performance in the shortest amount of time. You want to follow Google best practices for service configuration. What should you do?

Options:

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 45% If you exceed this threshold, add nodes lo your instance.

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage to high priority CPU utilization reaches 45% Use database query statistics to identify queries that result in high CPU usage, and then rewrite those queries to optimize their resource usage

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 65% If you exceed this threshold, add nodes to your instance

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 65%. Use database query statistics to identity queries that result in high CPU usage, and then rewrite those queries to optimize their resource usage.

Question 52

Your team has developed a stateless application which requires it to be run directly on virtual machines. The application is expected to receive a fluctuating amount of traffic and needs to scale automatically. You need to deploy the application. What should you do?

Options:

Deploy the application on a managed instance group and configure autoscaling.

Deploy the application on a Kubernetes Engine cluster and configure node pool autoscaling.

Deploy the application on Cloud Functions and configure the maximum number instances.

Deploy the application on Cloud Run and configure autoscaling.

Question 53

You are building a pipeline to process time-series data. Which Google Cloud Platform services should you put in boxes 1,2,3, and 4?

Options:

Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Datastore, BigQuery

Firebase Messages, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery

Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Bigtable, BigQuery

Question 54

You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?

Options:

After the VM has been created, use your Google Account credentials to log in into the VM.

After the VM has been created, use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM.

When creating the VM, add metadata to the instance using ‘windows-password’ as the key and a password as the value.

After the VM has been created, download the JSON private key for the default Compute Engine service account. Use the credentials in the JSON file to log in to the VM.

Question 55

You need to run an important query in BigQuery but expect it to return a lot of records. You want to find out how much it will cost to run the query. You are using on-demand pricing. What should you do?

Options:

Arrange to switch to Flat-Rate pricing for this query, then move back to on-demand.

Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes read. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.

Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes returned. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.

Run a select count (*) to get an idea of how many records your query will look through. Then convert that number of rows to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.

Question 56

Your management has asked an external auditor to review all the resources in a specific project. The security team has enabled the Organization Policy called Domain Restricted Sharing on the organization node by specifying only your Cloud Identity domain. You want the auditor to only be able to view, but not modify, the resources in that project. What should you do?

Options:

Ask the auditor for their Google account, and give them the Viewer role on the project.

Ask the auditor for their Google account, and give them the Security Reviewer role on the project.

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Viewer role on the project.

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Security Reviewer role on the project.

Question 57

You are running an application on multiple virtual machines within a managed instance group and have autoscaling enabled. The autoscaling policy is configured so that additional instances are added to the group if the CPU utilization of instances goes above 80%. VMs are added until the instance group reaches its maximum limit of five VMs or until CPU utilization of instances lowers to 80%. The initial delay for HTTP health checks against the instances is set to 30 seconds. The virtual machine instances take around three minutes to become available for users. You observe that when the instance group autoscales, it adds more instances then necessary to support the levels of end-user traffic. You want to properly maintain instance group sizes when autoscaling. What should you do?

Options:

Set the maximum number of instances to 1.

Decrease the maximum number of instances to 3.

Use a TCP health check instead of an HTTP health check.

Increase the initial delay of the HTTP health check to 200 seconds.

Question 58

You are running a data warehouse on BigQuery. A partner company is offering a recommendation engine based on the data in your data warehouse. The partner company is also running their application on Google Cloud. They manage the resources in their own project, but they need access to the BigQuery dataset in your project. You want to provide the partner company with access to the dataset What should you do?

Options:

Create a Service Account in your own project, and grant this Service Account access to BigGuery in your project

Create a Service Account in your own project, and ask the partner to grant this Service Account access to BigQuery in their project

Ask the partner to create a Service Account in their project, and have them give the Service Account access to BigQuery in their project

Ask the partner to create a Service Account in their project, and grant their Service Account access to the BigQuery dataset in your project

Question 59

You have a batch workload that runs every night and uses a large number of virtual machines (VMs). It is fault- tolerant and can tolerate some of the VMs being terminated. The current cost of VMs is too high. What should you do?

Options:

Run a test using simulated maintenance events. If the test is successful, use preemptible N1 Standard VMs when running future jobs.

Run a test using simulated maintenance events. If the test is successful, use N1 Standard VMs when running future jobs.

Run a test using a managed instance group. If the test is successful, use N1 Standard VMs in the managed instance group when running future jobs.

Run a test using N1 standard VMs instead of N2. If the test is successful, use N1 Standard VMs when running future jobs.

Question 60

Your finance team wants to view the billing report for your projects. You want to make sure that the finance team does not get additional permissions to the project. What should you do?

Options:

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing user role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing admin role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing viewer role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing project/Manager role.

Question 61

You have a managed instance group comprised of preemptible VM's. All of the VM's keepdeleting and recreating themselves every minute. What is a possible cause of thisbehavior?

Options:

Your zonal capacity is limited, causing all preemptible VM's to be shutdown torecover capacity. Try deploying your group to another zone.

You have hit your instance quota for the region.

Your managed instance group's VM's are toggled to only last 1 minute inpreemptible settings.

Your managed instance group's health check is repeatedly failing, either to amisconfigured health check or misconfigured firewall rules not allowing the healthcheck to access the instance

Question 62

All development (dev) teams in your organization are located in the United States. Each dev team has its own Google Cloud project. You want to restrict access so that each dev team can only create cloud resources in the United States (US). What should you do?

Options:

Create a folder to contain all the dev projects Create an organization policy to limit resources in US locations.

Create an organization to contain all the dev projects. Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to limit the resources in US regions.

Create an Identity and Access Management

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM)policy to restrict the resources locations in all dev projects. Apply the policy to all dev roles.

Question 63

You are building an application that stores relational data from users. Users across the globe will use this application. Your CTO is concerned about the scaling requirements because the size of the user base is unknown. You need to implement a database solution that can scale with your user growth with minimum configuration changes. Which storage solution should you use?

Options:

Cloud SQL

Cloud Spanner

Cloud Firestore

Cloud Datastore

Question 64

Your customer has implemented a solution that uses Cloud Spanner and notices some read latency-related performance issues on one table. This table is accessed only by their users using a primary key. The table schema is shown below.

You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?

Options:

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

Question 65

You significantly changed a complex Deployment Manager template and want to confirm that the dependencies of all defined resources are properly met before committing it to the project. You want the most rapid feedback on your changes. What should you do?

Options:

Use granular logging statements within a Deployment Manager template authored in Python.

Monitor activity of the Deployment Manager execution on the Stackdriver Logging page of the GCP Console.

Execute the Deployment Manager template against a separate project with the same configuration, and monitor for failures.

Execute the Deployment Manager template using the –-preview option in the same project, and observe the state of interdependent resources.

Question 66

Your continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) server can't execute Google Cloud actions in a specific project because of permission issues. You need to validate whether the used service account has the appropriate roles in the specific project. What should you do?

Options:

Open the Google Cloud console, and run a query to determine which resources this service account can access.

Open the Google Cloud console, and run a query of the audit logs to find permission denied errors for this service account.

Open the Google Cloud console, and check the organization policies.

Open the Google Cloud console, and check the Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles assigned to the service account at the project or inherited from the folder or organization levels.

Question 67

Your company wants to standardize the creation and management of multiple Google Cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code. You want to minimize the amount of repetitive code needed to manage the environment What should you do?

Options:

Create a bash script that contains all requirement steps as gcloud commands

Develop templates for the environment using Cloud Deployment Manager

Use curl in a terminal to send a REST request to the relevant Google API for each individual resource.

Use the Cloud Console interface to provision and manage all related resources

Question 68

Several employees at your company have been creating projects with Cloud Platform and paying for it with their personal credit cards, which the company reimburses. The company wants to centralize all these projects under a single, new billing account. What should you do?

Options:

Contact cloud-billing@google.com with your bank account details and request a corporate billing account for your company.

Create a ticket with Google Support and wait for their call to share your credit card details over the phone.

In the Google Platform Console, go to the Resource Manage and move all projects to the root Organization.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, create a new billing account and set up a payment method.

Question 69

You are deploying a web application using Compute Engine. You created a managed instance group (MIG) to host the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to implement a secure and highly available solution. What should you do?

Options:

Use SSL proxy load balancing for the MIG and an A record in your DNS private zone with the load balancer's IP address.

Use SSL proxy load balancing for the MIG and a CNAME record in your DNS public zone with the load balancer's IP address.

Use HTTP(S) load balancing for the MIG and a CNAME record in your DNS private zone with the load balancer's IP address.

Use HTTP(S) load balancing for the MIG and an A record in your DNS public zone with the load balancer's IP address.

Question 70

You created a Kubernetes deployment by running kubectl run nginx image=nginx replicas=1. After a few days, you decided you no longer want this deployment. You identified the pod and deleted it by running kubectl delete pod. You noticed the pod got recreated.

$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt 1/1 Running 0 9m41s
$ kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt
pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt deleted
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl 1/1 Running 0 25s

What should you do to delete the deployment and avoid pod getting recreated?

Options:

kubectl delete deployment nginx

kubectl delete –deployment=nginx

kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl –no-restart 2

kubectl delete inginx

Question 71

Your company is using Google Workspace to manage employee accounts. Anticipated growth will increase the number of personnel from 100 employees to 1.000 employees within 2 years. Most employees will need access to your company's Google Cloud account. The systems and processes will need to support 10x growth without performance degradation, unnecessary complexity, or security issues. What should you do?

Options:

Migrate the users to Active Directory. Connect the Human Resources system to Active Directory. Turn on Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) for Cloud Identity. Turn on Identity Federation from Cloud Identity to Active Directory.

Organize the users in Cloud Identity into groups. Enforce multi-factor authentication in Cloud Identity.

Turn on identity federation between Cloud Identity and Google Workspace. Enforce multi-factor authentication for domain wide delegation.

Use a third-party identity provider service through federation. Synchronize the users from Google Workplace to the third-party provider in real time.

Question 72

You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engineer services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?

Options:

Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project.

Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.

Verify that you are the project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget for the appropriate project.

Verify that you are project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.

Question 73

You need to deploy an application in Google Cloud using savorless technology. You want to test a new version of the application with a small percentage of production traffic. What should you do?

Options:

Deploy the application lo Cloud. Run. Use gradual rollouts for traffic spelling.

Deploy the application lo Google Kubemetes Engine. Use Anthos Service Mesh for traffic splitting.

Deploy the application to Cloud functions. Saucily the version number in the functions name.

Deploy the application to App Engine. For each new version, create a new service.

Question 74

You need to provide a cost estimate for a Kubernetes cluster using the GCP pricing calculator for Kubernetes. Your workload requires high IOPs, and you will also be using disk snapshots. You start by entering the number of nodes, average hours, and average days. What should you do next?

Options:

Fill in local SSD. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage.

Fill in local SSD. Add estimated cost for cluster management.

Select Add GPUs. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage.

Select Add GPUs. Add estimated cost for cluster management.

Question 75

Your company’s infrastructure is on-premises, but all machines are running at maximum capacity. You want to burst to Google Cloud. The workloads on Google Cloud must be able to directly communicate to the workloads on-premises using a private IP range. What should you do?

Options:

In Google Cloud, configure the VPC as a host for Shared VPC.

In Google Cloud, configure the VPC for VPC Network Peering.

Create bastion hosts both in your on-premises environment and on Google Cloud. Configure both as proxy servers using their public IP addresses.

Set up Cloud VPN between the infrastructure on-premises and Google Cloud.

Question 76

You have a website hosted on App Engine standard environment. You want 1% of your users to see a new test version of the website. You want to minimize complexity. What should you do?

Options:

Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --migrate option.

Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --splits option to give a weight of 99 to the current version and a weight of 1 to the new version.

Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application. Use the App Engine library to proxy 1% of the requests to the new version.

Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application. Configure your network load balancer to send 1% of the traffic to that new application.

Question 77

Your manager asks you to deploy a workload to a Kubernetes cluster. You are not sure of the workloads resource requirements or how the requirements might vary depending on usage patterns, external dependencies, or other factors. You need a solution that makes cost-effective recommendations regarding CPU and memory requirements, and allows the workload to function consistently in any situation. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

Configure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for availability, and configure the cluster autoscaler for suggestions.

Configure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for availability, and configure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler recommendations for suggestions.

Configure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler recommendations for availability, and configure the Cluster autoscaler for suggestions.

Configure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler recommendations for availability, and configure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for suggestions.

Question 78

You have sensitive data stored in three Cloud Storage buckets and have enabled data access logging. You want to verify activities for a particular user for these buckets, using the fewest possible steps. You need to verify the addition of metadata labels and which files have been viewed from those buckets. What should you do?

Options:

Using the GCP Console, filter the Activity log to view the information.

Using the GCP Console, filter the Stackdriver log to view the information.

View the bucket in the Storage section of the GCP Console.

Create a trace in Stackdriver to view the information.

Question 79

Your Dataproc cluster runs in a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network in a single subnet with range 172.16.20.128/25. There are no private IP addresses available in the VPC network. You want to add new VMs to communicate with your cluster using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?

Options:

Modify the existing subnet range to 172.16.20.0/24.

Create a new Secondary IP Range in the VPC and configure the VMs to use that range.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs. Enable VPC Peering between the VMs’ VPC network and the Dataproc cluster VPC network.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs with a subnet of 172.32.0.0/16. Enable VPC network Peering between the Dataproc VPC network and the VMs VPC network. Configure a custom Route exchange.

Question 80

You are monitoring an application and receive user feedback that a specific error is spiking. You notice that the error is caused by a Service Account having insufficient permissions. You are able to solve the problem but want to be notified if the problem recurs. What should you do?

Options:

In the Log Viewer, filter the logs on severity 'Error' and the name of the Service Account.

Create a sink to BigQuery to export all the logs. Create a Data Studio dashboard on the exported logs.

Create a custom log-based metric for the specific error to be used in an Alerting Policy.

Grant Project Owner access to the Service Account.

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