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Question #1
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 Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs
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Correct Answer: C
Question #2
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 archieved files and files uploaded daily using the qsutil -m option
B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage
C. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage
D. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage
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Correct Answer: A
Question #3
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
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Correct Answer: BEF
Question #4
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 2 answers.
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
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Correct Answer: ADE
Question #5
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
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Correct Answer: C
Question #6
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
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Correct Answer: BC
Question #7
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 Container Engine
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Correct Answer: A
Question #8
You are deploying a PHP App Engine Standard service with 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
B. Set the memcache service level to dedicated
C. Set the memcache service level to shared
D. Set the memcache service level to shared
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Correct Answer: A
Question #9
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
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Correct Answer: C
Question #10
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 Container Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer
D. Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Deployment Manager
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Correct Answer: A
Question #11
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 3 answers.
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
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Correct Answer: C
Question #12
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #13
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
Question #14
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
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Correct Answer: AC
Question #15
You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task a scheduling for compute on GCP. Leveraging Google best practices, what should you do?
A. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publishing 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
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
You want to enable your running Google Container Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes. What should you do?
A. Add additional nodes to your Container 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 enableautoscaling max-nodes-10
C. Update the existing Container Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster - -enableautoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max- nodes=10
D. Create a new Container Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster - - enableautoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10 and redeploy your application
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Correct Answer: BE

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