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Question #1
You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup’s trial usage of GCP, and you don’t yet know what consumer demand for your product will be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google best practices. What should you do?
A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts
B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts
C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts
D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts
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Correct Answer: B

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Question #2
A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment. You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager. What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? (Choose two.)
A. Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python
B. Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future
C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company’s engineers
D. Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run
E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources
F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources
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Correct Answer: BF
Question #3
You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN to maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is completed. You want to make sure all your on-premise systems remain reachable during this period. How should you organize your networking in Google Cloud?
A. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises
B. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises
C. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises
D. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range with the same IP range as you use on-premises
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Correct Answer: D
Question #4
You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. The script is printing errors that it cannot connect to BigQuery. What should you do to fix the script?
A. Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python
B. Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope enabled
C. Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with that user
D. Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install bq
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Correct Answer: B
Question #5
Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest scope of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance without compromising the ability to analyze transactional data and trends relating to which payment methods are used. How should you design your architecture?
A. Create a tokenizer service and store only tokenized data
B. Create separate projects that only process credit card data
C. Create separate subnetworks and isolate the components that process credit card data
D. Streamline the audit discovery phase by labeling all of the virtual machines (VMs) that process PCI data
E. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the auditor
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Correct Answer: A
Question #6
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
Question #7
You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes negatively affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix it, and investigation could take up to a week. What should you do?
A. Log in to a server, and iterate on the fox locally
B. Revert the source code change, and rerun the deployment pipeline
C. Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code
D. Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all instances
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Correct Answer: B
Question #8
Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment procedures to avoid this problem in the future. What should you do?
A. Deploy fewer changes to production
B. Deploy smaller changes to production
C. Increase the load on your test and staging environments
D. Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production
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Correct Answer: D
Question #9
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their data stream to optimize operations. They do not have any existing code for this analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These options include a mix of batch and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and liveprocessing some data as it comes in. Which technology should they use for this?
A. Google Cloud Dataproc
B. Google Cloud Dataflow
C. Google Container Engine with Bigtable
D. Google Compute Engine with Google BigQuery
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Correct Answer: B
Question #10
You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting application. The data comes from 50,000 sensors sending 10 readings a second, in the format of a timestamp and sensor reading. Where should you store the data?
A. Google BigQuery
B. Google Cloud SQL
C. Google Cloud Bigtable
D. Google Cloud Storage
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Correct Answer: C
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 three.)
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: ABF
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
You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from uploaded images. You want to test the application and allow specific people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not all users have a Google Account. How should you have users upload images?
A. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage
B. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires after 24 hours
C. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images
D. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images for the next 24 hours
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Correct Answer: B
Question #14
You have an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echo-deployment. The deployment is exposed using a Service called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do?
A. Use kubectl set image deployment/echo-deployment
B. Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes cluster
C. Update the deployment yaml file with the new container image
D. Update the service yaml file which the new container image
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Correct Answer: A
Question #15
Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance
B. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance
C. Install gsutil on each server that contains data
D. Install gsutil on each server containing data
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of the others. Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier. How should you configure the network?
A. Add each tier to a different subnetwork
B. Set up software based firewalls on individual VMs
C. Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired traffic flow
D. Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic flow
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Correct Answer: D
Question #17
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 two.)
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: AD
Question #18
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: D
Question #19
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: C
Question #20
A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his requirements and identify what cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The application must: 1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability 2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand 3. Support continuous software delivery 4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack 5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates 6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL Which
A. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Helm
B. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Load Balancing
C. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Deployment Manager
D. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing
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Correct Answer: D
Question #21
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk. What should they change to get better performance from this system?
A. Increase the virtual machine’s memory to 64 GB
B. Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL
C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB
D. Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery
E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database
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Correct Answer: C
Question #22
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 #23
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely. Where should you store the credentials?
A. In the source code
B. In an environment variable
C. In a secret management system
D. In a config file that has restricted access through ACLs
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Correct Answer: C

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