Top 50 Google Certified Cloud Professional Architect Exam Questions and Answers Dumps

GCP, Google Cloud Platform, has been a game changer in the tech industry. It allows organizations to build and run applications on Google’s infrastructure. The GCP platform is trusted by many companies because it is reliable, secure and scalable. In order to become a GCP certified professional, one must pass the GCP Professional Architect exam. The GCP Professional Architect exam is not easy, but with the right practice questions and answers dumps, you can pass the GCP PA exam with flying colors.

Google Certified Cloud Professional Architect is the top high paying certification in the world: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Average Salary – $175,761

The Google Certified Cloud Professional Architect Exam assesses your ability to:

• Design and plan a cloud solution architecture

• Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure

• Design for security and compliance

• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes

• Manage implementations of cloud architecture

• Ensure solution and operations reliability

• Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

The Google Certified Cloud Professional Architect covers the following topics:

Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture: 36%

This domain tests your ability to design a solution infrastructure that meets business and technical requirements and considers network, storage and compute resources. It will test your ability to create a migration plan, and that you can envision future solution improvements.

Managing and provisioning a solution Infrastructure: 20%

This domain will test your ability to configure network topologies, individual storage systems and design solutions using Google Cloud networking, storage and compute services.

Designing for security and compliance: 12%

This domain assesses your ability to design for security and compliance by considering IAM policies, separation of duties, encryption of data and that you can design your solutions while considering any compliance requirements such as those for healthcare and financial information.

Managing implementation: 10%

This domain tests your ability to advise development/operation team(s) to make sure you have successful deployment of your solution. It also tests yours ability to interact with Google Cloud using GCP SDK (gcloud, gsutil, and bq).

Ensuring solution and operations reliability: 6%

This domain tests your ability to run your solutions reliably in Google Cloud by building monitoring and logging solutions, quality control measures and by creating release management processes.

Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes: 16%

This domain will test how you analyze and define technical processes, business processes and develop procedures to ensure resilience of your solutions in production.

Below are the Top 50 Google Certified Cloud Professional Architect Exam Questions and Answers Dumps that will help you ace the GCP Professional Architect exam:

You will need to have the three case studies referred to in the exam open in separate tabs in order to complete the exam: Company A , Company B, Company C

Question 1:  Because you do not know every possible future use for the data Company A collects, you have decided to build a system that captures and stores all raw data in case you need it later. How can you most cost-effectively accomplish this goal?

 A. Have the vehicles in the field stream the data directly into BigQuery.

B. Have the vehicles in the field pass the data to Cloud Pub/Sub and dump it into a Cloud Dataproc cluster that stores data in Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on persistent disks.

C. Have the vehicles in the field continue to dump data via FTP, adjust the existing Linux machines, and use a collector to upload them into Cloud Dataproc HDFS for storage.

D. Have the vehicles in the field continue to dump data via FTP, and adjust the existing Linux machines to immediately upload it to Cloud Storage with gsutil.

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Question 2: Today, Company A maintenance workers receive interactive performance graphs for the last 24 hours (86,400 events) by plugging their maintenance tablets into the vehicle. The support group wants support technicians to view this data remotely to help troubleshoot problems. You want to minimize the latency of graph loads. How should you provide this functionality?

A. Execute queries against data stored in a Cloud SQL.

B. Execute queries against data indexed by vehicle_id.timestamp in Cloud Bigtable.

C. Execute queries against data stored on daily partitioned BigQuery tables.

D. Execute queries against BigQuery with data stored in Cloud Storage via BigQuery federation.

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Question 3: Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation. Which two architecture characteristics should you consider?

A. Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy. 

B. Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space. 

C. Enclose the vehicle’s drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.

D. Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E. Treat every microservice call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted.

F. Use a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.

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Question 4: For this question, refer to the Company A case study.

Which of Company A’s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption?

A. OpEx/CapEx allocation, LAN change management, 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

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Question 5: For this question, refer to the Company A case study.

You analyzed Company A’s business requirement to reduce downtime and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers’ wait time for parts. You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks’ aggregate reporting time. Which modifications to the company’s processes should you recommend?

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.

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Question 6: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep their development environment in sync with the various production services. Which technology should you choose?

A. RPM/DEB

B. Containers 

C. Chef/Puppet

D. Virtual machines

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Question 7: 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. You want to support the data upload and collection needs of this sensor network. The receiving infrastructure needs to account for the possibility that the devices may have inconsistent connectivity. Which solution should you design?

A. Have each device create a persistent connection to a Compute Engine instance and write messages to a custom application.

B. Have devices poll for connectivity to Cloud SQL and insert the latest messages on a regular interval to a device specific table. 

C. Have devices poll for connectivity to Cloud Pub/Sub and publish the latest messages on a regular interval to a shared topic for all devices.

D. Have devices create a persistent connection to an App Engine application fronted by Cloud Endpoints, which ingest messages and write them to Cloud Datastore.

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Question 8: 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?

A. Load logs into BigQuery. 

B. Load logs into Cloud SQL.

C. Import logs into Stackdriver. 

D. Insert logs into Cloud Bigtable.

E. Upload log files into Cloud Storage.

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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 that the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using the curl command. You want to ensure that the backend is configured correctly. What should you do?

A. Ensure that a firewall rule 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.

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Question 10: 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.

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Question 11: Your organization has 5 TB of private data on premises. You need to migrate the data to Cloud Storage. You want to maximize the data transfer speed. How should you migrate the data?

A. Use gsutil.

B. Use gcloud.

C. Use GCS REST API. 

D. Use Storage Transfer Service.

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Question 12: You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure that people cannot spoof chat messages by proving that a message was sent by a specific user. What should you do?

A. Encrypt the message client-side using block-based encryption with a shared key.

B. Tag messages client-side with the originating user identifier and the destination user.

C. Use a trusted certificate authority to enable SSL connectivity between the client application and the server. 

D. Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client-side using the originating user’s private key.

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Question 13: You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database backend. 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 key management system

D. In a config file that has restricted access through ACLs

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Question 14: For this question, refer to the Company B case study.

Company B 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 Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

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Question 15: For this question, refer to the Company B case study.

Company B has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?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 and use resources from the already deployed production backend to simulate load.D. Create a set of static environments in GCP to test different levels of load—for example, high, medium, and low.

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Question 16: For this question, refer to the Company B case study.

Company B 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. Company B 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 reserve a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.
• Deployment artifacts are immutable

Which set of products should they use?

A. Cloud Storage, Cloud Dataflow, Compute Engine

B. Cloud Storage, App Engine, Cloud Load Balancing

C. Container Registry, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Load Balancing

D. Cloud Functions, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Deployment Manager

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Question 17: Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all resources in the organization. You use Resource Manager to set yourself up as the org admin. What 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

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Question 18: 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?

A. Use persistent disks to store the state. Start and stop the VM as needed. 

B. Use the –auto-delete flag on all persistent disks before stopping the VM. 

C. Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export.

D. Use BigQuery billing export and labels to relate cost to groups. 

E. Store all state in local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM.F. Store all state in Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM.

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Question 19: 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 services for each API path behind the load balancer.

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Question 20: The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Compute Engine. The database is used for importing and normalizing the company’s performance statistics. It is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD zonal persistent disk. What should they change to get better performance from this system in a cost-effective manner?

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.

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Question 21: You need to ensure low-latency global access to data stored in a regional GCS bucket. Data access is uniform across many objects and relatively high. What should you do to address the latency concerns?

A. Use Google’s Cloud CDN.

B. Use Premium Tier routing and Cloud Functions to accelerate access at the edges.

C. Do nothing.

D. Use global BigTable storage.

E. Use a global Cloud Spanner instance.

F. Migrate the data to a new multi-regional GCS bucket.

G. Change the storage class to multi-regional.

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Question 22: You are building a sign-up app for your local neighbourhood barbeque party and you would like to quickly throw together a low-cost application that tracks who will bring what. Which of the following options should you choose?

A. Python, Flask, App Engine Standard

B. Ruby, Nginx, GKE

C. HTML, CSS, Cloud Storage

D. Node.js, Express, Cloud Functions

E. Rust, Rocket, App Engine Flex

F. Perl, CGI, GCE

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Question 23: Your company has decided to migrate your AWS DynamoDB database to a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance and you are designing the system to transfer and load all the data to synchronize the DBs and eventually allow for a quick cut-over. A member of your team has some previous experience working with Apache Hadoop. Which of the following options will you choose for the streamed updates that follow the initial import?

A. The DynamoDB table change is captured by Cloud Pub/Sub and written to Cloud Dataproc for processing into a Spanner-compatible format.

B. The DynamoDB table change is captured by Cloud Pub/Sub and written to Cloud Dataflow for processing into a Spanner-compatible format.

C. Changes to the DynamoDB table are captured by DynamoDB Streams. A Lambda function triggered by the stream writes the change to Cloud Pub/Sub. Cloud Dataflow processes the data from Cloud Pub/Sub and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

D. The DynamoDB table is rescanned by a GCE instance and written to a Cloud Storage bucket. Cloud Dataproc processes the data from Cloud Storage and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

E. The DynamoDB table is rescanned by an EC2 instance and written to an S3 bucket. Storage Transfer Service moves the data from S3 to a Cloud Storage bucket. Cloud Dataflow processes the data from Cloud Storage and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

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Question 24: Your client is a manufacturing company and they have informed you that they will be pausing all normal business activities during a five-week summer holiday period. They normally employ thousands of workers who constantly connect to their internal systems for day-to-day manufacturing data such as blueprints and machine imaging, but during this period the few on-site staff will primarily be re-tooling the factory for the next year’s production runs and will not be performing any manufacturing tasks that need to access these cloud-based systems. When the bulk of the staff return, they will primarily work on the new models but may spend about 20% of their time working with models from previous years. The company has asked you to reduce their GCP costs during this time, so which of the following options will you suggest?

A. Pause all Cloud Functions via the UI and unpause them when work starts back up.

B. Disable all Cloud Functions via the command line and re-enable them when work starts back up.

C. Delete all Cloud Functions and recreate them when work starts back up.

D. Convert all Cloud Functions to run as App Engine Standard applications during the break.

E. None of these options is a good suggestion.

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Question 25: You need a place to store images before updating them by file-based render farm software running on a cluster of machines. Which of the following options will you choose?

A. Container Registry

B. Cloud Storage

C. Cloud Filestore

D. Persistent Disk

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Question 26: Your company has decided to migrate your AWS DynamoDB database to a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance and you are designing the system to transfer and load all the data to synchronize the DBs and eventually allow for a quick cut-over. A member of your team has some previous experience working with Apache Hadoop. Which of the following options will you choose for the initial data import?

A. The DynamoDB table is scanned by an EC2 instance and written to an S3 bucket. Storage Transfer Service moves the data from S3 to a Cloud Storage bucket. Cloud Dataflow processes the data from Cloud Storage and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

B. The DynamoDB table data is captured by DynamoDB Streams. A Lambda function triggered by the stream writes the data to Cloud Pub/Sub. Cloud Dataflow processes the data from Cloud Pub/Sub and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

C. The DynamoDB table data is captured by Cloud Pub/Sub and written to Cloud Dataproc for processing into a Spanner-compatible format.

D. The DynamoDB table is scanned by a GCE instance and written to a Cloud Storage bucket. Cloud Dataproc processes the data from Cloud Storage and writes it to Cloud Spanner.

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Question 27: You need a managed service to handle logging data coming from applications running in GKE and App Engine Standard. Which option should you choose?

A. Cloud Storage

B. Logstash

C. Cloud Monitoring

D. Cloud Logging

E. BigQuery

F. BigTable

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Question 28: You need a place to store images before serving them from AppEngine Standard. Which of the following options will you choose?

A. Compute Engine

B. Cloud Filestore

C. Cloud Storage

D. Persistent Disk

E. Container Registry

F. Cloud Source Repositories

G. Cloud Build

H. Nearline

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Question 29: You need to ensure low-latency global access to data stored in a multi-regional GCS bucket. Data access is uniform across many objects and relatively low. What should you do to address the latency concerns?

A. Use a global Cloud Spanner instance.

B. Change the storage class to multi-regional.

C. Use Google’s Cloud CDN.

D. Migrate the data to a new regional GCS bucket.

E. Do nothing.

F. Use global BigTable storage.

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Question 30: You need to ensure low-latency GCP access to a volume of historical data that is currently stored in an S3 bucket. Data access is uniform across many objects and relatively high. What should you do to address the latency concerns?

A. Use Premium Tier routing and Cloud Functions to accelerate access at the edges.

B. Use Google’s Cloud CDN.

C. Use global BigTable storage.

D. Do nothing.

E. Migrate the data to a new multi-regional GCS bucket.

F. Use a global Cloud Spanner instance.

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Question 31: You are lifting and shifting into GCP a system that uses a subnet-based security model. It has frontend and backend tiers and will be deployed in three regions. How many subnets will you need?

A. Six

B. One

C. Three

D. Four

E. Two

F. Nine

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Question 32: You need a place to produce images before deploying them to AppEngine Flex. Which of the following options will you choose?

A. Container Registry

B. Cloud Storage

C. Persistent Disk

D. Nearline

E. Cloud Source Repositories

F. Cloud Build

G. Cloud Filestore

H. Compute Engine

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Question 33: You are lifting and shifting into GCP a system that uses a subnet-based security model. It has frontend, app, and data tiers and will be deployed in three regions. How many subnets will you need?

A. Two

B. One

C. Three

D. Nine

E. Four

F. Six

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Question 34: You need a place to store images in case any of them are needed as evidence for a tax audit over the next seven years. Which of the following options will you choose?

A. Cloud Filestore

B. Coldline

C. Nearline

D. Persistent Disk

E. Cloud Source Repositories

F. Cloud Storage

G. Container Registry

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Question 35: You need a place to store images before deploying them to AppEngine Flex. Which of the following options will you choose?

A. Container Registry

B. Cloud Filestore

C. Cloud Source Repositories

D. Persistent Disk

E. Cloud Storage

F. Code Build

G. Nearline

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Question 36: You are configuring a SaaS security application that updates your network’s allowed traffic configuration to adhere to internal policies. How should you set this up?

A. Install the application on a new appropriately-sized GCE instance running in your host VPC, and apply a read-only service account to it.

B. Create a new service account for the app to use and grant it the compute.networkViewer role on the production VPC.

C. Create a new service account for the app to use and grant it the compute.securityAdmin role on the production VPC.

D. Run the application as a container in your system’s staging GKE cluster and grant it access to a read-only service account.

E. Install the application on a new appropriately-sized GCE instance running in your host VPC, and let it use the default service account.

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Question 37: You are lifting and shifting into GCP a system that uses a subnet-based security model. It has frontend and backend tiers and will be deployed across three zones. How many subnets will you need?

A. One

B. Six

C. Four

D. Three

E. Nine

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Question 38: You have been tasked with setting up a system to comply with corporate standards for container image approvals. Which of the following is your best choice for this project?

A. Binary Authorization

B. Cloud IAM

C. Security Key Enforcement

D. Cloud SCC

E. Cloud KMS

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Question 39: For this question, refer to the Company B‘s case study. Which of the following are most likely to impact the operations of Company B’s game backend and analytics systems?

A. PCI

B. PII

C. SOX

D. GDPR

E. HIPAA

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Question 40: Your new client has advised you that their organization falls within the scope of HIPAA. What can you infer about their information systems?

A. Their customers located in the EU may require them to delete their user data and provide evidence of such.

B. They will also need to pass a SOX audit.

C. They handle money-linked information.

D. Their system deals with medical information.

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Question 41: Your new client has advised you that their organization needs to pass audits by ISO and PCI. What can you infer about their information systems?

A. They handle money-linked information.

B. Their customers located in the EU may require them to delete their user data and provide evidence of such.

C. Their system deals with medical information.

D. They will also need to pass a SOX audit.

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Question 43: Your new client has advised you that their organization deals with GDPR. What can you infer about their information systems?

A. Their system deals with medical information.

B. Their customers located in the EU may require them to delete their user data and provide evidence of such.

C. They will also need to pass a SOX audit.

D. They handle money-linked information.

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Question 44: For this question, refer to the Company C case study. Once Company C has completed their initial cloud migration as described in the case study, which option would represent the quickest way to migrate their production environment to GCP?

A. Apply the strangler pattern to their applications and reimplement one piece at a time in the cloud

B. Lift and shift all servers at one time

C. Lift and shift one application at a time

D. Lift and shift one server at a time

E. Set up cloud-based load balancing then divert traffic from the DC to the cloud system

F. Enact their disaster recovery plan and fail over

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Question 45: Which of the following commands is most likely to appear in an environment setup script?

A. gsutil mb -l asia gs://${project_id}-logs

B. gcloud compute instances create –zone–machine-type=n1-highmem-16 newvm

C. gcloud compute instances create –zone–machine-type=f1-micro newvm

D. gcloud compute ssh ${instance_id}

E. gsutil cp -r gs://${project_id}-setup ./install

F. gsutil cp -r logs/* gs://${project_id}-logs/${instance_id}/

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Question 46: Your developers are working to expose a RESTful API for your company’s physical dealer locations. Which of the following endpoints would you advise them to include in their design?

A. /dealerLocations/get

B. /dealerLocations

C. /dealerLocations/list

D. Source and destination

E. /getDealerLocations

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Question 47: Which of the following commands is most likely to appear in an instance shutdown script?

A. gsutil cp -r gs://${project_id}-setup ./install

B. gcloud compute instances create –zone–machine-type=n1-highmem-16 newvm

C. gcloud compute ssh ${instance_id}

D. gsutil mb -l asia gs://${project_id}-logs

E. gcloud compute instances delete ${instance_id}

F. gsutil cp -r logs/* gs://${project_id}-logs/${instance_id}/

G. gcloud compute instances create –zone–machine-type=f1-micro newvm

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Question 48: It is Saturday morning and you have been alerted to a serious issue in production that is both reducing availability to 95% and corrupting some data. Your monitoring tools noticed the issue 5 minutes ago and it was just escalated to you because the on-call tech in line before you did not respond to the page. Your system has an RPO of 10 minutes and an RTO of 120 minutes, with an SLA of 90% uptime. What should you do first?

A. Escalate the decision to the business manager responsible for the SLA

B. Take the system offline

C. Revert the system to the state it was in on Friday morning

D. Investigate the cause of the issue

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Question 49: Which of the following are not processes or practices that you would associate with DevOps?

A. Raven-test the candidate

B. Obfuscate the code

C. Only one of the other options is made up

D. Run the code in your cardinal environment

E. Do a canary deploy

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Question 50: Your CTO is going into budget meetings with the board, next month, and has asked you to draw up plans to optimize your GCP-based systems for capex. Which of the following options will you prioritize in your proposal?

A. Object lifecycle management

B. BigQuery Slots

C. Committed use discounts

D. Sustained use discounts

E. Managed instance group autoscaling

F. Pub/Sub topic centralization

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Question 51: In your last retrospective, there was significant disagreement voiced by the members of your team about what part of your system should be built next. Your scrum master is currently away, but how should you proceed when she returns, on Monday?

A. The scrum master is the one who decides

B. The lead architect should get the final say

C. The product owner should get the final say

D. You should put it to a vote of key stakeholders

E. You should put it to a vote of all stakeholders

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Question 52: Your development team needs to evaluate the behavior of a new version of your application for approximately two hours before committing to making it available to all users. Which of the following strategies will you suggest?

A. Split testing

B. Red-Black

C. A/B

D. Canary

E. Rolling

F. Blue-Green

G. Flex downtime

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Question 53: You are mentoring a Junior Cloud Architect on software projects. Which of the following “words of wisdom” will you pass along?

A. Identifying and fixing one issue late in the product cycle could cost the same as handling a hundred such issues earlier on

B. Hiring and retaining 10X developers is critical to project success

C. A key goal of a proper post-mortem is to identify what processes need to be changed

D. Adding 100% is a safe buffer for estimates made by skilled estimators at the beginning of a project

E. A key goal of a proper post-mortem is to determine who needs additional training

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Question 54: Your team runs a service with an SLA to achieve p99 latency of 200ms. This month, your service achieved p95 latency of 250ms. What will happen now?

A. The next month’s SLA will be increased.

B. The next month’s SLO will be reduced.

C. Your client(s) will have to pay you extra.

D. You will have to pay your client(s).

E. There is no impact on payments.

F. There is not enough information to make a determination.

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Question 55: Your team runs a service with an SLO to achieve p90 latency of 200ms. This month, your service achieved p95 latency of 250ms. What will happen now?

A. The next month’s SLA will be increased.

B. There is no impact on payments.

C. There is not enough information to make a determination.

D. Your client(s) will have to pay you extra.

E. The next month’s SLO will be reduced.

F. You will have to pay your client(s).

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Question 56: For this question, refer to the Company C case study. How would you recommend Company C address their capacity and utilization concerns?

A. Configure the autoscaling thresholds to follow changing load

B. Provision enough servers to handle trough load and offload to Cloud Functions for higher demand

C. Run cron jobs on their application servers to scale down at night and up in the morning

D. Use Cloud Load Balancing to balance the traffic highs and lows

D. Run automated jobs in Cloud Scheduler to scale down at night and up in the morning

E. Provision enough servers to handle peak load and sell back excess on-demand capacity to the marketplace

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Google Cloud Latest News, Questions and Answers online:

Cloud Run vs App Engine: In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint. All the scaling is automatically done for you by Google. Cloud Run depends on the fact that your application should be stateless. This is because Google will spin up multiple instances of your app to scale it dynamically. If you want to host a traditional web application this means that you should divide it up into a stateless API and a frontend app.

With Google’s App Engine you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine will create and run a container from these instructions. Deploying with App Engine is super easy. You simply fill out an app.yml file and Google handles everything for you.

With Cloud Run, you have more control. You can go crazy and build a ridiculous custom Docker image, no problem! Cloud Run is made for Devops engineers, App Engine is made for developers. Read more here…

Cloud Run VS Cloud Functions: What to consider?

The best choice depends on what you want to optimize, your use-cases and your specific needs.

If your objective is the lowest latency, choose Cloud Run.

Indeed, Cloud Run use always 1 vCPU (at least 2.4Ghz) and you can choose the memory size from 128Mb to 2Gb.

With Cloud Functions, if you want the best processing performance (2.4Ghz of CPU), you have to pay 2Gb of memory. If your memory footprint is low, a Cloud Functions with 2Gb of memory is overkill and cost expensive for nothing.

Cutting cost is not always the best strategy for customer satisfaction, but business reality may require it. Anyway, it highly depends of your use-case

Both Cloud Run and Cloud Function round up to the nearest 100ms. As you could play with the GSheet, the Cloud Functions are cheaper when the processing time of 1 request is below the first 100ms. Indeed, you can slow the Cloud Functions vCPU, with has for consequence to increase the duration of the processing but while staying under 100ms if you tune it well. Thus less Ghz/s are used and thereby you pay less.

the cost comparison between Cloud Functions and Cloud Run goes further than simply comparing a pricing list. Moreover, on your projects, you often will have to use the 2 solutions for taking advantage of their strengths and capabilities.

My first choice for development is Cloud Run. Its portability, its testability, its openess on the libraries, the languages and the binaries confer it too much advantages for, at least, a similar pricing, and often with a real advantage in cost but also in performance, in particular for concurrent requests. Even if you need the same level of isolation of Cloud functions (1 instance per request), simply set the concurrent param to 1!

In addition, the GA of Cloud Run is applied on all containers, whatever the languages and the binaries used. Read more here…

What does the launch of Google’s App Maker mean for professional app developers?

Should I go with AWS Elastic Beanstalk or Google App Engine (Managed VMs) for deploying my Parse-Server backend?

Why can a company such as Google sell me a cloud gaming service where I can “rent” GPU power over miles of internet, but when I seek out information on how to create a version of this everyone says that it is not possible or has too much latency?

AWS wins hearts of developers while Azure those of C-levels. Google is a black horse with special expertise like K8s and ML. The cloud world is evolving. Who is the winner in the next 5 years?

What is GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and how does it work?

What is the maximum amount of storage that you could have in your Google drive?

How do I deploy Spring Boot application (Web MVC) on Google App Engine(GAE) or HEROKU using Eclipse IDE?

What are some downsides of building softwares on top of Google App Engine?

Why is Google losing the cloud computing race?

How did new products like Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Yandex.Disk and other cloud storage solutions affect Dropbox’s growth and revenues?

What is the capacity of Google servers?

What is the Hybrid Cloud platform?

What is the difference between Docker and Google App engines?

How do I get to cloud storage?

How does Google App Engine compare to Heroku?

What is equivalent of Google Cloud BigTable in Microsoft Azure?

How big is the storage capacity of Google organization and who comes second?

It seems strange that Google Cloud Platform offer “everything” except cloud search/inverted index?

Where are the files on Google Drive stored?

Is Google app engine similar to lambda?

Was Diane Greene a failure as the CEO of Google Cloud considering her replacement’s strategy and philosophy is the polar opposite?

How is Google Cloud for heavy real-time traffic? Is there any optimization needed for handling more than 100k RT?

When it comes to iCloud, why does Apple rely on Google Cloud instead of using their own data centers?

Google Cloud Storage : What bucket class for the best performance?: Multiregional buckets perform significantly better for cross-the-ocean fetches, however the details are a bit more nuanced than that. The performance is dominated by the latency of physical distance between the client and the cloud storage bucket.

• If caching is on, and your access volume is high enough to take advantage of caching, there’s not a huge difference between the two offerings (that I can see with the tests). This shows off the power of Google’s Awesome CDN environment.
• If caching is off, or the access volume is low enough that you can’t take advantage of caching, then the performance overhead is dominated directly by physics. You should be trying to get the assets as close to the clients as possible, while also considering cost, and the types of redundancy and consistency you’ll need for your data needs.

Conclusion:

GCP, or the Google Cloud Platform, is a cloud-computing platform that provides users with access to a variety of GCP services. The GCP Professional Architect Engineeer exam is designed to test a candidate’s ability to design, implement, and manage GCP solutions. The GCP questions cover a wide range of topics, from basic GCP concepts to advanced GCP features. To become a GCP Certified Professional, you must pass the GCP PE exam. Below are some basics GCP Questions to answer to get yourself familiarized with the Google Cloud Platform:

1) What is GCP?
2) What are the benefits of using GCP?
3) How can GCP help my business?
4) What are some of the features of GCP?
5) How is GCP different from other clouds?
6) Why should I use GCP?
7) What are some of GCP’s strengths?
8) How is GCP priced?
9) Is GCP easy to use?
10) Can I use GCP for my personal projects?
11) What services does GCP offer?
12) What can I do with GCP?
13) What languages does GCP support?
14) What platforms does GCP support?
15) Does GPC support hybrid deployments? 16) Does GPC support on-premises deployments?

17) Is there a free tier on GPC ?

18) How do I get started with usingG CP ?

Top- high paying certifications:

1. Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect – $139,529
2. PMP® – Project Management Professional – $135,798
3. Certified ScrumMaster® – $135,441
4. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate – $132,840
5. AWS Certified Developer – Associate – $130,369
6. Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Server Infrastructure – $121,288
7. ITIL® Foundation – $120,566
8. CISM – Certified Information Security Manager – $118,412
9. CRISC – Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control – $117,395
10. CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional – $116,900
11. CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker – $116,306
12. Citrix Certified Associate – Virtualization (CCA-V) – $113,442
13. CompTIA Security+ – $110,321
14. CompTIA Network+ – $107,143
15. Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching – $106,957

According to the 2020 Global Knowledge report, the top-paying cloud certifications for the year are (drumroll, please):

1- Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect — $175,761

2- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — $149,446

3- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — $131,465

4- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals — $126,653

5- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate — $125,993

Sources:

1- Google Cloud

2- Linux Academy

3- WhizLabs

4- GCP Space on Quora

5- Udemy

6- Acloud Guru

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