Free Practice Questions for the Google Cloud Certified Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam (2026 Updated)
At Marks4sure, we are dedicated to providing IT professionals with the most accurate and reliable preparation materials for the Google Professional-Cloud-Architect exam. To support your certification journey, we have made a selection of our premium 2026 Google Cloud Certified practice questions and answers available completely free. You can take this practice test as many times as you need. Every question includes a detailed, expertly verified explanation to ensure you fully grasp the core security concepts before test day.
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?
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For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?
TerramEarth has about 1 petabyte (PB) of vehicle testing data in a private data center. You want to move the data to Cloud Storage for your machine learning team. Currently, a 1-Gbps interconnect link is available for you. The machine learning team wants to start using the data in a month. What should you do?
TerramEarth has a legacy web application that you cannot migrate to cloud. However, you still want to build a cloud-native way to monitor the application. If the application goes down, you want the URL to point to a " Site is unavailable " page as soon as possible. You also want your Ops team to receive a notification for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum cost
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 TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the
ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices.
Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost.
Which two actions should you take?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
You start to build a new application that uses a few Cloud Functions for the backend. One use case requires a Cloud Function func_display to invoke another Cloud Function func_query. You want func_query only to accept invocations from func_display. You also want to follow Google ' s recommended best practices. 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?
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.)
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. 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 are responsible for ensuring that EHR ' s use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)
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 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 JencoMart case study.
The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?
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 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?
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 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. 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 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 needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application environments. Developers and testers can access each other ' s environments and resources, but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from production.
What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?
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 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 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 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?
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
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 ' 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.
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 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?
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?
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 TerramEarth case study.
To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?
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.
The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company ' s business requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom framework. Which method should they use?
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?
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?
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 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 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?
Altostrat ' s development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. 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 Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk’s technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API.
You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform’s resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud Platform.
Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)
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 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 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.
As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?
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 Dress4Win case study.
You want to ensure Dress4Win ' s sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years. Cost optimization is your top priority. Which cloud services should you choose?
Dress4win has end to end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move of cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
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?
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises data center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords. What authentication strategy should they use?
You are deploying an application to Google Cloud. The application is part of a system. The application in Google Cloud must communicate over a private network with applications in a non-Google Cloud environment. The expected average throughput is 200 kbps. The business requires:
• 99.99% system availability
• cost optimization
You need to design the connectivity between the locations to meet the business requirements. What should you provision?
You are managing an application deployed on Cloud Run for Anthos, and you need to define a strategy for deploying new versions of the application. You want to evaluate the new code with a subset of production traffic to decide whether to proceed with the rollout. What should you do?
Your company has just recently activated Cloud Identity to manage users. The Google Cloud Organization has been configured as wed. The security learn needs to secure protects that will be part of the Organization. They want to prohibit IAM users outside the domain from gaining permissions from now on. What should they do?
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