Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Questions and Answers
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal ' s generative Al models require high-performance storage for temporary files generated during model training and inference. These files are ephemeral and frequently accessed and modified You need to select a storage solution that minimizes latency and cost and maximizes performance for generative Al workloads. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate their product catalog management processes to Google Cloud. You need to ensure a smooth migration with proper change management to minimize disruption and risks to the business. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate product catalog enrichment, improve product discoverability, increase customer engagement, and minimize costs. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study Cymbal plans to migrate their existing on-premises systems to Google Cloud and implement Al-powered virtual agents to handle customer interactions You need to provision the compute resources that can scale for the Al-powered virtual agents What should you do?
Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google
Cloud. You want to streamline the process and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to connect their on-premises systems to Google Cloud while maintaining secure communication between their on-premises and cloud environments You want to follow Google ' s recommended approach to ensure the most secure and manageable solution. What should you do?
You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.
The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract
transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to design a cloud-first data storage infrastructure for the product catalog modernization project. You want to ensure efficient data access and high availability for Cymbals web application and virtual agents while minimizing operational costs. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games ' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:
• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.
• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.
• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.
• Deployment artifacts are immutable.
Which set of products should they use?
You team needs to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster to host a newly built application that requires access to third-party services on the internet. Your company does not allow any Compute Engine instance to have a public IP address on Google Cloud. You need to create a deployment strategy that adheres to these guidelines. What should you do?
You are designing a Data Warehouse on Google Cloud and want to store sensitive data in BigQuery. Your company requires you to generate encryption keys outside of Google Cloud. You need to implement a solution. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in
Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.
Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.
What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.
What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.
Which of TerramEarth ' s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study
Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth ' s vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth ' s CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?
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For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
You analyzed TerramEarth ' s business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers ' wait time for parts You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company ' s processes should you recommend?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth has equipped unconnected trucks with servers and sensors to collet telemetry data. Next year they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud while reducing costs. What should they do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.
You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.
Which two architecture should you consider?
Choose 2 answers:
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour. How should you design the data ingestion?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
As part of Dress4Win ' s plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that:
• The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day
• Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.
• They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts
Which Google StackDriver features should they use?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You want to improve publishing latency. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. EHR has single Dedicated Interconnect
connection between their primary data center and Googles network. This connection satisfies
EHR’s network and security policies:
• On-premises servers without public IP addresses need to connect to cloud resources
without public IP addresses
• Traffic flows from production network mgmt. servers to Compute Engine virtual
machines should never traverse the public internet.
You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new
connection design must support business critical needs and meet the same network and
security policy requirements. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, configuration errors put public IP addresses on backend servers that should not have been accessible from the Internet. You need to ensure that no one can put external IP addresses on backend Compute Engine instances and that external IP addresses can only be configured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google Kubernetes Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to reduce the attack surface?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity between EHR ' s on-premises systems and Google Cloud. You want to follow Google ' s recommended practices for production-level applications. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR ' s use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)
You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new connection design must support business-critical needs and meet the same network and security policy requirements. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)
You are migrating a Linux-based application from your private data center to Google Cloud. The TerramEarth security team sent you several recent Linux vulnerabilities published by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). You need assistance in understanding how these vulnerabilities could impact your migration. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud
infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video
encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted
after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you
do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Your team is in charge of creating a
payment card data vault for card numbers used to bill tens of thousands of viewers, merchandise consumers,
and season ticket holders. You need to implement a custom card tokenization service that meets the following
requirements:
• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.
• It must be able to identify duplicate credit cards and must not store plaintext card numbers.
• It should support annual key rotation.
Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL is looking for a cost-effective
approach for storing their race data such as telemetry. They want to keep all historical records, train models
using only the previous season ' s data, and plan for data growth in terms of volume and information collected.
You need to propose a data solution. Considering HRL business requirements and the goals expressed by
CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. The HRL development team
releases a new version of their predictive capability application every Tuesday evening at 3 a.m. UTC to a
repository. The security team at HRL has developed an in-house penetration test Cloud Function called Airwolf.
The security team wants to run Airwolf against the predictive capability application as soon as it is released
every Tuesday. You need to set up Airwolf to run at the recurring weekly cadence. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL wants better prediction
accuracy from their ML prediction models. They want you to use Google’s AI Platform so HRL can understand
and interpret the predictions. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate its diverse database environment to Google Cloud while ensuring high availability and performance for online customers. The company also wants to efficiently store and access large product images These images typically stay In the catalog for more than 90 days and are accessed less and less frequently. You need to select the appropriate Google Cloud services for each database. You also need to design a storage solution for the product images that optimizes cost and performance What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal has a centralized project that supports large video files for Vertex Al model training. Standard storage costs have suddenly increased this month, and you need to determine why. What should you do?
Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solutions regarding cost optimization for batch processing and microservices testing strategies.
Altostrat is experiencing fluctuating computational demands for its batch processing jobs. These jobs are not time-critical and can tolerate occasional interruptions. You want to optimize cloud costs and address batch processing needs. What should you do?
Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily.
You want to create service level indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user’s
perspective. What should you do?
You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game
programmatic access to a legacy game ' s Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible. What
should you do?
You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical
requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud
regions. What should you do?
Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and
iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What
should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional
racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user
experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic
coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are
a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP
address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
The migration of JencoMart’s application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)

