PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Exam Questions

You are the Operations Lead for an ongoing incident with one of your services. The service usually runs at around 70% capacity. You notice that one node is returning 5xx errors for...

You are configuring your CI/CD pipeline natively on Google Cloud. You want builds in a pre- production Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment to be automatically load-tested be...

You are deploying an application to Cloud Run. The application requires a password to start. Your organization requires that all passwords are rotated every 24 hours, and your appl...

Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that are deployed following a GitOps methodology. Application developers frequently create cloud resources to suppo...

Your Cloud Run application writes unstructured logs as text strings to Cloud Logging. You want to convert the unstructured logs to JSON-based structured logs. What should you do?

Your company is planning a large marketing event for an online retailer during the holiday shopping season. You are expecting your web application to receive a large volume of traf...

Your company recently migrated to Google Cloud. You need to design a fast, reliable, and repeatable solution for your company to provision new projects and basic resources in Googl...

You are configuring a CI pipeline. The build step for your CI pipeline integration testing requires access to APIs inside your private VPC network. Your security team requires that...

You recently migrated an ecommerce application to Google Cloud. You now need to prepare the application for the upcoming peak traffic season. You want to follow Google-recommended...

You are monitoring a service that uses n2-standard-2 Compute Engine instances that serve large files. Users have reported that downloads are slow. Your Cloud Monitoring dashboard s...

Your organization is starting to containerize with Google Cloud. You need a fully managed storage solution for container images and Helm charts. You need to identify a storage solu...

Your Site Reliability Engineering team does toil work to archive unused data in tables within your application's relational database. This toil is required to ensure that your appl...

Your application runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to use Spinnaker with the Kubernetes Provider V2 to perform blue/green deployments and control which version of th...

You are deploying an application to a Kubernetes cluster that requires a username and password to connect to another service. When you deploy the application, you want to ensure th...

You need to create a large number of projects for many different teams. You want to use a Cloud Deployment Manager (DM) deployment to create those projects in a folder called my-fo...

Several teams in your company want to use Cloud Build to deploy to their own Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. The clusters are in projects that are dedicated to each team....

You support a Node.js application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in production. The application makes several HTTP requests to dependent applications. You want to antici...

You created a Stackdriver chart for CPU utilization in a dashboard within your workspace project. You want to share the chart with your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team only...

Your organization wants to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture and principles. Recently, a service that you support had a limited outage. A manager on another team...

You have a set of applications running on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, and you are using Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring. You are bringing a new containerized...

You are running an application in a virtual machine (VM) using a custom Debian image. The image has the Stackdriver Logging agent installed. The VM has the cloud-platform scope. Th...

You use a multiple step Cloud Build pipeline to build and deploy your application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to integrate with a third-party monitoring platform by...

You use Spinnaker to deploy your application and have created a canary deployment stage in the pipeline. Your application has an in-memory cache that loads objects at start time. Y...

You support a high-traffic web application and want to ensure that the home page loads in a timely manner. As a first step, you decide to implement a Service Level Indicator (SLI)...

You deploy a new release of an internal application during a weekend maintenance window when there is minimal user tragic. After the window ends, you learn that one of the new feat...

You are building an application that runs on Cloud Run. The application needs to access a third- party API by using an API key. You need to determine a secure way to store and use...

You are currently planning how to display Cloud Monitoring metrics for your organization's Google Cloud projects. Your organization has three folders and six projects: You want to...

Your company's security team needs to have read-only access to Data Access audit logs in the _Required bucket. You want to provide your security team with the necessary permissions...

Your team is building a service that performs compute-heavy processing on batches of data. The data is processed faster based on the speed and number of CPUs on the machine. These...

You are reviewing your deployment pipeline in Google Cloud Deploy. You must reduce toil in the pipeline, and you want to minimize the amount of time it takes to complete an end-to-...

You work for a global organization and are running a monolithic application on Compute Engine. You need to select the machine type for the application to use that optimizes CPU uti...

You deployed an application into a large Standard Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application is stateless and multiple pods run at the same time. Your application rece...

You need to deploy a new service to production. The service needs to automatically scale using a managed instance group and should be deployed across multiple regions. The service...

You are analyzing Java applications in production. All applications have Cloud Profiler and Cloud Trace installed and configured by default. You want to determine which application...

You have a pool of application servers running on Compute Engine. You need to provide a secure solution that requires the least amount of configuration and allows developers to eas...

You support the backend of a mobile phone game that runs on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application is serving HTTP requests from users. You need to implement a s...

You encountered a major service outage that affected all users of the service for multiple hours. After several hours of incident management, the service returned to normal, and us...

You are performing a semi-annual capacity planning exercise for your flagship service. You expect a service user growth rate of 10% month-over-month over the next six months. Your...

Your application images are built and pushed to Google Container Registry (GCR). You want to build an automated pipeline that deploys the application when the image is updated whil...

Your product is currently deployed in three Google Cloud Platform (GCP) zones with your users divided between the zones. You can fail over from one zone to another, but it causes a...

You are managing the production deployment to a set of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. You want to make sure only images which are successfully built by your trusted CI/CD...

You support an e-commerce application that runs on a large Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster deployed on-premises and on Google Cloud Platform. The application consists of mic...

Your company experiences bugs, outages, and slowness in its production systems. Developers use the production environment for new feature development and bug fixes. Configuration a...

You support an application running on App Engine. The application is used globally and accessed from various device types. You want to know the number of connections. You are using...

You support an application deployed on Compute Engine. The application connects to a Cloud SQL instance to store and retrieve data. After an update to the application, users report...

Your application images are built using Cloud Build and pushed to Google Container Registry (GCR). You want to be able to specify a particular version of your application for deplo...

You have an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application logs are captured by Stackdriver Logging. You need to remove sensitive data before it reaches th...

You have a Compute Engine instance that uses the default Debian image. The application hosted on this instance recently suffered a series of crashes that you weren't able to debug...

You are running a production application on Compute Engine. You want to monitor the key metrics of CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O time. You want to ensure that the metrics are visible b...

You support a Python application running in production on Compute Engine. You want to debug some of the application code by inspecting the value of a specific variable. What should...