PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Exam Questions

You are part of an organization that follows SRE practices and principles. You are taking over the management of a new service from the Development Team, and you conduct a Producti...

You are running an experiment to see whether your users like a new feature of a web application. Shortly after deploying the feature as a canary release, you receive a spike in the...

You are responsible for creating and modifying the Terraform templates that define your Infrastructure. Because two new engineers will also be working on the same code, you need to...

You support a high-traffic web application with a microservice architecture. The home page of the application displays multiple widgets containing content such as the current weath...

You support a multi-region web service running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) behind a Global HTTP/S Cloud Load Balancer (CLB). For legacy reasons, user requests first go throug...

Your team is designing a new application for deployment into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to set up monitoring to collect and aggregate various application-level metric...

You support a production service that runs on a single Compute Engine instance. You regularly need to spend time on recreating the service by deleting the crashing instance and cre...

Your application artifacts are being built and deployed via a CI/CD pipeline. You want the CI/CD pipeline to securely access application secrets. You also want to more easily rotat...

Your company follows Site Reliability Engineering practices. You are the person in charge of Communications for a large, ongoing incident affecting your customer-facing application...

Your team uses Cloud Build for all CI/CD pipelines. You want to use the kubectl builder for Cloud Build to deploy new images to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to authenti...

You are designing a system with three different environments: development, quality assurance (QA), and production. Each environment will be deployed with Terraform and has a Google...

You are configuring Cloud Logging for a new application that runs on a Compute Engine instance with a public IP address. A user-managed service account is attached to the instance....

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you support an application written in Go that runs on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in production. After releasing a new version of the application...

You are deploying a Cloud Build job that deploys Terraform code when a Git branch is updated. While testing, you noticed that the job fails. You see the following error in the buil...

Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Several applications rely on ephemeral volumes. You noticed some applications were unstable due to the DiskPressur...

You are designing a new Google Cloud organization for a client. Your client is concerned with the risks associated with long-lived credentials created in Google Cloud. You need to...

You are designing a deployment technique for your applications on Google Cloud. As part of your deployment planning, you want to use live traffic to gather performance metrics for...

You have a data processing pipeline that uses Cloud Dataproc to load data into BigQuery. A team of analysts works with the data using a Business Intelligence (BI) tool running on W...

You work with a video rendering application that publishes small tasks as messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You need to deploy the application that will execute these tasks on mul...

You support a website with a global audience. The website has a frontend web service and a backend database service that runs on different clusters. All clusters are scaled to hand...

You have a service running on Compute Engine virtual machine instances behind a global load balancer. You need to ensure that when an instance fails, it is recovered. What should y...

You are on-call for an infrastructure service that has a large number of dependent systems. You receive an alert indicating that the service is failing to serve most of its request...

You are developing a strategy for monitoring your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects in production using Stackdriver Workspaces. One of the requirements is to be able to quickly...

You currently store the virtual machine (VM) utilization logs in Stackdriver. You need to provide an easy-to-share interactive VM utilization dashboard that is updated in real time...

You need to run a business-critical workload on a fixed set of Compute Engine instances for several months. The workload is stable with the exact amount of resources allocated to i...

You support an application that stores product information in cached memory. For every cache miss, an entry is logged in Stackdriver Logging. You want to visualize how often a cach...

You need to deploy a new service to production. The service needs to automatically scale using a Managed Instance Group (MIG) and should be deployed over multiple regions. The serv...

You are running an application on Compute Engine and collecting logs through Stackdriver. You discover that some personally identifiable information (PII) is leaking into certain l...

You need to define SLOs for a high-traffic web application. Customers are currently happy with the application performance and availability. Based on current measurement, the 90th...

Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Application developers frequently create cloud resources to support their applications. You need to give developer...

Your company runs services on Google Cloud. Each team runs their applications in a dedicated project. New teams and projects are created regularly. Your security team requires that...

Your company allows teams to self-manage Google Cloud projects, including project-level Identity and Access Management (IAM). You are concerned that the team responsible for the Sh...

Your company runs an ecommerce business. The application responsible for payment processing has structured JSON logging with the following schema: Capture and access of logs from t...

Your organization is running multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project. You need to design a highly-available solution to collect and query both domain-specific...

Your company stores a large volume of infrequently used data in Cloud Storage. The projects in your company's CustomerService folder access Cloud Storage frequently, but store very...

You have an application running in production on Cloud Run. Your team recently finished developing a new version (revision B) of the application. You want to test the new revision...

You are designing a new multi-tenant Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster for a customer. Your customer is concerned with the risks associated with long-lived credentials use. Th...

You are configuring a CI pipeline in Cloud Build When you test the pipeline, the following cloudbuild.yaml definition results in 5 minutes each on the foo step and bar step. The fo...

You receive a Cloud Monitoring alert indicating potential malicious activity on a node in your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The alert suggests a possible compromised con...

Your company has an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consisting of 12 microservices. Multiple teams are working concurrently on various features across three...

You are troubleshooting a failed deployment in your CI/CD pipeline. The deployment logs indicate that the application container failed to start due to a missing environment variabl...

You work for a company that offers a free photo processing application. You are designing the infrastructure for the backend service that processes the photos. The service: - Uses...

You manage a critical API running on Cloud Run that serves an average of 10,000 requests per minute. You need to define service level objectives (SLOs) for availability and latency...

You are running a web application that connects to an AlloyDB cluster by using a private IP address in your default VPC. You need to run a database schema migration in your CI/CD p...

You use Artifact Registry to store container images built with Cloud Build. You need to ensure that all existing and new images are continuously scanned for vulnerabilities. You al...

You manage a retail website for your company. The website consists of several microservices running in a GKE Standard node pool with node autoscaling enabled. Each microservice has...

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 are deploying a new version of your application to a multi-zone Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The deployment is progressing smoothly, but you notice that some Pods in...

You work for a healthcare company and regulations require you to create all resources in a United States-based region. You attempted to create a secret in Secret Manager but receiv...

You are responsible for creating development environments for your company's development team. You want to create environments with identical IDEs for all developers while ensuring...