Google: Professional Cloud Architect

Question: 1
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 2
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

Correct Answer: A

Question: 3
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 three.)
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
Correct Answer: C D E

Question: 4
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 5
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 6
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 two.)
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
Correct Answer: A C

Question: 7
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
two.)
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)
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
Correct Answer: A D

Question: 8
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 9
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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 10
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 to
BigQuery.
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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 11
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?
A. Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google
B. Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider
C. Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool
D. Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password
Correct Answer: B

Question: 12
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their
data stream to optimize operations. They do not have any existing code for this
analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These options include a mix of
batch and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and live-
processing some data as it comes in. Which technology should they use for this?
A. Google Cloud Dataproc
B. Google Cloud Dataflow
C. Google Container Engine with Bigtable
D. Google Compute Engine with Google BigQuery
Correct Answer: B
Question: 13
Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine
application is taking approximately 30 seconds to load for some of their users.
This behavior was not reported before the update. What strategy should you take?

A. Work with your ISP to diagnose the problem

B. Open a support ticket to ask for network capture and flow data to diagnose the
problem, then roll back your application
C. Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver
Trace and Logging to diagnose the problem in a development/test/staging
environment
D. Roll back to an earlier known good release, then push the release again at a
quieter period to investigate. Then use Stackdriver Trace and Logging to diagnose
the problem
Correct Answer: C

Question: 14
A production database virtual machine on Google Compute Engine has an
ext4-formatted persistent disk for data files. The database is about to run out of
storage space.
How can you remediate the problem with the least amount of downtime?
A. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and
use the resize2fs command in Linux.
B. Shut down the virtual machine, use the Cloud Platform Console to increase the
persistent disk size, then restart the virtual machine
C. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and verify
the new space is ready to use with the fdisk command in Linux
D. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a new persistent disk attached to the
virtual machine, format and mount it, and configure the database service to move
the files to the new disk
E. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a snapshot of the persistent disk restore
the snapshot to a new larger disk, unmount the old disk, mount the new disk and
restart the database service
Correct Answer: A

Question: 15
Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest
scope of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance without compromising the ability
to analyze transactional data and trends relating to which payment methods are
used.
How should you design your architecture?
A. Create a tokenizer service and store only tokenized data
B. Create separate projects that only process credit card data
C. Create separate subnetworks and isolate the components that process credit
card data
D. Streamline the audit discovery phase by labeling all of the virtual machines
(VMs) that process PCI data
E. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope
the data shared with the auditor
Correct Answer: A

Question: 16
You have been asked to select the storage system for the click-data of your
company's large portfolio of websites. This data is streamed in from a custom
website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute. With bursts of
up to 8,500 clicks per second. It must have been stored for future analysis by your
data science and user experience teams.
Which storage infrastructure should you choose?
A. Google Cloud SQL
B. Google Cloud Bigtable
C. Google Cloud Storage
D. Google Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: B

Question: 17
You are creating a solution to remove backup files older than 90 days from your
backup Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend.
What should you do?
A. Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil
B. Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with
gsutil
C. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls "lr gs://backups/** to find and remove items
older than 90 days
D. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls "l gs://backups/** to find and remove items
older than 90 days and schedule it with cron
Correct Answer: B

Question: 18
Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache
Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter. You want to utilize the
cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations
work and code change.
Which product should you use?
A. Google Cloud Dataflow
B. Google Cloud Dataproc
C. Google Compute Engine
D. Google Kubernetes Engine
Correct Answer: B

Question: 19
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the
performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The
database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built
with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine
with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk.
What should they change to get better performance from this system?
A. Increase the virtual machine's memory to 64 GB
B. Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL
C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB
D. Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery
E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database
Correct Answer: C

Question: 20
Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard LAMP stack replicated
across two zones. It is deployed in the us-central1 region and uses autoscaled
managed instance groups on all layers, except the database. Currently, only a small
group of select customers have access to the portal. The portal meets a
99,99% availability SLA under these conditions. However next quarter, your
company will be making the portal available to all users, including unauthenticated
users. You need to develop a resiliency testing strategy to ensure the system
maintains the SLA once they introduce additional user load. What should you do?
A. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until autoscale is
triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate all resources in one of the zones
B. Create synthetic random user input, replay synthetic load until autoscale
logic is triggered on at least one layer, and introduce chaos to the system by
terminating random resources on both zones
C. Expose the new system to a larger group of users, and increase group size each
day until autoscale logic is triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate
random resources on both zones
D. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until resource
utilization crosses 80%. Also, derive estimated number of users based on existing
user's usage of the app, and deploy enough resources to handle 200% of expected
load
Correct Answer: B

Question: 21
You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting
application. The data comes from 50,000 sensors sending 10 readings a second, in
the format of a timestamp and sensor reading.
Where should you store the data?
A. Google BigQuery
B. Google Cloud SQL
C. Google Cloud Bigtable
D. Google Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: C

Question: 22
One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container
Engine with the Dockerfile below. They report that their application deployments are
taking too long.
You want to optimize this Dockerfile for faster deployment times without adversely
affecting the app's functionality.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)
A. Remove Python after running pip
B. Remove dependencies from requirements.txt
C. Use a slimmed-down base image like Alpine Linux
D. Use larger machine types for your Google Container Engine node pools
E. Copy the source after he package dependencies (Python and pip) are
installed
Correct Answer: C E

Question: 23
Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in
staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment
procedures to avoid this problem in the future.
What should you do?
A. Deploy fewer changes to production
B. Deploy smaller changes to production
C. Increase the load on your test and staging environments
D. Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production
Correct Answer: C

Question: 24
A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a
very long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse many services.
You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases.
What should you do?
A. Set timeouts on your application so that you can fail requests faster
B. Send custom metrics for each of your requests to Stackdriver Monitoring
C. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to look for insights that show when your API
latencies are high
D. Instrument your application with Stackdriver Trace in order to break down
the request latencies at each microservice
Correct Answer: D

Question: 25
During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes,
but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future.
What should you do?
A. Use a different database
B. Choose larger instances for your database
C. Create snapshots of your database more regularly
D. Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases
Correct Answer: D

Question: 26
Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years
for future analysis in possible legal proceedings.
Which approach should you use?
A. Grant the security team access to the logs in each Project
B. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery
C. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention
policies
D. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google
Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: D

Question: 27
Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user
authentication PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4
TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication requires private address space
communication.
Which networking approach should you use?
A. Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect
B. Google Cloud VPN connected to the data center network
C. A NAT and TLS translation gateway installed on-premises
D. A Google Compute Engine instance with a VPN server installed connected to
the data center network
Correct Answer: A

Question: 28
Auditors visit your teams every 12 months and ask to review all the Google Cloud
Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) policy changes in the previous 12
months. You want to streamline and expedite the analysis and audit process.
What should you do?
A. Create custom Google Stackdriver alerts and send them to the auditor
B. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to
scope the data shared with the auditor
C. Use cloud functions to transfer log entries to Google Cloud SQL and use ACLs
and views to limit an auditor's view
D. Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs into a GCS bucket
and delegate access to the bucket
Correct Answer: B

Question: 29
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of
your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want
to store the credentials securely. Where should you store the credentials?
A. In the source code
B. In an environment variable
C. In a secret management system
D. In a config file that has restricted access through ACLs
Correct Answer: C

Question: 30
A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy
data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment.
You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? (Choose
two.)
A. Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python
B. Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future
C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers
D. Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run
E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud
resources
F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud
resources
Correct Answer: E F
Question: 31
A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his
requirements and identify what cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The
application must:
1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability
2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
3. Support continuous software delivery
4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack
5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates
6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL
Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?
A. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Helm
B. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Load Balancing
C. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Deployment Manager
D. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing
Correct Answer: A

Question: 32
You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using
Google Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your application before
the virtual machines are preempted.
What should you do?
A. Create a shutdown script named k99.shutdown in the /etc/rc.6.d/ directory
B. Create a shutdown script registered as a xinetd service in Linux and configure a
Stackdriver endpoint check to call the service
C. Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry
with the key shutdown-script in the Cloud Platform Console when you create
the new virtual machine instance
D. Create a shutdown script, registered as a xinetd service in Linux, and use the
gcloud compute instances add-metadata command to specify the service URL as
the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script-url
Correct Answer: C

Question: 33
Your development team has installed a new Linux kernel module on the batch
servers in Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machines (VMs) to speed up the
nightly batch process. Two days after the installation, 50% of the batch servers
failed the nightly batch run. You want to collect details on the failure to pass back to
the development team.
Which three actions should you take? (Choose three.)
A. Use Stackdriver Logging to search for the module log entries
B. Read the debug GCE Activity log using the API or Cloud Console
C. Use gcloud or Cloud Console to connect to the serial console and observe
the logs
D. Identify whether a live migration event of the failed server occurred, using in the
activity log
E. Adjust the Google Stackdriver timeline to match the failure time, and
observe the batch server metrics
F. Export a debug VM into an image, and run the image on a local server where
kernel log messages will be displayed on the native screen
Correct Answer: A C E

Question: 34
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on
Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of
the others. Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on
to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier.
How should you configure the network?
A. Add each tier to a different subnetwork
B. Set up software based firewalls on individual VMs
C. Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired traffic flow
D. Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic
flow
Correct Answer: D

Question: 35
Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They want to archive
approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and test the analytics features
available to them there, while also retaining that data as a long-term disaster
recovery backup.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)
A. Load logs into Google BigQuery
B. Load logs into Google Cloud SQL
C. Import logs into Google Stackdriver
D. Insert logs into Google Cloud Bigtable
E. Upload log files into Google Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: A E

Question: 36
You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your
infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes negatively
affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix it, and
investigation could take up to a week. What should you do?
A. Log in to a server, and iterate on the fox locally
B. Revert the source code change, and rerun the deployment pipeline
C. Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code
D. Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all
instances
Correct Answer: B

Question: 37
Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments
independently, but centrally. Which approach should you take?
A. Multiple Organizations with multiple Folders
B. Multiple Organizations, one for each department
C. A single Organization with Folders for each department
D. A single Organization with multiple projects, each with a central owner
Correct Answer: C

Question: 38
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy
and gives you the following stack trace. What should you do?
A. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application.
B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application
C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1
Correct Answer: B

Question: 39
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot
spoof chat messages, by providing a message were sent by a specific user.
What should you do?
A. Tag messages client side with the originating user identifier and the destination
user.
B. Encrypt the message client side using block-based encryption with a shared key.
C. Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client side
using the originating user's private key.
D. Use a trusted certificate authority to enable SSL connectivity between the client
application and the server.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 40
As part of implementing their disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to
replicate their production MySQL database from their private data center to their
GCP project using a Google Cloud VPN connection. They are experiencing latency
issues and a small amount of packet loss that is disrupting the replication.
What should they do?
A. Configure their replication to use UDP.
B. Configure a Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect.
C. Restore their database daily using Google Cloud SQL.
D. Add additional VPN connections and load balance them.
E. Send the replicated transaction to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 41
Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable
for retention and analysis. What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this
data of personally identifiable information or payment card information before initial
storage?
A. Hash all data using SHA256
B. Encrypt all data using elliptic curve cryptography
C. De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
D. Use regular expressions to find and redact phone numbers, email addresses,
and credit card numbers
Correct Answer: C

Question: 42
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few
weeks. Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and
persists across sessions?
A. ~/bin
B. Cloud Storage
C. /google/scripts
D. /usr/local/bin
Correct Answer: A

Question: 43
You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute
Engine and your on-premises data center. You require a connection of at least 20
Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you set up
the connection?
A. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using
Dedicated Interconnect.
B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single
Cloud VPN.
C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your
on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
D. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your
on-premises datacenter using a single Cloud VPN.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 44
You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup's trial
usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for your product will
be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to
Google best practices. What should you do?
A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service
cost management.
B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team
about service cost management.
C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for
service cost management.
D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about
service cost management.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 45
You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source
repository and want to ensure that code changes can be verified before deploying to
production. What should you do?
A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment strategy so
that changes can easily be rolled back.
B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production deployments.
C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch. Build and deploy
changes to production for 10% of users before doing a complete rollout.
D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a
staging environment for testing. After testing, tag the repository for
production and deploy that to the production environment.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 46
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instances keep
restarting after 5 seconds. You have a health check configured, but autoscaling is disabled.
Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure
that he can access the VMs. What should you do?
A. Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer
B. Perform a rolling restart on the instance group
C. Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the
project-wide SSH Keys
D. Disable autoscaling for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH
Keys
Correct Answer: C

Question: 47
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the
migration, you want to integrate Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for workload
orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-compliant. Which of the
following is most accurate?
A. App Engine is the only compute platform on GCP that is certified for PCI DSS hosting.
B. GKE cannot be used under PCI DSS because it is considered shared hosting.
C. GKE and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant
environment.
D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certified
PCI-compliant.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 48
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.
Correct Answer: B
Question: 49
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 50
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 51
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 to 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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 52
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 a
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 group
in case of a disaster.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 53
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 54
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.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 55
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 56
You have an application deployed on Google 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>
Correct Answer: A

Question: 57
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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 58
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 59
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 60
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 a
GCP 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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 61
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 62
You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the
evaluation and create a skills gap plan which 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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 63
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. Google Kubernetes Engine
D. AppEngine flexible environment
Correct Answer: A

Question: 64
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 65
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 66
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 67
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 Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 68
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.

Correct Answer: B

Question: 69
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 70
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 71
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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 72
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 to authorize particular
service accounts to have access
Correct Answer: B

Question: 73
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.

Correct Answer: A

Question: 74
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 75
You have deployed an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), 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
(GKE) and Cloud SQL.
D. In the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL. Restore the latest backup. Use
kubectl to restart all pods.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 76
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 77
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 78
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 79
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 80
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 81
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. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services
and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.
B. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue
use of all GCP services 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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 82
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 for users'
authentication data om malicious websites and notify you if any is 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.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 83
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 ls' 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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 84
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 new
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 85
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 86
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 87
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: 20 TB 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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 88
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 89
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 90
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 91
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 92
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 93
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 94
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 load balancing.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 95
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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 96
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 to monitor
and debug your tests.
D. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor
and debug your tests.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 97
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 98
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.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 99
You are deploying a PHP App Engine Standard service with Cloud 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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 100
You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task
scheduling for compute on GCP. Leveraging Google best practices, what should you do?
A. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish 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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 101
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 gsutil
"m option.
B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to 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 to Google to
transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish one Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC
networks over the public internet, and compress 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.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 102
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 103
Your company is planning to perform a lift and shift migration of their Linux RHEL
6.5+ virtual machines. The virtual machines are running in an on-premises
VMware environment. You want to migrate them to Compute Engine following
Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. 1. Define a migration plan based on the list of the applications and their
dependencies. 2. Migrate all virtual machines into Compute Engine individually with
Migrate for Compute Engine.
B. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current VMware
environment. 2. Create images of all disks. Import disks on Compute Engine. 3.
Create standard virtual machines where the boot disks are the ones you have
imported.
C. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current
VMware environment. 2. Define a migration plan, prepare a Migrate for
Compute Engine migration RunBook, and execute the migration.
D. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current VMware
environment. 2. Install a third-party agent on all selected virtual machines. 3.
Migrate all virtual machines into Compute Engine.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 104
You need to deploy an application to Google Cloud. The application receives traffic
via TCP and reads and writes data to the filesystem. The application does not
support horizontal scaling. The application process requires full control over the
data on the file system because concurrent access causes corruption. The
business is willing to accept a downtime when an incident occurs, but the
application must be available 24/7 to support their business operations. You need to
design the architecture of this application on Google Cloud. What should you do?
A. Use a managed instance group with instances in multiple zones, use Cloud
Filestore, and use an HTTP load balancer in front of the instances.
B. Use a managed instance group with instances in multiple zones, use Cloud
Filestore, and use a network load balancer in front of the instances.
C. Use an unmanaged instance group with an active and standby instance in
different zones, use a regional persistent disk, and use an HTTP load balancer in
front of the instances.
D. Use an unmanaged instance group with an active and standby instance in
different zones, use a regional persistent disk, and use a network load
balancer in front of the instances.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 105
Your company has an application running on multiple Compute Engine instances.
You need to ensure that the application can communicate with an on-premises
service that requires high throughput via internal IPs, while minimizing latency.
What should you do?
A. Use OpenVPN to configure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment
and Google Cloud.
B. Configure a direct peering connection between the on-premises environment
and Google Cloud.
C. Use Cloud VPN to configure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises
environment and Google Cloud.
D. Configure a Cloud Dedicated Interconnect connection between the
on-premises environment and Google Cloud.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 106
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?
A. Deploy a new revision to Cloud Run with the new version. Configure traffic
percentage between revisions.
B. Deploy a new service to Cloud Run with the new version. Add a Cloud Load
Balancing instance in front of both services.
C. In the Google Cloud Console page for Cloud Run, set up continuous deployment
using Cloud Build for the development branch. As part of the Cloud Build trigger,
configure the substitution variable TRAFFIC_PERCENTAGE with the percentage of
traffic you want directed to a new version.
D. In the Google Cloud Console, configure Traffic Director with a new Service that
points to the new version of the application on Cloud Run. Configure Traffic Director
to send a small percentage of traffic to the new version of the application.=
Correct Answer: A

Question: 107
You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud
Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to triage
incidents quickly. What should you do?
A. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace,
and then add metrics and create alert policies.
B. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, create
custom metrics, and install alerting software on a Compute Engine instance.
C. Write a shell script that gathers metrics from GKE nodes, publish these metrics
to a Pub/Sub topic, export the data to BigQuery, and make a Data Studio
dashboard.
D. Create a custom dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring workspace for each
incident, and then add metrics and create alert policies.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 108
You are implementing a single Cloud SQL MySQL second-generation database that
contains business-critical transaction data. You want to ensure that the minimum
amount of data is lost in case of catastrophic failure. Which two features should you
implement? (Choose two.)
A. Sharding
B. Read replicas
C. Binary logging
D. Automated backups
E. Semisynchronous replication
Correct Answer: C D

Question: 109
You are working at a sports association whose members range in age from 8 to 30.
The association collects a large amount of health data, such as sustained injuries.
You are storing this data in BigQuery. Current legislation requires you to delete
such information upon request of the subject. You want to design a solution that can
accommodate such a request. What should you do?
A. Use a unique identifier for each individual. Upon a deletion request, delete
all rows from BigQuery with this identifier.
B. When ingesting new data in BigQuery, run the data through the Data Loss
Prevention (DLP) API to identify any personal information. As part of the DLP scan,
save the result to Data Catalog. Upon a deletion request, query Data Catalog to
find the column with personal information.
C. Create a BigQuery view over the table that contains all data. Upon a deletion
request, exclude the rows that affect the subject's data from this view. Use this view
instead of the source table for all analysis tasks.
D. Use a unique identifier for each individual. Upon a deletion request, overwrite the
column with the unique identifier with a salted SHA256 of its value.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 110
Your company has announced that they will be outsourcing operations functions.
You want to allow developers to easily stage new versions of a cloud-based
application in the production environment and allow the outsourced operations
team to autonomously promote staged versions to production. You want to
minimize the operational overhead of the solution. Which Google Cloud product
should you migrate to?
A. App Engine
B. GKE On-Prem
C. Compute Engine
D. Google Kubernetes Engine
Correct Answer: A

Question: 111
Your company is running its application workloads on Compute Engine. The
applications have been deployed in production, acceptance, and development
environments. The production environment is business-critical and is used 24/7,
while the acceptance and development environments are only critical during office
hours. Your CFO has asked you to optimize these environments to achieve cost
savings during idle times. What should you do?
A. Create a shell script that uses the gcloud command to change the machine type
of the development and acceptance instances to a smaller machine type outside of
office hours. Schedule the shell script on one of the production instances to
automate the task.
B. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function that will stop the
development and acceptance environments after office hours and start them
just before office hours.
C. Deploy the development and acceptance applications on a managed instance
group and enable autoscaling.
D. Use regular Compute Engine instances for the production environment, and use
preemptible VMs for the acceptance and development environments.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 112
You are moving an application that uses MySQL from on-premises to Google Cloud. The
application will run on Compute Engine and will use Cloud SQL. You want to cut over to the
Compute Engine deployment of the application with minimal downtime and no data loss to
your customers. You want to migrate the application with minimal modification. You also
need to determine the cutover strategy. What should you do?
A. 1. Set up Cloud VPN to provide private network connectivity between the Compute
Engine application and the on-premises MySQL server. 2. Stop the on-premises
application. 3. Create a mysqldump of the on-premises MySQL server. 4. Upload the dump
to a Cloud Storage bucket. 5. Import the dump into Cloud SQL. 6. Modify the source code
of the application to write queries to both databases and read from its local database. 7.
Start the Compute Engine application. 8. Stop the on-premises application.
B. 1. Set up Cloud SQL proxy and MySQL proxy. 2. Create a mysqldump of the
on-premises MySQL server. 3. Upload the dump to a Cloud Storage bucket. 4. Import the
dump into Cloud SQL. 5. Stop the on-premises application. 6. Start the Compute Engine
application.
C. 1. Set up Cloud VPN to provide private network connectivity between the Compute
Engine application and the on-premises MySQL server. 2. Stop the on-premises
application. 3. Start the Compute Engine application, configured to read and write to
the on-premises MySQL server. 4. Create the replication configuration in Cloud SQL.
5. Configure the source database server to accept connections from the Cloud SQL
replica. 6. Finalize the Cloud SQL replica configuration. 7. When replication has been
completed, stop the Compute Engine application. 8. Promote the Cloud SQL replica
to a standalone instance. 9. Restart the Compute Engine application, configured to
read and write to the Cloud SQL standalone instance.
D. 1. Stop the on-premises application. 2. Create a mysqldump of the on-premises MySQL
server. 3. Upload the dump to a Cloud Storage bucket. 4. Import the dump into Cloud SQL.
5. Start the application on Compute Engine.

Correct Answer: C

Question: 113
Your organization has decided to restrict the use of external IP addresses on instances to
only approved instances. You want to enforce this requirement across all of your Virtual
Private Clouds (VPCs). What should you do?
A. Remove the default route on all VPCs. Move all approved instances into a new subnet
that has a default route to an internet gateway.
B. Create a new VPC in custom mode. Create a new subnet for the approved instances,
and set a default route to the internet gateway on this new subnet.
C. Implement a Cloud NAT solution to remove the need for external IP addresses entirely.
D. Set an Organization Policy with a constraint on
constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess. List the approved instances in the
allowedValues list.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 114
Your company uses the Firewall Insights feature in the Google Network Intelligence
Center. You have several firewall rules applied to Compute Engine instances.
You need to evaluate the efficiency of the applied firewall ruleset. When you bring
up the Firewall Insights page in the Google Cloud Console, you notice that there
are no log rows to display. What should you do to troubleshoot the issue?
A. Enable Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logging.
B. Enable Firewall Rules Logging for the firewall rules you want to monitor.
C. Verify that your user account is assigned the compute.networkAdmin Identity
and Access Management (IAM) role.
D. Install the Google Cloud SDK, and verify that there are no Firewall logs in the
command line output.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 115
Your company has sensitive data in Cloud Storage buckets. Data analysts have
Identity Access Management (IAM) permissions to read the buckets. You want to
prevent data analysts from retrieving the data in the buckets from outside the office
network. What should you do?
A. 1. Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter that includes the projects with
the buckets. 2. Create an access level with the CIDR of the office network.
B. 1. Create a firewall rule for all instances in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
network for source range. 2. Use the Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR) of the
office network.
C. 1. Create a Cloud Function to remove IAM permissions from the buckets, and
another Cloud Function to add IAM permissions to the buckets. 2. Schedule the
Cloud Functions with Cloud Scheduler to add permissions at the start of business
and remove permissions at the end of business.
D. 1. Create a Cloud VPN to the office network. 2. Configure Private Google Access
for on-premises hosts.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 116
You have developed a non-critical update to your application that is running in a
managed instance group, and have created a new instance template with the
update that you want to release. To prevent any possible impact to the application,
you don't want to update any running instances. You want any new instances that
are created by the managed instance group to contain the new update. What
should you do?
A. Start a new rolling restart operation.
B. Start a new rolling replace operation.
C. Start a new rolling update. Select the Proactive update mode.
D. Start a new rolling update. Select the Opportunistic update mode.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 117
Your company is designing its application landscape on Compute Engine.
Whenever a zonal outage occurs, the application should be restored in another
zone as quickly as possible with the latest application data. You need to design the
solution to meet this requirement. What should you do?
A. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data.
Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to restore the disk in the
same zone.
B. Configure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the
application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application data.
Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the
application in another zone in the same region. Use the regional persistent
disk for the application data.
C. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data.
Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to restore the disk in
another zone within the same region.
D. Configure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the
application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application data. Whenever a
zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the application in another
region. Use the regional persistent disk for the application data.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 118
Your company has just acquired another company, and you have been asked to
integrate their existing Google Cloud environment into your company's data center.
Upon investigation, you discover that some of the RFC 1918 IP ranges being used
in the new company's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) overlap with your data center IP
space. What should you do to enable connectivity and make sure that there are no
routing conflicts when connectivity is established?
A. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center,
create a Cloud Router, and apply new IP addresses so there is no overlapping
IP space.
B. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, and
create a Cloud NAT instance to perform NAT on the overlapping IP space.
C. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, create a
Cloud Router, and apply a custom route advertisement to block the overlapping IP
space.
D. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, and apply
a firewall rule that blocks the overlapping IP space.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 119
You need to migrate Hadoop jobs for your company's Data Science team without
modifying the underlying infrastructure. You want to minimize costs and
infrastructure management effort. What should you do?
A. Create a Dataproc cluster using standard worker instances.
B. Create a Dataproc cluster using preemptible worker instances.
C. Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using standard
instances.
D. Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using preemptible
instances.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 120
Your company has a project in Google Cloud with three Virtual Private Clouds
(VPCs). There is a Compute Engine instance on each VPC. Network subnets do
not overlap and must remain separated. The network configuration is shown below.
Instance #1 is an exception and must communicate directly with both Instance #2
and Instance #3 via internal IPs. How should you accomplish this?
A. Create a cloud router to advertise subnet #2 and subnet #3 to subnet #1.
B. Add two additional NICs to Instance #1 with the following configuration: ¢
NIC1 ‫ ‹—ג‬VPC: VPC #2 ‫ ‹—ג‬SUBNETWORK: subnet #2 ¢ NIC2 ‫ ‹—ג‬VPC: VPC
#3 ‫ ‹—ג‬SUBNETWORK: subnet #3 Update firewall rules to enable traffic
between instances.
C. Create two VPN tunnels via CloudVPN: ¢ 1 between VPC #1 and VPC #2. ¢ 1
between VPC #2 and VPC #3. Update firewall rules to enable traffic between the
instances.
D. Peer all three VPCs: ¢ Peer VPC #1 with VPC #2. ¢ Peer VPC #2 with VPC #3.
Update firewall rules to enable traffic between the instances.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 121
You need to deploy an application on Google Cloud that must run on a Debian
Linux environment. The application requires extensive configuration in order to
operate correctly. You want to ensure that you can install Debian distribution
updates with minimal manual intervention whenever they become available. What
should you do?
A. Create a Compute Engine instance template using the most recent Debian
image. Create an instance from this template, and install and configure the
application as part of the startup script. Repeat this process whenever a new
Google-managed Debian image becomes available.
B. Create a Debian-based Compute Engine instance, install and configure the
application, and use OS patch management to install available updates.
C. Create an instance with the latest available Debian image. Connect to the
instance via SSH, and install and configure the application on the instance. Repeat
this process whenever a new Google-managed Debian image becomes available.
D. Create a Docker container with Debian as the base image. Install and configure
the application as part of the Docker image creation process. Host the container on
Google Kubernetes Engine and restart the container whenever a new update is
available.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 122
You have an application that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Over the
last 2 weeks, customers have reported that a specific part of the application returns
errors very frequently. You currently have no logging or monitoring solution enabled
on your GKE cluster. You want to diagnose the problem, but you have not been
able to replicate the issue. You want to cause minimal disruption to the application.
What should you do?
A. 1. Update your GKE cluster to use Cloud Operations for GKE. 2. Use the
GKE Monitoring dashboard to investigate logs from affected Pods.
B. 1. Create a new GKE cluster with Cloud Operations for GKE enabled. 2. Migrate
the affected Pods to the new cluster, and redirect traffic for those Pods to the new
cluster. 3. Use the GKE Monitoring dashboard to investigate logs from affected
Pods.
C. 1. Update your GKE cluster to use Cloud Operations for GKE, and deploy
Prometheus. 2. Set an alert to trigger whenever the application returns an error.
D. 1. Create a new GKE cluster with Cloud Operations for GKE enabled, and
deploy Prometheus. 2. Migrate the affected Pods to the new cluster, and redirect
traffic for those Pods to the new cluster. 3. Set an alert to trigger whenever the
application returns an error.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 123
You need to deploy a stateful workload on Google Cloud. The workload can scale
horizontally, but each instance needs to read and write to the same POSIX
filesystem. At high load, the stateful workload needs to support up to 100 MB/s of
writes. What should you do?
A. Use a persistent disk for each instance.
B. Use a regional persistent disk for each instance.
C. Create a Cloud Filestore instance and mount it in each instance.
D. Create a Cloud Storage bucket and mount it in each instance using gcsfuse.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 124
Your company has an application deployed on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos
GKE) that is running multiple microservices. The cluster has both Anthos Service
Mesh and Anthos Config Management configured. End users inform you that the
application is responding very slowly. You want to identify the microservice that is
causing the delay. What should you do?
A. Use the Service Mesh visualization in the Cloud Console to inspect the
telemetry between the microservices.
B. Use Anthos Config Management to create a ClusterSelector selecting the
relevant cluster. On the Google Cloud Console page for Google Kubernetes
Engine, view the Workloads and filter on the cluster. Inspect the configurations of
the filtered workloads.
C. Use Anthos Config Management to create a namespaceSelector selecting the
relevant cluster namespace. On the Google Cloud Console page for Google
Kubernetes Engine, visit the workloads and filter on the namespace. Inspect the
configurations of the filtered workloads.
D. Reinstall istio using the default istio profile in order to collect request latency.
Evaluate the telemetry between the microservices in the Cloud Console.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 125
You are working at a financial institution that stores mortgage loan approval
documents on Cloud Storage. Any change to these approval documents must be
uploaded as a separate approval file, so you want to ensure that these documents
cannot be deleted or overwritten for the next 5 years. What should you do?
A. Create a retention policy on the bucket for the duration of 5 years. Create a
lock on the retention policy.
B. Create the bucket with uniform bucket-level access, and grant a service account
the role of Object Writer. Use the service account to upload new files.
C. Use a customer-managed key for the encryption of the bucket. Rotate the key
after 5 years.
D. Create the bucket with fine-grained access control, and grant a service account
the role of Object Writer. Use the service account to upload new files.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 126
Your team will start developing a new application using microservices architecture on
Kubernetes Engine. As part of the development lifecycle, any code change that has been
pushed to the remote develop branch on your GitHub repository should be built and tested
automatically. When the build and test are successful, the relevant microservice will be
deployed automatically in the development environment. You want to ensure that all code
deployed in the development environment follows this process. What should you do?
A. Have each developer install a pre-commit hook on their workstation that tests the
code and builds the container when committing on the development branch. After a
successful commit, have the developer deploy the newly built container image on
the development cluster.
B. Install a post-commit hook on the remote git repository that tests the code and
builds the container when code is pushed to the development branch. After a
successful commit, have the developer deploy the newly built container image on
the development cluster.
C. Create a Cloud Build trigger based on the development branch that tests
the code, builds the container, and stores it in Container Registry. Create a
deployment pipeline that watches for new images and deploys the new image
on the development cluster. Ensure only the deployment tool has access to
deploy new versions.
D. Create a Cloud Build trigger based on the development branch to build a new
container image and store it in Container Registry. Rely on Vulnerability Scanning
to ensure the code tests succeed. As the final step of the Cloud Build process,
deploy the new container image on the development cluster. Ensure only Cloud
Build has access to deploy new versions.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 127
Your operations team has asked you to help diagnose a performance issue in a production
application that runs on Compute Engine. The application is dropping requests that reach it
when under heavy load. The process list for affected instances shows a single application
process that is consuming all available CPU, and autoscaling has reached the upper limit
of instances. There is no abnormal load on any other related systems, including the
database. You want to allow production traffic to be served again as quickly as possible.
Which action should you recommend?
A. Change the autoscaling metric to agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used.
B. Restart the affected instances on a staggered schedule.
C. SSH to each instance and restart the application process.
D. Increase the maximum number of instances in the autoscaling group.
Correct Answer: D
Question: 128
You are implementing the infrastructure for a web service on Google Cloud. The
web service needs to receive and store the data from 500,000 requests per second.
The data will be queried later in real time, based on exact matches of a known set
of attributes. There will be periods where the web service will not receive any
requests. The business wants to keep costs low. Which web service platform and
database should you use for the application?
A. Cloud Run and BigQuery
B. Cloud Run and Cloud Bigtable
C. A Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and BigQuery
D. A Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and Cloud Bigtable
Correct Answer: B

Question: 129
You are developing an application using different microservices that should remain
internal to the cluster. You want to be able to configure each microservice with a
specific number of replicas. You also want to be able to address a specific
microservice from any other microservice in a uniform way, regardless of the
number of replicas the microservice scales to. You need to implement this solution
on Google Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?
A. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the
cluster using a Service, and use the Service DNS name to address it from
other microservices within the cluster.
B. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the
cluster using an Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address to address the
Deployment from other microservices within the cluster.
C. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using a
Service, and use the Service DNS name to address the microservice from other
microservices within the cluster.
D. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using an
Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address name to address the Pod from other
microservices within the cluster.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 130
Your company has a networking team and a development team. The development
team runs applications on Compute Engine instances that contain sensitive data.
The development team requires administrative permissions for Compute Engine.
Your company requires all network resources to be managed by the networking
team. The development team does not want the networking team to have access to
the sensitive data on the instances. What should you do?
A. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to
the networking team. 2. Create a second project with a standalone VPC and assign
the Compute Admin role to the development team. 3. Use Cloud VPN to join the
two VPCs.
B. 1. Create a project with a standalone Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), assign
the Network Admin role to the networking team, and assign the Compute
Admin role to the development team.
C. 1. Create a project with a Shared VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the
networking team. 2. Create a second project without a VPC, configure it as a Shared VPC
service project, and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.
D. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the
networking team. 2. Create a second project with a standalone VPC and assign the
Compute Admin role to the development team. 3. Use VPC Peering to join the two VPCs.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 131
Your company wants you to build a highly reliable web application with a few public
APIs as the backend. You don't expect a lot of user traffic, but traffic could spike
occasionally. You want to leverage Cloud Load Balancing, and the solution must be
cost-effective for users. What should you do?
A. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Host the APIs on
App Engine and store the user data in Cloud SQL.
B. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket. Host
the APIs on a zonal Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with worker nodes in
multiple zones, and save the user data in Cloud Spanner.
C. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Use Cloud Run to
host the APIs and save the user data in Cloud SQL.
D. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket.
Use Cloud Functions to host the APIs and save the user data in Firestore.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 132
Your company sends all Google Cloud logs to Cloud Logging. Your security team
wants to monitor the logs. You want to ensure that the security team can react
quickly if an anomaly such as an unwanted firewall change or server breach is
detected. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Schedule a cron job with Cloud Scheduler. The scheduled job queries the logs
every minute for the relevant events.
B. Export logs to BigQuery, and trigger a query in BigQuery to process the log data
for the relevant events.
C. Export logs to a Pub/Sub topic, and trigger Cloud Function with the
relevant log events.
D. Export logs to a Cloud Storage bucket, and trigger Cloud Run with the relevant
log events.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 133
You have deployed several instances on Compute Engine. As a security
requirement, instances cannot have a public IP address. There is no VPN
connection between Google Cloud and your office, and you need to connect via
SSH into a specific machine without violating the security requirements. What
should you do?
A. Configure Cloud NAT on the subnet where the instance is hosted. Create an
SSH connection to the Cloud NAT IP address to reach the instance.
B. Add all instances to an unmanaged instance group. Configure TCP Proxy Load
Balancing with the instance group as a backend. Connect to the instance using the
TCP Proxy IP.
C. Configure Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for the instance and ensure that you
have the role of IAP-secured Tunnel User. Use the gcloud command line tool
to ssh into the instance.
D. Create a bastion host in the network to SSH into the bastion host from your
office location. From the bastion host, SSH into the desired instanc
Correct Answer: C

Question: 134
Your company is using Google Cloud. You have two folders under the Organization:
Finance and Shopping. The members of the development team are in a
Google Group. The development team group has been assigned the Project Owner
role on the Organization. You want to prevent the development team from creating
resources in projects in the Finance folder. What should you do?
A. Assign the development team group the Project Viewer role on the Finance
folder, and assign the development team group the Project Owner role on the
Shopping folder.
B. Assign the development team group only the Project Viewer role on the Finance
folder.
C. Assign the development team group the Project Owner role on the
Shopping folder, and remove the development team group Project Owner role
from the Organization.
D. Assign the development team group only the Project Owner role on the
Shopping folder.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 135
You are developing your microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine.
During testing, you want to validate the behavior of your application in case a
specific microservice should suddenly crash. What should you do?
A. Add a taint to one of the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster. For the specific
microservice, configure a pod anti-affinity label that has the name of the tainted
node as a value.
B. Use Istio's fault injection on the particular microservice whose faulty
behavior you want to simulate.
C. Destroy one of the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster to observe the behavior.
D. Configure Istio's traffic management features to steer the traffic away from a
crashing microservice.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 136
Your company is developing a new application that will allow globally distributed
users to upload pictures and share them with other selected users. The application
will support millions of concurrent users. You want to allow developers to focus on
just building code without having to create and maintain the underlying
infrastructure. Which service should you use to deploy the application?
A. App Engine
B. Cloud Endpoints
C. Compute Engine
D. Google Kubernetes Engine
Correct Answer: A

Question: 137
Your company provides a recommendation engine for retail customers. You are
providing retail customers with an API where they can submit a user ID and the
API returns a list of recommendations for that user. You are responsible for the API
lifecycle and want to ensure stability for your customers in case the API makes
backward-incompatible changes. You want to follow Google-recommended
practices. What should you do?
A. Create a distribution list of all customers to inform them of an upcoming
backward-incompatible change at least one month before replacing the old API with
the new API.
B. Create an automated process to generate API documentation, and update the
public API documentation as part of the CI/CD process when deploying an update
to the API.
C. Use a versioning strategy for the APIs that increases the version number
on every backward-incompatible change.
D. Use a versioning strategy for the APIs that adds the suffix DEPRECATED to the
current API version number on every backward-incompatible change. Use the
current version number for the new API.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 138
Your company has developed a monolithic, 3-tier application to allow external users
to upload and share files. The solution cannot be easily enhanced and lacks
reliability. The development team would like to re-architect the application to adopt
microservices and a fully managed service approach, but they need to convince
their leadership that the effort is worthwhile. Which advantage(s) should they
highlight to leadership?
A. The new approach will be significantly less costly, make it easier to manage the
underlying infrastructure, and automatically manage the CI/CD pipelines.
B. The monolithic solution can be converted to a container with Docker. The
generated container can then be deployed into a Kubernetes cluster.
C. The new approach will make it easier to decouple infrastructure from
application, develop and release new features, manage the underlying
infrastructure, manage CI/CD pipelines and perform A/B testing, and scale the
solution if necessary.
D. The process can be automated with Migrate for Compute Engine.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 139
Your team is developing a web application that will be deployed on Google
Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Your CTO expects a successful launch and you need to
ensure your application can handle the expected load of tens of thousands of
users. You want to test the current deployment to ensure the latency of your
application stays below a certain threshold. What should you do?
A. Use a load testing tool to simulate the expected number of concurrent
users and total requests to your application, and inspect the results.
B. Enable autoscaling on the GKE cluster and enable horizontal pod autoscaling on
your application deployments. Send curl requests to your application, and validate if
the auto scaling works.
C. Replicate the application over multiple GKE clusters in every Google Cloud
region. Configure a global HTTP(S) load balancer to expose the different clusters
over a single global IP address.
D. Use Cloud Debugger in the development environment to understand the latency
between the different microservices.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 140
Your company has a Kubernetes application that pulls messages from Pub/Sub and stores
them in Filestore. Because the application is simple, it was deployed as a single pod. The
infrastructure team has analyzed Pub/Sub metrics and discovered that the application
cannot process the messages in real time. Most of them wait for minutes before being
processed. You need to scale the elaboration process that is I/O-intensive. What should
you do?
A. Use kubectl autoscale deployment APP_NAME --max 6 --min 2 --cpu-percent 50
to configure Kubernetes autoscaling deployment.
B. Configure a Kubernetes autoscaling deployment based on the
subscription/push_request_latencies metric.
C. Use the --enable-autoscaling flag when you create the Kubernetes cluster.
D. Configure a Kubernetes autoscaling deployment based on the
subscription/num_undelivered_messages metric.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 141
Your company is developing a web-based application. You need to make sure that
production deployments are linked to source code commits and are fully auditable. What
should you do?
A. Make sure a developer is tagging the code commit with the date and time of
commit.
B. Make sure a developer is adding a comment to the commit that links to the
deployment.
C. Make the container tag match the source code commit hash.
D. Make sure the developer is tagging the commits with latest.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 142
An application development team has come to you for advice. They are planning to write
and deploy an HTTP(S) API using Go 1.12. The API will have a very unpredictable
workload and must remain reliable during peaks in traffic. They want to minimize
operational overhead for this application. Which approach should you recommend?
A. Develop the application with containers, and deploy to Google Kubernetes
Engine.
B. Develop the application for App Engine standard environment.
C. Use a Managed Instance Group when deploying to Compute Engine.
D. Develop the application for App Engine flexible environment, using a custom
runtime.
Correct Answer: B
Question: 143
Your company is designing its data lake on Google Cloud and wants to develop different
ingestion pipelines to collect unstructured data from different sources.
After the data is stored in Google Cloud, it will be processed in several data pipelines to
build a recommendation engine for end users on the website. The structure of the data
retrieved from the source systems can change at any time. The data must be stored
exactly as it was retrieved for reprocessing purposes in case the data structure is
incompatible with the current processing pipelines. You need to design an architecture to
support the use case after you retrieve the data. What should you do?
A. Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed
data in a BigQuery table for reprocessing.
B. Store the data in a BigQuery table. Design the processing pipelines to retrieve
the data from the table.
C. Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed
data in a Cloud Storage bucket for reprocessing.
D. Store the data in a Cloud Storage bucket. Design the processing pipelines
to retrieve the data from the bucket.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 144
You are responsible for the Google Cloud environment in your company. Multiple
departments need access to their own projects, and the members within each department
will have the same project responsibilities. You want to structure your Google Cloud
environment for minimal maintenance and maximum overview of
IAM permissions as each department's projects start and end. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Grant all department members the required IAM permissions for their respective
projects.
B. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to
their respective groups. Create a folder per department and grant the
respective group the required IAM permissions at the folder level. Add the
projects under the respective folders.
C. Create a folder per department and grant the respective members of the
department the required IAM permissions at the folder level. Structure all projects
for each department under the respective folders.
D. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their
respective groups. Grant each group the required IAM permissions for their
respective projects.
Correct Answer: B
Question: 145
Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes
Engine (GKE) cluster. You have separate clusters for development, staging, and
production. You have discovered that the team is able to deploy a Docker image to
the production cluster without first testing the deployment in development and then
staging. You want to allow the team to have autonomy but want to prevent this from
happening. You want a Google Cloud solution that can be implemented quickly with
minimal effort. What should you do?
A. Configure a Kubernetes lifecycle hook to prevent the container from starting if it
is not approved for usage in the given environment.
B. Implement a corporate policy to prevent teams from deploying Docker images to
an environment unless the Docker image was tested in an earlier environment.
C. Configure binary authorization policies for the development, staging, and
production clusters. Create attestations as part of the continuous integration
pipeline.
D. Create a Kubernetes admissions controller to prevent the container from starting
if it is not approved for usage in the given environment.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 146
Your company wants to migrate their 10-TB on-premises database export into
Cloud Storage. You want to minimize the time it takes to complete this activity, the
overall cost, and database load. The bandwidth between the on-premises
environment and Google Cloud is 1 Gbps. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Develop a Dataflow job to read data directly from the database and write it into
Cloud Storage.
B. Use the Data Transfer appliance to perform an offline migration.
C. Use a commercial partner ETL solution to extract the data from the on-premises
database and upload it into Cloud Storage.
D. Compress the data and upload it with gsutil -m to enable multi-threaded copy.
Correct Answer: B
Question: 147
Your company has an enterprise application running on Compute Engine that
requires high availability and high performance. The application has been deployed
on two instances in two zones in the same region in active-passive mode. The
application writes data to a persistent disk. In the case of a single zone outage, that
data should be immediately made available to the other instance in the other zone.
You want to maximize performance while minimizing downtime and data loss.
What should you do?
A. 1. Attach a persistent SSD disk to the first instance. 2. Create a snapshot every
hour. 3. In case of a zone outage, recreate a persistent SSD disk in the second
instance where data is coming from the created snapshot.
B. 1. Create a Cloud Storage bucket. 2. Mount the bucket into the first instance with
gcs-fuse. 3. In case of a zone outage, mount the Cloud Storage bucket to the
second instance with gcs-fuse.
C. 1. Attach a regional SSD persistent disk to the first instance. 2. In case of a
zone outage, force-attach the disk to the other instance.
D. 1. Attach a local SSD to the first instance disk. 2. Execute an rsync command
every hour where the target is a persistent SSD disk attached to the second
instance. 3. In case of a zone outage, use the second instance.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 148
You are designing a Data Warehouse on Google Cloud and want to store sensitive
data in BigQuery. Your company requires you to generate the encryption keys
outside of Google Cloud. You need to implement a solution. What should you do?
A. Generate a new key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). Store all
data in Cloud Storage using the customer-managed key option and select the
created key. Set up a Dataflow pipeline to decrypt the data and to store it in a new
BigQuery dataset.
B. Generate a new key in Cloud KMS. Create a dataset in BigQuery using the
customer-managed key option and select the created key.
C. Import a key in Cloud KMS. Store all data in Cloud Storage using the
customer-managed key option and select the created key. Set up a Dataflow
pipeline to decrypt the data and to store it in a new BigQuery dataset.
D. Import a key in Cloud KMS. Create a dataset in BigQuery using the
customer-supplied key option and select the created key.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 149
Your organization has stored sensitive data in a Cloud Storage bucket. For
regulatory reasons, your company must be able to rotate the encryption key used to
encrypt the data in the bucket. The data will be processed in Dataproc. You want to
follow Google-recommended practices for security. What should you do?
A. Create a key with Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Encrypt the data
using the encrypt method of Cloud KMS.
B. Create a key with Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Set the
encryption key on the bucket to the Cloud KMS key.
C. Generate a GPG key pair. Encrypt the data using the GPG key. Upload the
encrypted data to the bucket.
D. Generate an AES-256 encryption key. Encrypt the data in the bucket using the
customer-supplied encryption keys feature.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 150
Your team needs to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster to host a
newly built application that requires access to third-party services on the internet.
Your company does not allow any Compute Engine instance to have a public IP
address on Google Cloud. You need to create a deployment strategy that adheres
to these guidelines. What should you do?
A. Configure the GKE cluster as a private cluster, and configure Cloud NAT
Gateway for the cluster subnet.
B. Configure the GKE cluster as a private cluster. Configure Private Google Access
on the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
C. Configure the GKE cluster as a route-based cluster. Configure Private Google
Access on the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
D. Create a Compute Engine instance, and install a NAT Proxy on the instance.
Configure all workloads on GKE to pass through this proxy to access third-party
services on the Internet.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 151
Your company has a support ticketing solution that uses App Engine Standard. The
project that contains the App Engine application already has a Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC) network fully connected to the company's on-premises environment
through a Cloud VPN tunnel. You want to enable the App Engine application to
communicate with a database that is running in the company's on-premises
environment. What should you do?
A. Configure private Google access for on-premises hosts only.
B. Configure private Google access.
C. Configure private services access.
D. Configure serverless VPC access.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 152
Your company is planning to upload several important files to Cloud Storage. After
the upload is completed, they want to verify that the uploaded content is identical to
what they have on-premises. You want to minimize the cost and effort of performing
this check. What should you do?
A. 1. Use Linux shasum to compute a digest of files you want to upload. 2. Use
gsutil -m to upload all the files to Cloud Storage. 3. Use gsutil cp to download the
uploaded files. 4. Use Linux shasum to compute a digest of the downloaded files. 5.
Compare the hashes.
B. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload the files to Cloud Storage. 2. Develop a custom Java
application that computes CRC32C hashes. 3. Use gsutil ls -L
gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME] to collect CRC32C hashes of the uploaded files. 4.
Compare the hashes.
C. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload all the files to Cloud Storage. 2. Use gsutil cp to
download the uploaded files. 3. Use Linux diff to compare the content of the files.
D. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload the files to Cloud Storage. 2. Use gsutil hash -c
FILE_NAME to generate CRC32C hashes of all on-premises files. 3. Use gsutil
ls -L gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME] to collect CRC32C hashes of the uploaded
files. 4. Compare the hashes.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 153
You have deployed an application on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos GKE).
According to the SRE practices at your company, you need to be alerted if request
latency is above a certain threshold for a specified amount of time. What should
you do?
A. Install Anthos Service Mesh on your cluster. Use the Google Cloud
Console to define a Service Level Objective (SLO), and create an alerting
policy based on this SLO.
B. Enable the Cloud Trace API on your project, and use Cloud Monitoring Alerts to
send an alert based on the Cloud Trace metrics.
C. Use Cloud Profiler to follow up the request latency. Create a custom metric in
Cloud Monitoring based on the results of Cloud Profiler, and create an Alerting
policy in case this metric exceeds the threshold.
D. Configure Anthos Config Management on your cluster, and create a yaml file
that defines the SLO and alerting policy you want to deploy in your cluster.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 154
Your company has a stateless web API that performs scientific calculations. The
web API runs on a single Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The cluster is
currently deployed in us-central1. Your company has expanded to offer your API to
customers in Asia. You want to reduce the latency for users in Asia.
What should you do?
A. Create a second GKE cluster in asia-southeast1, and expose both APIs using a
Service of type LoadBalancer. Add the public IPs to the Cloud DNS zone.
B. Use a global HTTP(s) load balancer with Cloud CDN enabled.
C. Create a second GKE cluster in asia-southeast1, and use kubemci to
create a global HTTP(s) load balancer.
D. Increase the memory and CPU allocated to the application in the cluster.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 155
You are migrating third-party applications from optimized on-premises virtual
machines to Google Cloud. You are unsure about the optimum CPU and memory
options. The applications have a consistent usage pattern across multiple weeks.
You want to optimize resource usage for the lowest cost. What should you do?
A. Create an instance template with the smallest available machine type, and use
an image of the third-party application taken from a current on-premises virtual
machine. Create a managed instance group that uses average CPU utilization to
autoscale the number of instances in the group. Modify the average CPU utilization
threshold to optimize the number of instances running.
B. Create an App Engine flexible environment, and deploy the third-party
application using a Dockerfile and a custom runtime. Set CPU and memory options
similar to your application's current on-premises virtual machine in the app.yaml file.
C. Create multiple Compute Engine instances with varying CPU and memory
options. Install the Cloud Monitoring agent, and deploy the third-party application on
each of them. Run a load test with high traffic levels on the application, and use the
results to determine the optimal settings.
D. Create a Compute Engine instance with CPU and memory options similar
to your application's current on-premises virtual machine. Install the Cloud
Monitoring agent, and deploy the third-party application. Run a load test with
normal traffic levels on the application, and follow the Rightsizing
Recommendations in the Cloud Console.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 156
Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data
warehousing. They have a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and
Google
Cloud that is configured with Cloud VPN. The security team wants to avoid data
exfiltration by malicious insiders, compromised code, and accidental oversharing.
What should they do?
A. Configure Private Google Access for on-premises only.
B. Perform the following tasks: 1. Create a service account. 2. Give the BigQuery
JobUser role and Storage Reader role to the service account. 3. Remove all other
IAM access from the project.
C. Configure VPC Service Controls and configure Private Google Access.
D. Configure Private Google Access.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 157
You are working at an institution that processes medical data. You are migrating
several workloads onto Google Cloud. Company policies require all workloads to
run on physically separated hardware, and workloads from different clients must
also be separated. You created a sole-tenant node group and added a node for
each client. You need to deploy the workloads on these dedicated hosts. What
should you do?
A. Add the node group name as a network tag when creating Compute Engine
instances in order to host each workload on the correct node group.
B. Add the node name as a network tag when creating Compute Engine instances
in order to host each workload on the correct node.
C. Use node affinity labels based on the node group name when creating Compute
Engine instances in order to host each workload on the correct node group.
D. Use node affinity labels based on the node name when creating Compute
Engine instances in order to host each workload on the correct node.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 158
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
Correct Answer: B
Question: 159
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.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 160
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
Correct Answer: D
Question: 161
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 162
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.
Correct Answer: D
Question: 163
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 164
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 Cloud
Bigtable.
Which three requirements should they include? (Choose three.)
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
Correct Answer: A B F
Question: 165
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 166
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 two.)
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
Correct Answer: B E

Question: 167
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
Correct Answer: C
Question: 168
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 two.)
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.
Correct Answer: A C

Question: 169
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 two.)
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
Correct Answer: B C
Question: 170
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 171
Your company has a Google Workspace account and Google Cloud Organization. Some
developers in the company have created Google Cloud projects outside of the Google
Cloud Organization.
You want to create an Organization structure that allows developers to create projects, but
prevents them from modifying production projects. You want to manage policies for all
projects centrally and be able to set more restrictive policies for production projects.
You want to minimize disruption to users and developers when business needs change in
the future. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Now should you design the
Organization structure?
A. 1. Create a second Google Workspace account and Organization. 2. Grant all
developers the Project Creator IAM role on the new Organization. 3. Move the
developer projects into the new Organization. 4. Set the policies for all projects on
both Organizations. 5. Additionally, set the production policies on the original
Organization.
B. 1. Create a folder under the Organization resource named Production. 2. Grant
all developers the Project Creator IAM role on the new Organization. 3. Move the
developer projects into the new Organization. 4. Set the policies for all projects on
the Organization. 5. Additionally, set the production policies on the Production
folder.
C. 1. Create folders under the Organization resource named Development and
Production. 2. Grant all developers the Project Creator IAM role on the
Development folder. 3. Move the developer projects into the Development
folder. 4. Set the policies for all projects on the Organization. 5. Additionally,
set the production policies on the Production folder.
D. 1. Designate the Organization for production projects only. 2. Ensure that
developers do not have the Project Creator IAM role on the Organization. 3. Create
development projects outside of the Organization using the developer Google
Workspace accounts. 4. Set the policies for all projects on the Organization. 5.
Additionally, set the production policies on the individual production projects.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 172
Your company has an application running on Compute Engine that allows users to
play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances. Files are stored in
Cloud Storage, and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they
sometimes need to attempt to play popular songs multiple times before they are
successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should
you do?
A. 1. Mount the Cloud Storage bucket using gcsfuse on all backend Compute
Engine instances. 2. Serve music files directly from the backend Compute Engine
instance.
B. 1. Create a Cloud Filestore NFS volume and attach it to the backend Compute
Engine instances. 2. Download popular songs in Cloud Filestore. 3. Serve music
files directly from the backend Compute Engine instance.
C. 1. Copy popular songs into CloudSQL as a blob. 2. Update application code to
retrieve data from CloudSQL when Cloud Storage is overloaded.
D. 1. Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances. 2.
Create a global load balancer and configure it with two backends: ‫‹—ג‬
Managed instance group ‫ ‹—ג‬Cloud Storage bucket 3. Enable Cloud CDN on
the bucket backend.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 173
The operations team in your company wants to save Cloud VPN log events for one
year. You need to configure the cloud infrastructure to save the logs. What should
you do?
A. Set up a filter in Cloud Logging and a Cloud Storage bucket as an export
target for the logs you want to save.
B. Enable the Compute Engine API, and then enable logging on the firewall rules
that match the traffic you want to save.
C. Set up a Cloud Logging Dashboard titled Cloud VPN Logs, and then add a chart
that queries for the VPN metrics over a one-year time period.
D. Set up a filter in Cloud Logging and a topic in Pub/Sub to publish the logs.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 174
You are working with a data warehousing team that performs data analysis. The
team needs to process data from external partners, but the data contains
personally identifiable information (PII). You need to process and store the data
without storing any of the PIIE data. What should you do?
A. Create a Dataflow pipeline to retrieve the data from the external sources.
As part of the pipeline, use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) API
to remove any PII data. Store the result in BigQuery.
B. Create a Dataflow pipeline to retrieve the data from the external sources. As part
of the pipeline, store all non-PII data in BigQuery and store all PII data in a Cloud
Storage bucket that has a retention policy set.
C. Ask the external partners to upload all data on Cloud Storage. Configure Bucket
Lock for the bucket. Create a Dataflow pipeline to read the data from the bucket. As
part of the pipeline, use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) API to
remove any PII data. Store the result in BigQuery.
D. Ask the external partners to import all data in your BigQuery dataset. Create a
dataflow pipeline to copy the data into a new table. As part of the Dataflow bucket,
skip all data in columns that have PII data
Correct Answer: A

Question: 175
You want to allow your operations team to store logs from all the production
projects in your Organization, without including logs from other projects. All of the
production projects are contained in a folder. You want to ensure that all logs for
existing and new production projects are captured automatically. What should you
do?
A. Create an aggregated export on the Production folder. Set the log sink to
be a Cloud Storage bucket in an operations project.
B. Create an aggregated export on the Organization resource. Set the log sink to
be a Cloud Storage bucket in an operations project.
C. Create log exports in the production projects. Set the log sinks to be a Cloud
Storage bucket in an operations project.
D. Create log exports in the production projects. Set the log sinks to be BigQuery
datasets in the production projects, and grant IAM access to the operations team to
run queries on the datasets.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 176
Your company has an application that is running on multiple instances of Compute
Engine. It generates 1 TB per day of logs. For compliance reasons, the logs need
to be kept for at least two years. The logs need to be available for active query for
30 days. After that, they just need to be retained for audit purposes. You want to
implement a storage solution that is compliant, minimizes costs, and follows
Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. 1. Install a Cloud Logging agent on all instances. 2. Create a sink to export
logs into a regional Cloud Storage bucket. 3. Create an Object Lifecycle rule
to move files into a Coldline Cloud Storage bucket after one month. 4.
Configure a retention policy at the bucket level using bucket lock.
B. 1. Write a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a Cloud
Storage bucket. 2. Create a sink to export logs into a regional Cloud Storage
bucket. 3. Create an Object Lifecycle rule to move files into a Coldline Cloud
Storage bucket after one month.
C. 1. Install a Cloud Logging agent on all instances. 2. Create a sink to export logs
into a partitioned BigQuery table. 3. Set a time_partitioning_expiration of 30 days.
D. 1. Create a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a
partitioned BigQuery table. 2. Set a time_partitioning_expiration of 30 days.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 177
Your company has just recently activated Cloud Identity to manage users. The
Google Cloud Organization has been configured as well. The security team needs
to secure projects 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?
A. Configure an organization policy to restrict identities by domain.
B. Configure an organization policy to block creation of service accounts.
C. Configure Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function every hour that removes
all users that don't belong to the Cloud Identity domain from all projects.
D. Create a technical user (e.g., [email protected]), and give it the project owner
role at root organization level. Write a bash script that: ¢ Lists all the IAM rules of all
projects within the organization. ¢ Deletes all users that do not belong to the
company domain. Create a Compute Engine instance in a project within the
Organization and configure gcloud to be executed with technical user credentials.
Configure a cron job that executes the bash script every hour.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 178
Your company has an application running on Google Cloud that is collecting data
from thousands of physical devices that are globally distributed. Data is published
to Pub/Sub and streamed in real time into an SSD Cloud Bigtable cluster via a
Dataflow pipeline. The operations team informs you that your Cloud
Bigtable cluster has a hotspot, and queries are taking longer than expected. You
need to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future. What
should you do?
A. Advise your clients to use HBase APIs instead of NodeJS APIs.
B. Delete records older than 30 days.
C. Review your RowKey strategy and ensure that keys are evenly spread
across the alphabet.
D. Double the number of nodes you currently have.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 179
Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. There
are some tables that contain personally identifiable information (PII).
Only the compliance team may access the PII. The other information in the tables must be
available to the data science team. You want to minimize cost and the time it takes to
assign appropriate access to the tables. What should you do?
A. 1. From the dataset where you have the source data, create views of tables that
you want to share, excluding PII. 2. Assign an appropriate project-level IAM role to
the members of the data science team. 3. Assign access controls to the dataset
that contains the view.
B. 1. From the dataset where you have the source data, create materialized views
of tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 2. Assign an appropriate
project-level IAM role to the members of the data science team. 3. Assign access
controls to the dataset that contains the view.
C. 1. Create a dataset for the data science team. 2. Create views of tables that
you want to share, excluding PII. 3. Assign an appropriate project-level IAM
role to the members of the data science team. 4. Assign access controls to
the dataset that contains the view. 5. Authorize the view to access the source
dataset.
D. 1. Create a dataset for the data science team. 2. Create materialized views of
tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 3. Assign an appropriate project-level
IAM role to the members of the data science team. 4. Assign access controls to the
dataset that contains the view. 5. Authorize the view to access the source dataset.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 180
Your operations team currently stores 10 TB of data in an object storage service
from a third-party provider. They want to move this data to a Cloud Storage bucket
as quickly as possible, following Google-recommended practices. They want to
minimize the cost of this data migration. Which approach should they use?
A. Use the gsutil mv command to move the data.
B. Use the Storage Transfer Service to move the data.
C. Download the data to a Transfer Appliance, and ship it to Google.
D. Download the data to the on-premises data center, and upload it to the Cloud
Storage bucket.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 181
You have a Compute Engine managed instance group that adds and removes
Compute Engine instances from the group in response to the load on your
application. The instances have a shutdown script that removes REDIS database
entries associated with the instance. You see that many database entries have not
been removed, and you suspect that the shutdown script is the problem. You need
to ensure that the commands in the shutdown script are run reliably every time an
instance is shut down. You create a Cloud Function to remove the database entries.
What should you do next?
A. Modify the shutdown script to wait for 30 seconds before triggering the Cloud
Function.
B. Do not use the Cloud Function. Modify the shutdown script to restart if it has not
completed in 30 seconds.
C. Set up a Cloud Monitoring sink that triggers the Cloud Function after an
instance removal log message arrives in Cloud Logging.
D. Modify the shutdown script to wait for 30 seconds and then publish a message to
a Pub/Sub queue.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 182
You are managing several projects on Google Cloud and need to interact on a daily
basis with BigQuery, Bigtable, and Kubernetes Engine using the gcloud CL tool.
You are travelling a lot and work on different workstations during the week. You
want to avoid having to manage the gcloud CLI manually. What should you do?
A. Use Google Cloud Shell in the Google Cloud Console to interact with
Google Cloud.
B. Create a Compute Engine instance and install gcloud on the instance. Connect
to this instance via SSH to always use the same gcloud installation when
interacting with Google Cloud.
C. Install gcloud on all of your workstations. Run the command gcloud components
auto-update on each workstation
D. Use a package manager to install gcloud on your workstations instead of
installing it manually.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 183
Your company recently acquired a company that has infrastructure in Google
Cloud. Each company has its own Google Cloud organization. Each company is
using a Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to provide network connectivity for its
applications. Some of the subnets used by both companies overlap. In order for
both businesses to integrate, the applications need to have private network
connectivity. These applications are not on overlapping subnets. You want to
provide connectivity with minimal re-engineering. What should you do?
A. Set up VPC peering and peer each Shared VPC together.
B. Migrate the projects from the acquired company into your company's Google
Cloud organization. Re-launch the instances in your companies Shared VPC.
C. Set up a Cloud VPN gateway in each Shared VPC and peer Cloud VPNs.
D. Configure SSH port forwarding on each application to provide connectivity
between applications in the different Shared VPCs.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 184
You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute
Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over
the past few days. You want to find the underlying cause in order to solve the
problem. What should you do first?
A. Inspect the logs and metrics from the instances in Cloud Logging and
Cloud Monitoring.
B. Change the Compute Engine Instances behind the application to a machine type
with more CPU and memory.
C. Restore a backup of the application database from a time before the application
became slow.
D. Deploy the applications on a managed instance group with autoscaling enabled.
Add a load balancer in front of the managed instance group, and have the users
connect to the IP of the load balancer.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 185
Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes
Engine (GKE) cluster. When releasing new versions of the application via a rolling
deployment, the team has been causing outages. The root cause of the outages is
misconfigurations with parameters that are only used in production. You want to put
preventive measures for this in the platform to prevent outages. What should you
do?
A. Configure liveness and readiness probes in the Pod specification.
B. Configure health checks on the managed instance group.
C. Create a Scheduled Task to check whether the application is available.
D. Configure an uptime alert in Cloud Monitoring.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 186
Your company uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a platform for all
workloads. Your company has a single large GKE cluster that contains batch,
stateful, and stateless workloads. The GKE cluster is configured with a single node
pool with 200 nodes. Your company needs to reduce the cost of this cluster but
does not want to compromise availability. What should you do?
A. Create a second GKE cluster for the batch workloads only. Allocate the 200
original nodes across both clusters.
B. Configure CPU and memory limits on the namespaces in the cluster. Configure
all Pods to have a CPU and memory limits.
C. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler for all stateless workloads and for all
compatible stateful workloads. Configure the cluster to use node auto
scaling.
D. Change the node pool to use preemptible VMs.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 187
Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data
warehousing on a pay-per-use basis. You want to monitor queries in real time to
discover the most costly queries and which users spend the most. What should you
do?
A. 1. In the BigQuery dataset that contains all the tables to be queried, add a label
for each user that can launch a query. 2. Open the Billing page of the project. 3.
Select Reports. 4. Select BigQuery as the product and filter by the user you want to
check.
B. 1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to
BigQuery. 2. Perform a BigQuery query on the generated table to extract the
information you need.
C. 1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to Cloud
Storage. 2. Develop a Dataflow pipeline to compute the cost of queries split by
users.
D. 1. Activate billing export into BigQuery. 2. Perform a BigQuery query on the
billing table to extract the information you need.
Correct Answer: B
Question: 188
Your company and one of its partners each have a Google Cloud project in
separate organizations. Your company's project (prj-a) runs in Virtual Private Cloud
(vpc-a). The partner's project (prj-b) runs in vpc-b. There are two instances running
on vpc-a and one instance running on vpc-b. Subnets defined in both VPCs are not
overlapping. You need to ensure that all instances communicate with each other via
internal IPs, minimizing latency and maximizing throughput. What should you do?
A. Set up a network peering between vpc-a and vpc-b.
B. Set up a VPN between vpc-a and vpc-b using Cloud VPN.
C. Configure IAP TCP forwarding on the instance in vpc-b, and then launch the
following gcloud command from one of the instances in vpc-a gcloud: gcloud
compute start-iap-tunnel INSTANCE_NAME_IN_VPC_8 22 \
--local-host-port=localhost:22
D. 1. Create an additional instance in vpc-a. 2. Create an additional instance in
vpc-b. 3. Install OpenVPN in newly created instances. 4. Configure a VPN tunnel
between vpc-a and vpc-b with the help of OpenVPN.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 189
You want to store critical business information in Cloud Storage buckets. The
information is regularly changed, but previous versions need to be referenced on a
regular basis. You want to ensure that there is a record of all changes to any
information in these buckets. You want to ensure that accidental edits or deletions
can be easily rolled back. Which feature should you enable?
A. Bucket Lock
B. Object Versioning
C. Object change notification
D. Object Lifecycle Management
Correct Answer: B
Question: 190
You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total
memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and
configured the autoscaling policy as follows:
✑ Metric identifier: agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used
✑ Filter: metric.label.state = 'used'
✑ Target utilization level: 80
✑ Target type: GAUGE
You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to
resolve this. What should you do?
A. Change the Target type to DELTA_PER_MINUTE.
B. Change the Metric identifier to agent.googleapis.com/memory/bytes_used.
C. Change the filter to metric.label.state = 'used' AND metric.label.state = 'buffered'
AND metric.label.state = 'cached' AND metric.label.state = 'slab'.
D. Change the filter to metric.label.state = 'free' and the Target utilization to 20.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 191
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:
✑ as close to 100% system availability as possible
✑ cost optimization
You need to design the connectivity between the locations to meet the business
requirements. What should you provision?
A. An HA Cloud VPN gateway connected with two tunnels to an on-premises
VPN gateway
B. Two Classic Cloud VPN gateways connected to two on-premises VPN gateways
Configure each Classic Cloud VPN gateway to have two tunnels, each connected
to different on-premises VPN gateways
C. Two HA Cloud VPN gateways connected to two on-premises VPN gateways
Configure each HA Cloud VPN gateway to have two tunnels, each connected to
different on-premises VPN gateways
D. A single Cloud VPN gateway connected to an on-premises VPN gateway
Correct Answer: A
Question: 192
Your company has an application running on App Engine that allows users to
upload music files and share them with other people. You want to allow users to
upload files directly into Cloud Storage from their browser session. The payload
should not be passed through the backend. What should you do?
A.1. Set a CORS configuration in the target Cloud Storage bucket where the
base URL of the App Engine application is an allowed origin.
2. Use the Cloud Storage Signed URL feature to generate a POST URL.
B.1. Set a CORS configuration in the target Cloud Storage bucket where the base
URL of the App Engine application is an allowed origin.
2. Assign the Cloud Storage WRITER role to users who upload files.
C.1. Use the Cloud Storage Signed URL feature to generate a POST URL.
2. Use App Engine default credentials to sign requests against Cloud Storage.
D.1. Assign the Cloud Storage WRITER role to users who upload files.
2. Use App Engine default credentials to sign requests against Cloud Storage.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 193
You are configuring the cloud network architecture for a newly created project in
Google Cloud that will host applications in Compute Engine. Compute Engine
virtual machine instances will be created in two different subnets (sub-a and sub-b)
within a single region:
•Instances in sub-a will have public IP addresses.
•Instances in sub-b will have only private IP addresses.

To download updated packages, instances must connect to a public repository

outside the boundaries of Google Cloud. You need to allow sub-b to access the
external repository. What should you do?
A.Enable Private Google Access on sub-b.
B.Configure Cloud NAT and select sub-b in the NAT mapping section.
C.Configure a bastion host instance in sub-a to connect to instances in sub-b.
D.Enable Identity-Aware Proxy for TCP forwarding for instances in sub-b.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 194
Your company is planning to migrate their Windows Server 2022 from their on-premises
data center to Google Cloud. You need to bring the licenses that are currently in use in
on-premises virtual machines into the target cloud environment. What should you do?
A.1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines and upload into Cloud
Storage.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
B.1. Create standard instances on Compute Engine.
2. Select as the OS the same Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in
the on-premises environment.
C.1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machine.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
3. Create a standard instance on Compute Engine, selecting as the OS the same
Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in the on-premises environment.
4. Attach a data disk that includes data that matches the created image.
D.1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine using
--os=windows-2022-dc-v.
3. Create a sole-tenancy instance on Compute Engine that uses the imported
disk as a boot disk.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 195
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?
A.An HA Cloud VPN gateway connected with two tunnels to an on-premises
VPN gateway.
B.A Classic Cloud VPN gateway connected with two tunnels to an on-premises
VPN gateway.
C.Two HA Cloud VPN gateways connected to two on-premises VPN gateways.
Configure each HA Cloud VPN gateway to have two tunnels, each connected to
different on-premises VPN gateways.
D.A Classic Cloud VPN gateway connected with one tunnel to an on-premises VPN
gateway.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 196
Your company wants to migrate their 10-TB on-premises database export into
Cloud Storage. You want to minimize the time it takes to complete this activity and
the overall cost. The bandwidth between the on-premises environment and Google
Cloud is 1 Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should
you do?
A.Develop a Dataflow job to read data directly from the database and write it into
Cloud Storage.
B.Use the Data Transfer appliance to perform an offline migration.
C.Use a commercial partner ETL solution to extract the data from the on-premises
database and upload it into Cloud Storage.
D.Upload the data with gcloud storage cp.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 197
You are working at a financial institution that stores mortgage loan approval
documents on Cloud Storage. Any change to these approval documents must be
uploaded as a separate approval file. You need to ensure that these documents
cannot be deleted or overwritten for the next 5 years. What should you do?
A.Create a retention policy on the bucket for the duration of 5 years. Create a
lock on the retention policy.
B.Create a retention policy organizational constraint
constraints/storage.retentionPolicySeconds at the organization level. Set the
duration to 5 years.
C.Use a customer-managed key for the encryption of the bucket. Rotate the key
after 5 years.
D.Create a retention policy organizational constraint
constraints/storage.retentionPolicySeconds at the project level. Set the duration to
5 years.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 198
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?
A. Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one for development/test/staging
and one for production. Each account should contain one project for every
application
B. Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one with a single project for all
development applications and one with a single project for all production
applications
C. Create a single G Suite account to manage users with each stage of each
application in its own project
D. Create a single G Suite account to manage users with one project for the
development/test/staging environment and one project for the production
environment
Correct Answer: B

Question: 199
A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google
Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops
responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the
application servers correctly.
What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? (Choose three.)
A. Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one
B. Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate
C. Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate
D. Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to
E. Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and
investigate
F. Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting,
activate the interactive console, and investigate
Correct Answer: C D F

Question: 200
JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the
application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing
infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data.
What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?
A. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual
machines (VMs)
B. Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service
account keys for the VMs
C. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs
D. Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for
the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs
Correct Answer: C

Question: 201
JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves
traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals.
Which metrics should you track?
A. Error rates for requests from Asia
B. Latency difference between US and Asia
C. Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia
D. Total visits and average latency for users from Asia
E. The number of character sets present in the database

Correct Answer: C

Question: 202
The migration of JencoMart's application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing
too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput.
What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose three.)
A. A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput
B. A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task
C. A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances
D. Fewer virtual machines (VMs) in GCP than on-premises machines
E. A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task
F. Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure
and GCP

Correct Answer: A C F

Question: 203
JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform.
Which Google Database should they use?
A. Cloud Spanner
B. Google BigQuery
C. Google Cloud SQL
D. Google Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: D

Question: 204
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?
A. Store the card data in Secret Manager after running a query to identify
duplicates.
B. Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm stored in Firestore
using Datastore mode.
C. Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm and shard it across multiple
Memorystore instances.
D. Use column-level encryption to store the data in Cloud SQL.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 205
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?
A.

B.

C.

D.

Correct Answer: D

Question: 206
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?
A. Set up Cloud Tasks and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.
B. Set up a Cloud Logging sink and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud
Function.
C. Configure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a
Cloud Function.
D. Set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Confidential Computing to
trigger a Cloud Function
Correct Answer: C

Question: 207
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?
A. Use Explainable AI.
B. Use Vision AI.
C. Use Google Cloud's operations suite.
D. Use Jupyter Notebooks.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 208
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?
A. Use Firestore for its scalable and flexible document-based database. Use
collections to aggregate race data by season and event.
B. Use Cloud Spanner for its scalability and ability to version schemas with zero
downtime. Split race data using season as a primary key.
C. Use BigQuery for its scalability and ability to add columns to a schema.
Partition race data based on season.
D. Use Cloud SQL for its ability to automatically manage storage increases and
compatibility with MySQL. Use separate database instances for each season.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 209
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?
A. Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and
network usage statistics for analysis.
B. Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that
have the idle: true label set.
C. Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine
instances.
D. From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the
managed instance groups are no longer responding to health check probes.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 210
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.)
A. Verify EHR's product usage against the list of compliant products on the
Google Cloud compliance page.
B. Advise EHR to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with
Google Cloud.
C. Use Firebase Authentication for EHR's user facing applications.
D. Implement Prometheus to detect and prevent security breaches on EHR's
web-based applications.
E. Use GKE private clusters for all Kubernetes workloads.
Correct Answer: A B

Question: 211
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.)
A. Enable Binary Authorization on GKE, and sign containers as part of a
CI/CD pipeline.
B. Configure Jenkins to utilize Kritis to cryptographically sign a container as part of
a CI/CD pipeline.
C. Configure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create
and deploy containers from the registry.
D. Configure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to confirm that
there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.
Correct Answer: A D

Question: 212
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?
A. Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.
B. Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G.
C. Add three new Cloud VPN connections.
D. Add a new Carrier Peering connection.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 213
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?
A. Configure two Partner Interconnect connections in one metro (City), and make
sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.
B. Configure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make
sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.
C. Configure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and
make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.
D. Configure two Dedicated Interconnect connections in one metro (City) and
two connections in another metro, and make sure the Interconnect
connections are placed in different metro zones.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 214
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?
A. Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.
B. Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.
C. Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.
D. Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 215
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?
A. Create an Organizational Policy with a constraint to allow external IP
addresses only on the frontend Compute Engine instances.
B. Revoke the compute.networkAdmin role from all users in the project with front
end instances.
C. Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that maps the IT staff to
the compute.networkAdmin role for the organization.
D. Create a custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) role named
GCE_FRONTEND with the compute.addresses.create permission.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 216
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?
A. Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized
networks configured.
B. Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.
C. Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks
configured.
D. Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 217
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 218
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 219
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?
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
Correct Answer: C
Question: 220
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 221
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 222
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
Correct Answer: B
Question: 223
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.
Correct Answer: A B

Question: 224
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.
Correct Answer: D
Question: 225
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 Google Kubernetes Engine to improve the ability 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.
Correct Answer: A B

Question: 226
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.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 227
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.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 228
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 229
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.
Correct Answer: C
Question: 230
You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games' new
Google Cloud solution. The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in
Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract transform load (ETL) tool. What should you
do?
A. Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.
B. Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.
C. Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.
D. Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 231
You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a
new game programmatic access to a legacy game's Firestore database.
Access should be as restricted as possible. What should you do?
A. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, add a second
SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give the Organization Admin role to both SAs.
B. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, give the SA
the Organization Admin role, and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects.
C. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project,
add this SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give it the Firebase Admin
role in both projects.
D. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, give it
the Firebase Admin role, and then migrate the new game to the legacy game's
project.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 232
Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google
Cloud regions. What should you do?
A. Configure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can
be deployed.
B. Configure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be configured.
C. Configure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.
D. Configure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are
created in other regions.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 233
You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business
and technical requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be
located in multiple Google Cloud regions. What should you do?
A. Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group
running Compute Engine instances.
B. Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.
C. Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.
D. Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google
Kubernetes Engine.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 234
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?
A. Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.
B. Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.
C. Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.
D. Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 235
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?
A. Configure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the
application platform.
B. Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Configure these
Secrets to be used by the application platform.
C. Configure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer
Secrets Encryption, and use Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to
manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used by the application
platform.
D. Configure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed
encryption keys and Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the
encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used by the application platform.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 236
Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new
mobile app on Android and iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need
to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What should you do?
A. Upload your mobile app to the Firebase Test Lab, and test the mobile app
on Android and iOS devices.
B. Create Android and iOS VMs on Google Cloud, install the mobile app on the
VMs, and test the mobile app.
C. Create Android and iOS containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), install
the mobile app on the containers, and test the mobile app.
D. Upload your mobile app with different configurations to Firebase Hosting and test
each configuration.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 237
TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help
identify approximately when a vehicle in the field will have a catastrophic failure.
You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data.
Which architecture should you recommend?

Correct Answer: A
Question: 238
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 239
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
Correct Answer: A

Question: 240
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)
Correct Answer: B
Question: 241
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
Correct Answer: C

Question: 242
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
Correct Answer: C
Question: 243
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
Correct Answer: B

Question: 244
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 245
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
Correct Answer: D

Question: 246
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.
Correct Answer: A C

Question: 247
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?
A. Have you engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm
with rules that make operational adjustments automatically
B. Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify
ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments
automatically
C. Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and
use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments
automatically
D. Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal
operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make
operational adjustments automatically
Correct Answer: B
Question: 248
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with
European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from
its
European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In
the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and
BigQuery. What should you do?
A. Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention
period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management
using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.
B. Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention
period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to
NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.
C. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the
partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to
enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of
36 months.
D. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the
partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a
SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 249
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?
A. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: 30, Storage Class:
Standard, and Action: Set to Coldline, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule
with Age: 365, Storage Class: Coldline, and Action: Delete.
B. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: 30, Storage Class: Coldline, and
Action: Set to Nearline, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: 91,
Storage Class: Coldline, and Action: Set to Nearline.
C. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: 90, Storage Class: Standard, and
Action: Set to Nearline, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: 91,
Storage Class: Nearline, and Action: Set to Coldline.
D. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: 30, Storage Class: Standard, and
Action: Set to Coldline, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: 365,
Storage Class: Nearline, and Action: Delete.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 250
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?
A. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.
B. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96
CPUs.
C. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data
sources.
D. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96
CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine preemptible instance with 32 CPUs.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 251
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that
writes all incoming data to BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data
is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an automated daily basis while
managing cost.
What should you do?
A. Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process.
Clean the data in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline.
B. Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger the
Cloud Function from a Compute Engine instance.
C. Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the
view daily, and save the result to a new table.
D. Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source.
Schedule a daily job to clean the data.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 252
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical
requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?
A. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network
and stream data into BigQuery using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow. Use
Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
B. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and
upload gzip files to a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket using gcloud. Use
Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
C. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Upload gzip files to a
Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket. Upload this data into BigQuery using gcloud.
Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
D. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Directly stream data into
partitioned Hive tables. Use Pig scripts to analyze data.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 253
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?
A. Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress
B. Cloud IoT Core with public/private key pairs
C. Compute Engine with project-wide SSH keys
D. Compute Engine with specific SSH keys
Correct Answer: B

Question: 254
Regarding Cloud Storage, which option allows any user to access to a Cloud
Storage resource for a limited time, using a specific URL?
A. Open Buckets
B. Temporary Resources
C. Signed URLs
D. Temporary URLs
Correct Answer: C

Question: 255
Of the options given, which is a NoSQL database?
A. Cloud Datastore
B. Cloud SQL
C. All of the given options
D. Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: A

Question: 256
Container Engine allows orchastration of what type of containers?
A. Blue Whale
B. LXC
C. BSD Jails
D. Docker
Correct Answer: D
Question: 257
Regarding Cloud IAM, what type of role(s) are available?
A. Basic roles and Compiled roles
B. Primitive roles and Predefined roles
C. Simple roles
D. Basic roles and Curated roles
Correct Answer: B

Question: 258
Which of the follow products will allow you to host a static website?
A. Cloud SDK
B. Cloud Endpoints
C. Cloud Storage
D. Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: C

Question: 259
Container Engine is built on which open source system?
A. Swarm
B. Kubernetes
C. Docker Orchastrate
D. Mesos
Correct Answer: B

Question: 260
Cloud Source Repositories provide a hosted version of which version control
system?
A. Git
B. RCS
C. SVN
D. Mercurial
Correct Answer: A
Question: 261
Which of the following is an analytics data warehouse?
A. Cloud SQL
B. Big Query
C. Datastore
D. Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: B

Question: 262
Which service offers the ability to create and run virtual machines?
A. Google Virtualization Engine
B. Compute Containers
C. VM Engine
D. Compute Engine
Correct Answer: D

Question: 263
Which of the following is not helpful for mitigating the impact of an unexpected
failure or reboot?
A. Use persistent disks
B. Configure tags and labels
C. Use startup scripts to re-configure the system as needed
D. Back up your data
Correct Answer: B

Question: 264
Single sign-on (SSO) with G Suite is based on _____?
A. SAML2
B. JWT
C. Service accounts
D. JSON
Correct Answer: A

Question: 265
Which tool allows you to sync data in your Google domain with Active Directory?
A. Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS)
B. Google Active Directory (GAD)
C. Google Domain Sync Service
D. Google LDAP Sync
Correct Answer: A

Question: 266
Regarding Cloud Storage: which of the following allows for time-limited access to
buckets and objects without a Google account?
A. Signed URLs
B. gsutil
C. Single sign-on
D. Temporary Storage Accounts
Correct Answer: A

Question: 267
Which of the following is a virtual machine instance that can be terminated by Compute
Engine without warning?
A. A preemptible VM
B. A shared-core VM
C. A high-cpu VM
D. A standard VM
Correct Answer: A

Question: 268
Regarding Compute Engine: What is a managed instance group?
A. A managed instance group combines existing instances of different
configurations into one manageable group
B. A managed instance group uses an instance template to create identical
instances
C. A managed instance group creates a firewall around instances
D. A managed instance group is a set of servers used exclusively for batch
processing
Correct Answer: B

Question: 269
What type of firewall rule(s) does Google Cloud's networking support?
A. deny
B. allow, deny & filtered
C. allow
D. allow & deny
Correct Answer: D

Question: 270
How are subnetworks different than the legacy networks?
A. They're the same, only the branding is different
B. Each subnetwork controls the IP address range used for instances that are
allocated to that subnetwork
C. With subnetworks IP address allocation occurs at the global network level
D. Legacy networks are the preferred way to create networks
Correct Answer: B

Question: 271
Which of the following is not a valid metric for triggering autoscaling?
A. Google Cloud Pub/Sub queuing
B. Average CPU utilization
C. Stackdriver Monitoring metrics
D. App Engine Task Queues
Correct Answer: D

Question: 272
Which of the following features makes applying firewall settings easier?
A. Service accounts
B. Tags
C. Metadata
D. Labels
Correct Answer: B

Question: 273
What option does Cloud SQL offer to help with high availability?
A. Point-in-time recovery
B. The AlwaysOn setting
C. Snapshots
D. Failover replicas
Correct Answer: D

Question: 274
Regarding Compute Engine: when executing a startup script on a Linux server
which user does the instance execute the script as?
A. ubuntu
B. The Google provided "gceinstance" user
C. Whatever user you specify in the console
D. root
Correct Answer: D

Question: 275
Which of the follow methods will not cause a shutdown script to be executed?
A. When an instance shuts down through a request to the guest operating system
B. A preemptible instance being terminated
C. An instances.reset API call
D. Shutting down via the cloud console
Correct Answer: C

Question: 276
Which type of account would you use in code when you want to interact with
Google Cloud services?
A. Google group
B. Service account
C. Code account
D. Google account
Correct Answer: B

Question: 277
Which of the following is not an IAM best practice?
A. Use primitive roles by default
B. Treat each component of your application as a separate trust boundary
C. Grant roles at the smallest scope needed
D. Restrict who has access to create and manage service accounts in your project
Correct Answer: A

Question: 278
Which of the following would not reduce your recovery time in the event of a
disaster?
A. Make it as easy as possible to adjust the DNS record to cut over to your warm standby
server.
B. Replace your warm standby server with a hot standby server.
C. Use a highly preconfigured machine image for deploying new instances.
D. Replace your active/active hybrid production environment (on-premises
and GCP) with a warm standby server.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 279
Which of the following is not a best practice for mitigating Denial of Service attacks
on your Google Cloud infrastructure?
A. Block SYN floods using Cloud Router
B. Isolate your internal traffic from the external world
C. Scale to absorb the attack
D. Reduce the attack surface for your GCE deployment
Correct Answer: A

Question: 280
Which is the fastest instance storage option that will still be available when an
instance is stopped?
A. Local SSD
B. Standard Persistent Disk
C. SSD Persistent Disk
D. RAM disk
Correct Answer: C

Question: 281
Which of these statements about Microsoft licenses is true?
A. You can migrate your existing Microsoft application licenses to Compute Engine
instances, but not your Microsoft Windows licenses.
B. You can migrate your existing Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
application licenses to Compute Engine instances.
C. You cannot migrate your existing Microsoft Windows or Microsoft application
licenses to Compute Engine instances.
D. You can migrate your existing Microsoft Windows licenses to Compute Engine
instances, but not your Microsoft application licenses.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 282
Which database services support standard SQL queries?
A. Cloud Bigtable and Cloud SQL
B. Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL
C. Cloud SQL and Cloud Datastore
D. Cloud SQL
Correct Answer: B
Question: 283
Which statement about IP addresses is false?
A. You are charged for a static external IP address for every hour it is in use.
B. You are not charged for ephemeral IP addresses.
C. Google Cloud Engine supports only IPv4 addresses, not IPv6.
D. You are charged for a static external IP address when it is assigned but unused.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 284
Which Google Cloud Platform service requires the least management because it
takes care of the underlying infrastructure for you?
A. Container Engine
B. Cloud Engine
C. App Engine
D. Docker containers running on Cloud Engine
Correct Answer: C

Question: 285
To ensure that your application will handle the load even if an entire zone fails, what should
you do?
A. Don't select the "Multizone" option when creating your managed instance group.
B. Spread your managed instance group over two zones and overprovision by
100%.
C. Create a regional unmanaged instance group and spread your instances across
multiple zones.
D. Overprovision your regional managed instance group by at least 50%.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 286
If you do not grant a user named Bob permission to access a Cloud Storage
bucket, but then use an ACL to grant access to an object inside that bucket to Bob,
what will happen?
A. Bob will be able to access all of the objects inside the bucket because he was
granted access to at least one object in the bucket.
B. Bob will be able to access the object because bucket and object ACLs are
independent of each other.
C. Bob will not be able to access the object because he does not have access to
the bucket.
D. It is not possible to grant access to an object when it is inside a bucket for which
a user does not have access.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 287
To set up a virtual private network between your office network and Google Cloud
Platform and have the routes automatically updated when the network topology
changes, what is the minimal number of each type of component you need to
implement?
A. 2 Cloud VPN Gateways and 1 Peer Gateway
B. 1 Cloud VPN Gateway, 1 Peer Gateway, and 1 Cloud Router
C. 2 Peer Gateways and 1 Cloud Router
D. 2 Cloud VPN Gateways and 1 Cloud Router
Correct Answer: B

Question: 288
Which of the following statements about encryption on GCP is not true?
A. Google Cloud Platform encrypts customer data stored at rest by default.
B. Each encryption key is itself encrypted with a set of master keys.
C. If you want to manage your own encryption keys for data on Google Cloud
Storage, the only option is Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
using Cloud KMS.
D. Data in Google Cloud Platform is broken into subfile chunks for storage, and
each chunk is encrypted at the storage level with an individual encryption key.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 289
Which database service requires that you configure a failover replica to make it
highly available?
A. Cloud Spanner
B. Cloud SQL
C. BigQuery
D. Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: B

Question: 290
Which of these is not a principle you should apply when setting roles and permissions?
A. Whenever possible, assign roles to groups instead of to individuals.
B. Grant users the appropriate permissions to facilitate least privilege
C. Whenever possible, assign primitive roles rather than predefined roles.
D. Audit all policy changes by checking the Cloud Audit Logs.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 291
Which of these is not a recommended method of authenticating an application with a
Google Cloud service?
A. Use the gcloud and/or gsutil commands.
B. Request an OAuth2 access token and use it directly.
C. Embed the service account's credentials in the application's source code.
D. Use one of the Google Cloud Client Libraries.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 292
What are two different features that fully isolate groups of VM instances?
A. Firewall rules and subnetworks
B. Networks and subnetworks
C. Subnetworks and projects
D. Projects and networks
Correct Answer: D

Question: 293
Suppose you have a web server that is working properly, but you can't connect to
its instance VM over SSH. Which of these troubleshooting methods can you use
without disrupting production traffic? (Select 3 answers.)
A. Create a snapshot of the disk and use it to create a new disk; then attach
the new disk to a new instance
B. Use netcat to try to connect to port 22
C. Access the serial console output
D. Create a startup script to collect information.
Correct Answer: A B C

Question: 294
To configure Stackdriver to monitor a web server and let you know if it goes down,
what steps do you need to take? (Select 2 answers.)
A. Install the Stackdriver Logging Agent on the web server
B. Create an alerting policy
C. Install the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent on the web server
D. Create an uptime check
Correct Answer: B D

Question: 295
Which of these tools can you use to copy data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage?
(Select 2 answers.)
A. Cloud Storage Transfer Service
B. S3 Storage Transfer Service
C. Cloud Storage Console
D. gsutil
Correct Answer: A D

Question: 296
What are two of the actions you can take to troubleshoot a virtual machine instance that
won't start up at all? (Select 2 answers.)
A. Increase the CPU and memory on the instance by changing the machine type.
B. Validate that your disk has a valid file system.
C. Examine your virtual machine instance's serial port output.
D. Connect to your virtual machine instance using SSH.
Correct Answer: B C

Question: 297
Which statements about application load testing are true? (Select 2 answers.)
A. You should test at the maximum load that you expect to encounter.
B. You should test at 50% more than the maximum load that you expect to
encounter.
C. It is not necessary to test sudden increases in traffic since GCP scales
seamlessly.
D. Your load tests should include testing sudden increases in traffic.
Correct Answer: A D

Question: 298
Which of these statements about resilience testing are true? (Select 2 answers.)
A. In a resilience test, your application should keep running with little or no
downtime.
B. To test the resilience of an autoscaling instance group, you can terminate a
random instance within that group.
C. In order for an application to survive instance failures, it should not be stateless.
D. Resilience testing is the same as disaster recovery testing.
Correct Answer: A B

Question: 299
Which combination of Stackdriver services will alert you about errors generated by
your applications and help you locate the root cause in the code?
A. Monitoring, Trace, and Debugger
B. Monitoring and Error Reporting
C. Debugger and Error Reporting
D. Alerts and Debugger
Correct Answer: C

Question: 300
If you have configured Stackdriver Logging to export logs to BigQuery, but logs
entries are not getting exported to BigQuery, what is the most likely cause?
A. The Cloud Data Transfer Service has not been enabled.
B. There isn't a firewall rule allowing traffic between Stackdriver and BigQuery.
C. Stackdriver Logging does not have permission to write to the BigQuery
dataset.
D. The size of the Stackdriver log entries being exported exceeds the maximum
capacity of the BigQuery dataset.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 301
You can use Stackdriver to monitor virtual machines on which cloud platforms?
A. Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
B. Google Cloud Platform
C. Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services
D. Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
Correct Answer: C

Question: 302
To minimize the risk of someone changing your log files to hide their activities,
which of the following principles would help? (Select 3 answers.)
A. Restrict usage of the owner role for projects and log buckets.
B. Require two people to inspect the logs.
C. Implement object versioning on the log-buckets.
D. Encrypt the logs using Cloud KMS.
Correct Answer: A C D
Question: 303
If network traffic between one Google Compute Engine instance and another
instance is being dropped, what is the most likely cause?
A. The instances are on a network with low bandwidth.
B. The TCP keep-alive setting is too short.
C. The instances are on a default network with no additional firewall rules.
D. A firewall rule was deleted.
Correct Answer: D

Question: 304
Which of the following practices can help you develop more secure software?
(Select 3 answers.)
A. Penetration tests
B. Integrating static code analysis tools into your CI/CD pipeline
C. Encrypting your source code
D. Peer review of code
Correct Answer: A B D

Question: 305
Which two places hold information you can use to monitor the effects of a Cloud
Storage lifecycle policy on specific objects? (Select 2 answers.)
A. Cloud Storage Lifecycle Monitoring
B. Expiration time metadata
C. Access logs
D. Lifecycle config file
Correct Answer: B C
Question: 306
If you have object versioning enabled on a multi-regional bucket, what will the
following lifecycle config file do?
{"lifecycle": {
"rule": [ {
"action": {"type": "Delete"},
"condition": {
"age": 30,
"isLive": true } },
{ "action": {
"type": "SetStorageClass",
"storageClass": "COLDLINE"},
"condition": {
"age": 365,
"matchesStorageClass": ["MULTI_REGIONAL"] } } ] } }
A. Archive objects older than 30 days (the second rule doesn't do anything)
B. Delete objects older than 30 days (the second rule doesn't do anything)
C. Archive objects older than 30 days and move objects to Coldline Storage
after 365 days
D. Delete objects older than 30 days and move objects to Coldline Storage after
365 days
Correct Answer: C

Question: 307
Which of the following statements about Stackdriver Trace are true? (Select 2
answers.)
A. Stackdriver Trace tracks the performance of the virtual machines running the
application.
B. Stackdriver Trace tracks the latency of incoming requests.
C. Applications in App Engine automatically submit traces to Stackdriver
Trace. Applications outside of App Engine need to use the Trace SDK or
Trace API.
D. To make an application work with Stackdriver Trace, you need to add
instrumentation code using the Trace SDK or Trace API, even if the application is in
App
Correct Answer: B C

Question: 308
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?
A. Create a token and pass it in as an environment variable to func_display. When
invoking func_query, include the token in the request. Pass the same token to
func_query and reject the invocation if the tokens are different.
B. Make func_query 'Require authentication.' Create a unique service account
and associate it to func_display. Grant the service account invoker role for
func_query. Create an id token in func_display and include the token to the
request when invoking func_query.
C. Make func_query 'Require authentication' and only accept internal traffic. Create
those two functions in the same VPC. Create an ingress firewall rule for func_query
to only allow traffic from func_display.
D. Create those two functions in the same project and VPC. Make func_query only
accept internal traffic. Create an ingress firewall for func_query to only allow traffic
from func_display. Also, make sure both functions use the same service account.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 309
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You have broken down a
legacy monolithic application into a few containerized RESTful microservices.
You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You also want to make sure the
services are highly available with low latency to your customers. What should you
do?
A. Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud
Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTTP(S) Load Balancing
instance and attach the Cloud Endpoints to its backend.
B. Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions. Create serverless network
endpoint groups pointing to the services. Add the serverless NEGs to a
backend service that is used by a global HTTP(S) Load Balancing instance.
C. Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions. In Cloud DNS, create a
latency-based DNS name that points to the services.
D. Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create a TCP/IP global
load balancer. Add the Cloud Run Endpoints to its backend service.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 310
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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? (Choose two.)
A. Open a support case regarding the CVE and chat with the support
engineer.
B. Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Status Dashboard to understand the
impact.
C. Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Platform Security Bulletins to
understand the impact.
D. Post a question regarding the CVE in Stack Overflow to get an explanation.
E. Post a question regarding the CVE in a Google Cloud discussion group to get an
explanation.
Correct Answer: A C

Question: 311
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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?
A. Create a scheduled job in Cloud Run to invoke a container every minute. The
container will check the application URL. If the application is down, switch the URL
to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.
B. Create a cron job on a Compute Engine VM that runs every minute. The cron job
invokes a Python program to check the application URL. If the application is down,
switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.
C. Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check to validate the application URL. If
it fails, put a message in a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function to
switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.
D. Use Cloud Error Reporting to check the application URL. If the application is
down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 312
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are building a
microservice-based application for TerramEarth. The application is based on
Docker containers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to build the
application continuously and store the build artifacts. What should you do?
A. Configure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. Invoke Cloud
Build to build container images for each microservice, and tag them using the
code commit hash. Push the images to the Container Registry.
B. Configure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. The trigger invokes
build jobs and build container images for the microservices. Tag the images with a
version number, and push them to Cloud Storage.
C. Create a Scheduler job to check the repo every minute. For any new change,
invoke Cloud Build to build container images for the microservices. Tag the images
using the current timestamp, and push them to the Container Registry.
D. Configure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. Invoke Cloud Build to
build one container image, and tag the image with the label 'latest.' Push the image
to the Container Registry.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 313
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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?
A. Request Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud, export the data to
appliances, and return the appliances to Google Cloud.
B. Configure the Storage Transfer service from Google Cloud to send the data from
your data center to Cloud Storage.
C. Make sure there are no other users consuming the 1Gbps link, and use
multi-thread transfer to upload the data to Cloud Storage.
D. Export files to an encrypted USB device, send the device to Google Cloud, and
request an import of the data to Cloud Storage.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 314
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?
A.Grant the operations engineer access to use Google Cloud Shell.
B.Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.
C.Develop a new access request process that grants temporary SSH access to
cloud VMs when an operations engineer needs to perform a task.
D.Have the development team build an API service that allows the operations team
to execute specific remote procedure calls to accomplish their tasks.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 315
At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to
remotely archive copies of database backup files.
The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center.
How should he proceed?
A.Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.
B.Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.
C.Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline
Storage bucket.
D.Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional
Storage bucket.
Correct Answer: C

Question: 316
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?
A.Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Use Google Cloud
Datastore to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID and their image
files.
B.Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the
uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer's unique ID.
C.Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs
increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Assign each customer a unique
ID, which sets each file's owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.
D.Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs
increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Use a Google Cloud SQL
database to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID to their image files.
Correct Answer: A
Question: 317
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an
outage?
A.They should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to
show errors in the code.
B.They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on
their cloud staging environment.
C.They should run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to
determine if the code is working as intended.
D.They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an
impact the new release causes to latency.
Correct Answer: B

Question: 318
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?
A.Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the
data.
B.Google Cloud Storage Nearline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.
C.Google Bigtabte with US or EU as location to store the data, and gcloud to
access the data.
D.BigQuery to store the data, and a web server cluster in a managed instance
group to access the data. Google Cloud SQL mirrored across two distinct regions to
store the data, and a Redis cluster in a managed instance group to access the
data.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 319
The current Dress4Win system architecture has high latency to some customers
because it is located in one data center.
As of a future evaluation and optimizing for performance in the cloud, Dresss4Win
wants to distribute its system architecture to multiple locations when Google cloud
platform.
Which approach should they use?
A.Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to
increase performance because the regional managed instance group can
grow instances in each region separately based on traffic.
B.Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the
requests to a closer group of virtual machines managed by your operations team.
C.Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase
reliability by providing automatic failover between zones in different regions.
D.Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the
requests to a closer group of virtual machines as part of a separate managed
instance groups.
Correct Answer: A

Question: 320
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?
A.Migrate the web application layer to App Engine, and MySQL to Cloud Datastore,
and NAS to Cloud Storage. Deploy RabbitMQ, and deploy Hadoop servers using
Deployment Manager.
B.Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute
Engine with Persistent Disk storage. Deploy Tomcat, and deploy Nginx using
Deployment Manager.
C.Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to
Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to
Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage.
D.Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate
MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud
Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.
Correct Answer: D