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Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

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

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Questions 5

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The migration of JencoMart’s application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)

Options:

A.

A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput

B.

A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task

C.

A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances

D.

Fewer virtual machines (VMs) in GCP than on-premises machines

E.

A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task

F.

Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

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Questions 6

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.

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Questions 7

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

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Questions 8

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).

B.

Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs.

C.

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs

D.

Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs.

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Questions 9

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

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Questions 10

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.

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Questions 11

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?

Options:

A.

Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and stream data into BigQuery using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

B.

Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and upload gzip files to a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket using gcloud. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

C.

Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Upload gzip files to a MultiRegional Cloud Storage

bucket. Upload this data into BigQuery using gcloud. Use Google data Studio for analysis and reporting.

D.

Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Directly stream data into prtitioned Hive tables. Use Pig scripts to analyze data.

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Questions 12

You have broken down a legacy monolithic application into a few containerized RESTful microservices. You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You also want to make sure the services are highly available with low latency to your customers. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance and attach the Cloud Endpoints to its backend.

B.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions Create serverless network endpoint groups pointing to the services. Add the serverless NE Gs to a backend service that is used by a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance.

C.

Cloud Run services to multiple regions. In Cloud DNS, create a latency-based DNS name that points to the services.

D.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create a TCP/IP global load balancer. Add the Cloud Run Endpoints to its backend service.

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Questions 13

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”.

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Questions 14

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.

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Questions 15

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.

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Questions 16

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.

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Questions 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.

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Questions 18

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.

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Questions 19

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

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Questions 20

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.

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Questions 21

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.

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Questions 22

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.

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Questions 23

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.

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Questions 24

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.

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Questions 25

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to connect their on-premises systems to Google Cloud while maintaining secure communication between their on-premises and cloud environments You want to follow Google ' s recommended approach to ensure the most secure and manageable solution. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use a bastion host to provide secure access lo Google Cloud resources from Cymbal ' s on-premises systems.

B.

Configure a static VPN connection using SSH tunnels to connect the on-premises systems to Google Cloud

C.

Configure a Cloud VPN gateway and establish a VPN tunnel Configure firewall rules to restrict access to specific resources and services based on IP addresses and ports.

D.

Use Google Cloud ' s VPC peering to connect Cymbal ' s on-premises network to Google Cloud.

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Questions 26

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.

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Questions 27

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)

B)

C)

D)

Options:

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Questions 28

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

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Questions 29

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.

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Questions 30

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.

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Questions 31

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.

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Questions 32

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.

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Questions 33

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal ' s generative Al models require high-performance storage for temporary files generated during model training and inference. These files are ephemeral and frequently accessed and modified You need to select a storage solution that minimizes latency and cost and maximizes performance for generative Al workloads. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use a Cloud Storage bucket in the same region as your virtual machines Configure lifecycle policies to delete files after processing

B.

Use Filestore to store temporary files

C.

Use performance persistent disks.

D.

Use Local SSDs attached to the VMs running the generative Al models

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Questions 34

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate their product catalog management processes to Google Cloud. You need to ensure a smooth migration with proper change management to minimize disruption and risks to the business. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate product catalog enrichment, improve product discoverability, increase customer engagement, and minimize costs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Design a migration plan to move all of Cymbal ' s data to Cloud Storage, and use Compute Engine for all business logic

B.

Design a migration plan to move all of Cymbal ' s data to Cloud Storage, and use Cloud Run functions for all business logic

C.

Design a migration plan, starting with a pilot project focusing on a specific product category, and gradually expand to other categories.

D.

Design a migration plan with a scheduled window to move all components at once Perform extensive testing to ensure a successful migration.

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Questions 35

Your company runs a critical, revenue-generating ecommerce application that is served by a regional managed instance group (MIG) behind an external HTTP(S) Load Balancer. The operations team is currently overwhelmed with low-priority notifications. Your team ' s service level objective (SLO) is to maintain 99.9% availability. You want to minimize noise from non-critical events and ensure that the team is only notified of issues that are actionable and threaten the SLO. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Focus on cause-based alerts, creating alerting policies with thresholds for the Compute Engine instances, including CPU utilization, memory usage, disk I/O, and network traffic.

B.

Configure alerts based on predictive metrics. Use the instance count of the MIG as the primary metric to trigger an alert.

C.

Implement an error budget policy based on the availability of the SLO. Create a " page " alert that triggers only when the rate of burn of the error budget predicts a full exhaustion within the next 24 hours.

D.

Create log-based alerts for only the WARN and ERROR log entries generated by the application to ensure that no potential issue is missed.

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Questions 36

Your company is running its application workloads on Compute Engine. The applications have been deployed in production, acceptance, and development environments. The production environment is business-critical and is used 24/7, while the acceptance and development environments are only critical during office hours. Your CFO has asked you to optimize these environments to achieve cost savings during idle times . What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use regular Compute Engine instances for the production environment, and use Spot VMs for the acceptance and development environments.

B.

Deploy the development and acceptance applications on a managed instance group and enable autoscaling.

C.

Create a shell script that uses the gcloud command to change the machine type of the development and acceptance instances to a smaller machine type outside of office hours. Schedule the shell script on one of the production instances to automate the task.

D.

Use Instance Schedules to stop the development and acceptance environments after office hours, and start them just before office hours.

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Questions 37

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate its diverse database environment to Google Cloud while ensuring high availability and performance for online customers. The company also wants to efficiently store and access large product images These images typically stay In the catalog for more than 90 days and are accessed less and less frequently. You need to select the appropriate Google Cloud services for each database. You also need to design a storage solution for the product images that optimizes cost and performance What should you do?

Options:

A.

Migrate all databases to Spanner for consistency, and use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage

B.

Migrate all databases to self-managed instances on Compute Engino. and use a persistent disk for image storage.

C.

Migrate MySQL and SQL Server to Spanner. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move

images to Cloud Storage Nearline storage when products become less popular.

D.

Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL. SQL Server to Cloud SQL. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore. Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move images to Cloud Storage Coldline storage when products become less popular

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Questions 38

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal has a centralized project that supports large video files for Vertex Al model training. Standard storage costs have suddenly increased this month, and you need to determine why. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Investigate if the project owner disabled a soft-delete policy on the bucket holding the video files.

B.

Investigate if the project owner moved from dual-region storage to region storage

C.

Investigate If the project owner enabled a soft-delete policy on the bucket holding the video files.

D.

Investigate if the project owner moved from multi-region storage to region stotage.

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Questions 39

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study Cymbal plans to migrate their existing on-premises systems to Google Cloud and implement Al-powered virtual agents to handle customer interactions You need to provision the compute resources that can scale for the Al-powered virtual agents What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Cloud SQL to store the customer data and product catalog.

B.

Configure Cloud Build to call Al Applications (formerly Vertex Al Agent Builder).

C.

Deploy a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with autoscaling enabled

D.

Create a single, large Compute Engine VM instance with a high CPU allocation.

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Questions 40

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to design a cloud-first data storage infrastructure for the product catalog modernization project. You want to ensure efficient data access and high availability for Cymbals web application and virtual agents while minimizing operational costs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use AlloyDB for structured product data, and Cloud Storage for product images

B.

Use Spanner for the structured product data, and BigTable for product images

C.

Use Filestore for the structured product data and Cloud Storage for product images

D.

Use Cloud Storage for structured product data, and BigQuery for product images

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Questions 41

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

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Questions 42

Your company is designing its data lake on Google Cloud and wants to develop different ingestion pipelines to collect unstructured data from different sources. After the data is stored in Google Cloud, it will be processed in several data pipelines to build a recommendation engine for end users on the website. The structure of the data retrieved from the source systems can change at any time. The data must be stored exactly as it was retrieved for reprocessing purposes in case the data structure is incompatible with the current processing pipelines. You need to design an architecture to support the use case after you retrieve the data. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed data in a BigQuery table for reprocessing.

B.

Store the data in a BigQuery table. Design the processing pipelines to retrieve the data from the table.

C.

Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed data in a Cloud Storage bucket for reprocessing.

D.

Store the data in a Cloud Storage bucket. Design the processing pipelines to retrieve the data from the bucket

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Questions 43

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.

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Questions 44

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution.

Altostrat is concerned about sophisticated, multi-vector Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting various layers of their infrastructure. DDoS attacks could potentially disrupt video streaming and cause financial losses. You need to mitigate this risk. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up VPC Service Controls to restrict access to sensitive resources and prevent data exfiltration.

B.

Configure Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) with custom rules to filter malicious traffic at the network level.

C.

Deploy Google Cloud Armor with pre-configured and custom rules for L3/L4 and L7 protection.

D.

Activate Security Command Center to monitor security posture and detect potential threats.

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Questions 45

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding API management and cost control.

Altostrat is using Apigee for API management and wants to ensure their APIs are protected from overuse and abuse. You need to implement an Apigee feature to control the total number of API calls for cost management. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up API key validation.

B.

Integrate OAuth 2.0 authorization.

C.

Configure Quota policies.

D.

Activate XML threat protection.

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Questions 46

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding the performance analysis of their media processing pipeline.

Altostrat needs to analyze the performance of its media processing pipeline running on Java-based Cloud Run function. You need to select the most effective tool for the task. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Query logs in Cloud Logging.

B.

Analyze the data via Cloud Profiler.

C.

Instrument the code to use Cloud Trace.

D.

Inspect data from Snapshot Debugger.

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Questions 47

Altostrat stores a large library of media content, including sensitive interviews and documentaries, in Cloud Storage. They are concerned about the confidentiality of this content and want to protect it from unauthorized access. You need to implement a Google-recommended solution that is easy to integrate and provides Altostrat with control and auditability of the encryption keys. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure Cloud Storage to use server-side encryption with Google-managed encryption keys. Create a bucket policy to restrict access to only authorized Google groups and required service accounts.

B.

Use Cloud Storage default encryption at rest. Implement fine-grained access control using IAM roles and groups to restrict access to sensitive buckets.

C.

Implement client-side encryption before uploading it to Cloud Storage. Store the encryption keys in a HashiCorp Vault instance deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Implement fine-grained access control to sensitive Cloud Storage buckets using IAM roles.

D.

Use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for all Cloud Storage buckets storing sensitive media content. Implement fine-grained access control using IAM roles and groups to restrict access to sensitive buckets.

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Questions 48

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solutions regarding cost optimization for batch processing and microservices testing strategies.

Altostrat is experiencing fluctuating computational demands for its batch processing jobs. These jobs are not time-critical and can tolerate occasional interruptions. You want to optimize cloud costs and address batch processing needs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure reserved VM instances

B.

Deploy spot VM instances.

C.

Set up standard VM instances.

D.

Use Cloud Run functions.

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Questions 49

Altostrat ' s development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Run unit testing.

B.

Use load testing.

C.

Perform end-to-end testing.

D.

Execute integration testing.

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Questions 50

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?

Options:

A.

Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud.

B.

Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a first move to the cloud.

C.

Suggest moving their in-house databases to the cloud and continue serving requests to on-premise applications.

D.

Recommend moving their message queuing servers to the cloud and continue handling requests to on-premise applications.

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Questions 51

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud environment, and load into a new MySQL cluster.

B.

Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover.

C.

Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, configure applications to begin writing to both on-premises and cloud MySQL masters, and destroy the original cluster at cutover.

D.

Create a dump of the MySQL replica server into the cloud environment, load it into: Google Cloud Datastore, and configure applications to read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover.

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Questions 52

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.

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Questions 53

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.

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Questions 54

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.

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Questions 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

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Questions 56

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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Questions 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.

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Questions 58

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

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Questions 59

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform’s resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics traffic.

B.

Build a test client that can be run from a mobile phone emulator on a Compute Engine virtual machine, and run multiple copies in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world to generate realistic traffic.

C.

Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics files uploaded from mobile devices.

D.

Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players ' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.

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Questions 60

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.

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Questions 61

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

Options:

A.

Create network load balancers. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.

B.

Create network load balancers. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.

C.

Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.

D.

Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.

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Questions 62

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk’s technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?

Options:

A.

Cloud Bigtable

B.

Cloud Spanner

C.

BigQuery

D.

Cloud Datastore

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Questions 63

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.

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Questions 64

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API.

You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?

Options:

A.

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

B.

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

C.

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

D.

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

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Questions 65

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.

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Questions 66

Your company is designing its application landscape on Compute Engine. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, the application should be restored in another zone as quickly as possible with the latest application data. You need to design the solution to meet this requirement. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to restore the disk in the same zone.

B.

Configure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the application in another zone in the same region. Use the regional persistent disk for the application data.

C.

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to restore the disk in another zone within the same region.

D.

Configure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the application in another region. Use the regional persistent disk for the application data,

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Questions 67

Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used

heavily during regular business hours and lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the

application is slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application’s performance. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create an instance template from the snapshot. Create an

autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template.

B.

Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create a custom image from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the custom image.

C.

Create a custom image from the existing disk. Create an instance template from the custom image. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template.

D.

Create an instance template from the existing disk. Create a custom image from the instance template.

Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the custom image.

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Questions 68

A lead software engineer tells you that his new application design uses websockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to help him ensure his application will run property on Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Help the engineer to convert his websocket code to use HTTP streaming.

B.

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

C.

Meet with the cloud operations team and the engineer to discuss load balancer options.

D.

Help the engineer redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on websockets and HTTP sessions.

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Questions 69

Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations work and code change. Which product should you use?

Options:

A.

Google Cloud Dataflow

B.

Google Cloud Dataproc

C.

Google Compute Engine

D.

Google Container Engine

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Questions 70

Your company has just recently activated Cloud Identity to manage users. The Google Cloud Organization has been configured as wed. The security learn needs to secure protects that will be part of the Organization. They want to prohibit IAM users outside the domain from gaining permissions from now on. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Configure an organization policy to restrict identities by domain

B.

Configure an organization policy to block creation of service accounts

C.

Configure Cloud Scheduler o trigger a Cloud Function every hour that removes all users that don ' t belong to the Cloud identity domain from all projects.

D.

Create a technical user (e g . crawler@yourdomain com), and give it the protect owner rote at root organization level Write a bash script that

• Lists all me IAM rules of all projects within the organization

• Deletes all users that do not belong to the company domain

Create a Compute Engine instance m a project within the Organization and configure gcloud to be executed with technical user credentials Configure a cron j

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Exam Name: Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP)
Last Update: Aug 21, 2026
Questions: 345
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