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Question #1
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?
A. Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Deployment Manager to Compute Engine
B. Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Launcher
C. Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine
D. Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine
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Correct Answer: A
Question #2
Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?
A. Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud environment, and load into a new MySQL cluster
B. Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover
C. Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, configure applications to begin writing to both on premises and cloud MySQL masters, and destroy the original cluster at cutover
D. Create a dump of the MySQL replica server into the cloud environment, load it into: Google Cloud Datastore, and configure applications to read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover
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Correct Answer: B
Question #3
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements. Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?
A. Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements
B. Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements
C. Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements
D. Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #5
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
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #6
Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?
A. Install the Stackdriver agent on all of the legacy web servers
B. In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers' IP addresses and create an inbound firewall rule
C. Configure their load balancer to pass through the User-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring-UptimeChecks (https:// cloud
D. Configure their legacy web servers to allow requests that contain user-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring- UptimeChecks (https://cloud
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Correct Answer: B
Question #7
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
B. Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months
C. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months
D. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months
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Correct Answer: C
Question #8
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
B. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse
C. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse
D. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse
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Correct Answer: A
Question #9
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #10
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”
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Correct Answer: A
Question #11
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #12
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud. What should you do?
A. Use Stackdriver Trace to create a Trace list analysis
B. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity
C. Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member
D. Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight
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Correct Answer: D
Question #13
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #14
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as-is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?
A. Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment
B. RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group
C. Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode
D. Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types
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Correct Answer: A
Question #15
Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?
A. Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud
B. Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a first move to the cloud
C. Suggest moving their in-house databases to the cloud and continue serving requests to on-premise applications
D. Recommend moving their message queuing servers to the cloud and continue handling requests to on-premise applications
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Correct Answer: C
Question #16
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #17
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
B. Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it
C. Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view
D. Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source
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Correct Answer: D
Question #18
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
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Correct Answer: AC
Question #19
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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #20
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
B. Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket
C. Use a distributed file system to store customers' images
D. Use a distributed file system to store customers' images
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Correct Answer: A
Question #21
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
B. Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage
C. Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx
D. Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx
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Correct Answer: D
Question #22
Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?
A. Perform a mapping of the on-premises physical hardware cores and RAM to the nearest machine types in the cloud
B. Recommend that Dress4Win deploy application servers to machine types that offer the highest RAM to CPU ratio available
C. Recommend that Dress4Win deploy into production with the smallest instances available, monitor them over time, and scale the machine type up until the desired performance is reached
D. Identify the number of virtual cores and RAM associated with the application server virtual machines align them to a custom machine type in the cloud, monitor performance, and scale the machine types up until the desired performance is reached
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Correct Answer: C

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