Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect (Free Quiz)

A company hired a Google certified Cloud Professional Architect and assigned him Delegated Access to the organization. The engineer was assigned a task to create a shared VPC, but the Delegated Access which is given to the engineer, did not allow the engineer to create the shared VPC. How can this issue be resolved?

In the U.S. Central Region, an organization would like to produce a copy of a production Linux VM. If there are modifications in the production VM, they want easy management and replacement of the copy instance. The copy of VM will be used in another project in the U.S. East region as a new instance. What steps are needed for this? (Choose 2)

An intermittent performance issue exists in one of the microservices in your application. When it happens, you do not notice the issue, but it causes a specific explosion of log lines. During the issue, you want to debug a machine. How could you do this?

Via Google Compute Engine, an enterprise created multiple pre-emptible Linux VM instances. Now it is required that before the VM goes preempted, the application must be shut down properly. How can this be done?

One of your customer stores sensitive data in Google Cloud Storage. Because of strict security, they do not want to store their keys on Cloud; please suggest a correct selection of encryption.

The test suite for an organization is a custom C++ application, which tests on Linux virtual machines every day. It requires several hours to finish a complete test suite that runs on a restricted set of servers for testing in on-premises servers. The testing facilities will be transferred to the Cloud by an organization to reduce the duration that it takes to fully test a change to the system while changing the tests as little as possible. Which infrastructure in the Cloud should they prefer to migrate their test environment?

When you are using customer managed encryption key and applied to the object then from the following statements, which three statements are correct?

For the click-data of the company’s large portfolio of websites, you used the storage system. This data is streamed in from a custom website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute, with bursts of up to 8,500 clicks per second. Which infrastructure for storage should be used, so that the company’s data science and user experience teams use it for future analysis?

An enterprise wants to use Service accounts. What are the best practices that Google Cloud recommends for Service Accounts? (Choose any 3)

A company wants to create a single pre-emptible VM instance named “scratch-vm,” which can be used for a single workload as a scratch. If VM is preempted, then they must guarantee that it is possible to reuse the disk content. Through which gcloud command, would the company create this instance?

The following code is used on Google App Engine by an organization for a news feed web service. Now users are reporting that during peak load, they see the news that they have already seen. What causes this issue most probable?

import news

from flask import Flask, redirect, request

from flask.ext.api import status

from google.appenhine.apl import users

app = Flask (_name_)

sessions = {}

@app. Route (“/”)

def homepage ():

user = users.get current_user ()

if not user:

return “Invalid login”. Status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED

if user not in sessions:

sessions [user] = {“viewed”: []}

news_articles = news.get_new_news (user, sessions [user] {“viewed”}

sessions[user] {“viewed”} += [n[“Id”] for n in news_articles]

return news, render (news_articles)

if _name_ == “_main_”:

app.run()

A company has a long-term job. The permission to start this job is given to its one of the staff members. Now it is required that if the staff member leaves office, the job he/she started should not be terminated. What is the best way in this situation to solve this issue?

A large enterprise wants to use GCP for creating a backup replica of its on-site user authentication PostgreSQL database. The size of the database is 4TB with a huge number of frequent updates on it. In GCP, the replication requires RFC1918 Private Address space. What would be the best option for networking?

On each of TerramEarth’s vehicles, operational parameters such as oil pressure can be adjusted to improve its effectiveness based on its environmental circumstances. Your main objective is for all 20 million mobile and unconnected vehicles to improve operational efficiencies in this sector. How can you achieve this objective?

An organization recently completed a lift and shift for your computing requirements to Google Compute Engine. For further 9 months, a more Cloud-native solution will be designed and deployed. The team is searching for less accountable and manageable services. Please pick the order of services that are less responsible to greater responsibility?

A small number of API requests take a very long time to use for your microservices application. Each request for the API can pass through a number of services. In those cases, you want to know what service takes the longest time. What can you do for this?

Mountkirk Gamers use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on which they deploy their new backend. Before they make it available to the public, they want to establish a test environment which is economical to test the new version of backend. How should they design it?

An organization is developing a new application for which it makes use of WebSockets and HTTP sessions. Both of them are not distributed over the webservers. Now they hired an engineer for ensuring that the application will run properly on GCP. How should an engineer do this?

An enterprise is in search of a solution for its application. The solution will handle the load in case of a failure of the entire zone. In your opinion, from the following options, which solution is better? (Choose 2)

In the ‘ subnet-a ‘ network, you must enable traffic from specific virtual machines into machines in ‘ subnet-b ‘ without having access to the entire subnet. How can you do that?

A company is using DataFlow to inject large amounts of data and then send the data to BigQuery for analysis, but now they realize that the data is dirty. How can they clean that data?

Consider that you have a critical instance with root disk and you want a regular backup of the root disk. You also want that backup to be available to convert into another instance in a different project. How would you do this? (Choose 2)

20 million vehicles of TerramEarth are spread worldwide. The telemetry information on the location of vehicles is stored in a regional Google Cloud Storage bucket (US Europe or Asia). The CTO has requested you to create a report on raw telemetry information; why do the cars break down after 100 kilometres? On all the information, you want to do this work. How can this work be done cost-effectively?

A company took 4 snapshots of its instance, and now they want to delete 2^nd and 3^rd snapshot to save the space. What would happen to the 4^th snapshot?

By considering cost optimization as a first priority, which solution is best to choose in Google Cloud for storing data for at least 10 years with an infrequent view of data for auditors?

An organization is using Transfer Appliance. After the data transferring to the Transfer Appliance, they want to perform reverse compression, duplication, and encryption on data which they did before transferring to the Transfer Appliance. How should they do this?

A company has a web application for which it already has an instance template. Now they want to deploy scaling application based on HTTP traffic. How would they do this?

You have an application with multiple microservices, but each individual microservice needs to be connected to the backend database. You want to store credentials in a secure place, which storage should you use for this purpose?

MountKirk Games want streaming data analytics pipeline for feeding on their game backend application. Which GCP services can be used for this purpose?

An online store is using Kubernetes cluster with 1-node pool. As during the new year sale period, the cluster is getting a huge amount of traffic and need to add more nodes. How can they do this?

A VPN link connects an office to GCP. How can you speed up the VPN connection, while the provided Internet is not a bottleneck of office?

An enterprise updated their Google App Engine application through which its user received reports. After updating, some users faced approximately 30 seconds duration for loading the report. How should they solve this issue?

An organization is using BigQuery for data analytics, and many customers have access to this service and to the data collection. They want to identify which customer is performing which query. What should they do to get this information?

To serve web traffic for a new launching, the company set up an instance group with auto-scaling. They notice that the Virtual Machine (VM) instances are expired and restarted every minute after setting up the instance group as a backend to the HTTP(S) load balancer. There is no Public IP address in these instances. By using the curl command, it is confirmed that the suitable web responses come from each instance. Now they want to make sure that the backend is properly configured. How are they supposed to do this?

Dress4Win is now in search of an option to deploy data analytics in Google Cloud. As an engineer, which of the following options do you prefer to meet both business and technical requirements?

Big Query, Big Table, Data Proc and Cloud Storage services are used by one of the major information analysis organization. They use hybrid architecting, which includes on-premises and Google Cloud. Cloud VPN is used to connect to GCP. One of the organization’s primary objectives is to reduce the risk of data exfiltration from stolen identities, IAM policy misconfigurations, compromised VMs, and malicious insiders. Which Google Cloud service can they use to tackle this challenge?

On App Engine, a company developed an update for their app. They want the update to be deployed without affecting customers. If it fails, they also want to roll back as fast as they can. What are they supposed to do?

The Engineering Director needed all developers to transfer development infrastructure resources from on-site VMs to Google Cloud Platform to decrease expenses. These resources go through several start / stop activities and require a state to be maintained during the day. You have been asked to develop the implementation process in Google Cloud while offering the financial department with price visibility. What should you do? (Choose 2)

Suppose you have a properly functioning web server, but you cannot connect to the VM via SSH. Which techniques can you use to resolve problems, without interrupting the traffic in manufacturing? (Choose 2)

A digital media company lately shifted its infrastructure from On-Site to Google Cloud. There are multiple instances which are under Global HTTPS load balancer. DDOS attacks were reported a few days ago for Application and Infrastructure. Now they are searching for a service that could provide a DDoS protection mechanism. Which service should they use for this purpose?

An organization is managing the GCP Account of clients, one of the clients raise a request to attach 9 local SSDs and launch a VM instance in US-East-1 Region, how would they respond to this request?

Dress4Win uses Stackdriver for its legacy services; they also configure a new uptime check for services. Now they observe an issue that, Stackdriver dashboard does not show the services as healthy. How can they resolve this issue?

A financial bank would like to write secret information such as the credit card numbers or the social security data which is produced by the application logs. How would they do that?

What are the direct GCP services required to replicate the same structure which is being used in the current data flow environment at TerramEarth, for the batch uploads?

A Global Media company configured a Global Load Balancer to handle non-http traffic. It is looking for an SSL-offloading service. As a cloud architect, which load balancer would you suggest?

An enterprise uses GCP to store the time series data. They discovered that Big Table fits naturally for time series data. Choose Google Cloud’s best practice for schema design models for Cloud Bigtable storage for the time series. (Choose 3)

What measures can an organization take to save audit logs for long-term access and to enable access to external auditors using the least-privilege principle and to ensure maximum automation? (Choose two)

A company uses GCP to monitor a power plant. They have mounted several IoT sensors, such as temperature sensors, smoke detectors, movement detectors, and so forth. Sensor information is streamed to the Cloud continuously. Different parts have to be managed to monitor and alert, analyze and improve efficiency in real time. What is the aim of Google Cloud Architecture?

MountKirk Games intend to create a platform to analyze their new game in real time. The new platform needs to satisfy its technical needs. What Google Technologies are going to satisfy all their needs?

You work on a project with two demands for compliance. Firstly, your designers should be in a position to see charges only for their own projects on the Google Cloud Platform. Secondly, your finance team can establish budgets and view the present charges for all projects in the company. They also want the finance team to not be able to view the contents of the project. You want to set allowances. What would you do?

How do the subnetworks differ from the legacy networks?

Dress4Win assesses how its current database structure would be converted into Google Cloud. You must know which databases can be converted into a managed service and which cannot. They do not want their databases to be re-engineered in another format. Choose the two right responses for your database hosting choices, taking into account the use of managed services where appropriate.

You work in a small company in which there is a requirement that all of the resources of a particular project should be viewed by everyone. According to Google’s best practices, you want to give them that access. What are you supposed to do?

More vehicles are upgraded to cellular connections and are able to transmit information to the ETL process in order to speed up data recovery. The present FTP method is error-prone and restarts the transfer of information from the beginning of the file if connections fail. The solution’s reliability can be improved and the information transfer time on cellular links is minimized. What should you do for this?

An organization wants the Cloud to be tested at low risk. They want about 100 TB of their log information to the Cloud to be archived for analysis and retain the information as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which of the following set of steps should be taken?

An enterprise wants to move its on-premises data center to the Google Cloud. They want less user interruption. They also want strict security team to store passwords. Which authentication method should they use?

Gaming servers from MountKirk Games are not automatically scaling correctly, last month a new feature was developed, which became suddenly very popular. The services were used by a record number of customers, but many of them received 503 error and extremely slow response time. How would you determine the cause of this issue?

A marketing company has multiple files in its on-premises data center, and now they want to migrate it to the Google Cloud. The size of each file is 5GB. Which migration method should be used to speed up the transfer?

When an enterprise changes its network topology, what are the minimum numbers of components that need to be implemented if you want to build a virtual private network between your office network and Google Cloud Platform?

The information stored in the application can be trusted to be one of your main company goals. All modifications to the application data are to be logged. How can your logging scheme be designed to check log authenticity?

An enterprise produces production performance bugs that they have not seen in the staging and test environment. To prevent such an issue in the future, you would like to adapt your test and deployment processes. What are you supposed to do?

A company’s technical person uses Python script to connect Google BigQuery from GCE VM. This script gives an error that it cannot connect to BigQuery. What could be the issue in this script?

If an enterprise is using a firewall. When creating rules, which form of segmentation can narrow which resource rule? (choose any 2)

You want to deploy a new application which has the following features:

• Built on Cloud portability open source technology
• Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
• Support continuous software delivery
• Run several segregated copies of the same stack.
• Use dynamic templates to implement application bundles
• Traffic network route to URL-based services

On the basis of these requirements, which combination from the following is the best choice for the requirement?

If external SSH access to production environment VM is disabled by the security team of the company, then how could the IT team manage the VMs and other resources remotely?

Dress4Win has several internal backend systems that do not want the public Internet exposure. How can their external exposure be reduced while maintaining remote access to resources?

In Google App Engine, an organization deployed an update to an application. The update is dangerous, but can only be tested live. How do you implement with a minimum risk to update?

A company wants to create an archive bucket via the command line. The bucket is going to be accessed once in a month. Which command is used from the following?

The J2EE application is presently being maintained by your developer. In order to move his request into the Cloud to satisfy demand and reduce overhead, what two considerations should he consider? (Choose any 2)

An enterprise wants some security aspects by separating the responsibilities and access for its production and deployment environments. What are the best practices you recommend as a Cloud Engineer?

In the web hosting platform of your company, you must reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of faulty operation. An 80% decrease was achieved by improvement in QA and test procedures. What other two steps can you take to decrease the rollback? (Choose 2)

Using Google Cloud, Dress4Win developers evaluate that some apps can be readily moved to the flexible Google App Engine environment. The developers use the Google Cloud SDK instruments to deploy their software. How does this solution meet with the  technical requirement? (Choose 2)

How do you recommend Dress4Win the machine types that they should use for their application?

An enterprise plans to switch its multi-petabyte data to the Cloud. The data set needs to be accessible 24 hours a day. Only with an SQL interface, your enterprise analysts have experience. How should the data store be optimized for easy analysis?

You analyzed the requirements of TerramEarth to decrease downtime and discovered that it could save most of the time by decreasing the waiting time of the customer for parts. You choose to concentrate on reducing the total reporting time of 3 weeks. What changes should you suggest in the company’s procedures?

An organization set the monthly budget for its project that was reserved. Now when they approach the limit, they want to be informed automatically of their project expenses. How should they do this?

Your company has an application, and they want that with the requirement of application changes, running Google Container cluster is scaled. To enable this feature, what would you recommend?

Your organization is considered the best organization because of its high-value response and it is quick in meeting clients’ requirements. The main objective of the organization is speedy releases and agility. Now they want to minimize the risk of occurrence of security errors that happen accidentally. How can this be done? (Choose 2)

What GCP services / infrastructure will MountKirk Games use to host their game backend platform based on technical demands?

Which of TerramEarth’s legacy business processes would be significantly changed by increasing Google Cloud platform adoption in its current data centers?

The architecture of your company is in Google Cloud, which consists of a Load balancer, and two web Container Engine Clusters in different regions. In each Google Container Engine cluster, you want that new code to be deployed automatically and simultaneously. What technique are you supposed to use?

A financial firm has lately shifted to Google Cloud Platform from on-premises. They use BigQuery for data analysis, while the performance is great, but it is worried that the price for BigQuery’s use will be monitored. Select from the following alternatives the corresponding BigQuery best practices for cost control. (choose any 3)

An enterprise use GCS service for storage of data and if they have enabled object versioning on a Multi-Region bucket then what will the given lifecycle config file do?

{

“lifecycle”: {

“rule”: [

{

“action”: {

“type”: “Delete”

},

“condition”: {

“age”: 30,

“isLive”: false

}

},

{

“action”: {

“type”: “SetStorageClass”,

“storageClass”:”COLDLINE”

},

“condition”: {

“age”: 365,

“matchesStorageClass” : [

“MULTI_REGION”

]

}

}

]

}

}

You can use the internal IP address, but not the external IP, to SSH an instance from another instance in the same VPC. What is one possible reason?

MountKirk Games must set up a backend database of their game. The database must be NoSQL managed database. Which storage service meets this requirement?

Mountkirk Games require to establish a repeatable and configurable system to deploy isolated applications environment. Developers and testers can access the environments and resources of each other, but they cannot gain access to production or staging resources. The staging environment required access to few services of the production environment. What steps do you take to isolate the development environment?

An enterprise wants to save the metrics of all applications for 5 years. These metrics are used for future analysis for legal proceedings. How should they do this?

Mountkirk Games intend to establish a pipeline for ongoing delivery. Your architecture contains a number of tiny facilities which you want rapidly to update and roll back. There are some requirements for MountKrik games:

• Services in several areas in the USA and in Europe are being implemented redundantly
• Only frontend services are exposed to the public internet
• You can give your fleet of services a single front IP
• Deployment artifacts are immutable

For all these requirements, which of the following options should be used?

On Google Compute Engine, you have a mission-critical database. You have to automatically backup a database to a different disk once a day. The database must be fully functional and operational, and no downtimes should occur. How can you provide automated database backup with minimal downtime and low cost?

By shifting it into the Cloud, your business wants to decrease the expense of unusually accessed information. The information will still be used to refresh the historical graphs roughly once a month. Moreover, data more than 5 years old have become unnecessary. How is information stored and managed?

The database management team wants to improve their current Google Compute Engine database server efficiency. It has an 80 GB of SSD permanent disk N1-standard-8 virtual machine. What are they supposed to alter to improve system’s efficiency?

An organization has its primary services on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable. Now the IT team wants to test new load-testing tool for checking the scalability of these primary services. How would they do this? (choose any 3)

You create a way to remove backup files from your Cloud Storage backup bucket older than 90 days. The Cloud Storage expenditure is to be optimized. So, what are you supposed to do?

You have added a debug function to the backend service of your business application to send all server occurrences to Google Cloud Storage for further evaluation. The event record is 50 KB minimum, and a maximum of 15 MB. Expected events at the peak is 3,000 per second, how should data loss be minimized. What process are you supposed to follow?

The cluster “procluster,” of Kubernetes engines has a cluster pool called “the primary node pool”. In order to satisfy requirements for ability, you have noticed that you need more complete nodes within your cluster pool. What command does your pool have to modify the number of nodes? (choose any 2)

What are the GCP VPC subnet features? (choose any 2)

A huge amount of small documents are transferred from local storage to Google Cloud Storage. The transfer of your documents must be speedy. What two measures can you take to accelerate the process if you assume a quick network link?

The goal is to expand the business to Asian market; to achieve this, Jenco Mart has developed an application on Google Cloud Platform which performs traffic toward Asia. If you want to enhance their business and technical achievement. Which metrics should you recommend?

You created a Kubernetes engine cluster represented as ‘mycluster’. If you have to change machine type from n1-standard-1 to n1-standard-4. Which command should we choose for change?