ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Exam Questions
410 real ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 9.
- Question #1Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You have an application that looks for its licensing server on the IP 10.0.3.21. You need to deploy the licensing server on Compute Engine. You do not want to change the configurat...
static internal IPCompute EngineIP addressingVPC networking - Question #2Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You are deploying an application to App Engine. You want the number of instances to scale based on request rate. You need at least 3 unoccupied instances at all times. Which scalin...
App Engine scalingautomatic scalingmin_idle_instancesinstance management - Question #3Configuring access and security
You have a development project with appropriate IAM roles defined. You are creating a production project and want to have the same IAM roles on the new project, using the fewest po...
IAM rolesgcloud iam roles copyrole managementproject IAM - Question #4Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You need a dynamic way of provisioning VMs on Compute Engine. The exact specifications will be in a dedicated configuration file. You want to follow Google's recommended practices....
Deployment Managerinfrastructure as codeVM provisioningconfiguration management - Question #5Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You have a Dockerfile that you need to deploy on Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?
DockerContainer RegistryKubernetes Enginecontainer deployment - Question #6Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?
GCP MarketplaceJenkinssolution deploymentfewest steps - Question #7Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You need to update a deployment in Deployment Manager without any resource downtime in the deployment. Which command should you use?
Deployment Managerdeployment updategcloud commandszero downtime - Question #8Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You need to run an important query in BigQuery but expect it to return a lot of records. You want to find out how much it will cost to run the query. You are using on-demand pricin...
BigQuerydry runcost estimationon-demand pricing - Question #9Configuring access and security
You need to configure IAM access audit logging in BigQuery for external auditors. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
IAM audit loggingBigQuerypredefined rolesgroup-based access - Question #10Configuring access and security
You need to set up permissions for a set of Compute Engine instances to enable them to write data into a particular Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended prac...
service accountsIAM rolesCloud Storageleast privilege - Question #11Configuring access and security
You want to verify the IAM users and roles assigned within a GCP project named my-project. What should you do?
IAMGCP Consoleproject rolesuser management - Question #12Setting up a cloud solution environment
You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?
billing accountProject Billing Managerbilling rolesproject setup - Question #13Configuring access and security
You have one project called proj-sa where you manage all your service accounts. You want to be able to use a service account from this project to take snapshots of VMs running in a...
service accountscross-project IAMCompute Engine snapshotsrole binding - Question #14Setting up a cloud solution environment
You created a Google Cloud Platform project with an App Engine application inside the project. You initially configured the application to be served from the us-central region. Now...
App Engineregion configurationregional immutabilityproject setup - Question #15Configuring access and security
You need to grant access for three users so that they can view and edit table data on a Cloud Spanner instance. What should you do?
Cloud SpannerIAM rolesspanner.databaseUserdatabase permissions - Question #16Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and want to make sure that it always runs a supported and stable version of Kubernetes. What should you do?
GKEnode auto-upgradesKubernetes version managementcluster maintenance - Question #17Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You have an instance group that you want to load balance. You want the load balancer to terminate the client SSL session. The instance group is used to serve a public web applicati...
HTTPS load balancerSSL terminationload balancer typespublic web application - Question #18Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You have 32 GB of data in a single file that you need to upload to a Nearline Storage bucket. The WAN connection you are using is rated at 1 Gbps, and you are the only one on the c...
gsutilparallel composite uploadsCloud Storagedata transfer optimization - Question #19Configuring access and security
You've deployed a microservice called myapp1 to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below: You need to refactor this configuration so that the database...
Kubernetes Secretscredential managementsecurity best practicesGKE configuration - Question #20Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You are running an application on multiple virtual machines within a managed instance group and have autoscaling enabled. The autoscaling policy is configured so that additional in...
managed instance groupautoscalinghealth check delayinstance startup time - Question #21Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You need to select and configure compute resources for a set of batch processing jobs. These jobs take around 2 hours to complete and are run nightly. You want to minimize service...
preemptible VMsCompute Enginebatch processingcost optimization - Question #22Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You recently deployed a new version of an application to App Engine and then discovered a bug in the release. You need to immediately revert to the prior version of the application...
App Enginetraffic splittingversion managementrollback - Question #23Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You deployed an App Engine application using gcloud app deploy, but it did not deploy to the intended project. You want to find out why this happened and where the application depl...
gcloud configApp Engine deploymentproject settingstroubleshooting - Question #24Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when maintenance occurs. Your requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if...
instance templatesautomatic restartlive migrationhigh availability - Question #25Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You host a static website on Cloud Storage. Recently, you began to include links to PDF files on this site. Currently, when users click on the links to these PDF files, their brows...
Cloud StorageContent-Type metadatastatic websiteobject metadata - Question #26Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You have a virtual machine that is currently configured with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory. It is running out of memory. You want to upgrade the virtual machine to have 8 GB of memory...
Compute Enginemachine typeVM resizememory upgrade - Question #27Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You have production and test workloads that you want to deploy on Compute Engine. Production VMs need to be in a different subnet than the test VMs. All the VMs must be able to rea...
VPCsubnetsinternal IP routingnetwork design - Question #28Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You need to create an autoscaling managed instance group for an HTTPS web application. You want to make sure that unhealthy VMs are recreated. What should you do?
managed instance grouphealth checksautoscalingHTTPS - Question #29Configuring access and security
Your company has a Google Cloud Platform project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. Your data science team changes frequently and has few members. You need to allow members o...
IAMCloud Identity groupsBigQueryleast privilege - Question #30Configuring access and security
Your company has a 3-tier solution running on Compute Engine. The configuration of the current infrastructure is shown below. Each tier has a service account that is associated wit...
firewall rulesservice accountsingress rules3-tier architecture - Question #31Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You are given a project with a single virtual private cloud (VPC) and a single subnetwork in the us-central1 region. There is a Compute Engine instance hosting an application in th...
VPCsubnetscross-region networkinginternal IP - Question #32Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
Your projects incurred more costs than you expected last month. Your research reveals that a development GKE container emitted a huge number of logs, which resulted in higher costs...
Cloud Logginglog ingestionGKE loggingcost optimization - Question #33Configuring access and security
While working on a project, an application administrator has been given the responsibility of managing all resources. He wants to delegate the responsibility of managing the existi...
IAMservice accountsrole binding scopeproject-level vs resource-level - Question #34Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You're working for a company as a Cloud engineer. You have a managed instance group for which the autoscaling is enabled if CPU utilization is 70%. Right now there are 4 instances...
managed instance groupautoscalingaverage CPU utilizationscaling policy - Question #35Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
Which of the following command is used to create buckets in Cloud Storage?
gsutilCloud Storagebucket creationCLI commands - Question #36Planning and configuring a cloud solution
Which of the following IP address would you specify to define a CIDR range that will apply to all the destination addresses?
CIDR notationIP addressingfirewall rulesdefault routes - Question #37Configuring access and security
You have set a firewall rule that will permit inbound connections to a VM instance named whizserver-2. You want to apply this rule only if there is not another rule that would deny...
firewall rulespriorityVPCrule precedence - Question #38Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You have created a subnet named subnetace1 with 16,382 addresses using 192.168.0.0. Later you realize that you won't require too many addresses, and so you want to reduce addresses...
subnetsIP range expansionCIDR constraintsVPC networking - Question #39Configuring access and security
You have recently joined a startup who is migrating their infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud. A junior was assigned the task of migrating one of their web server with Amazon L...
SSH accessfirewall rulesSSH keysinstance migration - Question #40Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You work for a retail company that has a busy online store. As you are approaching New Year, you find that your e-store is getting more and more traffic. You ensure that your web s...
managed instance groupautoscalingcooldown periodscaling stability - Question #41Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You have been asked to build backend using Clojure and host it on Google Cloud with full freedom of choosing OS, applications, libraries, etc. Which service will you prefer?
Compute EngineIaaSruntime flexibilitycompute options - Question #42Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You have been hired as a contractor by one of the travel technology company who is planning to containerize their existing applications in such a way that they can perform a lift a...
GKEcontainerslift and shiftportability - Question #43Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You are working a System Administrator and have been asked to make sure that all images are patched up to date and developers are not allowed to use old images which are not up to...
Compute Engine imagesimage lifecycledeprecated vs obsoletePCI compliance - Question #44Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You are building an architecture for one of your client with a requirement of streaming millions of requests with high availability and durability along with HIPPA compliance. Whic...
Cloud Pub/SubstreamingHIPAA compliancemanaged messaging - Question #45Planning and configuring a cloud solution
You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic loca...
Cloud SQLpoint-in-time recoverybinary loggingrelational database - Question #46Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You want to configure autohealing for network load balancing for a group of Compute Engine instances that run in multiple zones, using the fewest possible steps. You need to config...
managed instance groupautohealinghealth checkload balancing - Question #47Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What sho...
gcloud configurationskubectlkubeconfigGKE - Question #48Planning and configuring a cloud solution
Your company uses Cloud Storage to store application backup files for disaster recovery purposes. You want to follow Google's recommended practices. Which storage option should you...
Cloud Storagestorage classesColdlinedisaster recovery - Question #49Setting up a cloud solution environment
You are about to start working on a micro-service deployment project using Google Kubernetes Engine service. The client needs everything on Google and want you to maintain both fro...
Cloud Source Repositorysource controlGKEmicroservices - Question #50Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
You have a single binary application that you want to run on Google Cloud Platform. You decided to automatically scale the application based on underlying infrastructure CPU usage....
managed instance groupautoscalinginstance templateCPU utilization