Professional Cloud Architect - Sample Exam Qs

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? A. Cloud Bigtable B. Cloud Spanner C. BigQuery D. Cloud Datastore

A

Your company plans to migrate a multi-petabyte data set to the cloud. The data set must be available 24hrs a day. Your business analysts have experience only with using a SQL interface.How should you store the data to optimize it for ease of analysis? A. Load data into Google BigQuery B. Insert data into Google Cloud SQL C. Put flat files into Google Cloud Storage D. Stream data into Google Cloud Datastore

A

A development team at your company has created a dockerized HTTPS web application. You need to deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and make sure that the application scales automatically.How should you deploy to GKE? A. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling. Use an Ingress resource to load-balance the HTTPS traffic. B. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling on the Kubernetes cluster. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer to load-balance the HTTPS traffic. C. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use an Ingress resource to load balance the HTTPS traffic. D. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer to load-balance the HTTPS traffic.

A

A news feed web service has the following code running on Google App Engine. During peak load, users report that they can see news articles they already viewed. What is the most likely cause of this problem? A. The session variable is local to just a single instance B. The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore C. The URL of the API needs to be modified to prevent caching D. The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 stop caching

A

All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using VPC firewall rules.How should you configure the firewall rules? A. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances. B. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances. C. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 100 to block all traffic for all instances. D. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 1000 to block all traffic for all instances.

A

The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud.Which three practices should you recommend? Choose 3 answers. A. Port the application code to run on Google App Engine B. Integrate Cloud Dataflow into the application to capture real-time metrics C. Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger D. Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure E. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment F. Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or Bigtable

A, D, E

Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a through 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? A. Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load B. Use the existing infrastructure to test the GCP-based backend at scale C. Build stress tests into each component of your application using resources internal to GCP to simulate load D. Create a set of static environments in GCP to test different levels of load "" for example, high, medium, and low

A

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? A. Create a project for development and test and another for staging and production B. Create a network for development and test and another for staging and production C. Create one subnetwork for development and another for staging and production D. Create one project for development, a second for staging and a third for production

A

Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms? A. Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches B. Unit tests are no longer required, only end-to-end tests C. Tests should be applied after the release is in the production environment D. Tests should include directly testing the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure

A

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? A. Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners B. Use Google App Engine with a JAX-RS Jersey Java-based framework. Focus on an API for the public C. Use Google App Engine with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for the public D. Use Google Container Engine with a Django Python container. Focus on an API for the public E. Use Google Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners

A

You are creating an App Engine application that uses Cloud Datastore as its persistence layer. You need to retrieve several root entities for which you have the identifiers. You want to minimize the overhead in operations performed by Cloud Datastore. What should you do? A. Create the Key object for each Entity and run a batch get operation B. Create the Key object for each Entity and run multiple get operations, one operation for each entity C. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run a batch query operation D. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run multiple query operations, one operation for each entity

A

You need to develop procedures to test a disaster plan for a mission-critical application. You want to use Google-recommended practices and native capabilities within GCP.What should you do? A. Use Deployment Manager to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs to monitor and debug your tests. B. Use Deployment Manager to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests. C. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs monitor and debug your tests. D. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.

B

You are deploying a PHP App Engine Standard service with SQL as the backend. You want to minimize the number of queries to the database.What should you do? A. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a key from the hash of the query, and return database values from memcache before issuing a query to Cloud SQL. B. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a cron task that runs every minute to populate the cache with keys containing query results. C. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a cron task that runs every minute to save all expected queries to a key called "cached-queries". D. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a key called "cached-queries", and return database values from the key before using a query to Cloud SQL.

A

You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the minimum viable product release, you'd like to use a managed product that automatically "scales to zero" so you don't incur costs when there is no activity.Which primary compute resource should you choose? A. Cloud Functions B. Compute Engine C. Kubernetes Engine D. AppEngine flexible environment

A

You are using Cloud CDN to deliver static HTTP(S) website content hosted on a Compute Engine instance group. You want to improve the cache hit ratio.What should you do? A. Customize the cache keys to omit the protocol from the key. B. Shorten the expiration time of the cached objects. C. Make sure the HTTP(S) header "Cache-Region" points to the closest region of your users. D. Replicate the static content in a Cloud Storage bucket. Point CloudCDN toward a load balancer on that bucket.

A

You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage increases and ensure that you don't run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your requirements? A. 1. Enable automatic storage increase for the instance. 2. Create a Stackdriver alert when CPU usage exceeds 75%, and change the instance type to reduce CPU usage. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time. B. 1. Enable automatic storage increase for the instance. 2. Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to keep CPU usage below 75%. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and deploy memcache to reduce load on the master. C. 1. Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the instance to create more space. 2. Deploy memcached to reduce CPU load. 3. Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag. D. 1. Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the instance to create more space. 2. Deploy memcached to reduce CPU load. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag.

A

You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to access an on-premises file server. You need to install specific software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software? A. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gsutil. B. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage and use firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Storage. Download the files to the VM using gsutil. C. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gcloud. D. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories and use firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Source Repositories. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.

A

You have an application deployed on Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echo-deployment. The deployment is exposed using a Service called echo- service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do? A. Use kubectl set image deployment/echo-deployment <new-image> B. Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes cluster C. Update the deployment yaml file with the new container image. Use kubectl delete deployment/echo-deployment and kubectl create ""f <yaml-file> D. Update the service yaml file which the new container image. Use kubectl delete service/echo-service and kubectl create ""f <yaml-file>

A

You have found an error in your App Engine application caused by missing Cloud Datastore indexes. You have created a YAML file with the required indexes and want to deploy these new indexes to Cloud Datastore. What should you do? A. Point gcloud datastore create-indexes to your configuration file B. Upload the configuration file the App Engine's default Cloud Storage bucket, and have App Engine detect the new indexes C. In the GCP Console, use Datastore Admin to delete the current indexes and upload the new configuration file D. Create an HTTP request to the built-in python module to send the index configuration file to your application

A

You need to upload files from your on-premises environment to Cloud Storage. You want the files to be encrypted on Cloud Storage using customer-supplied encryption keys. What should you do? A. Supply the encryption key in a .boto configuration file. Use gsutil to upload the files. B. Supply the encryption key using gcloud config. Use gsutil to upload the files to that bucket. C. Use gsutil to upload the files, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key. D. Use gsutil to create a bucket, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key. Use gsutil to upload the files to that bucket.

A

You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPU load.What should you do? A. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler from the GCP Console. B. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable autoscaling on the managed instance group for the cluster using the gcloud command. C. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler using the gcloud command. D. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable autoscaling on the cluster managed instance group from the GCP Console.

A

Your company captures all web traffic data in Google Analytics 360 and stores it in BigQuery. Each country has its own dataset. Each dataset has multiple tables.You want analysts from each country to be able to see and query only the data for their respective countries.How should you configure the access rights? A. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group "˜all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the "˜all-analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group. B. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group "˜all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the "˜all-analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate tables with view access with each respective analyst country-group. C. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group "˜all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the "˜all-analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group. D. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group "˜all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the "˜all-analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate table with view access with each respective analyst country-group.

A

Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do? A. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use a Transfer Appliance Rehydrator to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage. B. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use Cloud Dataprep to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage. C. Install gsutil on each server that contains data. Use resumable transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage. D. Install gsutil on each server containing data. Use streaming transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage.

A

Your company pushes batches of sensitive transaction data from its application server VMs to Cloud Pub/Sub for processing and storage. What is the Google- recommended way for your application to authenticate to the required Google Cloud services? A. Ensure that VM service accounts are granted the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles. B. Ensure that VM service accounts do not have access to Cloud Pub/Sub, and use VM access scopes to grant the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles. C. Generate an OAuth2 access token for accessing Cloud Pub/Sub, encrypt it, and store it in Cloud Storage for access from each VM. D. Create a gateway to Cloud Pub/Sub using a Cloud Function, and grant the Cloud Function service account the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.

A

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? A. Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system B. Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system C. Restrict data access based on the source IP address of the partner systems D. Create secondary credentials for each dealer that can be given to the trusted third party

A

Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload requires a consistent set of hostnames even after pod scaling and relaunches.Which feature of Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this? A. StatefulSets B. Role-based access control C. Container environment variables D. Persistent Volumes

A

Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications between instances to only the paths and ports you authorize, but you don't want to rely on static IP addresses or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict communications? A. Use separate VPCs to restrict traffic B. Use firewall rules based on network tags attached to the compute instances C. Use Cloud DNS and only allow connections from authorized hostnames D. Use service accounts and configure the web application particular service accounts to have access

B

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.) A. Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow. B. Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery. C. Draw an architecture diagram that shows how to move from a single MySQL database to a MySQL cluster. D. Load 10 TB of analytics data from a previous game into a Cloud SQL instance, and run test queries against the full dataset to confirm that they complete successfully. E. Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage.

A, B

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.) A. Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future. B. Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity. C. Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity. D. Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database. E. Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.

A, C

You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your company's web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction.Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? Choose 2 answers. A. Introduce a green-blue deployment model B. Replace the QA environment with canary releases C. Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices D. Reduce the platform's dependency on relational database systems E. Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database

A, C

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.Which two architectures should you consider? (Choose two.) A. Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted. B. Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space. C. Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot. D. Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles. E. Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy. F. Enclose the vehicle's drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.

A, C

Your marketing department wants to send out a promotional email campaign. The development team wants to minimize direct operation management. They project a wide range of possible customer responses, from 100 to 500,000 click-through per day. The link leads to a simple website that explains the promotion and collects user information and preferences.Which infrastructure should you recommend? Choose 2 answers. A. Use Google App Engine to serve the website and Google Cloud Datastore to store user data. B. Use a Google Container Engine cluster to serve the website and store data to persistent disk. C. Use a managed instance group to serve the website and Google Cloud Bigtable to store user data. D. Use a single Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to host a web server, backend by Google Cloud SQL.

A, C

To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines(VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the finance department.Which two steps should you take? Choose 2 answers. A. Use the - -no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM B. Use the - -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM C. Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export D. Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups E. Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM F. Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

A, D

You need to design a solution for global load balancing based on the URL path being requested. You need to ensure operations reliability and end-to-end in- transit encryption based on Google best practices.What should you do? A. Create a cross-region load balancer with URL Maps. B. Create an HTTPS load balancer with URL maps. C. Create appropriate instance groups and instances. Configure SSL proxy load balancing. D. Create a global forwarding rule. Configure SSL proxy balancing.

B

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? A. Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL B. Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery C. Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow D. Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow E. Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

B

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? A. Verify that the database is online B. Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded C. Verify that the new feature code did not introduce any performance bugs D. Verify that the load-testing team is not running their tool against production

B

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? A. Vehicles write data directly to GCS B. Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub C. Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery D. Vehicles continue to write data using the existing system (FTP)

B

The development team has provided you with a Kubernetes Deployment file. You have no infrastructure yet and need to deploy the application. What should you do? A. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment. B. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment. C. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment. D. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.

B

Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption? A. Opex/capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning B. Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation C. Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion D. Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement

B

You are developing a globally scaled frontend for a legacy streaming backend data API. This API expects events in strict chronological order with no repeat data for proper processing.Which products should you deploy to ensure guaranteed-once FIFO (first-in, first-out) delivery of data? A. Cloud Pub/Sub alone B. Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud DataFlow C. Cloud Pub/Sub to Stackdriver D. Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud SQL

B

You are running a cluster on Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to serve a web application. Users are reporting that a specific part of the application is not responding anymore. You notice that all pods of your deployment keep restarting after 2 seconds. The application writes logs to standard output. You want to inspect the logs to find the cause of the issue. Which approach can you take? A. Review the Stackdriver logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster. B. Review the Stackdriver logs for the specific GKE container that is serving the unresponsive part of the application. C. Connect to the cluster using gcloud credentials and connect to a container in one of the pods to read the logs. D. Review the Serial Port logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster.

B

You have an App Engine application that needs to be updated. You want to test the update with production traffic before replacing the current application version.What should you do? A. Deploy the update using the Instance Group Updater to create a partial rollout, which allows for canary testing. B. Deploy the update as a new version in the App Engine application, and split traffic between the new and current versions. C. Deploy the update in a new VPC, and use Google's global HTTP load balancing to split traffic between the update and current applications. D. Deploy the update as a new App Engine application, and use Google's global HTTP load balancing to split traffic between the new and current applications

B

You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429.How should you handle these types of errors? A. Use gRPC instead of HTTP for better performance. B. Implement retry logic using a truncated exponential backoff strategy. C. Make sure the Cloud Storage bucket is multi-regional for geo-redundancy. D. Monitor https://status.cloud.google.com/feed.atom and only make requests if Cloud Storage is not reporting an incident.

B

You have been engaged by your client to lead the migration of their application infrastructure to GCP. One of their current problems is that the on-premises high performance SAN is requiring frequent and expensive upgrades to keep up with the variety of workloads that are identified as follows: 20TB of log archives retained for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500 GB of image thumbnails; 200 GB of customer session state data that allows customers to restart sessions even if off-line for several days.Which of the following best reflects your recommendations for a cost-effective storage allocation? A. Local SSD for customer session state data. Lifecycle-managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes. B. Memcache backed by Cloud Datastore for the customer session state data. Lifecycle- managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes. C. Memcache backed by Cloud SQL for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-backed instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails. D. Memcache backed by Persistent Disk SSD storage for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-backed instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.

B

You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from uploaded images. You want to test the application and allow specific people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not all users have a Google Account. How should you have users upload images? A. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage. Protect the bucket with a password that expires after 24 hours. B. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires after 24 hours. C. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images. Configure App Engine to disable the application after 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud Identity. D. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images for the next 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud Identity.

B

You need to develop procedures to verify resilience of disaster recovery for remote recovery using GCP. Your production environment is hosted on-premises. You need to establish a secure, redundant connection between your on-premises network and the GCP network.What should you do? A. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate files to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a secure connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails. B. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate files to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails. C. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate files to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a secure connection between your networks if the Transfer Appliance fails. D. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate files to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure connection between your networks if the Transfer Appliance fails.

B

You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task a scheduling for compute on GCP. Leveraging Google best practices, what should you do? A. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publishing messages directly to a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances. B. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that topic using a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances. C. Using the Cron service provided by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), publish messages directly to a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances. D. Using the Cron service provided by GKE, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that topic using a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.

B

You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do? A. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project. B. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role. C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project. D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

B

You want to automate the creation of a managed instance group. The VMs have many OS package dependencies. You want to minimize the startup time for VMs in the instance group.What should you do? A. Use Terraform to create the managed instance group and a startup script to install the OS package dependencies. B. Create a custom VM image with all OS package dependencies. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group with the VM image. C. Use Puppet to create the managed instance group and install the OS package dependencies. D. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group and Ansible to install the OS package dependencies.

B

You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. The script is printing errors that it cannot connect toBigQuery.What should you do to fix the script? A. Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python B. Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope enabled C. Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with that user D. Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install bq.

B

Your applications will be writing their logs to BigQuery for analysis. Each application should have its own table. Any logs older than 45 days should be removed.You want to optimize storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do? A. Configure the expiration time for your tables at 45 days B. Make the tables time-partitioned, and configure the partition expiration at 45 days C. Rely on BigQuery's default behavior to prune application logs older than 45 days D. Create a script that uses the BigQuery command line tool (bq) to remove records older than 45 days

B

Your architecture calls for the centralized collection of all admin activity and VM system logs within your project.How should you collect these logs from both VMs and services? A. All admin and VM system logs are automatically collected by Stackdriver. B. Stackdriver automatically collects admin activity logs for most services. The Stackdriver Logging agent must be installed on each instance to collect system logs. C. Launch a custom syslogd compute instance and configure your GCP project and VMs to forward all logs to it. D. Install the Stackdriver Logging agent on a single compute instance and let it collect all audit and access logs for your environment.

B

Your company has multiple on-premises systems that serve as sources for reporting. The data has not been maintained well and has become degraded over time.You want to use Google-recommended practices to detect anomalies in your company data. What should you do? A. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data. B. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data. C. Connect Cloud Datalab to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data. D. Connect Cloud Dataprep to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.

B

Your company is building a new architecture to support its data-centric business focus. You are responsible for setting up the network. Your company's mobile and web-facing applications will be deployed on-premises, and all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to process and load 7 years of archived .csv files totaling 900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an existing 100-MB internet connection.What actions will meet your company's needs? A. Compress and upload both archived files and files uploaded daily using the qsutil ""m option. B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnect or Direct Peering connection and use it to upload files daily. C. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish one Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compares and upload files daily using the gsutil ""m option. D. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compress and upload files daily.

B

You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud services that run on Google Compute Engine with CloudBigtable.Which three requirements should they include? Choose 3 answers. A. Ensure that the load tests validate the performance of Cloud Bigtable B. Create a separate Google Cloud project to use for the load-testing environment C. Schedule the load-testing tool to regularly run against the production environment D. Ensure all third-party systems your services use is capable of handling high load E. Instrument the production services to record every transaction for replay by the load-testing tool F. Instrument the load-testing tool and the target services with detailed logging and metrics collection

B, E, F

Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that are not time-critical. You also need to use GCP services that are HIPAA-certified and manage service costs.How should you design to meet Google best practices? A. Provisioning preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant. B. Provisioning preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant. C. Provision standard VMs in the same region to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant. D. Provision standard VMs to the same region to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.

B

Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance.How should you configure the storage? A. Configure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk snapshots. B. Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to move the backup to Google Cloud Storage. C. Use gcsfise to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write backups to the mounted location using mysqldump. D. Mount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10 array and use LVM to create snapshots to send to Cloud Storage

B

Your company wants to start using Google Cloud resources but wants to retain their on-premises Active Directory domain controller for identity management.What should you do? A. Use the Admin Directory API to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller. B. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize Active Directory usernames with cloud identities and configure SAML SSO. C. Use Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy configured to use the on-premises Active Directory domain controller as an identity provider. D. Use Compute Engine to create an Active Directory (AD) domain controller that is a replica of the on-premises AD domain controller using Google Cloud Directory Sync.

B

Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about account owners and office locations.Which database type should you use? A. Flat file B. NoSQL C. Relational D. Blobstore

B

Your company's test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual machines. The full test suite takes several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on-premises servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce the amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as possible.Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend? A. Google Compute Engine unmanaged instance groups and Network Load Balancer B. Google Compute Engine managed instance groups with auto-scaling C. Google Cloud Dataproc to run Apache Hadoop jobs to process each test D. Google App Engine with Google StackDriver for logging

B

Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set up yourself as the org admin.What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team? A. Org viewer, project owner B. Org viewer, project viewer C. Org admin, project browser D. Project owner, network admin

B

Your customer wants to capture multiple GBs of aggregate real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) from their game servers running on Google Cloud Platform and monitor the KPIs with low latency. How should they capture the KPIs? A. Store time-series data from the game servers in Google Bigtable, and view it using Google Data Studio. B. Output custom metrics to Stackdriver from the game servers, and create a Dashboard in Stackdriver Monitoring Console to view them. C. Schedule BigQuery load jobs to ingest analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage every ten minutes, and visualize the results in Google Data Studio. D. Insert the KPIs into Cloud Datastore entities, and run ad hoc analysis and visualizations of them in Cloud Datalab.

B

Your company just finished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have another 9 months to design and deploy a more cloud-native solution. Specifically, you want a system that is no-ops and auto-scaling.Which two compute products should you choose? Choose 2 answers. A. Compute Engine with containers B. Google Kubernetes Engine with containers C. Google App Engine Standard Environment D. Compute Engine with custom instance types E. Compute Engine with managed instance groups

B, C

Your company places a high value on being responsive and meeting customer needs quickly. Their primary business objectives are release speed and agility. You want to reduce the chance of security errors being accidentally introduced.Which two actions can you take? Choose 2 answers. A. Ensure every code check-in is peer reviewed by a security SME B. Use source code security analyzers as part of the CI/CD pipeline C. Ensure you have stubs to unit test all interfaces between components D. Enable code signing and a trusted binary repository integrated with your CI/CD pipeline E. Run a vulnerability security scanner as part of your continuous-integration /continuous-delivery (CI/CD) pipeline

B, E

A lead software engineer tells you that his new application design uses websockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to help him ensure his application will run properly on Google Cloud Platform.What should you do? A. Help the engineer to convert his websocket code to use HTTP streaming B. Review the encryption requirements for websocket connections with the security team C. Meet with the cloud operations team and the engineer to discuss load balancer options D. Help the engineer redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on websockets and HTTP sessions.

C

A recent audit revealed that a new network was created in your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open to the world. You want to discover this network's origin.What should you do? A. Search for Create VM entry in the Stackdriver alerting console B. Navigate to the Activity page in the Home section. Set category to Data Access and search for Create VM entry C. In the Logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section. Search for the Create Insert entry D. Connect to the GCE instance using project SSH keys. Identify previous logins in system logs, and match these with the project owners list

C

An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a better tool to capture errors and help them analyze their historical log data. You want to help them find a solution that meets their needs.What should you do? A. Direct them to download and install the Google StackDriver logging agent B. Send them a list of online resources about logging best practices C. Help them define their requirements and assess viable logging tools D. Help them upgrade their current tool to take advantage of any new features

C

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? A. Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics traffic. B. Build a test client that can be run from a mobile phone emulator on a Compute Engine virtual machine, and run multiple copies in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world to generate realistic traffic. C. Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics files uploaded from mobile devices. D. Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.

C

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? A. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer. B. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer. C. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer. D. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

C

Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization, folders, and projects. When Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy at a particular node of the hierarchy? A. The effective policy is determined only by the policy set at the node B. The effective policy is the policy set at the node and restricted by the policies of its ancestors C. The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors D. The effective policy is the intersection of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors

C

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 immutableWhich set of products should they use? A. Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine B. Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Network Load Balancer C. Google Kubernetes Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer D. Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Deployment Manager

C

One of your primary business objectives is being able to trust the data stored in your application. You want to log all changes to the application data.How can you design your logging system to verify authenticity of your logs? A. Write the log concurrently in the cloud and on premises B. Use a SQL database and limit who can modify the log table C. Digitally sign each timestamp and log entry and store the signature D. Create a JSON dump of each log entry and store it in Google Cloud Storage

C

You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customer's 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? A. Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics B. Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics C. Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics D. Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer local inventory by a fixed factor

C

You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN to maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is completed. You want to make sure all your on-premise systems remain reachable during this period. How should you organize your networking in Google Cloud? A. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises B. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises C. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises D. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range with the same IP range as you use on-premises

C

You have a Python web application with many dependencies that requires 0.1 CPU cores and 128 MB of memory to operate in production. You want to monitor and maximize machine utilization. You also want to reliably deploy new versions of the application. Which set of steps should you take? A. Perform the following: 1. Create a managed instance group with f1-micro type machines. 2. Use a startup script to clone the repository, check out the production branch, install the dependencies, and start the Python app. 3. Restart the instances to automatically deploy new production releases. B. Perform the following: 1. Create a managed instance group with n1-standard-1 type machines. 2. Build a Compute Engine image from the production branch that contains all of the dependencies and automatically starts the Python app. 3. Rebuild the Compute Engine image, and update the instance template to deploy new production releases. C. Perform the following: 1. Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster with n1-standard-1 type machines. 2. Build a Docker image from the production branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with the version number. 3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment with the imagePullPolicy set to "IfNotPresent" in the staging namespace, and then promote it to the production namespace after testing. D. Perform the following: 1. Create a GKE cluster with n1-standard-4 type machines. 2. Build a Docker image from the master branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with "latest". 3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment in the default namespace with the imagePullPolicy set to "Always". Restart the pods to automatically deploy new production releases.

C

You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an architecture that takes into account a disaster recovery plan that requires your application to fail over to another region in case of a regional outage. What should you do? A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but in a different region. Use the first instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster. B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance. Use the instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to an instance on your premises in case of a disaster. C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same project but in a different region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group in case of a disaster. D. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in separate project and a different region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster.

C

You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do? A. Use gcloud sql instances restart. B. Validate that the Service Account used by the Cloud SQL proxy container still has the Cloud Build Editor role. C. In the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging. Consult logs for Kubernetes Engine and Cloud SQL. D. In the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL. Restore the latest backup. Use kubectl to restart all pods.

C

You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there's no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the zones within aGCP region. What should you do? A. Configure a Cloud SQL instance with high availability enabled. B. Configure a Cloud Spanner instance with a regional instance configuration. C. Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different subnets. D. Set up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different zones.

C

You set up an autoscaling instance group to serve web traffic for an upcoming launch. After configuring the instance group as a backend service to an HTTP(S) load balancer, you notice that virtual machine (VM) instances are being terminated and re-launched every minute. The instances do not have a public IP address.You have verified the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using the curl command. You want to ensure the backend is configured correctly.What should you do? A. Ensure that a firewall rules exists to allow source traffic on HTTP/HTTPS to reach the load balancer. B. Assign a public IP to each instance and configure a firewall rule to allow the load balancer to reach the instance public IP. C. Ensure that a firewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the instances in the instance group. D. Create a tag on each instance with the name of the load balancer. Configure a firewall rule with the name of the load balancer as the source and the instance tag as the destination.

C

You want to enable your running Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes.What should you do? A. Add additional nodes to your Kubernetes Engine cluster using the following command: gcloud container clusters resize CLUSTER_Name "" -size 10 B. Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command: gcloud compute instances add-tags INSTANCE - -tags enable- autoscaling max-nodes-10 C. Update the existing Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster - -enable- autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10 D. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster - -enable- autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10 and redeploy your application

C

Your company acquired a healthcare startup and must retain its customers' medical information for up to 4 more years, depending on when it was created. Your corporate policy is to securely retain this data, and then delete it as soon as regulations allow.Which approach should you take? A. Store the data in Google Drive and manually delete records as they expire. B. Anonymize the data using the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API and store it indefinitely. C. Store the data in Cloud Storage and use lifecycle management to delete files when they expire. D. Store the data in Cloud Storage and run a nightly batch script that deletes all expired data.

C

Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used heavily during regular business hours and lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the application is slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application's performance. What should you do? A. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create an instance template from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template. B. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create a custom image from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the custom image. C. Create a custom image from the existing disk. Create an instance template from the custom image. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template. D. Create an instance template from the existing disk. Create a custom image from the instance template. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the custom image.

C

Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is distributed over several Google Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery need to be billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no query costs are incurred on the projects that contain the data. Users should be able to query the datasets, but not edit them.How should you configure users' access roles? A. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the role of BigQuery user on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data. B. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery user on the projects that contain the data. C. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data. D. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery jobUser on the projects that contain the data.

C

Your customer wants to do resilience testing of their authentication layer. This consists of a regional managed instance group serving a public REST API that reads from and writes to a Cloud SQL instance.What should you do? A. Engage with a security company to run web scrapers that look your users' authentication data om malicious websites and notify you if any if found. B. Deploy intrusion detection software to your virtual machines to detect and log unauthorized access. C. Schedule a disaster simulation exercise during which you can shut off all VMs in a zone to see how your application behaves. D. Configure a read replica for your Cloud SQL instance in a different zone than the master, and then manually trigger a failover while monitoring KPIs for our REST API.

C

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? A. Create network load balancers. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances. B. Create network load balancers. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances. C. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances. D. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.

D

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? A. Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries. B. Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries. C. Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries. D. Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

D

TerramEarth has equipped all connected trucks with servers and sensors to collect 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? A. Have the vehicle's computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Nearline bucket B. Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Google BigQuery C. Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Cloud Bigtable D. Have the vehicle's computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a GCS Coldline bucket

D

TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location, its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US, Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data.What is the most cost-effective way to run this job? A. Move all the data into 1 zone, then launch a Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job B. Move all the data into 1 region, then launch a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job C. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a multi-region bucket and use a Dataproc cluster to finish the job D. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a region bucket and use a Cloud Dataproc cluster to finish the job

D

The application reliability team at your company this added a debug feature to their backend service to send all server events to Google Cloud Storage for eventual analysis. The event records are at least 50 KB and at most 15 MB and are expected to peak at 3,000 events per second. You want to minimize data loss.Which process should you implement? A. "¢ Append metadata to file body "¢ Compress individual files "¢ Name files with serverName "" Timestamp "¢ Create a new bucket if bucket is older than 1 hour and save individual files to the new bucket. Otherwise, save files to existing bucket. B. "¢ Batch every 10,000 events with a single manifest file for metadata "¢ Compress event files and manifest file into a single archive file "¢ Name files using serverName "" EventSequence "¢ Create a new bucket if bucket is older than 1 day and save the single archive file to the new bucket. Otherwise, save the single archive file to existing bucket. C. "¢ Compress individual files "¢ Name files with serverName "" EventSequence "¢ Save files to one bucket "¢ Set custom metadata headers for each object after saving D. "¢ Append metadata to file body "¢ Compress individual files "¢ Name files with a random prefix pattern "¢ Save files to one bucket

D

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? A. Use one Google Container Engine cluster of FTP servers. Save the data to a Multi-Regional bucket. Run the ETL process using data in the bucket B. Use multiple Google Container Engine clusters running FTP servers located in different regions. Save the data to Multi-Regional buckets in US, EU, and Asia. Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket C. Directly transfer the files to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in US, EU, and Asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket D. Directly transfer the files to a different Google Cloud Regional Storage bucket location in US, EU, and Asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process to retrieve the data from each Regional bucket

D

You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-premises database. For security purposes, your on-premises database must not be accessible through the public Internet. What should you do? A. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit access to the open on-premises database. B. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database. C. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit access to the on-premises database. D. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database.

D

You are tasked with building an online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tool. This requires a relational database that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google-recommended tool for such applications? A. Cloud Spanner, because it is globally distributed B. Cloud SQL, because it is a fully managed relational database C. Cloud Firestore, because it offers real-time synchronization across devices D. BigQuery, because it is designed for large-scale processing of tabular data

D

You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a specific zone. You want to introduce high availability. What should you do? A. Create a read replica instance in a different region B. Create a failover replica instance in a different region C. Create a read replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone D. Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

D

You want to establish a Compute Engine application in a single VPC across two regions. The application must communicate over VPN to an on-premises network.How should you deploy the VPN? A. Use VPC Network Peering between the VPC and the on-premises network. B. Expose the VPC to the on-premises network using IAM and VPC Sharing. C. Create a global Cloud VPN Gateway with VPN tunnels from each region to the on-premises peer gateway. D. Deploy Cloud VPN Gateway in each region. Ensure that each region has at least one VPN tunnel to the on-premises peer gateway.

D

You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instance in a different project in the US-East region.What steps must you take? A. Use the Linux dd and netcat commands to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region. B. Create a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region. C. Create an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region D. Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file the root disk.

D

Your BigQuery project has several users. For audit purposes, you need to see how many queries each user ran in the last month. What should you do? A. Connect Google Data Studio to BigQuery. Create a dimension for the users and a metric for the amount of queries per user. B. In the BigQuery interface, execute a query on the JOBS table to get the required information. C. Use "˜bq show' to list all jobs. Per job, use "˜bq Is' to list job information and get the required information. D. Use Cloud Audit Logging to view Cloud Audit Logs, and create a filter on the query operation to get the required information.

D

Your company creates rendering software which users can download from the company website. Your company has customers all over the world. You want to minimize latency for all your customers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.How should you store the files? A. Save the files in a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket. B. Save the files in a Regional Cloud Storage bucket, one bucket per zone of the region. C. Save the files in multiple Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per zone per region. D. Save the files in multiple Multi-Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per multi-region.

D

Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create better experiences for their developers. They need to keep the old version of the API available and deployable, while allowing new customers and testers to try out the new API. They want to keep the same SSL and DNS records in place to serve both APIs.What should they do? A. Configure a new load balancer for the new version of the API B. Reconfigure old clients to use a new endpoint for the new API C. Have the old API forward traffic to the new API based on the path D. Use separate backend pools for each API path behind the load balancer

D

Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users. The company has begun experimenting with a machine learning model on Google Cloud Platform to improve the quality of results.What should the customer do to improve their model's results over time? A. Export Cloud Machine Learning Engine performance metrics from Stackdriver to BigQuery, to be used to analyze the efficiency of the model. B. Build a roadmap to move the machine learning model training from Cloud GPUs to Cloud TPUs, which offer better results. C. Monitor Compute Engine announcements for availability of newer CPU architectures, and deploy the model to them as soon as they are available for additional performance. D. Save a history of recommendations and results of the recommendations in BigQuery, to be used as training data.

D

Your web application must comply with the requirements of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You are responsible for the technical architecture of your web application. What should you do? A. Ensure that your web application only uses native features and services of Google Cloud Platform, because Google already has various certifications and provides "pass-on" compliance when you use native features. B. Enable the relevant GDPR compliance setting within the GCPConsole for each of the services in use within your application. C. Ensure that Cloud Security Scanner is part of your test planning strategy in order to pick up any compliance gaps. D. Define a design for the security of data in your web application that meets GDPR requirements.

D