PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Online Practice Questions and Answers

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.

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".

Your company is planning to upload several important files to Cloud Storage. After the upload is completed, they want to verify that the upload 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 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

B. 1) Use gsutil-m to upload all 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 Linux shasum to compute a digest of files you want to upload 2) Use gsutil-m to upload all the files to the Cloud Storage 3) Use gsutil cp to download the uploaded files 4) Use Linux shasum to compute a digest of the downloaded files 5.Compre the hashes

D. 1)Use gsutil-m to upload all 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

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 clickthroughs 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, backed by Google Cloud SQL.

A recent audit that a new network was created in Your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open 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.

You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do?

A. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

B. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

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 they take? Choose 2 answers

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.

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 resizeCLUSTER_Name ?-size 10

B. Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command:gcloud compute instances add-tagsINSTANCE--tags enable-autoscaling max-nodes-10

C. Update the existing Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command:gcloud alpha container clustersupdate mycluster--enable-autoscaling--min-nodes=1--max-nodes=10

D. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command:gcloud alpha container clusterscreate mycluster--enable-autoscaling--min-nodes=1--max-nodes=10and redeploy your application

Your company just finished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have another 9 months to design and deploy a more cloud-native solution. Specifically, you want a system that is no-ops and auto-scaling. Which two compute products should you choose? Choose 2 answers

A. Compute Engine with containers

B. Google Kubernetes Engine with containers

C. Google App Engine Standard Environment

D. Compute Engine with custom instance types

E. Compute Engine with managed instance groups

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.