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Associate-Cloud-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer Questions and Answers

Questions 4

You are designing an application that uses WebSockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to ensure the application runs properly on Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Meet with the cloud enablement team to discuss load balancer options.

B.

Redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on WebSockets and HTTP sessions.

C.

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

D.

Convert the WebSocket code to use HTTP streaming.

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Questions 5

You are given a project with a single virtual private cloud (VPC) and a single subnetwork in the us-central1 region. There is a Compute Engine instance hosting an application in thissubnetwork. You need to deploy a new instance in the same project in the europe-west1 region. This new instance needs access to the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

1. Create a subnetwork in the same VPC, in europe-west1.2. Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the first instance's private address as the endpoint.

B.

1. Create a VPC and a subnetwork in europe-west1.2. Expose the application with an internal load balancer.3. Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the load balancer's address as the endpoint.

C.

1. Create a subnetwork in the same VPC, in europe-west1.2. Use Cloud VPN to connect the two subnetworks.3. Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the first instance's private address as the endpoint.

D.

1. Create a VPC and a subnetwork in europe-west1.2. Peer the 2 VPCs.3. Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the first instance's private address as the endpoint.

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Questions 6

Your company has a large quantity of unstructured data in different file formats. You want to perform ETL transformations on the data. You need to make the data accessible on Google Cloud so it can be processed by a Dataflow job. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Upload the data to BigQuery using the bq command line tool.

B.

Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool.

C.

Upload the data into Cloud SQL using the import function in the console.

D.

Upload the data into Cloud Spanner using the import function in the console.

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Questions 7

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?

Options:

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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Questions 8

Your web application has been running successfully on Cloud Run for Anthos. You want to evaluate an updated version of the application with a specific percentage of your production users (canary deployment). What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a new service with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running.

B.

Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running.

C.

Create a new service with the new version of the application. Add an HTTP Load Balancer in front of both services.

D.

Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Add an HTTP Load Balancer in front of both revisions.

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Questions 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?

Options:

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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Questions 10

You need to configure IAM access audit logging in BigQuery for external auditors. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add the auditors group to the ‘logging.viewer’ and ‘bigQuery.dataViewer’ predefined IAM roles.

B.

Add the auditors group to two new custom IAM roles.

C.

Add the auditor user accounts to the ‘logging.viewer’ and ‘bigQuery.dataViewer’ predefined IAM roles.

D.

Add the auditor user accounts to two new custom IAM roles.

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Questions 11

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?

Options:

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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Questions 12

You need to manage a Cloud Spanner Instance for best query performance. Your instance in production runs in a single Google Cloud region. You need to improve performance in the shortest amount of time. You want to follow Google best practices for service configuration. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 45% If you exceed this threshold, add nodes lo your instance.

B.

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage to high priority CPU utilization reaches 45% Use database query statistics to identify queries that result in high CPU usage, and then rewrite those queries to optimize their resource usage

C.

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 65% If you exceed this threshold, add nodes to your instance

D.

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 65%. Use database query statistics to identity queries that result in high CPU usage, and then rewrite those queries to optimize their resource usage.

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Questions 13

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

B.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

C.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

D.

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

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Questions 14

A company wants to build an application that stores images in a Cloud Storage bucket and wants to generate thumbnails as well as resize the images. They want to use a google managed service that can scale up and scale down to zero automatically with minimal effort. You have been asked to recommend a service. Which GCP service would you suggest?

Options:

A.

Google Compute Engine

B.

Google App Engine

C.

Cloud Functions

D.

Google Kubernetes Engine

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Questions 15

You need to deploy an application in Google Cloud using savorless technology. You want to test a new version of the application with a small percentage of production traffic. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Deploy the application lo Cloud. Run. Use gradual rollouts for traffic spelling.

B.

Deploy the application lo Google Kubemetes Engine. Use Anthos Service Mesh for traffic splitting.

C.

Deploy the application to Cloud functions. Saucily the version number in the functions name.

D.

Deploy the application to App Engine. For each new version, create a new service.

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Questions 16

Your Dataproc cluster runs in a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network in a single subnet with range 172.16.20.128/25. There are no private IP addresses available in the VPC network. You want to add new VMs to communicate with your cluster using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Modify the existing subnet range to 172.16.20.0/24.

B.

Create a new Secondary IP Range in the VPC and configure the VMs to use that range.

C.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs. Enable VPC Peering between the VMs’ VPC network and the Dataproc cluster VPC network.

D.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs with a subnet of 172.32.0.0/16. Enable VPC network Peering between the Dataproc VPC network and the VMs VPC network. Configure a custom Route exchange.

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Questions 17

You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (loT) application. The loT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data to your backend in the cloud. You want to build a highly available and resilient architecture based on Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Stream data to Pub/Sub, and use Dataflow to send data to Cloud Storage

B.

Stream data to Pub/Sub. and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

C.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

D.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Dataprep by Trifacta to send data to Bigtable.

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Questions 18

You have a project for your App Engine application that serves a development environment. The required testing has succeeded and you want to create a new project to serve as your production environment. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use gcloud to create the new project, and then deploy your application to the new project.

B.

Use gcloud to create the new project and to copy the deployed application to the new project.

C.

Create a Deployment Manager configuration file that copies the current App Engine deployment into a new project.

D.

Deploy your application again using gcloud and specify the project parameter with the new project name to create the new project.

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Questions 19

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?

Options:

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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Questions 20

You have a Dockerfile that you need to deploy on Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use kubectl app deploy .

B.

Use gcloud app deploy .

C.

Create a docker image from the Dockerfile and upload it to Container Registry. Create a Deployment YAML file to point to that image. Use kubectl to create the deployment with that file.

D.

Create a docker image from the Dockerfile and upload it to Cloud Storage. Create a Deployment YAML file to point to that image. Use kubectl to create the deployment with that file.

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Questions 21

You are the team lead of a group of 10 developers. You provided each developer with an individual Google Cloud Project that they can use as their personal sandbox to experiment with different Google Cloud solutions. You want to be notified if any of the developers are spending above $500 per month on their sandbox environment. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a single budget for all projects and configure budget alerts on this budget.

B.

Create a separate billing account per sandbox project and enable BigQuery billing exports. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per billing account.

C.

Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all of these budgets.

D.

Create a single billing account for all sandbox projects and enable BigQuery billing exports. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per project.

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Questions 22

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:

Associate-Cloud-Engineer Question 22

What is the most likely cause?

Options:

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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Questions 23

Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for log file retention. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to BigQuery.

B.

Create an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to a Coldline Storage bucket.

C.

Write a custom script that uses logging API to copy the logs from Stackdriver logs to BigQuery.

D.

Export these logs to Cloud Pub/Sub and write a Cloud Dataflow pipeline to store logs to Cloud SQL.

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Questions 24

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?

Options:

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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Questions 25

You want to run a single caching HTTP reverse proxy on GCP for a latency-sensitive website. This specific reverse proxy consumes almost no CPU. You want to have a 30-GB in-memory cache, and need an additional 2 GB of memory for the rest of the processes. You want to minimize cost. How should you run this reverse proxy?

Options:

A.

Create a Cloud Memorystore for Redis instance with 32-GB capacity.

B.

Run it on Compute Engine, and choose a custom instance type with 6 vCPUs and 32 GB of memory.

C.

Package it in a container image, and run it on Kubernetes Engine, using n1-standard-32 instances as nodes.

D.

Run it on Compute Engine, choose the instance type n1-standard-1, and add an SSD persistent disk of 32 GB.

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Questions 26

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1–standard–2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2–highmem–16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use gcloud container clusters upgrade. Deploy the new services.

B.

Create a new Node Pool and specify machine type n2–highmem–16. Deploy the new pods.

C.

Create a new cluster with n2–highmem–16 nodes. Redeploy the pods and delete the old cluster.

D.

Create a new cluster with both n1–standard–2 and n2–highmem–16 nodes. Redeploy the pods and delete the old cluster.

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Questions 27

Your auditor wants to view your organization's use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Assign the appropriate permissions, and then use Cloud Monitoring to review metrics

B.

Use the export logs API to provide the Admin Activity Audit Logs in the format they want

C.

Turn on Data Access Logs for the buckets they want to audit, and Then build a query in the log viewer that filters on Cloud Storage

D.

Assign the appropriate permissions, and then create a Data Studio report on Admin Activity Audit Logs

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Questions 28

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at a large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput – up to thousands of events per hour per device – and need to retrieveconsistent databased on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a file in Cloud Storage per device and append new data to that file.

B.

Create a file in Cloud Filestore per device and append new data to that file.

C.

Ingest the data into Datastore. Store data in an entity group based on the device.

D.

Ingest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp.

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Questions 29

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?

Options:

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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Questions 30

Your company has a 3-tier solution running on Compute Engine. The configuration of the current infrastructure is shown below.

Associate-Cloud-Engineer Question 30

Each tier has a service account that is associated with all instances within it. You need to enable communication on TCP port 8080 between tiers as follows:

• Instances in tier #1 must communicate with tier #2.

• Instances in tier #2 must communicate with tier #3.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

1. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances• Source filter: IP ranges (with the range set to 10.0.2.0/24)• Protocols: allow all2. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances• Source filter: IP ranges (with the range set to 10.0.1.0/24)• Protocols: allow all

B.

1. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances with tier #2 service account• Source filter: all instances with tier #1 service account• Protocols: allow TCP:80802. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances with tier #3 service account• Source filter: all instances with tier #2 service account• Protocols: allow TCP: 8080

C.

1. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances with tier #2 service account• Source filter: all instances with tier #1 service account• Protocols: allow all2. Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances with tier #3 service account• Source filter: all instances with tier #2 service account• Protocols: allow all

D.

1. Create an egress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances• Source filter: IP ranges (with the range set to 10.0.2.0/24)• Protocols: allow TCP: 80802. Create an egress firewall rule with the following settings:• Targets: all instances• Source filter: IP ranges (with the range set to 10.0.1.0/24)• Protocols: allow TCP: 8080

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Questions 31

Your organization needs to grant users access to query datasets in BigQuery but prevent them from accidentally deleting the datasets. You want a solution that follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add users to roles/bigquery user role only, instead of roles/bigquery dataOwner.

B.

Add users to roles/bigquery dataEditor role only, instead of roles/bigquery dataOwner.

C.

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions, and add users to that role only.

D.

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions. Add users to the group, and then add the group to the custom role.

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Questions 32

Your company has an existing GCP organization with hundreds of projects and a billing account. Your company recently acquired another company that also has hundreds of projects and its own billing account. You would like to consolidate all GCP costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice. You would like to consolidate all costs as of tomorrow. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Link the acquired company’s projects to your company's billing account.

B.

Configure the acquired company's billing account and your company's billing account to export the billing data into the same BigQuery dataset.

C.

Migrate the acquired company’s projects into your company’s GCP organization. Link the migrated projects to your company's billing account.

D.

Create a new GCP organization and a new billing account. Migrate the acquired company's projects and your company's projects into the new GCP organization and link the projects to the new billing account.

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Questions 33

You have files in a Cloud Storage bucket that you need to share with your suppliers. You want to restrict the time that the files are available to your suppliers to 1 hour. You want to follow Google recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -m 1h gs:///*.

B.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -d 1h gs:///.

C.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -p 60m gs:///.

D.

Create a JSON key for the Default Compute Engine Service Account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -t 60m gs:///*

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Questions 34

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?

Options:

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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Questions 35

Your coworker has helped you set up several configurations for gcloud. You've noticed that you're running commands against the wrong project. Being new to the company, you haven't yet memorized any of the projects. With the fewest steps possible, what's the fastest way to switch to the correct configuration?

Options:

A.

Run gcloud configurations list followed by gcloud configurations activate .

B.

Run gcloud config list followed by gcloud config activate.

C.

Run gcloud config configurations list followed by gcloud config configurations activate.

D.

Re-authenticate with the gcloud auth login command and select the correct configurations on login.

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Questions 36

(Your company has a rapidly growing social media platform and a user base primarily located in North America. Due to increasing demand, your current on-premises PostgreSQL database, hosted in your United States headquarters data center, no longer meets your needs. You need to identify a cloud-based database solution that offers automatic scaling, multi-region support for future expansion, and maintains low latency.)

Options:

A.

Use Bigtable.

B.

Use BigQuery.

C.

Use Spanner.

D.

Use Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

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Questions 37

You need a dynamic way of provisioning VMs on Compute Engine. The exact specifications will be in a dedicated configuration file. You want to follow Google’s recommended practices. Which method should you use?

Options:

A.

Deployment Manager

B.

Cloud Composer

C.

Managed Instance Group

D.

Unmanaged Instance Group

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Questions 38

You are using Data Studio to visualize a table from your data warehouse that is built on top of BigQuery. Data is appended to the data warehouse during the day. At night, the daily summary is recalculated by overwriting the table. You just noticed that the charts in Data Studio are broken, and you want to analyze the problem. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use the BigQuery interface to review the nightly Job and look for any errors

B.

Review the Error Reporting page in the Cloud Console to find any errors.

C.

In Cloud Logging create a filter for your Data Studio report

D.

Use the open source CLI tool. Snapshot Debugger, to find out why the data was not refreshed correctly.

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Questions 39

You need to manage multiple Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects in the fewest steps possible. You want to configure the Google Cloud SDK command line interface (CLI) so that you can easily manage multiple GCP projects. What should you?

Options:

A.

1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects.

B.

1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project

C.

1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects.

D.

1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project.

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Questions 40

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?

Options:

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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Questions 41

You are deploying a production application on Compute Engine. You want to prevent anyone from accidentally destroying the instance by clicking the wrong button. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Disable the flag “Delete boot disk when instance is deleted.”

B.

Enable delete protection on the instance.

C.

Disable Automatic restart on the instance.

D.

Enable Preemptibility on the instance.

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Questions 42

Your company completed the acquisition of a startup and is now merging the IT systems of both companies. The startup had a production Google Cloud project in their organization. You need to move this project into your organization and ensure that the project is billed lo your organization. You want to accomplish this task with minimal effort. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use the projects. move method to move the project to your organization. Update the billing account of the project to that of your organization.

B.

Ensure that you have an Organization Administrator Identity and Access Management (IAM) role assigned to you in both organizations. Navigate to the Resource Manager in the startup's Google Cloud organization, and drag the project to your company's organization.

C.

Create a Private Catalog tor the Google Cloud Marketplace, and upload the resources of the startup’s production project to the Catalog. Share the Catalog with your organization, and deploy the resources in your company’s project.

D.

Create an infrastructure-as-code template tor all resources in the project by using Terraform. and deploy that template to a new project in your organization. Delete the protect from the startup's Google Cloud organization.

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Questions 43

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?

Options:

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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Questions 44

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?

Options:

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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Questions 45

You need to create a custom VPC with a single subnet. The subnet’s range must be as large as possible. Which range should you use?

Options:

A.

.00.0.0/0

B.

10.0.0.0/8

C.

172.16.0.0/12

D.

192.168.0.0/16

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Questions 46

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?

Options:

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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Questions 47

A colleague handed over a Google Cloud Platform project for you to maintain. As part of a security checkup, you want to review who has been granted the Project Owner role. What should you do?

Options:

A.

In the console, validate which SSH keys have been stored as project-wide keys.

B.

Navigate to Identity-Aware Proxy and check the permissions for these resources.

C.

Enable Audit Logs on the IAM & admin page for all resources, and validate the results.

D.

Use the command gcloud projects get–iam–policy to view the current role assignments.

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Questions 48

(You are managing a stateful application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that can only have one replica. You recently discovered that the application becomes unstable at peak times. You have identified that the application needs more CPU than what has been configured in the manifest at these peak times. You want Kubernetes to allocate the application sufficient CPU resources during these peak times, while ensuring cost efficiency during off-peak periods. What should you do?)

Options:

A.

Enable cluster autoscaling on the GKE cluster.

B.

Configure a Vertical Pod Autoscaler on the Deployment.

C.

Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler on the Deployment.

D.

Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster.

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Questions 49

You are building a new version of an application hosted in an App Engine environment. You want to test the new version with 1% of users before you completely switch your application over to the new version. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Deploy a new version of your application in Google Kubernetes Engine instead of App Engine and then use GCP Console to split traffic.

B.

Deploy a new version of your application in a Compute Engine instance instead of App Engine and then use GCP Console to split traffic.

C.

Deploy a new version as a separate app in App Engine. Then configure App Engine using GCP Console to split traffic between the two apps.

D.

Deploy a new version of your application in App Engine. Then go to App Engine settings in GCP Console and split traffic between the current version and newly deployed versions accordingly.

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Questions 50

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting a production application. You want to receive an email if the instance consumes more than 90% of its CPU resources for more than 15 minutes. You want to use Google services. What should you do?

Options:

A.

1. Create a consumer Gmail account.2.Write a script that monitors the CPU usage.3.When the CPU usage exceeds the threshold, have that script send an email using the Gmail account and smtp.gmail.com on port 25 as SMTP server.

B.

1. Create a Stackdriver Workspace, and associate your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project with it.2.Create an Alerting Policy in Stackdriver that uses the threshold as a trigger condition.3.Configure your email address in the notification channel.

C.

1. Create a Stackdriver Workspace, and associate your GCP project with it.2.Write a script that monitors the CPU usage and sends it as a custom metric to Stackdriver.3.Create an uptime check for the instance in Stackdriver.

D.

1. In Stackdriver Logging, create a logs-based metric to extract the CPU usage by using this regular expression: CPU Usage: ([0-9] {1,3}) %2.In Stackdriver Monitoring, create an Alerting Policy based on this metric.3.Configure your email address in the notification channel.

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Questions 51

Youare configuring Cloud DNS. You want !to create DNS records to pointhome.mydomain.com,mydomain.com. andwww.mydomain.comto the IP address of your Google Cloud load balancer. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create one CNAME record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two A records to point WWW and HOME lo mydomain.com respectively.

B.

Create one CNAME record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two AAAA records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

C.

Create one A record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two CNAME records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

D.

Create one A record to point mydomain.com lo the load balancer, and create two NS records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

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Questions 52

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?

Options:

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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Questions 53

You need to create an autoscaling managed instance group for an HTTPS web application. You want to make sure that unhealthy VMs are recreated. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a health check on port 443 and use that when creating the Managed Instance Group.

B.

Select Multi-Zone instead of Single-Zone when creating the Managed Instance Group.

C.

In the Instance Template, add the label ‘health-check’.

D.

In the Instance Template, add a startup script that sends a heartbeat to the metadata server.

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Questions 54

Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Download and deploy the Jenkins Java WAR to App Engine Standard.

B.

Create a new Compute Engine instance and install Jenkins through the command line interface.

C.

Create a Kubernetes cluster on Compute Engine and create a deployment with the Jenkins Docker image.

D.

Use GCP Marketplace to launch the Jenkins solution.

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Questions 55

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?

Options:

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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Questions 56

You recently discovered that your developers are using many service account keys during their development process. While you work on a long term improvement, you need to quickly implement a process to enforce short-lived service account credentials in your company. You have the following requirements:

• All service accounts that require a key should be created in a centralized project called pj-sa.

• Service account keys should only be valid for one day.

You need a Google-recommended solution that minimizes cost. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Implement a Cloud Run job to rotate all service account keys periodically in pj-sa. Enforce an org policy to deny service account key creation with an exception to pj-sa.

B.

Implement a Kubernetes Cronjob to rotate all service account keys periodically. Disable attachment ofservice accounts to resources in all projects with an exception to pj-sa.

C.

Enforce an org policy constraint allowing the lifetime of service account keys to be 24 hours. Enforce an org policy constraint denying service account key creation with an exception on pj-sa.

D.

Enforce a DENY org policy constraint over the lifetime of service account keys for 24 hours. Disable attachment of service accounts to resources in all projects with an exception to pj-sa.

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Questions 57

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?

Options:

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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Questions 58

Several employees at your company have been creating projects with Cloud Platform and paying for it with their personal credit cards, which the company reimburses. The company wants to centralize all these projects under a single, new billing account. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Contact cloud-billing@google.com with your bank account details and request a corporate billing account for your company.

B.

Create a ticket with Google Support and wait for their call to share your credit card details over the phone.

C.

In the Google Platform Console, go to the Resource Manage and move all projects to the root Organization.

D.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, create a new billing account and set up a payment method.

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Questions 59

You need to extract text from audio files by using the Speech-to-Text API. The audio files are pushed to a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to implement a fully managed, serverless compute solution that requires authentication and aligns with Google-recommended practices. You want to automate the call to the API by submitting each file to the API as the audio file arrives in the bucket. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Run a Kubernetes job to scan the bucket regularly for incoming files, and call the Speech-to-Text API for each unprocessed file.

B.

Create an App Engine standard environment triggered by Cloud Storage bucket events to submit the file URI to the Google Speech-to-Text API.

C.

Run a Python script by using a Linux cron job in Compute Engine to scan the bucket regularly for incoming files, and call the Speech-to-Text API for each unprocessed file.

D.

Create a Cloud Function triggered by Cloud Storage bucket events to submit the file URI to the Google Speech-to-Text API.

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Questions 60

You have an instance group that you want to load balance. You want the load balancer to terminate the client SSL session. The instance group is used to serve a public web application over HTTPS. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure an HTTP(S) load balancer.

B.

Configure an internal TCP load balancer.

C.

Configure an external SSL proxy load balancer.

D.

Configure an external TCP proxy load balancer.

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Questions 61

Your team is running an on-premises ecommerce application. The application contains a complex set of microservices written in Python, and each microservice is running on Docker containers. Configurations are injected by using environment variables. You need to deploy your current application to a serverless Google Cloud cloud solution. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use your existing CI/CD pipeline Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Run. Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

B.

Use your existing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Function. Use the same configuration as on-premises.

C.

Use the existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Function Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

D.

Use your existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Run Use the same configurations as on-premises.

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Questions 62

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?

Options:

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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Questions 63

Your team is building a website that handles votes from a large user population. The incoming votes will arrive at various rates. You want to optimize the storage and processing of the votes. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Save the incoming votes to Firestore. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to periodically process the votes.

B.

Use a dedicated instance to process the incoming votes. Send the votes directly to this instance.

C.

Save the incoming votes to a JSON file on Cloud Storage. Process the votes in a batch at the end of the day.

D.

Save the incoming votes to Pub/Sub. Use the Pub/Sub topic to trigger a Cloud Functions instance to process the votes.

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Questions 64

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?

Options:

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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Questions 65

You just installed the Google Cloud CLI on your new corporate laptop. You need to list the existing instances of your company on Google Cloud. What must you do before you run the gcloud compute instances list command?

Choose 2 answers

Options:

A.

Run gcloud auth login, enter your login credentials in the dialog window, and paste the received login token to gcloud CLI.

B.

Create a Google Cloud service account, and download the service account key. Place the key file in a folder on your machine where gcloud CLI can find it.

C.

Download your Cloud Identity user account key. Place the key file in a folder on your machine where gcloud CLI can find it.

D.

Run gcloud config set compute/zone $my_zone to set the default zone for gcloud CLI.

E.

Run gcloud config set project $my_project to set the default project for gcloud CLI.

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Questions 66

You are analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects. You want to use this information to create service cost estimates by service type, daily and monthly, for the next six months using standard query syntax. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Export your bill to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then import into Cloud Bigtable for analysis.

B.

Export your bill to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then import into Google Sheets for analysis.

C.

Export your transactions to a local file, and perform analysis with a desktop tool.

D.

Export your bill to a BigQuery dataset, and then write time window-based SQL queries for analysis.

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Questions 67

You are managing a Data Warehouse on BigQuery. An external auditor will review your company's processes, and multiple external consultants will need view access to the data. You need to provide them with view access while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Grant each individual external consultant the role of BigQuery Editor

B.

Grant each individual external consultant the role of BigQuery Viewer

C.

Create a Google Group that contains the consultants and grant the group the role of BigQuery Editor

D.

Create a Google Group that contains the consultants, and grant the group the role of BigQuery Viewer

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Questions 68

(You are managing an application deployed on Cloud Run. The development team has released a new version of the application. You want to deploy and redirect traffic to this new version of the application. To ensure traffic to the new version of the application is served with no startup time, you want to ensure that there are two idle instances available for incoming traffic before adjusting the traffic flow. You also want to minimize administrative overhead. What should you do?)

Options:

A.

Ensure the checkbox "Serve this revision immediately" is unchecked when deploying the new revision. Before changing the traffic rules, use a traffic simulation tool to send load to the new revision.

B.

Configure service autoscaling and set the minimum number of instances to 2.

C.

Configure revision autoscaling for the new revision and set the minimum number of instances to 2.

D.

Configure revision autoscaling for the existing revision and set the minimum number of instances to 2.

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Questions 69

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?

Options:

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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Questions 70

You want to enable your development team to deploy new features to an existing Cloud Run service in production. To minimize the risk associated with a new revision, you want to reduce the number ofcustomers who might be affected by an outage without introducing any development or operational costs to your customers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for managing revisions to a service. What should you do9

Options:

A.

Deploy your application to a second Cloud Run service, and ask your customers to use the second Cloud Run service.

B.

Ask your customers to retry access to your service with exponential backoff to mitigate any potential problems after the new revision is deployed.

C.

Gradually roll out the new revision and split customer traffic between the revisions to allow rollback in case a problem occurs.

D.

Send all customer traffic to the new revision, and roll back to a previous revision if you witness any problems in production.

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Questions 71

You have an application that receives SSL-encrypted TCP traffic on port 443. Clients for this application are located all over the world. You want to minimize latency for the clients. Which load balancing option should you use?

Options:

A.

HTTPS Load Balancer

B.

Network Load Balancer

C.

SSL Proxy Load Balancer

D.

Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancer. Add a firewall rule allowing ingress traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 on the target instances.

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Questions 72

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?

Options:

A.

Project Editor

B.

Storage Admin

C.

Storage Object Admin

D.

Storage Object Creator

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Questions 73

Your organization has strict requirements to control access to Google Cloud projects. You need to enable your Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to approve requests from the Google Cloud support team when an SRE opens a support case. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add your SREs to roles/iam.roleAdmin role.

B.

Add your SREs to roles/accessapproval approver role.

C.

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/iam roleAdmin role.

D.

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/accessapproval approver role.

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Questions 74

Your application development team has created Docker images for an application that will be deployed on Google Cloud. Your team does not want to manage the infrastructure associated with this application. You need to ensure that the application can scale automatically as it gains popularity. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create an Instance template with the container image, and deploy a Managed Instance Group withAutoscaling.

B.

Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine usingStandard mode.

C.

Upload Docker images to the Cloud Storage, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine usingStandard mode.

D.

Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Cloud Run.

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Questions 75

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?

Options:

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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Questions 76

You want to configure an SSH connection to a single Compute Engine instance for users in the dev1 group. This instance is the only resource in this particular Google Cloud Platform project that the dev1 users should be able to connect to. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set metadata to enable-oslogin=true for the instance. Grant the dev1 group the compute.osLogin role. Direct them to use the Cloud Shell to ssh to that instance.

B.

Set metadata to enable-oslogin=true for the instance. Set the service account to no service account for that instance. Direct them to use the Cloud Shell to ssh to that instance.

C.

Enable block project wide keys for the instance. Generate an SSH key for each user in the dev1 group. Distribute the keys to dev1 users and direct them to use their third-party tools to connect.

D.

Enable block project wide keys for the instance. Generate an SSH key and associate the key with that instance. Distribute the key to dev1 users and direct them to use their third-party tools to connect.

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Questions 77

You built an application on Google Cloud Platform that uses Cloud Spanner. Your support team needs to monitor the environment but should not have access to table data. You need a streamlined solution to grant the correct permissions to your support team, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add the support team group to the roles/monitoring.viewer role

B.

Add the support team group to the roles/spanner.databaseUser role.

C.

Add the support team group to the roles/spanner.databaseReader role.

D.

Add the support team group to the roles/stackdriver.accounts.viewer role.

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Questions 78

You are running multiple microservices in a Kubernetes Engine cluster. One microservice is rendering images. The microservice responsible for the image rendering requires a large amount of CPU time compared to the memory it requires. The other microservices are workloads that are optimized for n1-standard machine types. You need to optimize your cluster so that all workloads are using resources as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Assign the pods of the image rendering microservice a higher pod priority than the older microservices

B.

Create a node pool with compute-optimized machine type nodes for the image rendering microservice Use the node pool with general-purposemachine type nodes for the other microservices

C.

Use the node pool with general-purpose machine type nodes for lite mage rendering microservice Create a nodepool with compute-optimized machine type nodes for the other microservices

D.

Configure the required amount of CPU and memory in the resource requests specification of the image rendering microservice deployment Keep the resource requests for the other microservices at the default

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Questions 79

You need to grant access for three users so that they can view and edit table data on a Cloud Spanner instance. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseUser. Add the users to the role.

B.

Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseUser. Add the users to a new group. Add the group to the role.

C.

Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.viewer --project my-project. Add the users to the role.

D.

Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.viewer --project my-project. Add the users to a new group. Add the group to the role.

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Questions 80

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?

Options:

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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Questions 81

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?

Options:

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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Questions 82

You are running an application on multiple virtual machines within a managed instance group and have autoscaling enabled. The autoscaling policy is configured so that additional instances are added to the group if the CPU utilization of instances goes above 80%. VMs are added until the instance group reaches its maximum limit of five VMs or until CPU utilization of instances lowers to 80%. The initial delay for HTTP health checks against the instances is set to 30 seconds. The virtual machine instances take around three minutes to become available for users. You observe that when the instance group autoscales, it adds more instances then necessary to support the levels of end-user traffic. You want to properly maintain instance group sizes when autoscaling. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set the maximum number of instances to 1.

B.

Decrease the maximum number of instances to 3.

C.

Use a TCP health check instead of an HTTP health check.

D.

Increase the initial delay of the HTTP health check to 200 seconds.

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Questions 83

An application generates daily reports in a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM). The VM is in the project corp-iot-insights. Your team operates only in the project corp-aggregate-reports and needs a copy of the daily exports in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage. You want to configure access so that the daily reports from the VM are available in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage and use as few steps as possible while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Move both projects under the same folder.

B.

Grant the VM Service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-aggregate-reports-storage.

C.

Create a Shared VPC network between both projects. Grant the VM Service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-iot-insights.

D.

Make corp-aggregate-reports-storage public and create a folder with a pseudo-randomized suffix name. Share the folder with the IoT team.

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Questions 84

You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 0 and maxUnavailable set to 1.

B.

Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 1 and maxUnavailable set to 0.

C.

Create a new managed instance group with an updated instance template. Add the group to the backend service for the load balancer. When all instances in the new managed instance group are healthy, delete the old managed instance group.

D.

Create a new instance template with the new application version. Update the existing managed instance group with the new instance template. Delete the instances in the managed instance group to allow the managed instance group to recreate the instance using the new instance template.

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Questions 85

You want to deploy an application on Cloud Run that processes messages from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.

1. Create a Cloud Function that uses a Cloud Pub/Sub trigger on that topic.2. Call your application on Cloud Run from the Cloud Function for every message.

B.

1. Grant the Pub/Sub Subscriber role to the service account used by Cloud Run.2. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription for that topic.3. Make your application pull messages from that subscription.

C.

1. Create a service account.2. Give the Cloud Run Invoker role to that service account for your Cloud Run application.3. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription that uses that service account and uses your Cloud Run application as the push endpoint.

D.

1. Deploy your application on Cloud Run on GKE with the connectivity set to Internal.2. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription for that topic.3. In the same Google Kubernetes Engine cluster as your application, deploy a container that takes the messages and sends them to your application.

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Questions 86

You have a number of compute instances belonging to an unmanaged instances group. You need to SSH to one of the Compute Engine instances to run an ad hoc script. You’ve already authenticated gcloud, however, you don’t have an SSH key deployed yet. In the fewest steps possible, what’s the easiest way to SSH to the instance?

Options:

A.

Run gcloud compute instances list to get the IP address of the instance, then use the ssh command.

B.

Use the gcloud compute ssh command.

C.

Create a key with the ssh-keygen command. Then use the gcloud compute ssh command.

D.

Create a key with the ssh-keygen command. Upload the key to the instance. Run gcloud compute instances list to get the IP address of the instance, then use the ssh command.

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Questions 87

(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?)

Options:

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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Questions 88

(Your company is migrating its workloads to Google Cloud due to an expiring data center contract. The on-premises environment and Google Cloud are not connected. You have decided to follow a lift-and-shift approach, and you plan to modernize the workloads in a future project. Several old applications connect to each other through hard-coded internal IP addresses. You want to migrate these workloads quickly without modifying the application code. You also want to maintain all functionality. What should you do?)

Options:

A.

Create a VPC with non-overlapping CIDR ranges compared to your on-premises network. When migrating individual workloads, assign each workload a new static internal IP address.

B.

Migrate your DNS server first. Configure Cloud DNS with a forwarding zone to your migrated DNS server. Then migrate all other workloads with ephemeral internal IP addresses.

C.

Migrate all workloads to a single VPC subnet. Configure Cloud NAT for the subnet and manually assign a static IP address to the Cloud NAT gateway.

D.

Create a VPC with the same CIDR ranges as your on-premises network. When migrating individual workloads, assign each workload the same static internal IP address.

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Questions 89

You are storing sensitive information in a Cloud Storage bucket. For legal reasons, you need to be able to record all requests that read any of the stored data. You want to make sure you comply with these requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Enable the Identity Aware Proxy API on the project.

B.

Scan the bucker using the Data Loss Prevention API.

C.

Allow only a single Service Account access to read the data.

D.

Enable Data Access audit logs for the Cloud Storage API.

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Questions 90

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?

Options:

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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Questions 91

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Navigate to Cloud Logging and view the application logs.

B.

Connect to the instance’s serial console and read the application logs.

C.

Configure a Health Check on the instance and set a Low Healthy Threshold value.

D.

Install and configure the Cloud Logging Agent and view the logs from Cloud Logging.

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Questions 92

Your web application is hosted on Cloud Run and needs to query a Cloud SOL database. Every morning during a traffic spike, you notice API quota errors in Cloud SOL 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?

Options:

A.

Modify the minimum number of Cloud Run instances.

B.

Set a minimum concurrent requests environment variable for the application.

C.

Modify the maximum number of Cloud Run instances.

D.

Use traffic splitting.

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Questions 93

You installed the Google Cloud CLI on your workstation and set the proxy configuration. However, you are worried that your proxy credentials will be recorded in the gcloud CLI logs. You want to prevent your proxy credentials from being logged What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure username and password by using gcloud configure set proxy/username and gcloud configure set proxy/ proxy/password commands.

B.

Encode username and password in sha256 encoding, and save it to a text file. Use filename as a value in the gcloud configure set core/custom_ca_certs_file command.

C.

Provide values for CLOUDSDK_USERNAME and CLOUDSDK_PASSWORD in the gcloud CLI tool configure file.

D.

Set the CLOUDSDK_PROXY_USERNAME and CLOUDSDK_PROXY PASSWORD properties by using environment variables in your command line tool.

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Questions 94

You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Filter the Activity log to view the Configuration category. Filter the Resource type to Service Account.

B.

Filter the Activity log to view the Configuration category. Filter the Resource type to Google Project.

C.

Filter the Activity log to view the Data Access category. Filter the Resource type to Service Account.

D.

Filter the Activity log to view the Data Access category. Filter the Resource type to Google Project.

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Questions 95

You are planning to migrate your on-premises VMs to Google Cloud. You need to set up a landing zone in Google Cloud before migrating the VMs. You must ensure that all VMs in your production environment can communicate with each other through private IP addresses. You need to allow all VMs in your Google Cloud organization to accept connections on specific TCP ports. You want to follow Google-recommended practices, and you need to minimize your operational costs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create individual VPCs per Google Cloud project. Peer all the VPCs together. Apply organization policies on the organization level.

B.

Create individual VPCs for each Google Cloud project. Peer all the VPCs together. Apply hierarchical firewall policies on the organization level.

C.

Create a host VPC project with each production project as its service project. Apply organization policies on the organization level.

D.

Create a host VPC project with each production project as its service project. Apply hierarchical firewall policies on the organization level.

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Questions 96

You are planning to migrate your on-premises data to Google Cloud. The data includes:

• 200 TB of video files in SAN storage

• Data warehouse data stored on Amazon Redshift

• 20 GB of PNG files stored on an S3 bucket

You need to load the video files into a Cloud Storage bucket, transfer the data warehouse data into BigQuery, and load the PNG files into a second Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and avoid writing any code for the migration. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use gcloud storage for the video files. Dataflow for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

B.

Use Transfer Appliance for the videos. BigQuery Data Transfer Service for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

C.

Use Storage Transfer Service for the video files, BigQuery Data Transfer Service for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

D.

Use Cloud Data Fusion for the video files, Dataflow for the data warehouse data, and Storage Transfer Service for the PNG files.

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Exam Name: Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
Last Update: Jun 7, 2025
Questions: 321

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