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Professional-Cloud-Architect Practice Exam Questions with Answers Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Certification

Question # 6

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?

A.

Cloud Spanner

B.

Google BigQuery

C.

Google Cloud SQL

D.

Google Cloud Datastore

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Question # 7

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

A.

Error rates for requests from Asia

B.

Latency difference between US and Asia

C.

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

D.

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

E.

The number of character sets present in the database

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Question # 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?

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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Question # 9

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.)

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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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Question # 10

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?

A.

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one for development/test/staging and one for production. Each account should contain one project for every application.

B.

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one with a single project for all development applications and one with a single project for all production applications.

C.

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with each stage of each application in its own project.

D.

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with one project for the development/test/staging environment and one project for the production environment.

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Question # 11

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?

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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Question # 12

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour. How should you design the data ingestion?

A.

Vehicles write data directly to GCS.

B.

Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

C.

Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery.

D.

Vehicles continue to write data using the existing system (FTP).

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Question # 13

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 14

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.

Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.

A.

Opex/capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning

B.

Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation

C.

Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion

D.

Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement

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Question # 15

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.

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

Which two architecture should you consider?

Choose 2 answers:

A.

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

B.

Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.

C.

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

D.

Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E.

Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.

F.

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

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Question # 16

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?

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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Question # 17

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?

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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Question # 18

You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with

HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429.

How should you handle these types of errors?

A.

Use gRPC instead of HTTP for better performance.

B.

Implement retry logic using a truncated exponential backoff strategy.

C.

Make sure the Cloud Storage bucket is multi-regional for geo-redundancy.

D.

Monitor https://status.cloud.google.com/feed.atom and only make requests if Cloud Storage is not reporting

an incident.

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Question # 19

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)

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Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Question # 20

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?

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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Question # 21

Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and

iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What

should you do?

A.

Upload your mobile app to the Firebase Test Lab, and test the mobile app on Android and iOS devices.

B.

Create Android and iOS VMs on Google Cloud, install the mobile app on the VMs, and test the mobile app.

C.

Create Android and iOS containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), install the mobile app on the

containers, and test the mobile app.

D.

Upload your mobile app with different configurations to Firebase Hosting and test each configuration.

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Question # 22

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?

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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Question # 23

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?

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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Question # 24

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

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

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

• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.

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

• Deployment artifacts are immutable.

Which set of products should they use?

A.

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 25

You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have Installed the Cloud Ops agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows:

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You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?

A.

Change the metric identifier to agent.googleapis.com/memory/bytes_used

B.

Change the Filter to metric.label.state = ‘used’

C.

Change the filer to metric.label.state = ‘free’ and the Target utilization level to 20

D.

Change the Target type to DELTA_PER_MINUTE

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Question # 26

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

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

A.

Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 27

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?

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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Question # 28

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

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

A.

Verify that the database is online.

B.

Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded.

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 29

You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to access an on-premises file server. You need to install specific software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software?

A.

Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gsutil.

B.

Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage and use firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Storage. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.

C.

Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gcloud.

D.

Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories and use firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Source Repositories. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.

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Question # 30

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

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

A.

Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 31

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study

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

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 32

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

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

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

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

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

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

A.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using a named IP list for Fastly.

B.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using the IP addresses that Fastly has published. C. Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for Fastly IP address ranges.

C.

Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for network resources tagged with scurceiplisr-fasrly.

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Question # 33

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.)

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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Question # 34

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.)

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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Question # 35

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?

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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Question # 36

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?

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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Question # 37

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?

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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Question # 38

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?

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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Question # 39

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?

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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Question # 40

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?

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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Question # 41

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of Dress4Win's plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that:

• The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day

• Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.

• They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts

Which Google StackDriver features should they use?

A.

Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug

B.

Monitoring, Trace, Debug, Logging

C.

Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting

D.

Monitoring, Logging, Debug, Error Report

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Question # 42

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 43

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?

A.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Use Google Cloud Datastore to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID and their image files.

B.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer's unique ID.

C.

Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Assign each customer a unique ID, which sets each file's owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.

D.

Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Use a Google Cloud SQL database to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID to their image files.

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Question # 44

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?

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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Question # 45

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

A.

Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 46

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 47

Dress4win has end to end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.

They want to ensure that the move of cloud does not introduce any new bugs.

Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

A.

They should run the end to end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as

intended.

B.

They should enable google stack driver debugger on the application code to show errors in the code

C.

They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.

D.

They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency

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Question # 48

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years. Cost optimization is your top priority. Which cloud services should you choose?

A.

Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.

B.

Google Cloud Storage Nearline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.

C.

Google Bigtabte with US or EU as location to store the data, and gcloud to access the data.

D.

BigQuery to store the data, and a web server cluster in a managed instance group to access the data. Google Cloud SQL mirrored across two distinct regions to store the data, and a Redis cluster in a managed instance group to access the data.

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Question # 49

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?

A.

Perform a mapping of the on-premises physical hardware cores and RAM to the nearest machine types in the cloud.

B.

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy application servers to machine types that offer the highest RAM to CPU ratio available.

C.

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy into production with the smallest instances available, monitor them over time, and scale the machine type up until the desired performance is reached.

D.

Identify the number of virtual cores and RAM associated with the application server virtual machines align them to a custom machine type in the cloud, monitor performance, and scale the machine types up until the desired performance is reached.

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Question # 50

You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over the past few days. You want to find the underlying cause in order to solve the problem. What should you do first?

A.

Inspect the logs and metrics from the instances in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.

B.

Restore a backup of the application database from a time before the application became slow.

C.

Deploy the applications on a managed instance group with autoscaling enabled. Add a load balancer in front of the managed instance group, and have the users connect to the IP of the load balancer.

D.

Change the Compute Engine Instances behind the application to a machine type with more CPU and memory.

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Question # 51

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?

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 job

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Question # 52

You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do?

A.

Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

B.

Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

C.

Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

D.

Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

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Question # 53

Your company has an enterprise application running on Compute Engine that requires high availability and high performance. The application has been deployed on two instances in two zones in the same region m active passive mode. The application writes data to a persistent disk in the case of a single zone outage that data should be immediately made available to the other instance in the other zone. You want to maximize performance while minimizing downtime and data loss. What should you do?

A.

1. Attach a persistent SSD disk to the first instance

2. Create a snapshot every hour

3. In case of a zone outage, recreate a persistent SSD disk in the second instance where data is coming from the created snapshot

B.

1 Create a Cloud Storage bucket

2. Mount the bucket into the first instance with gcs-fuse

3. In case of a zone outage, mount the Cloud Storage bucket to the second instance with gcs-fuse

C.

1 Attach a local SSD lo the first instance disk

2. Execute an rsync command every hour where the target is a persistent SSD disk attached to the second instance

3. In case of a zone outage, use the second instance

D.

1. Attach a regional SSD persistent Ask to the first instance

2. In case of a zone outage, force-attach the disk to the other instance

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Question # 54

Your company is developing a web-based application. You need to make sure that production deployments are linked to source code commits and are fully auditable. What should you do?

A.

Make sure a developer is tagging the code commit with the date and time of commit

B.

Make sure a developer is adding a comment to the commit that links to the deployment.

C.

Make the container tag match the source code commit hash.

D.

Make sure the developer is tagging the commits with :latest

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Question # 55

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?

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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Question # 56

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?

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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Question # 57

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?

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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Question # 58

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?

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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Question # 59

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?

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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Question # 60

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?

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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