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Questions 1

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?

Options:

A.  

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Deployment Manager to Compute Engine. Deploy a Cloud SQL server to replace MySQL. Deploy Jenkins using Cloud Deployment Manager.

B.  

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Launcher. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Deployment Manager scripts.

C.  

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a Cloud Datastore server to replace the MySQL server in a high-availability configuration. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

D.  

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

Discussion 0
Questions 2

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API.

You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?

Options:

A.  

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

B.  

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

C.  

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

D.  

Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

Discussion 0
Questions 3

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform’s resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics traffic.

B.  

Build a test client that can be run from a mobile phone emulator on a Compute Engine virtual machine, and run multiple copies in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world to generate realistic traffic.

C.  

Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics files uploaded from mobile devices.

D.  

Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players ' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.

Discussion 0
Questions 4

Altostrat ' s development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Run unit testing.

B.  

Use load testing.

C.  

Perform end-to-end testing.

D.  

Execute integration testing.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solutions regarding cost optimization for batch processing and microservices testing strategies.

Altostrat is experiencing fluctuating computational demands for its batch processing jobs. These jobs are not time-critical and can tolerate occasional interruptions. You want to optimize cloud costs and address batch processing needs. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure reserved VM instances

B.  

Deploy spot VM instances.

C.  

Set up standard VM instances.

D.  

Use Cloud Run functions.

Discussion 0
Questions 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?

Options:

A.  

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

B.  

Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

C.  

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

D.  

Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Discussion 0
Questions 7

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in

Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.

Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.  

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Encrypt data with a customer-supplied encryption key when storing files in Cloud Storage.

B.  

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Enable default storage encryption before storing files in Cloud Storage.

C.  

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Utilize Google’s default encryption at rest when storing files in Cloud Storage.

D.  

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Ensure that the default Cloud KMS key is set before storing files in Cloud Storage.

Discussion 0
Questions 8

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution.

Altostrat is concerned about sophisticated, multi-vector Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting various layers of their infrastructure. DDoS attacks could potentially disrupt video streaming and cause financial losses. You need to mitigate this risk. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Set up VPC Service Controls to restrict access to sensitive resources and prevent data exfiltration.

B.  

Configure Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) with custom rules to filter malicious traffic at the network level.

C.  

Deploy Google Cloud Armor with pre-configured and custom rules for L3/L4 and L7 protection.

D.  

Activate Security Command Center to monitor security posture and detect potential threats.

Discussion 0
Questions 9

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.

Which of TerramEarth ' s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.

Options:

A.  

Opex/capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning

B.  

Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation

C.  

Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion

D.  

Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement

Discussion 0
Questions 10

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study

Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth ' s vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.  

Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make operational adjustments automatically.

B.  

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments automatically.

C.  

Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.

D.  

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

Discussion 0
Questions 11

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL wants better prediction

accuracy from their ML prediction models. They want you to use Google’s AI Platform so HRL can understand

and interpret the predictions. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use Explainable AI.

B.  

Use Vision AI.

C.  

Use Google Cloud’s operations suite.

D.  

Use Jupyter Notebooks.

Discussion 0
Questions 12

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Your team is in charge of creating a

payment card data vault for card numbers used to bill tens of thousands of viewers, merchandise consumers,

and season ticket holders. You need to implement a custom card tokenization service that meets the following

requirements:

• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.

• It must be able to identify duplicate credit cards and must not store plaintext card numbers.

• It should support annual key rotation.

Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?

Options:

A.  

Store the card data in Secret Manager after running a query to identify duplicates.

B.  

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm stored in Firestore using Datastore mode.

C.  

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm and shard it across multiple Memorystore instances.

D.  

Use column-level encryption to store the data in Cloud SQL.

Discussion 0
Questions 13

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. The HRL development team

releases a new version of their predictive capability application every Tuesday evening at 3 a.m. UTC to a

repository. The security team at HRL has developed an in-house penetration test Cloud Function called Airwolf.

The security team wants to run Airwolf against the predictive capability application as soon as it is released

every Tuesday. You need to set up Airwolf to run at the recurring weekly cadence. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Set up Cloud Tasks and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

B.  

Set up a Cloud Logging sink and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

C.  

Configure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function.

D.  

Set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Confidential Computing to trigger a Cloud Function.

Discussion 0
Questions 14

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional

racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user

experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic

coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are

a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP

address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?

Options:

A.  

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using a named IP list for Fastly.

B.  

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using the IP addresses that Fastly has published. C. Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for Fastly IP address ranges.

C.  

Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for network resources tagged with scurceiplisr-fasrly.

Discussion 0
Questions 15

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud

infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video

encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted

after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you

do?

Options:

A.  

Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for

analysis.

B.  

Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.

C.  

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

D.  

From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are

no longer responding to health check probes.

Discussion 0
Questions 16

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL is looking for a cost-effective

approach for storing their race data such as telemetry. They want to keep all historical records, train models

using only the previous season ' s data, and plan for data growth in terms of volume and information collected.

You need to propose a data solution. Considering HRL business requirements and the goals expressed by

CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use Firestore for its scalable and flexible document-based database. Use collections to aggregate race data

by season and event.

B.  

Use Cloud Spanner for its scalability and ability to version schemas with zero downtime. Split race data

using season as a primary key.

C.  

Use BigQuery for its scalability and ability to add columns to a schema. Partition race data based on

season.

D.  

Use Cloud SQL for its ability to automatically manage storage increases and compatibility with MySQL. Use

separate database instances for each season.

Discussion 0
Questions 17

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:

• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.

• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.

• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.

• Deployment artifacts are immutable.

Which set of products should they use?

Options:

A.  

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine

B.  

Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Network Load Balancer

C.  

Google Kubernetes Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer

D.  

Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Discussion 0
Questions 18

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?

Options:

A.  

Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

B.  

Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery

C.  

Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow

D.  

Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow

E.  

Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

Discussion 0
Questions 19

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study

A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the application servers correctly. What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? Choose 3 answers

Options:

A.  

Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one.

B.  

Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate.

C.  

Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate.

D.  

Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to.

E.  

Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and investigate.

F.  

Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate.

Discussion 0
Questions 20

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The migration of JencoMart’s application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)

Options:

A.  

A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput

B.  

A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task

C.  

A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances

D.  

Fewer virtual machines (VMs) in GCP than on-premises machines

E.  

A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task

F.  

Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

Discussion 0
Questions 21

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?

Options:

A.  

Error rates for requests from Asia

B.  

Latency difference between US and Asia

C.  

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

D.  

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

E.  

The number of character sets present in the database

Discussion 0
Questions 22

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?

Options:

A.  

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one for development/test/staging and one for production. Each account should contain one project for every application.

B.  

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one with a single project for all development applications and one with a single project for all production applications.

C.  

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with each stage of each application in its own project.

D.  

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with one project for the development/test/staging environment and one project for the production environment.

Discussion 0
Questions 23

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform. Which Google Database should they use?

Options:

A.  

Cloud Spanner

B.  

Google BigQuery

C.  

Google Cloud SQL

D.  

Google Cloud Datastore

Discussion 0
Questions 24

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?

Options:

A.  

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).

B.  

Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs.

C.  

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs

D.  

Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs.

Discussion 0
Questions 25

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of Dress4Win ' s plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that:

• The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day

• Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.

• They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts

Which Google StackDriver features should they use?

Options:

A.  

Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug

B.  

Monitoring, Trace, Debug, Logging

C.  

Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting

D.  

Monitoring, Logging, Debug, Error Report

Discussion 0
Questions 26

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding API management and cost control.

Altostrat is using Apigee for API management and wants to ensure their APIs are protected from overuse and abuse. You need to implement an Apigee feature to control the total number of API calls for cost management. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Set up API key validation.

B.  

Integrate OAuth 2.0 authorization.

C.  

Configure Quota policies.

D.  

Activate XML threat protection.

Discussion 0
Questions 27

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?

Options:

A.  

Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B.  

Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.

C.  

Develop a new access request process that grants temporary SSH access to cloud VMs when an operations engineer needs to perform a task.

D.  

Have the development team build an API service that allows the operations team to execute specific remote procedure calls to accomplish their tasks.

Discussion 0
Questions 28

The current Dress4win system architecture has high latency to some customers because it is located in one

data center.

As of a future evaluation and optimizing for performance in the cloud, Dresss4win wants to distribute it ' s system

architecture to multiple locations when Google cloud platform.

Which approach should they use?

Options:

A.  

Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase performance because the

regional managed instance group can grow instances in each region separately based on traffic.

B.  

Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of

virtual machines managed by your operations team.

C.  

Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase reliability by providing

automatic failover between zones in different regions.

D.  

Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of

virtual machines as part of a separate managed instance groups.

Discussion 0
Questions 29

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding the performance analysis of their media processing pipeline.

Altostrat needs to analyze the performance of its media processing pipeline running on Java-based Cloud Run function. You need to select the most effective tool for the task. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Query logs in Cloud Logging.

B.  

Analyze the data via Cloud Profiler.

C.  

Instrument the code to use Cloud Trace.

D.  

Inspect data from Snapshot Debugger.

Discussion 0
Questions 30

You have broken down a legacy monolithic application into a few containerized RESTful microservices. You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You also want to make sure the services are highly available with low latency to your customers. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance and attach the Cloud Endpoints to its backend.

B.  

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions Create serverless network endpoint groups pointing to the services. Add the serverless NE Gs to a backend service that is used by a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance.

C.  

Cloud Run services to multiple regions. In Cloud DNS, create a latency-based DNS name that points to the services.

D.  

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create a TCP/IP global load balancer. Add the Cloud Run Endpoints to its backend service.

Discussion 0
Questions 31

You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical

requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud

regions. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine

instances.

B.  

Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

C.  

Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

D.  

Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Discussion 0
Questions 32

Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and

iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What

should you do?

Options:

A.  

Upload your mobile app to the Firebase Test Lab, and test the mobile app on Android and iOS devices.

B.  

Create Android and iOS VMs on Google Cloud, install the mobile app on the VMs, and test the mobile app.

C.  

Create Android and iOS containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), install the mobile app on the

containers, and test the mobile app.

D.  

Upload your mobile app with different configurations to Firebase Hosting and test each configuration.

Discussion 0
Questions 33

Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google

Cloud. You want to streamline the process and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the application platform.

B.  

Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Configure these Secrets to be used by the

application platform.

C.  

Configure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer Secrets Encryption, and use

Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to

be used by the application platform.

D.  

Configure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed encryption keys and Cloud

Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used

by the application platform.

Discussion 0
Questions 34

Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily.

You want to create service level indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user’s

perspective. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.

B.  

Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.

C.  

Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.

D.  

Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Discussion 0
Questions 35

You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game

programmatic access to a legacy game ' s Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible. What

should you do?

Options:

A.  

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, add this SA in the new game ' s IAM page, and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

B.  

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, add a second SA in the new game ' s IAM page, and then give the Organization Admin role to both SAs

C.  

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, give it the Firebase Admin role, and then migrate the new game to the legacy game ' s project.

D.  

Create a service account (SA) in the lgacy game ' s Google Cloud project, give the SA the Organization Admin rule and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

Discussion 0
Questions 36

You have created several preemptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Create a shutdown script named k99.shutdown in the /etc/rc.6.d/ directory.

B.  

Create a shutdown script registered as a xinetd service in Linux and configure a Stackdnver endpoint check to call the service.

C.  

Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script in the Cloud Platform Console when you create the new virtual machine instance.

D.  

Create a shutdown script, registered as a xinetd service in Linux, and use the gcloud compute instances add-metadata command to specify the service URL as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script-url

Discussion 0
Questions 37

You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.

The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract

transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.

B.  

Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.

C.  

Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.

D.  

Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.

Discussion 0
Questions 38

Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions.

What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can be deployed.

B.  

Configure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be configured.

C.  

Configure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.

D.  

Configure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are created in other

regions.

Discussion 0
Questions 39

A large enterprise is building a file processing pipeline on Google Cloud. The pipeline ingests the raw files, which are then accessed by a fleet of hundreds of Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) in a single region for parallel processing. These VMs need concurrent, low-latency read and write access to a shared file system. You need to implement a storage solution that delivers the highest possible throughput to minimize the overall processing time. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Create a Filestore Zonal instance in each zone where the VMs are running. Mount the Filestore file share on each Compute Engine VM.

B.  

Use a multi-region Cloud Storage bucket to store the files.

C.  

Create a Regional Persistent Disk and attach it to all VMs in multi-writer mode.

D.  

Create a Filestore Enterprise instance in the same region as the VMs. Mount the Filestore file share on each Compute Engine VM.

Discussion 0
Questions 40

Your company has an application running on Compute Engine mat allows users to play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances Files are stored in Cloud Storage and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they sometimes need to attempt to play popular songs multiple times before they are successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

1. Copy popular songs into CloudSQL as a blob

2. Update application code to retrieve data from CloudSQL when Cloud Storage is overloaded

B.  

1. Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances

2. Create a global toad balancer and configure ii with two backbends

* Managed instance group

* Cloud Storage bucket

3. Enable Cloud CDN on the bucket backend

C.  

1. Mount the Cloud Storage bucket using gcsfuse on all backend Compute Engine instances

2. Serve muse files directly from the backend Compute Engine instance

D.  

1. Create a Cloud Filestore NFS volume and attach it to the backend Compute Engine instances

2. Download popular songs in Cloud Filestore

3. Serve music Wes directly from the backend Compute Engine instance

Discussion 0
Questions 41

Your company has an application that is running on multiple instances of Compute Engine. It generates 1 TB per day of logs. For compliance reasons, the logs need to be kept for at least two years. The logs need to be available for active query for 30 days. After that, they just need to be retained for audit purposes. You want to implement a storage solution that is compliant, minimizes costs, and follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

1. Install the Cloud Ops agent on all instances.

2. Create a sink to export logs into a partitioned BigQuery table.

3. Set a time_partitioning_expiration of 30 days.

B.  

1. Install the Cloud Ops agent on all instances.

2. Create a sink to export logs into a regional Cloud Storage bucket.

3. Create an Object Lifecycle rule to move files into a Coldline Cloud Storage bucket after one month.

4. Configure a retention policy at the bucket level to create a lock.

C.  

1. Create a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a partitioned BigQuery

table. 2. Set a time_partitioning_expiration of 30 days.

D.  

1. Write a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a Cloud Storage bucket.

2. Create a sink to export logs into a regional Cloud Storage bucket.

3. Create an Object Lifecycle rule to move files into a Coldline Cloud Storage bucket after one month.

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Questions 42

You company has a Kubernetes application that pulls messages from Pub/Sub and stores them in Firestore. Because the application is simple, it was deployed as a single pod. The infrastructure team has analyzed Pub/Sub metrics and discovered that the application cannot process the messages in real time. Most of them wait for minutes before being processed. You need to scale the elaboration process that is I/O-intensive. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure a Kubernetes autoscaling based on the subscription/push_request metric.

B.  

Use the –enable- autoscaling flag when you create the Kubernetes cluster

C.  

Configure a Kubernetes autoscaling based on the subscription/num_undelivered message metric.

D.  

Use kubectl autoscale deployment APP_NAME –max 6 –min 2 –cpu- percent 50 to configure Kubernetes autoscaling deployment

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Questions 43

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?

Options:

A.  

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Use Google Cloud Datastore to maintain metadata that maps each customer ' s ID and their image files.

B.  

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer ' s unique ID.

C.  

Use a distributed file system to store customers ' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Assign each customer a unique ID, which sets each file ' s owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.

D.  

Use a distributed file system to store customers ' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Use a Google Cloud SQL database to maintain metadata that maps each customer ' s ID to their image files.

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Questions 44

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?

Options:

A.  

Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud environment, and load into a new MySQL cluster.

B.  

Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover.

C.  

Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, configure applications to begin writing to both on-premises and cloud MySQL masters, and destroy the original cluster at cutover.

D.  

Create a dump of the MySQL replica server into the cloud environment, load it into: Google Cloud Datastore, and configure applications to read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover.

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Questions 45

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?

Options:

A.  

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

B.  

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

C.  

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

D.  

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

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Questions 46

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, configuration errors put public IP addresses on backend servers that should not have been accessible from the Internet. You need to ensure that no one can put external IP addresses on backend Compute Engine instances and that external IP addresses can only be configured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Create an Organizational Policy with a constraint to allow external IP addresses only on the frontend Compute Engine instances.

B.  

Revoke the compute.networkAdmin role from all users in the project with front end instances.

C.  

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that maps the IT staff to the compute.networkAdmin role for the organization.

D.  

Create a custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) role named GCE_FRONTEND with the compute.addresses.create permission.

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Questions 47

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?

Options:

A.  

Perform a mapping of the on-premises physical hardware cores and RAM to the nearest machine types in the cloud.

B.  

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy application servers to machine types that offer the highest RAM to CPU ratio available.

C.  

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy into production with the smallest instances available, monitor them over time, and scale the machine type up until the desired performance is reached.

D.  

Identify the number of virtual cores and RAM associated with the application server virtual machines align them to a custom machine type in the cloud, monitor performance, and scale the machine types up until the desired performance is reached.

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Questions 48

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. EHR has single Dedicated Interconnect

connection between their primary data center and Googles network. This connection satisfies

EHR’s network and security policies:

• On-premises servers without public IP addresses need to connect to cloud resources

without public IP addresses

• Traffic flows from production network mgmt. servers to Compute Engine virtual

machines should never traverse the public internet.

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new

connection design must support business critical needs and meet the same network and

security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection

B.  

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G

C.  

Add three new Cloud VPN connections

D.  

Add a new Carrier Peering connection

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Questions 49

You have been asked to select the storage system for the click-data of your company ' s large portfolio of websites. This data is streamed in from a custom website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute, with bursts of up to 8,500 clicks per second. It must been stored for future analysis by your data science and user experience teams. Which storage infrastructure should you choose?

Options:

A.  

Google Cloud SQL

B.  

Google Cloud Bigtable

C.  

Google Cloud Storage

D.  

Google cloud Datastore

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Questions 50

Altostrat stores a large library of media content, including sensitive interviews and documentaries, in Cloud Storage. They are concerned about the confidentiality of this content and want to protect it from unauthorized access. You need to implement a Google-recommended solution that is easy to integrate and provides Altostrat with control and auditability of the encryption keys. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure Cloud Storage to use server-side encryption with Google-managed encryption keys. Create a bucket policy to restrict access to only authorized Google groups and required service accounts.

B.  

Use Cloud Storage default encryption at rest. Implement fine-grained access control using IAM roles and groups to restrict access to sensitive buckets.

C.  

Implement client-side encryption before uploading it to Cloud Storage. Store the encryption keys in a HashiCorp Vault instance deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Implement fine-grained access control to sensitive Cloud Storage buckets using IAM roles.

D.  

Use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for all Cloud Storage buckets storing sensitive media content. Implement fine-grained access control using IAM roles and groups to restrict access to sensitive buckets.

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Questions 51

Your company wants to start using Google Cloud resources but wants to retain their on-premises Active

Directory domain controller for identity management. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use the Admin Directory API to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller.

B.  

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize Active Directory usernames with cloud identities and

configure SAML SSO.

C.  

Use Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy configured to use the on-premises Active Directory domain controller as an identity provider.

D.  

Use Compute Engine to create an Active Directory (AD) domain controller that is a replica of the onpremises AD domain controller using Google Cloud Directory Sync.

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Questions 52

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to connect their on-premises systems to Google Cloud while maintaining secure communication between their on-premises and cloud environments You want to follow Google ' s recommended approach to ensure the most secure and manageable solution. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use a bastion host to provide secure access lo Google Cloud resources from Cymbal ' s on-premises systems.

B.  

Configure a static VPN connection using SSH tunnels to connect the on-premises systems to Google Cloud

C.  

Configure a Cloud VPN gateway and establish a VPN tunnel Configure firewall rules to restrict access to specific resources and services based on IP addresses and ports.

D.  

Use Google Cloud ' s VPC peering to connect Cymbal ' s on-premises network to Google Cloud.

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Questions 53

Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing on a pay-per-use basis. You want to monitor queries in real time to discover the most costly queries and which users spend the most. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to Cloud Storage. 2. Develop a Dataflow pipeline to compute the cost of queries split by users.

B.  

1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to BigQuery.

2. Perform a BigQuery query on the generated table to extract the information you need.

C.  

1. Activate billing export into BigQuery.

2. Perform a BigQuery query on the billing table to extract the information you need.

D.  

1. In the BigQuery dataset that contains all the tables to be queried, add a label for each user that can launch a query.

2. Open the Billing page of the project.

3. Select Reports.

4. Select BigQuery as the product and filter by the user you want to check.

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Questions 54

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.

What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.

B.  

Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.

C.  

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.

D.  

Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

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Questions 55

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?

Options:

A.  

Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment

B.  

RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group

C.  

Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode

D.  

Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types

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Questions 56

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate its diverse database environment to Google Cloud while ensuring high availability and performance for online customers. The company also wants to efficiently store and access large product images These images typically stay In the catalog for more than 90 days and are accessed less and less frequently. You need to select the appropriate Google Cloud services for each database. You also need to design a storage solution for the product images that optimizes cost and performance What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Migrate all databases to Spanner for consistency, and use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage

B.  

Migrate all databases to self-managed instances on Compute Engino. and use a persistent disk for image storage.

C.  

Migrate MySQL and SQL Server to Spanner. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move

images to Cloud Storage Nearline storage when products become less popular.

D.  

Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL. SQL Server to Cloud SQL. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore. Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move images to Cloud Storage Coldline storage when products become less popular

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Questions 57

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?

Options:

A.  

Migrate the web application layer to App Engine, and MySQL to Cloud Datastore, and NAS to Cloud Storage. Deploy RabbitMQ, and deploy Hadoop servers using Deployment Manager.

B.  

Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage. Deploy Tomcat, and deploy Nginx using Deployment Manager.

C.  

Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage.

D.  

Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.

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Questions 58

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You want to improve publishing latency. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.

B.  

Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.

C.  

Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.

D.  

Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.

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Questions 59

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google Kubernetes Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to reduce the attack surface?

Options:

A.  

Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

B.  

Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.

C.  

Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

D.  

Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.

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Questions 60

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new connection design must support business-critical needs and meet the same network and security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.  

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.

B.  

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G.

C.  

Add three new Cloud VPN connections.

D.  

Add a new Carrier Peering connection.

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Questions 61

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR ' s use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Verify EHR ' s product usage against the list of compliant products on the Google Cloud compliance page.

B.  

Advise EHR to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Google Cloud.

C.  

Use Firebase Authentication for EHR ' s user facing applications.

D.  

Implement Prometheus to detect and prevent security breaches on EHR ' s web-based applications.

E.  

Use GKE private clusters for all Kubernetes workloads.

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Questions 62

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Enable Binary Authorization on GKE, and sign containers as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

B.  

Configure Jenkins to utilize Kritis to cryptographically sign a container as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

C.  

Configure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create and deploy containers from the registry.

D.  

Configure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to confirm that there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.

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Questions 63

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity between EHR ' s on-premises systems and Google Cloud. You want to follow Google ' s recommended practices for production-level applications. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.  

Configure two Partner Interconnect connections in one metro (City), and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

B.  

Configure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.

C.  

Configure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.

D.  

Configure two Dedicated Interconnect connections in one metro (City) and two connections in another metro, and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

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