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Latest 2024 Professional Cloud Architect Certification Questions & Mock Tests, Google Professional Cloud Architect | SPOTO

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Question #1
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
B. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to deny all traffic for all instances
C. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic
D. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic
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Correct Answer: B
Question #2
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
A. Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future
B. Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity
C. Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity
D. Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database
E. Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities
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Correct Answer: CE
Question #3
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
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
Company Overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers. Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools. Their current model is to write game statistics to files and send them through an ETL tool that loads
A. Overview
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Correct Answer: A
Question #5
Company Overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. Company Background Mountkirk Games builds all of their games with some server-side integration, and has historically used cloud providers to lease physical servers. A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools. Mountkirk’s current model is to write game statistics to files and send them th
A. Overview
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Correct Answer: A
Question #6
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #7
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #8
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
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Correct Answer: C
Question #9
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 Googlerecommended 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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #10
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
B. Use Deployment Manager to automate provisioning
C. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning
D. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning
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Correct Answer: A
Question #11
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #12
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #13
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #14
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
D. Create a global forwarding rule
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Correct Answer: B
Question #15
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
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
B. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling on the Kubernetes cluster
C. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group
D. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group
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Correct Answer: B
Question #17
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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #18
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #19
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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #20
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #21
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 3 answers.
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
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Correct Answer: ACE

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