Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Questions (Free quiz Part1)

A Kubernetes Engine Cluster is created to deploy multiple Pods within the cluster. For later analysis, the container logs must be stored in BigQuery. By using Google recommended approaches, what will be the best solution? (Choose 2)

A new Compute Engine instance is created in us-central-1b zone. The data engineer requested to attach a GPU, but doing so is creating an error. What can be the cause of the error?

It is necessary for a team to set up a MongoDB instance as quickly as possible, but you are unaware of how to install it and what configuration files are required. How can you overcome this problem?

Your billing branch has asked you to help them track spending towards a specific billing account. Billing branch has indicated that they prefer SQL querying to create their reports because they do not want to learn new tools. The data have to be as latest as possible. Which export alternative would work best for them?

A team is working on designing an IoT solution. Several devices need to send data for processing in periodic time series. How can you ingest and store the data by using the GCP services?

An organization needs the logs from all applications, and they must be archived for ten years as part of their compliance. What would be the most feasible approach?

Multiple applications are hosted on Compute Engine instances. And the company wants the instances to be resilient to any host maintenance activities which are performed on the instance. How can the instances be configured?

An App Engine Application is created in the us-central region, but the network team has configured all the VPN connections in asia-east2 region, which could not be moved. How can the location be changed efficiently?

Using principal of least privilege and permitting for maximum automation, what steps can you take to store audit logs for long-term access and to permit access for external auditors to view? (Choose 2)

Your task supervisor wants to delegate the responsibility to upload items to Cloud storage buckets for his team members. Considering the principle of least privilege, which function you assign to the team members?

Your billing department has requested you to help them track spending against a specific billing account. They have indicated that they choose to use Excel to create their reports, so they do not want to learn new tools. Which export option would work best for them?

A Cloud Storage bucket is required to host static web assets with dozens of HTML pages, some Javascript files, and CSS. How can you make the bucket public?

You require an instance template which contains a web application. You need to deploy the application so that it can be scaled based on the HTTP traffic it receives. What should you do?

Production and Test environment is set up by a company because they want to use different subjects. The key requirement is that the VMs can communicate with each other using internal IPs and no additional routes are configured. Prescribed the best solution?

An application is running on a machine type having two virtual CPUs and 4GB RAM, but there have been plenty of memory problems. How can you increase the memory of the application with minimal downtime?

You have been tasked to grant access to sensitive files to external auditors for a limited period of four hours only. The files should not be strictly available after four hours. Adhering to Google best practices, how could you efficiently share the document?

You work on a project with two compliance necessities. The primary requirement is that your developers should be capable of seeing the GCP billing charges for their projects only. The second requirement describes that your finance team members can set budgets and view the current costs for all projects within the organization. The finance team should no longer be able to view the project contents. You need to set permissions. What must you do?

Security Team wants to audit network traffic within the network. What is the easiest way to ensure that they have access to the data they require?

Your company has a set of compute engine instances that could be hosting production-based applications. These applications might be running 24×7 throughout the year. You want to implement the cost-effective, scalable and high availability solution even if a zone fails. How would you design the solution?

You are creating a single pre-emptible VM instance named “preempt” for use as scratch space for a single workload. In case your VM is pre-empted, you want to make sure that disk contents can be re-used. Which gcloud command would you use to create this instance?

A company is hosting their static website on Cloud Storage, and you implemented a change to add PDF files to the website. When the user clicks the PDF files, it downloads the PDF instead of opening it the browser. How can you fix this issue?

You are informed that one of the projects using the old billing account. How can you resolve this problem?

A SysOps admin configured a lifecycle rule on an object versioning enabled multi-regional bucket. Which of the following statement effect reflects the following lifecycle config?

You have to test out the latest version of MS SQL on windows instance. You have created a VM and need to connect into the instance. Which of the step is followed to connect to the instance?

An App Engine Application is serving as front-end and going to publish messages to Pub/ Sub. But the Pub/ Sub API has not been enabling yet. How can the API be enabled?

An App Engine Application is serving as front-end and going to publish messages to Pub/ Sub. But the Pub/ Sub API has not been enabling yet. How can the API be enabled?

Cloud SQL is used by a company to host critical data. If a complete zone goes down, they want to enable the high availability for this case. How can you configure this?

You’ve set up an instance inside your new network and subnet. You create firewall rules to target all instances in your network with the following firewall rules.

If you try to SSH to the instance, what would be the result?

A data team is working on some new machine learning models, and they are generating multiple files per day and want to store them in the regional bucket. Their major focus is the files of the last week, but they want to store all the files to keep safe if needed. How can you lower the storage cost?

A company requires to host confidential documents in Cloud Storage. The data must be highly available and resilient in case of a regional outage, as per the compliance requirement. Which of the following storage classes meet the requirement? (Choose 2)

To verify the assigned permission in custom IAM role, what should you do?

To verify the assigned permission in custom IAM role, what should you do?

To verify the assigned permission in custom IAM role, what should you do?

A company is needed to set up a template for deploying resources. They want the dynamic provisioning with the specifications in the configured files. Which of the following service is ideal for this requirement?

A company is needed to set up a template for deploying resources. They want the dynamic provisioning with the specifications in the configured files. Which of the following service is ideal for this requirement?

By using principal of least privilege and allowing max automation, what steps you are taking to store audit logs for long-term access and to permit access for external auditors to view? (Choose 2)

By using principal of least privilege and allowing max automation, what steps you are taking to store audit logs for long-term access and to permit access for external auditors to view? (Choose 2)

A company wants to set up a VPC network, and they want to configure a single subnet within the VPC with maximum range. What is most preferred CIDR block?

In order to find out the owner access of the project named “My Project” what should you do?

In order to find out the owner access of the project named “My Project” what should you do?

A solution is created to remove backup files which are older than 90 days from the backup Cloud Storage bucket. And you want to optimize ongoing Cloud storage spend. What should you do?

The development team has asked you to set up an external TCP load balancer with SSL offload. Prescribe the load balancer which can be used?

A company demands to create a new Kubernetes cluster on GCP, and they want to upgrade the nodes to the latest stable version of Kubernetes with no manual intervention, for security purpose. How can you have configured the Kubernetes cluster?

A company wants to reduce the cost of infrequently accessed data by transferring it to the cloud. But the data can still be accessed once a month to refresh historical charts. And the data longer than 5 years are no longer needed. How can you manage and store the data?

Some updates for an application is created working on App Engine, and you want to deploy the updates without disturbing your users. You must be rolled back as soon as possible if it fails. How can you perform this?

Some updates for an application is created working on App Engine, and you want to deploy the updates without disturbing your users. You must be rolled back as soon as possible if it fails. How can you perform this?

Some updates for an application is created working on App Engine, and you want to deploy the updates without disturbing your users. You must be rolled back as soon as possible if it fails. How can you perform this?

A new application for App Engine is developed and is ready to deploy it to the production. You have to estimate the cost of running an application on GCP as quickly as possible. How can you achieve this?

An application is on GAE which is serving production traffic. You are going to deploy a risky but necessary change to the application. It can take down your service if it is not coded properly and you realize that it can only be tested properly by live user traffic. How can you test the feature?

A company has a mission-critical application that serves its user globally. You need to select the relational and transactional data storage system for the application. Which product should you prescribe? (Choose 2)

You are required to create new Kubernetes cluster, which can auto-scale the number of worker nodes on GCP. How should you do?

A new development Kubernetes cluster needs to be created with three nodes. The cluster will be named as project-1-cluster. Which command can create a cluster?

An on-premise application is migrating to Google Cloud. The application is using a component with requires a licensing server. The license server contains the IP address10.28.0.10. You need to deploy the application without making any changes in the code or configuration. How can you deploy the application?

You have to get all of your team’s public SSH keys onto a specific Bastion Host instance of a particular project. You have collected all of them. What is the best way to get the keys deployed?

You have to get all of your team’s public SSH keys onto a specific Bastion Host instance of a particular project. You have collected all of them. What is the best way to get the keys deployed?

You have to get all of your team’s public SSH keys onto a specific Bastion Host instance of a particular project. You have collected all of them. What is the best way to get the keys deployed?

Bob wants to be able to create a new instance on Compute Engine project named as Project A by using the principle of least privilege. How can you give him access without providing much more permissions?

Project owner and co-workers are required to deploy a new version of an application on App Engine. You need to follow Google recommended practices. Which IAM role should you grant to your co-workers?

You have set up and tested several custom roles in your development project. How can you create the same roles for the new projects in the fastest way?

You are writing an application on Python and demands that your application runs on a sandboxed managed environment with the capability to scale up in seconds for huge spikes in demand. On which service you host your application?