PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Exam Questions
378 real PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 4 of 8.
- Question #151Managing implementation
You have an App Engine application that needs to be updated. You want to test the update with production traffic before replacing the current application version. What should you d...
App Enginetraffic splittingcanary deploymentversion management - Question #152Designing for security and compliance
All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. Y...
VPC firewall rulesegress rulesrule priorityActive Directory - Question #153Optimizing technical and business processes
Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users. the company has begun experimenting with a machine learning model on Google Clo...
machine learningBigQueryrecommendation systemsmodel improvement - Question #154Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
A development team at your company has created a dockerized HTTPS web application. You need to deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and make sure that the appli...
GKEHorizontal Pod Autoscalercluster autoscalingIngress - Question #155Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
You need to design a solution for global load balancing based on the URL path being requested. You need to ensure operations reliability and end-to-end in-transit encryption based...
HTTPS load balancingURL mapsin-transit encryptionglobal load balancing - Question #156Ensuring solution and operations reliability
You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429. How should you handle these types of errors...
exponential backoffretry logicHTTP 5xxerror handling - Question #157Ensuring solution and operations reliability
You need to develop procedures to test a disaster plan for a mission-critical application. You want to use Google-recommended practices and native capabilities within GCP. What sho...
disaster recoveryDeployment ManagerStackdriverinfrastructure automation - Question #158Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Your company creates rendering software which users can download from the company website. Your company has customers all over the world. You want to minimize latency for all your...
Cloud Storagemulti-regional bucketglobal distributionlatency optimization - Question #159Designing for security and compliance
Your company acquired a healthcare startup and must retain its customers' medical information for up to 4 more years, depending on when it was created. Your corporate policy is to...
Cloud Storage lifecycledata retentionhealthcare complianceobject expiration - Question #160Optimizing technical and business processes
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?
MemcacheApp Enginequery cachingdatabase optimization - Question #161Ensuring solution and operations reliability
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...
App Engine CronCloud Pub/Subtask schedulingreliable messaging - Question #162Managing implementation
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 applica...
Transfer Appliancelarge-scale data migrationCloud Storagehybrid connectivity - Question #163Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
You are developing a globally scaled frontend for a legacy streaming backend data API. This API expects events in strict chronological order with no repeat data for proper processi...
Cloud Pub/SubCloud DataflowFIFO orderingexactly-once delivery - Question #164Designing for security and compliance
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 o...
Cloud Loggingaudit logsnetwork securityGCE firewall - Question #165Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
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...
persistent disk resizeCompute Engineext4storage expansion - Question #166Ensuring solution and operations reliability
Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard LAMP stack replicated across two zones. It is deployed in the us-central1 region and uses autoscaled managed instance group...
resiliency testingautoscalingload testingSLA validation - Question #167Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 7 - Mountkirk Games Company Overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some serve...
managed instance groupsmulti-zone deploymentgame backend scalingglobal availability - Question #168Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 2 - TerramEarth Case Study Company Overview TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: About 80% of their business is from min...
IoT securitytrusted platform modulezero trustfirmware verification - Question #169Optimizing technical and business processes
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth Company Overview TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20%...
Cloud DataprepBigQuerydata pipelineETL scheduling - Question #170Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth Company Overview TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20%...
BigQuerydata warehouseIoT streaminglarge-scale ingestion - Question #171Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 6 - TerramEarth Company Overview TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20%...
Cloud IoT Coredevice authenticationpublic/private key pairsIoT security - Question #172Managing implementation
In order to speed up the transmission, TerramEarth deployed 5g devices in their vehicles with the goal of achieving an unplanned vehicle downtime to a minimum. But a set of older v...
Cloud Composerworkflow orchestrationlegacy integrationdata pipeline - Question #173Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win Company Overview Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile applicatio...
Cloud StorageColdline storagegsutildata archival - Question #174Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 4 - Dress4Win Company Overview Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile applicatio...
managed instance groupsglobal load balancerhigh availabilityperformance optimization - Question #175Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win Company Overview Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile applicatio...
Cloud LoggingAudit LogsComplianceSecurity Auditing - Question #176Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win Company Overview Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile applicatio...
IAM rolespredefined rolesGoogle Groupsleast privilege - Question #177Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
Case Study: 5 - Dress4win Company Overview Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile applicatio...
GKEcontainerizationmicroservices migrationRabbitMQ replacement - Question #178Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different version of software libraries. You want to enable t...
containersmicroservicesdependency isolationDocker - Question #179Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room...
Cloud Pub/SubIoT ingestionsensor networkintermittent connectivity - Question #180Managing implementation
Your organization has 5 TB of private data on premises. You need to migrate the data to Cloud Storage. You want to maximize the data transfer speed. How should you migrate the data...
gsutildata migrationCloud Storagetransfer speed - Question #181Designing for security and compliance
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure that people cannot spoof chat messages by proving that a message was sent by a specific user. What should you do?
PKIpublic key encryptionmessage authenticationnon-repudiation - Question #182Designing for security and compliance
Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all resources in the organization. You use Resource Ma...
IAM rolesorganization viewerproject viewerread-only access - Question #183Managing implementation
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
gsutilparallel copyCloud Storagebatch operations - Question #184Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
service accountscross-project IAMproject-level bindingidentity federation - Question #185Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
organization policyresource location constraintscompliancepolicy enforcement - Question #186Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
Ingress for Anthosglobal load balancerGKE multi-clusterhybrid networking - Question #187Ensuring solution and operations reliability
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
SLISLOrequest latencyerror rate - Question #188Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C Company overview Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to oth...
Workload IdentityGKE securityservice accountssecrets management - Question #189Managing implementation
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
Firebase Test Labmobile testingAndroidiOS - Question #190Designing for security and compliance
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
deterministic encryptionFirestorePCI complianceencrypted search - Question #191Designing and implementing network security controls, specifically configuring Cloud Armor security policies to allow trusted CDN partner traffic using preconfigured expression sets
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
Cloud ArmorSecurity PoliciesCDN IntegrationNamed IP Lists - Question #192Managing implementation
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
Cloud Pub/SubCloud Functionsevent-driven architectureCI/CD notification - Question #193Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
Explainable AIML transparencyVertex AIrace predictions - Question #194Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
BigQuerydatabase selectionschema evolutiondata partitioning - Question #195Optimizing technical and business processes
Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world...
gcloud recommenderidle VMsCompute Enginecost optimization - Question #196Managing implementation
Your company is planning to perform a lift and shift migration of their Linux RHEL 6.5+ virtual machines. The virtual machines are running in an on-premises VMware environment. You...
VM migrationlift and shiftVMwareMigrate for Compute Engine - Question #197Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
You need to deploy an application to Google Cloud. The application receives traffic via TCP and reads and writes data to the filesystem. The application does not support horizontal...
High AvailabilityActive-StandbyStateful ApplicationsRegional Persistent Disk - Question #198Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Your company has an application running on multiple Compute Engine instances. You need to ensure that the application can communicate with an on-premises service that requires high...
Cloud Dedicated Interconnecthybrid connectivityhigh throughputnetwork latency - Question #199Managing implementation
You are managing an application deployed on Cloud Run for Anthos, and you need to define a strategy for deploying new versions of the application. You want to evaluate the new code...
Cloud Runtraffic splittingcanary deploymentrevision management - Question #200Ensuring solution and operations reliability
You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to triage incidents quickly. What should...
Cloud MonitoringGKEpredefined dashboardsSRE