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

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Question #1
Your company’s test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual machines. The full test suite takes several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on-premises servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce the amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as possible. Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend?
A. Google Compute Engine unmanaged instance groups and Network Load Balancer
B. Google Compute Engine managed instance groups with auto-scaling
C. Google Cloud Dataproc to run Apache Hadoop jobs to process each test
D. Google App Engine with Google StackDriver for logging
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Correct Answer: B
Question #2
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 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 Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster - -enable- autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10
D. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster - - enable- autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10 and redeploy your application
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Correct Answer: C
Question #3
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
Question #4
y. 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 #5
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 period to 36 months
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Correct Answer: C
Question #6
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 #7
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 #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
Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine application is taking approximately 30 seconds to load for some of their users. This behavior was not reported before the update. What strategy should you take?
A. Work with your ISP to diagnose the problem
B. Open a support ticket to ask for network capture and flow data to diagnose the problem, then roll back your application
C. Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver Trace and Logging to diagnose the problem in a development/test/staging environment
D. Roll back to an earlier known good release, then push the release again at a quieter period to investigate
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Correct Answer: C
Question #10
A recent audit revealed that a new network was created in your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open to 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
C. In the Logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section
D. Connect to the GCE instance using project SSH keys
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Correct Answer: C
Question #11
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 #12
y. 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 #13
As part of Dress4Win's plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that: * The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day * Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors. * They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application acro
A. Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug
B. Monitoring, Trace, Debug, Logging
C. Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting
D. Monitoring, Logging, Debug, Error Report
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Correct Answer: D
Question #14
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 #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
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
A. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery
B. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs
C. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery
D. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs
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Correct Answer: A
Question #17
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 #18
y. 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 #19
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case stud For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution. What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?
A. Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub
B. Downgrade MySQL to v5
C. Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types
D. Containerize the micro-services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine
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Correct Answer: C

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