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Question # 4

You have an on-premises data analytics set of binaries that processes data files in memory for about 45 minutes every midnight. The sizes of those data files range from 1 gigabyte to 16 gigabytes. You want to migrate this application to Google Cloud with minimal effort and cost. What should you do?

A.

Upload the code to Cloud Functions. Use Cloud Scheduler to start the application.

B.

Create a container for the set of binaries. Use Cloud Scheduler to start a Cloud Run job for the container.

C.

Create a container for the set of binaries Deploy the container to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and use the Kubernetes scheduler to start the application.

D.

Lift and shift to a VM on Compute Engine. Use an instance schedule to start and stop the instance.

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Question # 5

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?

A.

Grant the financial team the IAM role ofג€Billing Account Userג€ on the billing account linked to your credit card.

B.

Set up BigQuery billing export and grant your financial department IAM access to query the data.

C.

Create a ticket with Google Billing Support to ask them to send the invoice to your company.

D.

Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company.

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Question # 6

You are working for a hospital that stores Its medical images in an on-premises data room. The hospital wants to use Cloud Storage for archival storage of these images. The hospital wants an automated process to upload any new medical images to Cloud Storage. You need to design and implement a solution. What should you do?

A.

Deploy a Dataflow job from the batch template "Datastore lo Cloud Storage" Schedule the batch job on the desired interval

B.

In the Cloud Console, go to Cloud Storage Upload the relevant images to the appropriate bucket

C.

Create a script that uses the gsutil command line interface to synchronize the on-premises storage with Cloud Storage Schedule the script as a cron job

D.

Create a Pub/Sub topic, and enable a Cloud Storage trigger for the Pub/Sub topic. Create an application that sends all medical images to the Pub/Sub lope

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Question # 7

You deployed a new application inside your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below.

You check the status of the deployed pods and notice that one of them is still in PENDING status:

You want to find out why the pod is stuck in pending status. What should you do?

A.

Review details of the myapp-service Service object and check for error messages.

B.

Review details of the myapp-deployment Deployment object and check for error messages.

C.

Review details of myapp-deployment-58ddbbb995-lp86m Pod and check for warning messages.

D.

View logs of the container in myapp-deployment-58ddbbb995-lp86m pod and check for warning messages.

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Question # 8

Your company plans to migrate its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. The workloads are demanding, requiring fast transactional and analytical performance. You need to select a fully managed database service on Google Cloud. Your solution must also be able to synchronously replicate and optimize the storage layer. What should you do?

A.

Use the psql client installed on a Compute Engine Instance. Connect to the Cloud SQL instance to perform the database migration.

B.

Migrate the database to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL by using Database Migration Service.

C.

Migrate the database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL by using Database Migration Service.

D.

Create a Compute Engine instance. Install and configure PostgreSQL on the instance, and migrate the database.

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Question # 9

Your company is moving from an on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You have multiple development teams that use Cassandra environments as backend databases. They all need a development environment that is isolated from other Cassandra instances. You want to move to GCP quickly and with minimal support effort. What should you do?

A.

1. Build an instruction guide to install Cassandra on GCP.2. Make the instruction guide accessible to your developers.

B.

1. Advise your developers to go to Cloud Marketplace.2. Ask the developers to launch a Cassandra image for their development work.

C.

1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.2. Use the snapshot to create instances for your developers.

D.

1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.2.Upload the snapshot to Cloud Storage and make it accessible to your developers.3.Build instructions to create a Compute Engine instance from the snapshot so that developers can do it themselves.

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Question # 10

You have developed a web application that serves traffic for a local event and are expecting unpredictable traffic. You have containerized the application, and you now want to deploy the application on Google Cloud. You also want to minimize costs. What should you do?

A.

Deploy the web application as a Cloud Run service.

B.

Deploy the web application on Google Kubernetes Engine In Standard mode.

C.

Deploy the web application as a Cloud Run job.

D.

Deploy the web application on Google Kubernetes Engine in Autopilot mode.

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Question # 11

You recently deployed a new version of an application to App Engine and then discovered a bug in the release. You need to immediately revert to the prior version of the application. What should you do?

A.

Run gcloud app restore.

B.

On the App Engine page of the GCP Console, select the application that needs to be reverted and click Revert.

C.

On the App Engine Versions page of the GCP Console, route 100% of the traffic to the previous version.

D.

Deploy the original version as a separate application. Then go to App Engine settings and split traffic between applications so that the original version serves 100% of the requests.

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Question # 12

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 13

You have a Linux VM that must connect to Cloud SQL. You created a service account with the appropriate access rights. You want to make sure that the VM uses this service account instead of the default Compute Engine service account. What should you do?

A.

When creating the VM via the web console, specify the service account under the ‘Identity and API Access’ section.

B.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. On the Project Metadata, add that JSON as the value for the key compute-engine-service-account.

C.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. On the Custom Metadata of the VM, add that JSON as the value for the key compute-engine-service-account.

D.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. After creating the VM, ssh into the VM and save the JSON under ~/.gcloud/compute-engine-service-account.json.

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Question # 14

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 15

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status:

What is the most likely cause?

A.

The pending Pod's resource requests are too large to fit on a single node of the cluster.

B.

Too many Pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resources left to schedule the pending Pod.

C.

The node pool is configured with a service account that does not have permission to pull the container image used by the pending Pod.

D.

The pending Pod was originally scheduled on a node that has been preempted between the creation of the Deployment and your verification of the Pods’ status. It is currently being rescheduled on a new node.

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Question # 16

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 17

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

A.

– Create Compute Engine resources in us–central1–b.–Balance the load across both us–central1–a and us–central1–b.

B.

– Create a Managed Instance Group and specify us–central1–a as the zone.–Configure the Health Check with a short Health Interval.

C.

– Create an HTTP(S) Load Balancer.–Create one or more global forwarding rules to direct traffic to your VMs.

D.

– Perform regular backups of your application.–Create a Cloud Monitoring Alert and be notified if your application becomes unavailable.–Restore from backups when notified.

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Question # 18

You are using Deployment Manager to create a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. Using the same Deployment Manager deployment, you also want to create a DaemonSet in the kube-system namespace of the cluster. You want a solution that uses the fewest possible services. What should you do?

A.

Add the cluster’s API as a new Type Provider in Deployment Manager, and use the new type to create the DaemonSet.

B.

Use the Deployment Manager Runtime Configurator to create a new Config resource that contains the DaemonSet definition.

C.

With Deployment Manager, create a Compute Engine instance with a startup script that uses kubectl to create the DaemonSet.

D.

In the cluster’s definition in Deployment Manager, add a metadata that has kube-system as key and the DaemonSet manifest as value.

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Question # 19

You are configuring service accounts for an application that spans multiple projects. Virtual machines (VMs) running in the web-applications project need access to BigQuery datasets in crm-databases-proj. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to give access to the service account in the web-applications project. What should you do?

A.

Give “project owner” for web-applications appropriate roles to crm-databases- proj

B.

Give “project owner” role to crm-databases-proj and the web-applications project.

C.

Give “project owner” role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications.

D.

Give bigquery.dataViewer role to crm-databases-proj and appropriate roles to web-applications.

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Question # 20

After a recent security incident, your startup company wants better insight into what is happening in the Google Cloud environment. You need to monitor unexpected firewall changes and instance creation. Your company prefers simple solutions. What should you do?

A.

Use Cloud Logging filters to create log-based metrics for firewall and instance actions. Monitor the changes and set up reasonable alerts.

B.

Install Kibana on a compute Instance. Create a log sink to forward Cloud Audit Logs filtered for firewalls andcompute instances to Pub/Sub. Target the Pub/Sub topic to push messages to the Kibana instance. Analyze the logs on Kibana in real time.

C.

Turn on Google Cloud firewall rules logging, and set up alerts for any insert, update, or delete events.

D.

Create a log sink to forward Cloud Audit Logs filtered for firewalls and compute instances to Cloud Storage.Use BigQuery to periodically analyze log events in the storage bucket.

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Question # 21

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 22

You recently discovered an issue with your rolling update in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You now need to roll back a rolling update. What should you do?

A.

Delete the deployment.

B.

Use the kubectl rollout undo command.

C.

Manually scale down the new Pods and scale up the old Pods.

D.

Use the kubectl rollout restart command to revert the deployment.

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Question # 23

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

Select Add GPUs. Add estimated cost for cluster management.

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Question # 24

The storage costs for your application logs have far exceeded the project budget. The logs are currently being retained indefinitely in the Cloud Storage bucket myapp-gcp-ace-logs. You have been asked to remove logs older than 90 days from your Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend. What should you do?

A.

Write a script that runs gsutil Is -| – gs://myapp-gcp-ace-logs/ to find and remove items older than 90 days. Schedule the script with cron.

B.

Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil lifecycle set config-json-file.

C.

Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil lifecycle set config-xml-file.

D.

Write a script that runs gsutil Is -Ir gs://myapp-gcp-ace-logs/ to find and remove items older than 90 days. Repeat this process every morning.

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Question # 25

Your company has many legacy third-party applications that rely on a shared NFS server for file sharing between these workloads. You want to modernize the NFS server by using a Google Cloud managed service. You need to select the solution that requires the least amount of change to the application. What should you do?

A.

Configure Firestore. Configure all applications to use Firestore instead of the NFS server.

B.

Deploy a Filestore instance. Replace all NFS mounts with a Filestore mount.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket. Configure all applications to use Cloud Storage client libraries instead of the NFS server.

D.

Create a Compute Engine instance and configure an NFS server on the instance. Point all NFS mounts to the Compute Engine instance.

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Question # 26

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 27

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 28

You are planning to move your company's website and a specific asynchronous background job to Google Cloud Your website contains only static HTML content The background job is started through an HTTP endpoint and generates monthly invoices for your customers. Your website needs to be available in multiple geographic locations and requires autoscaling. You want to have no costs when your workloads are not In use and follow recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Move your website to Google Kubemetes Engine (GKE). and move your background job to Cloud Functions

B.

Move both your website and background job to Compute Engine

C.

Move both your website and background job to Cloud Run.

D.

Move your website to Google Kubemetes Engine (GKE), and move your background job to Compute Engine

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Question # 29

Your company runs a variety of applications and workloads on Google Cloud and you are responsible for managing cloud costs. You need to identify a solution that enables you to perform detailed cost analysis You also must be able to visualize the cost data in multiple ways on the same dashboard What should you do?

A.

Use the cost breakdown report with the available filters from Cloud Billing to visualize the data

B.

Enable the Cloud Billing export to BigQuery. and use Looker Studio to visualize the data

C.

Run Queries in Cloud Monitoring Create dashboards to visualize the billing metrics

D.

Enable Cloud Monitoring metrics export to BigQuery and use Looker to visualize the data

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Question # 30

(You manage a VPC network in Google Cloud with a subnet that is rapidly approaching its private IP address capacity. You expect the number of Compute Engine VM instances in the same region to double within a week. You need to implement a Google-recommended solution that minimizes operational costs and does not require downtime. What should you do?)

A.

Create a second VPC with the same subnet IP range, and connect this VPC to the existing VPC by using VPC Network Peering.

B.

Delete the existing subnet, and create a new subnet with double the IP range available.

C.

Use the Google Cloud CLI tool to expand the primary IP range of your subnet.

D.

Permit additional traffic from the expected range of private IP addresses to reach your VMs by configuring firewall rules.

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Question # 31

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 32

An external member of your team needs list access to compute images and disks in one of your projects. You want to follow Google-recommended practices when you grant the required permissions to this user. What should you do?

A.

Create a custom role, and add all the required compute.disks.list and compute, images.list permissions as includedPermissions. Grant the custom role to the user at the project level.

B.

Create a custom role based on the Compute Image User role Add the compute.disks, list to theincludedPermissions field Grant the custom role to the user at the project level

C.

Grant the Compute Storage Admin role at the project level.

D.

Create a custom role based on the Compute Storage Admin role. Exclude unnecessary permissions from the custom role. Grant the custom role to the user at the project level.

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Question # 33

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

A.

Add the users to roles/browser role.

B.

Add the users to roles/iam.roleViewer role.

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 34

You created a Google Cloud Platform project with an App Engine application inside the project. You initially configured the application to be served from the us-central region. Now you want the application to be served from the asia-northeast1 region. What should you do?

A.

Change the default region property setting in the existing GCP project to asia-northeast1.

B.

Change the region property setting in the existing App Engine application from us-central to asia-northeast1.

C.

Create a second App Engine application in the existing GCP project and specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application.

D.

Create a new GCP project and create an App Engine application inside this new project. Specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application.

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Question # 35

You created a Kubernetes deployment by running kubectl run nginx image=nginx labels=app=prod. Your Kubernetes cluster is also used by a number of other deployments. How can you find the identifier of the pods for this nginx deployment?

A.

kubectl get deployments –output=pods

B.

gcloud get pods –selector=”app=prod”

C.

kubectl get pods -I “app=prod”

D.

gcloud list gke-deployments -filter={pod }

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Question # 36

Your company is moving its entire workload to Compute Engine. Some servers should be accessible through the Internet, and other servers should only be accessible over the internal network. All servers need to be able to talk to each other over specific ports and protocols. The current on-premises network relies on a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the public servers and a Local Area Network (LAN) for the private servers. You need to design the networking infrastructure on

Google Cloud to match these requirements. What should you do?

A.

1. Create a single VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and a subnet for the LAN. 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, and another firewall rule to allow public ingress traffic for the DMZ.

B.

1. Create a single VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and a subnet for the LAN. 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, and another firewall rule to allow public egress traffic for the DMZ.

C.

1. Create a VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and another VPC with a subnet for the LAN. 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, and another firewall rule to allow public ingress traffic for the DMZ.

D.

1. Create a VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and another VPC with a subnet for the LAN. 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, and another firewall rule to allow public egress traffic for the DMZ.

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Question # 37

You want to configure a solution for archiving data in a Cloud Storage bucket. The solution must be cost-effective. Data with multiple versions should be archived after 30 days. Previous versions are accessed once a month for reporting. This archive data is also occasionally updated at month-end. What should you do?

A.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

B.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

C.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

D.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

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Question # 38

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 39

Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud with your company's on-premises network. Multiple applications in Google Cloud need to connect to an on-premises database server, and you want to avoid having to change the IP configuration in all of your applications when the IP of the database changes.

What should you do?

A.

Configure Cloud NAT for all subnets of your VPC to be used when egressing from the VM instances.

B.

Create a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name.

C.

Configure the IP of the database as custom metadata for each instance, and query the metadata server.

D.

Query the Compute Engine internal DNS from the applications to retrieve the IP of the database.

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Question # 40

Your web application is hosted on Cloud Run and needs to query a Cloud SQL database. Every morning during a traffic spike, you notice API quota errors in Cloud SQL logs. The project has already reached the maximum API quota. You want to make a configuration change to mitigate the issue. What should you do?

A.

Use traffic splitting

B.

Modify the minimum number of Cloud Run instances.

C.

Set a minimum concurrent requests environment variable for the application.

D.

Increase the maximum number of Cloud Run instances.

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Question # 41

Your company's security vulnerability management policy wonts 3 member of the security team to have visibility into vulnerabilities and other OS metadata for a specific Compute Engine instance This Compute Engine instance hosts a critical application in your Goggle Cloud project. You need to implement your company's security vulnerability management policy. What should you dc?

A.

• Ensure that the Ops Agent Is Installed on the Compute Engine instance.• Create a custom metric in the Cloud Monitoring dashboard.• Provide the security team member with access to this dashboard.

B.

• Ensure that the Ops Agent is installed on tie Compute Engine instance.• Provide the security team member roles/configure.inventoryViewer permission.

C.

• Ensure that the OS Config agent Is Installed on the Compute Engine instance.• Provide the security team member roles/configure.vulnerabilityViewer permission.

D.

• Ensure that the OS Config agent is installed on the Compute Engine instance• Create a log sink Co a BigQuery dataset.• Provide the security team member with access to this dataset.

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Question # 42

Your company stores data from multiple sources that have different data storage requirements. These data include:

1. Customer data that is structured and read with complex queries

2. Historical log data that is large in volume and accessed infrequently

3. Real-time sensor data with high-velocity writes, which needs to be available for analysis but can tolerate some data loss

You need to design the most cost-effective storage solution that fulfills all data storage requirements. What should you do?

A.

Use Spanner for all data.

B.

Use Cloud SQL for customer data, Cloud Storage (Coldline) for historical logs, and BigQuery for sensor data.

C.

Use Cloud SQL for customer data, Cloud Storage (Archive) for historical logs, and Bigtable for sensor data.

D.

Use Firestore for customer data, Cloud Storage (Nearline) for historical logs, and Bigtable for sensor data.

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Question # 43

Your company uses a large number of Google Cloud services centralized in a single project. All teams have specific projects for testing and development. The DevOps team needs access to all of theproduction services in order to perform their job. You want to prevent Google Cloud product changes from broadening their permissions in the future. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Grant all members of the DevOps team the role of Project Editor on the organization level.

B.

Grant all members of the DevOps team the role of Project Editor on the production project.

C.

Create a custom role that combines the required permissions. Grant the DevOps team the custom role on the production project.

D.

Create a custom role that combines the required permissions. Grant the DevOps team the custom role on the organization level.

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Question # 44

You have a development project with appropriate IAM roles defined. You are creating a production project and want to have the same IAM roles on the new project, using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

A.

Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify the production project as the destination project.

B.

Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify your organization as the destination organization.

C.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role from role’ functionality.

D.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role’ functionality and select all applicable permissions.

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Question # 45

Your preview application, deployed on a single-zone Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster in us-centrall, has gained popularity. You are now ready to make the application generally available. You need to deploy the application to production while ensuring high availability and resilience. You also want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Use the gcloud container clusters create command with the options--enable-multi-networking and--enable- autoscaling to create an autoscaling zonal cluster and deploy the application to it.

B.

Use the gcloud container clusters create-auto command to create an autopilot cluster and deploy the application to it.

C.

Use the gcloud container clusters update command with the option—region us-centrall to update the cluster and deploy the application to it.

D.

Use the gcloud container clusters update command with the option—node-locations us-centrall-a,us-centrall-b to update the cluster and deploy the application to the nodes.

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Question # 46

Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?

A.

Create an instance template that contains valid syntax which will be used by the instance group. Delete any persistent disks with the same name as instance names.

B.

Create an instance template that contains valid syntax that will be used by the instance group. Verify that the instance name and persistent disk name values are not the same in the template.

C.

Verify that the instance template being used by the instance group contains valid syntax. Delete any persistent disks with the same name as instance names. Set the disks.autoDelete property to true in the instance template.

D.

Delete the current instance template and replace it with a new instance template. Verify that the instance name and persistent disk name values are not the same in the template. Set the disks.autoDelete property to true in the instance template.

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Question # 47

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

• Documents must be kept for five years.

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

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

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 48

You have an application that runs on Compute Engine VM instances in a custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your company's security policies only allow the use to internal IP addresses on VM instances and do not let VM instances connect to the internet. You need to ensure that the application can access a file hosted in a Cloud Storage bucket within your project. What should you do?

A.

Enable Private Service Access on the Cloud Storage Bucket.

B.

Add slorage.googleapis.com to the list of restricted services in a VPC Service Controls perimeter and add your project to the list to protected projects.

C.

Enable Private Google Access on the subnet within the custom VPC.

D.

Deploy a Cloud NAT instance and route the traffic to the dedicated IP address of the Cloud Storage bucket.

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Question # 49

(You are migrating your on-premises workload to Google Cloud. Your company is implementing its Cloud Billing configuration and requires access to a granular breakdown of its Google Cloud costs. You need to ensure that the Cloud Billing datasets are available in BigQuery so you can conduct a detailed analysis of costs. What should you do?)

A.

Enable the BigQuery API and ensure that the BigQuery User IAM role is selected. Change the BigQuery dataset to select a data location.

B.

Create a Cloud Billing account. Enable the BigQuery Data Transfer Service API to export pricing data.

C.

Enable Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery when you create a Cloud Billing account.

D.

Enable Cloud Billing on the project and link a Cloud Billing account. Then view the billing data table in the BigQuery dataset.

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Question # 50

Your company uses Pub/Sub for event-driven workloads. You have a subscription named email-updates attached to the new-orders topic. You need to fetch and acknowledge waiting messages from this subscription. What should you do?

A.

Use the gcloud pubsub subscriptions seek email-updates command.

B.

Use the gcloud pubsub topics describe new-orders command.

C.

Use the gcloud pubsub subscriptions pull email-updates —auto-ack command.

D.

Use the gcloud pubsub topics list-subscriptions new-orders —1ilter="email-updates" command.

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Question # 51

You are deploying an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that needs to call an external third-party API. You need to provide the external API vendor with a list of IP addresses for their firewall to allow traffic from your application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and avoid any risk of interrupting traffic to the API due to IP address changes. What should you do?

A.

Configure your GKE cluster with one node, and set the node to have a static external IP address. Ensure that the GKE cluster autoscaler is off. Send the external IP address of the node to the vendor to be added to the allowlist.

B.

Configure your GKE cluster with private nodes. Configure a Cloud NAT instance with static IP addresses. Provide these IP addresses to the vendor to be added to the allowlist.

C.

Configure your GKE cluster with public nodes. Write a Cloud Function that pulls the public IP addresses of each node in the cluster. Trigger the function to run every day with Cloud Scheduler. Send the list to the vendor by email every day.

D.

Configure your GKE cluster with private nodes. Configure a Cloud NAT instance with dynamic IP addresses. Provide these IP addresses to the vendor to be added to the allowlist.

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Question # 52

You are building a backend service for an ecommerce platform that will persist transaction data from mobile and web clients. After the platform is launched, you expect a large volume of global transactions. Your business team wants to run SQL queries to analyze the data. You need to build a highly available and scalable data store for the platform. What should you do?

A.

Create a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance with an optimized schema.

B.

Create a multi-region Firestore database with aggregation query enabled.

C.

Create a multi-region Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database with optimized indexes.

D.

Create a multi-region BigQuery dataset with optimized tables.

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Question # 53

Your company developed an application to deploy on Google Kubernetes Engine. Certain parts of the application are not fault-tolerant and are allowed to have downtime Other parts of the application are critical and must always be available. You need to configure a Goorj e Kubernfl:es Engine duster while optimizing for cost. What should you do?

A.

Create a cluster with a single node-pool by using standard VMs. Label the fault-tolerant Deployments as spot-true.

B.

Create a cluster with a single node-pool by using Spot VMs. Label the critical Deployments as spot-false.

C.

Create a cluster with both a Spot W node pool and a rode pool by using standard VMs Deploy the critical.deployments on the Spot VM node pool and the fault; tolerant deployments on the node pool by using standard VMs.

D.

Create a cluster with both a Spot VM node pool and by using standard VMs. Deploy the critical deployments on the mode pool by using standard VMs and the fault-tolerant deployments on the Spot VM node pool.

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Question # 54

(Your company was recently impacted by a service disruption that caused multiple Dataflow jobs to get stuck, resulting in significant downtime in downstream applications and revenue loss. You were able to resolve the issue by identifying and fixing an error you found in the code. You need to design a solution with minimal management effort to identify when jobs are stuck in the future to ensure that this issue does not occur again. What should you do?)

A.

Set up Error Reporting to identify stack traces that indicate slowdowns in Dataflow jobs. Set up alerts based on these log entries.

B.

Use the Personalized Service Health dashboard to identify issues with Dataflow jobs across regions.

C.

Update the Dataflow job configurations to send messages to a Pub/Sub topic when there are delays. Configure a backup Dataflow job to process jobs that are delayed. Use Cloud Tasks to trigger an alert when messages are pushed to the Pub/Sub topic.

D.

Set up Cloud Monitoring alerts on the data freshness metric for the Dataflow jobs to receive a notification when a certain threshold is reached.

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Question # 55

Your company uses Cloud Storage to store application backup files for disaster recovery purposes. You want to follow Google’s recommended practices. Which storage option should you use?

A.

Multi-Regional Storage

B.

Regional Storage

C.

Nearline Storage

D.

Coldline Storage

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Question # 56

Your company publishes large files on an Apache web server that runs on a Compute Engine instance. The Apache web server is not the only application running in the project. You want to receive an email when the egress network costs for the server exceed 100 dollars for the current month as measured by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). What should you do?

A.

Set up a budget alert on the project with an amount of 100 dollars, a threshold of 100%, and notification type of “email.”

B.

Set up a budget alert on the billing account with an amount of 100 dollars, a threshold of 100%, and notification type of “email.”

C.

Export the billing data to BigQuery. Create a Cloud Function that uses BigQuery to sum the egress network costs of the exported billing data for the Apache web server for the current month and sends an email if it is over 100 dollars. Schedule the Cloud Function using Cloud Scheduler to run hourly.

D.

Use the Stackdriver Logging Agent to export the Apache web server logs to Stackdriver Logging. Create a Cloud Function that uses BigQuery to parse the HTTP response log data in Stackdriver for the current month and sends an email if the size of all HTTP responses, multiplied by current GCP egress prices, totals over 100 dollars. Schedule the Cloud Function using Cloud Scheduler to run hourly.

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Question # 57

You created an instance of SQL Server 2017 on Compute Engine to test features in the new version. You want to connect to this instance using the fewest number of steps. What should you do?

A.

Install a RDP client on your desktop. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists.

B.

Install a RDP client in your desktop. Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Use the credentials to log in to the instance.

C.

Set a Windows password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 22 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console and supply the credentials to log in.

D.

Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console, and supply the credentials to log in.

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Question # 58

Your organization uses G Suite for communication and collaboration. All users in your organization have a G Suite account. You want to grant some G Suite users access to your Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

A.

Enable Cloud Identity in the GCP Console for your domain.

B.

Grant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address.

C.

Create a CSV sheet with all users’ email addresses. Use the gcloud command line tool to convert them into Google Cloud Platform accounts.

D.

In the G Suite console, add the users to a special group called cloud-console-users@yourdomain.com. Rely on the default behavior of the Cloud Platform to grant users access if they are members of this group.

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Question # 59

You have developed an application that consists of multiple microservices, with each microservice packaged in its own Docker container image. You want to deploy the entire application on Google Kubernetes Engine so that each microservice can be scaled individually. What should you do?

A.

Create and deploy a Custom Resource Definition per microservice.

B.

Create and deploy a Docker Compose File.

C.

Create and deploy a Job per microservice.

D.

Create and deploy a Deployment per microservice.

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Question # 60

Your organization has three existing Google Cloud projects. You need to bill the Marketing department for only their Google Cloud services for a new initiative within their group. What should you do?

A.

1. Verify that you ace assigned the Billing Administrator IAM role tor your organization's Google Cloud Project for the Marketing department2. Link the new project to a Marketing Billing Account

B.

1. Verify that you are assigned the Billing Administrator IAM role for your organization's Google Cloud account2. Create a new Google Cloud Project for the Marketing department3. Set the default key-value project labels to department marketing for all services in this project

C.

1. Verify that you are assigned the Organization Administrator IAM role for your organization's Google Cloud account2. Create a new Google Cloud Project for the Marketing department 3. Link the new project to a Marketing Billing Account.

D.

1. Verity that you are assigned the Organization Administrator IAM role for your organization's Google Cloud account2. Create a new Google Cloud Project for the Marketing department3. Set the default key value project labels to department marketing for all services in this protect

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Question # 61

You need to set up a policy so that videos stored in a specific Cloud Storage Regional bucket are moved to Coldline after 90 days, and then deleted after one year from their creation. How should you set up the policy?

A.

Use Cloud Storage Object Lifecycle Management using Age conditions with SetStorageClass and Delete actions. Set the SetStorageClass action to 90 days and the Delete action to 275 days (365 – 90)

B.

Use Cloud Storage Object Lifecycle Management using Age conditions with SetStorageClass and Delete actions. Set the SetStorageClass action to 90 days and the Delete action to 365 days.

C.

Use gsutil rewrite and set the Delete action to 275 days (365-90).

D.

Use gsutil rewrite and set the Delete action to 365 days.

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Question # 62

You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible. What should you do?

A.

Deploy Jenkins through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

B.

Create a new Compute Engine instance. Run the Jenkins executable.

C.

Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster. Create a deployment for the Jenkins image.

D.

Create an instance template with the Jenkins executable. Create a managed instance group with this template.

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Question # 63

You work for a financial services company that operates as a stock market broker. Your company is planning to migrate to Google Cloud. You need to plan the network design in Google Cloud. Your design must:

    Minimize the latency between all production systems

    Minimize costs related to your development environmentWhat should you do?

    Minimize costs related to your development environmentWhat should you do?

A.

Create a VPC in the Premium Tier and deploy both production and development workloads on this VPC.

B.

Create a VPC in the Standard Tier and deploy both production and development workloads on this VPC.

C.

Create a VPC in the Standard Tier and one in the Premium Tier. Deploy development workloads in the Standard Tier and production workloads in the Premium Tier.

D.

Create a VPC in the Standard Tier and one in the Premium Tier. Deploy production workloads in the Standard Tier and development workloads in the Premium Tier.

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Question # 64

You received a JSON file that contained a private key of a Service Account in order to get access to several resources in a Google Cloud project. You downloaded and installed the Cloud SDK and want to use this private key for authentication and authorization when performing gcloud commands. What should you do?

A.

Use the command gcloud auth login and point it to the private key

B.

Use the command gcloud auth activate-service-account and point it to the private key

C.

Place the private key file in the installation directory of the Cloud SDK and rename it to "credentials ison"

D.

Place the private key file in your home directory and rename it to ‘’GOOGLE_APPUCATION_CREDENTiALS".

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Question # 65

You are building an application that will run in your data center. The application will use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like AutoML. You created a service account that has appropriate access to AutoML. You need to enable authentication to the APIs from your on-premises environment. What should you do?

A.

Use service account credentials in your on-premises application.

B.

Use gcloud to create a key file for the service account that has appropriate permissions.

C.

Set up direct interconnect between your data center and Google Cloud Platform to enable authentication for your on-premises applications.

D.

Go to the IAM & admin console, grant a user account permissions similar to the service account permissions, and use this user account for authentication from your data center.

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Question # 66

Your organization has user identities in Active Directory. Your organization wants to use Active Directory as their source of truth for identities. Your organization wants to have full control over the Google accounts used by employees for all Google services, including your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) organization. What should you do?

A.

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to synchronize users into Cloud Identity.

B.

Use the cloud Identity APIs and write a script to synchronize users to Cloud Identity.

C.

Export users from Active Directory as a CSV and import them to Cloud Identity via the Admin Console.

D.

Ask each employee to create a Google account using self signup. Require that each employee use their company email address and password.

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Question # 67

You want to permanently delete a Pub/Sub topic managed by Config Connector in your Google Cloud project. What should you do?

A.

Use kubect1 to delete the topic resource.

B.

Use gcloud CLI to delete the topic.

C.

Use kubect1 to create the label deleted-by-cnrm and to change its value to true for the topic resource.

D.

Use gcloud CLI to update the topic label managed-by-cnrm to false.

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Question # 68

You are running a web application on Cloud Run for a few hundred users. Some of your users complain that the initial web page of the application takes much longer to load than the following pages. You want to follow Google's recommendations to mitigate the issue. What should you do?

A.

Update your web application to use the protocol HTTP/2 instead of HTTP/1.1

B.

Set the concurrency number to 1 for your Cloud Run service.

C.

Set the maximum number of instances for your Cloud Run service to 100.

D.

Set the minimum number of instances for your Cloud Run service to 3.

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Question # 69

A team of data scientists infrequently needs to use a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster that you manage. They require GPUs for some long-running, non-restartable jobs. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?

A.

Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster.

B.

Create a VerticalPodAutscaler for those workloads.

C.

Create a node pool with preemptible VMs and GPUs attached to those VMs.

D.

Create a node pool of instances with GPUs, and enable autoscaling on this node pool with a minimum size of 1.

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Question # 70

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

A.

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

B.

Develop templates for the environment using Cloud Deployment Manager

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 71

You are about to deploy a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system on Google Cloud. The application holds the full database in-memory for fast data access, and you need to configure the most appropriate resources on Google Cloud for this application. What should you do?

A.

Provision preemptible Compute Engine instances.

B.

Provision Compute Engine instances with GPUs attached.

C.

Provision Compute Engine instances with local SSDs attached.

D.

Provision Compute Engine instances with M1 machine type.

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Question # 72

You have a large 5-TB AVRO file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your analysts are proficient only in SQL and need access to the data stored in this file. You want to find a cost-effective way to complete their request as soon as possible. What should you do?

A.

Load data in Cloud Datastore and run a SQL query against it.

B.

Create a BigQuery table and load data in BigQuery. Run a SQL query on this table and drop this table after you complete your request.

C.

Create external tables in BigQuery that point to Cloud Storage buckets and run a SQL query on these external tables to complete your request.

D.

Create a Hadoop cluster and copy the AVRO file to NDFS by compressing it. Load the file in a hive table and provide access to your analysts so that they can run SQL queries.

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Question # 73

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a database backend to keep current state information about users. Cloud Bigtable logs all events triggered by users. You export Cloud Spanner data to Cloud Storage during daily backups. One of your analysts asks you to join data from Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable for specific users. You want to complete this ad hoc request as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

A.

Create a dataflow job that copies data from Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Storage for specific users.

B.

Create a dataflow job that copies data from Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Spanner for specific users.

C.

Create a Cloud Dataproc cluster that runs a Spark job to extract data from Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Storage for specific users.

D.

Create two separate BigQuery external tables on Cloud Storage and Cloud Bigtable. Use the BigQuery console to join these tables through user fields, and apply appropriate filters.

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Question # 74

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

A.

Migrate the workload to a Compute Engine Preemptible VM.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 75

You need to assign a Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) role to an external auditor. The auditor needs to have permissions to review your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Audit Logs and also to review your Data Access logs. What should you do?

A.

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Perform the export of logs to Cloud Storage.

B.

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy.

C.

Assign the auditor’s IAM user to a custom role that has logging.privateLogEntries.listpermission. Perform the export of logs to Cloud Storage.

D.

Assign the auditor’s IAM user to a custom role that has logging.privateLogEntries.listpermission. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy.

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Question # 76

(You are deploying an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application needs to make API calls to a private Cloud Storage bucket. You need to configure your application Pods to authenticate to the Cloud Storage API, but your organization policy prevents the usage of service account keys. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?)

A.

Create the GKE cluster and deploy the application. Request a security exception to create a Google service account key. Set the constraints/iam.serviceAccountKeyExpiryHours organization policy to 8 hours.

B.

Create the GKE cluster and deploy the application. Request a security exception to create a Google service account key. Set the constraints/iam.serviceAccountKeyExpiryHours organization policy to 24 hours.

C.

Create the GKE cluster with Workload Identity Federation. Configure the default node service account to access the bucket. Deploy the application into the cluster so the application can use the node service account permissions. Use Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant the service account access to the bucket.

D.

Create the GKE cluster with Workload Identity Federation. Create a Google service account and a Kubernetes ServiceAccount, and configure both service accounts to use Workload Identity Federation. Attach the Kubernetes ServiceAccount to the application Pods and configure the Google service account to access the bucket with Identity and Access Management (IAM).

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Question # 77

Your company has a single sign-on (SSO) identity provider that supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) integration with service providers. Your company has users in Cloud Identity. You would like users to authenticate using your company’s SSO provider. What should you do?

A.

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with Google as an identity provider to access custom SAML apps.

B.

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider.

C.

Obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Mobile & Desktop Apps.

D.

Obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications.

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Question # 78

You have created a new project in Google Cloud through the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and linked a billing account. You need to create a new Compute

Engine instance using the CLI. You need to perform the prerequisite steps. What should you do?

A.

Create a Cloud Monitoring Workspace.

B.

Create a VPC network in the project.

C.

Enable the compute googleapis.com API.

D.

Grant yourself the IAM role of Compute Admin.

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Question # 79

You have two subnets (subnet-a and subnet-b) in the default VPC. Your database servers are running in subnet-a. Your application servers and web servers are running in subnet-b. You want to configure a firewall rule that only allows database traffic from the application servers to the database servers. What should you do?

A.

* Create service accounts sa-app and sa-db.• Associate service account: sa-app with the application servers and the service account sa-db with the database servers.• Create an ingress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source service account sa-app to target service account sa-db.

B.

• Create network tags app-server and db-server.• Add the app-server lag lo the application servers and the db-server lag to the database servers.• Create an egress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source network tag app-server to target network tag db-server.

C.

* Create a service account sa-app and a network tag db-server.* Associate the service account sa-app with the application servers and the network tag db-server withthe database servers.• Create an ingress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source VPC IP addresses and target the subnet-a IP addresses.

D.

• Create a network lag app-server and service account sa-db.• Add the tag to the application servers and associate the service account with the database servers.• Create an egress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source network tag app-server to target service account sa-db.

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Question # 80

You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?

A.

Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio.

B.

Visit the Cost Table page to get a CSV export and visualize it using Data Studio.

C.

Fill all resources in the Pricing Calculator to get an estimate of the monthly cost.

D.

Use the Reports view in the Cloud Billing Console to view the desired cost information.

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Question # 81

You need to deploy an application, which is packaged in a container image, in a new project. The application exposes an HTTP endpoint and receives very few requests per day. You want to minimize costs. What should you do

A.

Deploy the container on Cloud Run.

B.

Deploy the container on Cloud Run on GKE.

C.

Deploy the container on App Engine Flexible.

D.

Deploy the container on Google Kubernetes Engine, with cluster autoscaling and horizontal pod autoscaling enabled.

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Question # 82

You need to manage a third-party application that will run on a Compute Engine instance. Other Compute Engine instances are already running with default configuration. Application installation files are hosted on Cloud Storage. You need to access these files from the new instance without allowing other virtual machines (VMs) to access these files. What should you do?

A.

Create the instance with the default Compute Engine service account Grant the service account permissions on Cloud Storage.

B.

Create the instance with the default Compute Engine service account Add metadata to the objects on Cloud Storage that matches the metadata on the new instance.

C.

Create a new service account and assig n this service account to the new instance Grant the service account permissions on Cloud Storage.

D.

Create a new service account and assign this service account to the new instance Add metadata to the objects on Cloud Storage that matches the metadata on the new instance.

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Question # 83

You are using Google Kubernetes Engine with autoscaling enabled to host a new application. You want to expose this new application to the public, using HTTPS on a public IP address. What should you do?

A.

Create a Kubernetes Service of type NodePort for your application, and a Kubernetes Ingress to expose this Service via a Cloud Load Balancer.

B.

Create a Kubernetes Service of type ClusterIP for your application. Configure the public DNS name of your application using the IP of this Service.

C.

Create a Kubernetes Service of type NodePort to expose the application on port 443 of each node of the Kubernetes cluster. Configure the public DNS name of your application with the IP of every node of the cluster to achieve load-balancing.

D.

Create a HAProxy pod in the cluster to load-balance the traffic to all the pods of the application. Forward the public traffic to HAProxy with an iptable rule. Configure the DNS name of your application using the public IP of the node HAProxy is running on.

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Question # 84

You are the project owner of a GCP project and want to delegate control to colleagues to manage buckets and files in Cloud Storage. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Which IAM roles should you grant your colleagues?

A.

Project Editor

B.

Storage Admin

C.

Storage Object Admin

D.

Storage Object Creator

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Question # 85

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

A.

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create --config

B.

gcloud deployment-manager deployments update --config

C.

gcloud deployment-manager resources create --config

D.

gcloud deployment-manager resources update --config

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Question # 86

You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able 3 to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?

A.

Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and increase the number of existing instances wnen CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

B.

Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and replace existing instances with high-CPUinstances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

C.

Deploy your solution to an instance group, and increase the number of available instances whenever you see high CPU utilization in Cloud Monitoring.

D.

Deploy your solution to an instance group, and set the autoscaling based on CPU utilization.

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Question # 87

You are performing a monthly security check of your Google Cloud environment and want to know who has access to view data stored in your Google Cloud

Project. What should you do?

A.

Enable Audit Logs for all APIs that are related to data storage.

B.

Review the IAM permissions for any role that allows for data access.

C.

Review the Identity-Aware Proxy settings for each resource.

D.

Create a Data Loss Prevention job.

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Question # 88

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

Deploy the application on Cloud Run and configure autoscaling.

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Question # 89

You are using Container Registry to centrally store your company’s container images in a separate project. In another project, you want to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You want to ensure that Kubernetes can download images from Container Registry. What should you do?

A.

In the project where the images are stored, grant the Storage Object Viewer IAM role to the service account used by the Kubernetes nodes.

B.

When you create the GKE cluster, choose the Allow full access to all Cloud APIs option under ‘Access scopes’.

C.

Create a service account, and give it access to Cloud Storage. Create a P12 key for this service account and use it as an imagePullSecrets in Kubernetes.

D.

Configure the ACLs on each image in Cloud Storage to give read-only access to the default Compute Engine service account.

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Question # 90

You create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and want to make sure that it always runs a supported and stable version of Kubernetes. What should you do?

A.

Enable the Node Auto-Repair feature for your GKE cluster.

B.

Enable the Node Auto-Upgrades feature for your GKE cluster.

C.

Select the latest available cluster version for your GKE cluster.

D.

Select “Container-Optimized OS (cos)” as a node image for your GKE cluster.

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Question # 91

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 92

Your company developed a mobile game that is deployed on Google Cloud. Gamers are connecting to the game with their personal phones over the Internet. The game sends UDP packets to update the servers about the gamers' actions while they are playing in multiplayer mode. Your game backend can scale over multiple virtual machines (VMs), and you want to expose the VMs over a single IP address. What should you do?

A.

Configure an SSL Proxy load balancer in front of the application servers.

B.

Configure an Internal UDP load balancer in front of the application servers.

C.

Configure an External HTTP(s) load balancer in front of the application servers.

D.

Configure an External Network load balancer in front of the application servers.

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Question # 93

(You are managing the security configuration of your company's Google Cloud organization. The Operations team needs specific permissions on both a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and a Cloud SQL instance. Two predefined Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles exist that contain a subset of the permissions needed by the team. You need to configure the necessary IAM permissions for this team while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?)

A.

Grant the team the two predefined IAM roles.

B.

Create a custom IAM role that combines the permissions from the two relevant predefined roles.

C.

Create a custom IAM role that includes only the required permissions from the predefined roles.

D.

Grant the team the IAM roles of Kubernetes Engine Admin and Cloud SQL Admin.

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Question # 94

An employee was terminated, but their access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was not removed until 2 weeks later. You need to find out this employee accessed any sensitive customer information after their termination. What should you do?

A.

View System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user’s email as the principal.

B.

View System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.

C.

View Data Access audit logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user’s email as the principal.

D.

View the Admin Activity log in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.

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Question # 95

You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when maintenance occurs. Your requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if they crash. Also, the instances should be highly available including during system maintenance. What should you do?

A.

Create an instance template for the instances. Set the ‘Automatic Restart’ to on. Set the ‘On-host maintenance’ to Migrate VM instance. Add the instance template to an instance group.

B.

Create an instance template for the instances. Set ‘Automatic Restart’ to off. Set ‘On-host maintenance’ to Terminate VM instances. Add the instance template to an instance group.

C.

Create an instance group for the instances. Set the ‘Autohealing’ health check to healthy (HTTP).

D.

Create an instance group for the instance. Verify that the ‘Advanced creation options’ setting for ‘do not retry machine creation’ is set to off.

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Question # 96

You have been asked to create robust Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity between a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a remote site. Key requirements include dynamic routing, a shared address space of 10.19.0.1/22, and no overprovisioning of tunnels during a failover event. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to set up a high availability Cloud VPN. What should you do?

A.

Use a custom mode VPC network, configure static routes, and use active/passive routing

B.

Use an automatic mode VPC network, configure static routes, and use active/active routing

C.

Use a custom mode VPC network use Cloud Router border gateway protocol (86P) routes, and use active/passive routing

D.

Use an automatic mode VPC network, use Cloud Router border gateway protocol (BGP) routes and configure policy-based routing

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Question # 97

You assist different engineering teams in deploying their infrastructure on Google Cloud. Your company has defined certain practices required for all workloads. You need to provide the engineering teams with a solution that enables teams to deploy their infrastructure independently without having to know all implementation details of the company's required practices. What should you do?

A.

Create a service account per team, and grant the service account the Project Editor role. Ask the teams to provision their infrastructure through the Google Cloud CLI (gcloud CLI), while impersonating their dedicated service account.

B.

Provide training for all engineering teams you work with to understand the company’s required practices. Allow the engineering teams to provision the infrastructure to best meet their needs.

C.

Configure organization policies to enforce your company’s required practices. Ask the teams to provision their infrastructure by using the Google Cloud console.

D.

Write Terraform modules for each component that are compliant with the company’s required practices, and ask teams to implement their infrastructure through these modules.

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Question # 98

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 99

You have a Bigtable instance that consists of three nodes that store personally identifiable information (Pll) data. You need to log all read or write operations, including any metadata or configuration reads of this database table, in your company's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system. What should you do?

A.

• Navigate to Cloud Mentioning in the Google Cloud console, and create a custom monitoring job for theBigtable instance to track all changes.• Create an alert by using webhook endpoints. with the SIEM endpoint as a receiver

B.

• Navigate to the Audit Logs page in the Google Cloud console, and enable Data Read. Data Write and Admin Read logs for the Bigtable instance• Create a Pub/Sub topic as a Cloud Logging sink destination, and add your SIEM as a subscriber to the topic.

C.

• Install the Ops Agent on the Bigtable instance during configuration. K• Create a service account with read permissions for the Bigtable instance.• Create a custom Dataflow job with this service account to export logs to the company's SIEM system.

D.

• Navigate to the Audit Logs page in the Google Cloud console, and enable Admin Write logs for theBiglable instance.• Create a Cloud Functions instance to export logs from Cloud Logging to your SIEM.

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Question # 100

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

• A Flask web application

• AbackendAPI

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

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 101

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

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Question # 102

You are designing an application that lets users upload and share photos. You expect your application to grow really fast and you are targeting a worldwide audience. You want to delete uploaded photos after 30 days. You want to minimize costs while ensuring your application is highly available. Which GCP storage solution should you choose?

A.

Persistent SSD on VM instances.

B.

Cloud Filestore.

C.

Multiregional Cloud Storage bucket.

D.

Cloud Datastore database.

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