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

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

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

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

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

Configure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the application platform.

Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Configure these Secrets to be used by the

application platform.

Configure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer Secrets Encryption, and use

Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to

be used by the application platform.

Configure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed encryption keys and Cloud

Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used

by the application platform.

Configure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can be deployed.

Configure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be configured.

Configure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.

Configure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are created in other

regions.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

containers, and test the mobile app.

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

Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.

Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.

Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.

Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.

Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine

instances.

Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.

Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.

Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Configure two Partner Interconnect connections in one metro (City), and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

Configure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.

Configure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.

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.

Enable Binary Authorization on GKE, and sign containers as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

Configure Jenkins to utilize Kritis to cryptographically sign a container as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

Configure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create and deploy containers from the registry.

Configure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to confirm that there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.

Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.

Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.

Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.

Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.

Verify EHR's product usage against the list of compliant products on the Google Cloud compliance page.

Advise EHR to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Google Cloud.

Use Firebase Authentication for EHR's user facing applications.

Implement Prometheus to detect and prevent security breaches on EHR's web-based applications.

Use GKE private clusters for all Kubernetes workloads.

Create an Organizational Policy with a constraint to allow external IP addresses only on the frontend Compute Engine instances.

Revoke the compute.networkAdmin role from all users in the project with front end instances.

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that maps the IT staff to the compute.networkAdmin role for the organization.

Create a custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) role named GCE_FRONTEND with the compute.addresses.create permission.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection.

Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.

Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G

Add three new Cloud VPN connections

Add a new Carrier Peering connection

Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process. Clean the data in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline.

Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger it. Trigger the Cloud Function from a Compute Engine instance.

Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the view daily, and save the result to a new table.

Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.

Create a token and pass it in as an environment variable to func_display. When invoking func_query, include the token in the request Pass the same token to func _query and reject the invocation if the tokens are different.

Make func_query 'Require authentication.' Create a unique service account and associate it to func_display. Grant the service account invoker role for func_query. Create an id token in func_display and include the token to the request when invoking func_query.

Make func _query 'Require authentication' and only accept internal traffic. Create those two functions in the same VPC. Create an ingress firewall rule for func_query to only allow traffic from func_display.

Create those two functions in the same project and VPC. Make func_query only accept internal traffic. Create an ingress firewall for func_query to only allow traffic from func_display. Also, make sure both functions use the same service account.

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

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

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

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

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

Create a scheduled job in Cloud Run to invoke a container every minute. The container will check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Create a cron job on a Compute Engine VM that runs every minute. The cron job invokes a Python program to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check to validate the application URL If it fails, put a message in a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function to switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Use Cloud Error Reporting to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Delete”.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Delete”.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.

Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.

Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress

Cloud IoT Core with public/private key pairs

Compute Engine with project-wide SSH keys

Compute Engine with specific SSH keys

Set up API key validation.

Integrate OAuth 2.0 authorization.

Configure Quota policies.

Activate XML threat protection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Run unit testing.

Use load testing.

Perform end-to-end testing.

Execute integration testing.

Configure reserved VM instances

Deploy spot VM instances.

Set up standard VM instances.

Use Cloud Run functions.

Query logs in Cloud Logging.

Analyze the data via Cloud Profiler.

Instrument the code to use Cloud Trace.

Inspect data from Snapshot Debugger.

Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase performance because the

regional managed instance group can grow instances in each region separately based on traffic.

Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of

virtual machines managed by your operations team.

Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase reliability by providing

automatic failover between zones in different regions.

Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of

virtual machines as part of a separate managed instance groups.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Spanner

BigQuery

Cloud Datastore

Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.

Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.

Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity.

Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database.

Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.

Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries.

Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries.

Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow.

Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery.

Draw an architecture diagram that shows how to move from a single MySQL database to a MySQL cluster.

Load 10 TB of analytics data from a previous game into a Cloud SQL instance, and run test queries against the full dataset to confirm that they complete successfully.

Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage.

Create network load balancers. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.

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

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

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

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Option B

Option C

Option D

Vehicles write data directly to GCS.

Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery.

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

Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer local inventory by a fixed factor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make operational adjustments automatically.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments automatically.

Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

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

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

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

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

Grant the security team access to the logs in each Project.

Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery.

Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention policies.

Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage.

Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.

Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.

Connect Cloud Datalab to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.

Connect Cloud Dataprep to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your

data.

The session variable is local to just a single instance.

The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore.

The URL of the API needs to be modified to prevent caching.

The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 to stop caching.

Require developers to generate a unique correlation-id at the frontend. and manually add it as a field to every log message in all services.

Configure all containers to write logs to STDOUTSTDERR. and then filter logs by pod name and timestamp m the Logs Explorer

Implement Cloud Trace by ensuring the traceparent header is propagated between microservice calls to link logs to a single trace

Create custom metrics in Cloud Monitoring for error counts in each service and correlate incident spikes using a shared dashboard

Use the Admin Directory API to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller.

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize Active Directory usernames with cloud identities and

configure SAML SSO.

Use Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy configured to use the on-premises Active Directory domain controller as an identity provider.

Use Compute Engine to create an Active Directory (AD) domain controller that is a replica of the onpremises AD domain controller using Google Cloud Directory Sync.

Use a unique identifier for each individual. Upon a deletion request, delete all rows from BigQuery with this identifier.

When ingesting new data in BigQuery, run the data through the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to identify any personal information. As part of the DLP scan, save the result to Data Catalog. Upon a deletion request, query Data Catalog to find the column with personal information.

Create a BigQuery view over the table that contains all data. Upon a deletion request, exclude the rows that affect the subject’s data from this view. Use this view instead of the source table for all analysis tasks.

Use a unique identifier for each individual. Upon a deletion request, overwrite the column with the unique identifier with a salted SHA256 of its value.

Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group

‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of

BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group.

Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group

‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of

BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate tables with view access with each respective analyst countrygroup.

Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group

‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of

BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst

country-group.

Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group

‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of

BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate table with view access with each respective analyst countrygroup.

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

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.

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

Use Explainable AI.

Use Vision AI.

Use Google Cloud’s operations suite.

Use Jupyter Notebooks.

Set up Cloud Tasks and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

Set up a Cloud Logging sink and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

Configure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function.

Set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Confidential Computing to trigger a Cloud Function.

Use Firestore for its scalable and flexible document-based database. Use collections to aggregate race data

by season and event.

Use Cloud Spanner for its scalability and ability to version schemas with zero downtime. Split race data

using season as a primary key.

Use BigQuery for its scalability and ability to add columns to a schema. Partition race data based on

season.

Use Cloud SQL for its ability to automatically manage storage increases and compatibility with MySQL. Use

separate database instances for each season.

Store the card data in Secret Manager after running a query to identify duplicates.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm stored in Firestore using Datastore mode.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm and shard it across multiple Memorystore instances.

Use column-level encryption to store the data in Cloud SQL.

Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for

analysis.

Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are

no longer responding to health check probes.

Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery

Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow

Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow

Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

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

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

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

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

Error rates for requests from Asia

Latency difference between US and Asia

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

The number of character sets present in the database

Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one.

Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate.

Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate.

Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to.

Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and investigate.

Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate.

A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput

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

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

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

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

Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

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.

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.

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

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.

Cloud Spanner

Google BigQuery

Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud Datastore

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

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

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

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