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Professional Cloud Architect Exam Essentials: Exam Questions & Practice Tests, Google Professional Cloud Architect | SPOTO

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Question #1
You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan which incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do?
A. Allocate budget for team training
B. Allocate budget for team training
C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants
D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants
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Correct Answer: A
Question #2
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the following stack trace. What should you do?
A. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application
B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application
C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1
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Correct Answer: B
Question #3
You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source repository and want to ensure that code changes can be verified deploying to production. What should you do?
A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment strategy so that changes can easily be rolled back
B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production deployments
C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch
D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an architecture that takes into account a disaster recovery plan that requires your application to fail over to another region in case of a regional outage. What should you do?
A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but in a different region
B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance
C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same project but in a different region
D. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in a separate project and a different region
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Correct Answer: C
Question #5
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks. Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and persists across sessions?
A. ~/bin
B. Cloud Storage
C. /google/scripts
D. /usr/local/bin
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Correct Answer: A
Question #6
You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the minimum viable product release, you’d like to use a managed product that automatically “scales to zero” so you don’t incur costs when there is no activity. Which primary compute resource should you choose?
A. Cloud Functions
B. Compute Engine
C. Google Kubernetes Engine
D. AppEngine flexible environment
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Correct Answer: A
Question #7
Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization, folders, and projects. When Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy at a particular node of the hierarchy?
A. The effective policy is determined only by the policy set at the node
B. The effective policy is the policy set at the node and restricted by the policies of its ancestors
C. The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors
D. The effective policy is the intersection of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors
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Correct Answer: C
Question #8
You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPU load. What should you do?
A. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage
B. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage
C. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties
D. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties
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Correct Answer: B
Question #9
Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable for retention and analysis. What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this data of personally identifiable information or payment card information before initial storage?
A. Hash all data using SHA256
B. Encrypt all data using elliptic curve cryptography
C. De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
D. Use regular expressions to find and redact phone numbers, email addresses, and credit card numbers
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Correct Answer: C
Question #10
Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications between instances to only the paths and ports you authorize, but you don’t want to rely on static IP addresses or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict communications?
A. Use separate VPCs to restrict traffic
B. Use firewall rules based on network tags attached to the compute instances
C. Use Cloud DNS and only allow connections from authorized hostnames
D. Use service accounts and configure the web application to authorize particular service accounts to have access
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Correct Answer: D
Question #11
You have deployed an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?
A. Use gcloud sql instances restart
B. Validate that the Service Account used by the Cloud SQL proxy container still has the Cloud Build Editor role
C. In the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging
D. In the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL
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Correct Answer: A
Question #12
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 you take? Choose 2 answers.
A. Load logs into Google BigQuery
B. Load logs into Google Cloud SQL
C. Import logs into Google Stackdriver
D. Insert logs into Google Cloud Bigtable
E. Upload log files into Google Cloud Storage
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Correct Answer: AE
Question #13
You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there’s no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the zones within a GCP region. What should you do?
A. Configure a Cloud SQL instance with high availability enabled
B. Configure a Cloud Spanner instance with a regional instance configuration
C. Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering
D. Set up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering
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Correct Answer: D
Question #14
You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a specific zone. You want to introduce high availability. What should you do?
A. Create a read replica instance in a different region
B. Create a failover replica instance in a different region
C. Create a read replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone
D. Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone
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Correct Answer: A
Question #15
You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute Engine and your on-premises data center. You require a connection of at least 20 Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you set up the connection?
A. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect
B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single Cloud VPN
C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect
D. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises datacenter using a single Cloud VPN
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse many services. You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases. What should you do?
A. Set timeouts on your application so that you can fail requests faster
B. Send custom metrics for each of your requests to Stackdriver Monitoring
C. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to look for insights that show when your API latencies are high
D. Instrument your application with Stackdriver Trace in order to break down the request latencies at each microservice
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Correct Answer: D
Question #17
You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-premises database. For security purposes, your on-premises database must not be accessible through the public internet. What should you do?
A. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit access to the open on-premises database
B. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database
C. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit access to the on-premises database
D. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database
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Correct Answer: D
Question #18
Your applications will be writing their logs to BigQuery for analysis. Each application should have its own table. Any logs older than 45 days should be removed. You want to optimize storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Configure the expiration time for your tables at 45 days
B. Make the tables time-partitioned, and configure the partition expiration at 45 days
C. Rely on BigQuery’s default behavior to prune application logs older than 45 days
D. Create a script that uses the BigQuery command line tool (bq) to remove records older than 45 days
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Correct Answer: C
Question #19
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 Kubernetes Engine
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Correct Answer: B
Question #20
Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that are not time-critical. You also need to use GCP services that are HIPAA-certified and manage service costs. How should you design to meet Google best practices?
A. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost
B. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost
C. Provision standard VMs in the same region to reduce cost
D. Provision standard VMs to the same region to reduce cost
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Correct Answer: A
Question #21
You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage increases and ensure that you don’t run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your requirements?
A. 1
B. 1
C. 1
D. 1
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Correct Answer: B
Question #22
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the migration, you want to integrate Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for workload orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-compliant. Which of the following is most accurate?
A. App Engine is the only compute platform on GCP that is certified for PCI DSS hosting
B. GKE cannot be used under PCI DSS because it is considered shared hosting
C. GKE and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant environment
D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certified PCI-compliant
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Correct Answer: C

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