Prepaway - GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Prepaway - GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Prepaway - GCP Professional Cloud Architect
168q
Number: GoogleCloudArchitect
Passing Score: 800
Time Limit: 120 min
File Version: 5.4
Version 5.4
Testlet 1
Company Overview
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such
as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company’s core values is excellent customer service. In addition,
they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.
Company Background
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world’s leading brands, known for
great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores
and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but
considers that market key for future growth.
Solution Concept
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to
determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of
these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported.
JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications
are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.
Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users
Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week
Business Requirements
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia
Technical Requirements
CEO Statement
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web.
The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store
experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through “green”
initiatives and policies.
CTO Statement
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success.
Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine
learning to improve our service to customers.
CFO Statement
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of
changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model
will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak periods and reduce costs.
QUESTION 1
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.
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
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Note: The principle of least privilege and separation of duties are concepts that, although semantically different,
are intrinsically related from the standpoint of security. The intent behind both is to prevent people from having
higher privilege levels than they actually need
Principle of Least Privilege: Users should only have the least amount of privileges required to perform their
job and no more. This reduces authorization exploitation by limiting access to resources such as targets,
jobs, or monitoring templates for which they are not authorized.
Separation of Duties: Beyond limiting user privilege level, you also limit user duties, or the specific jobs they
can perform. No user should be given responsibility for more than one related function. This limits the ability
of a user to perform a malicious action and then cover up that action.
References: https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/separation-of-duties
QUESTION 2
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.
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
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
D: Handling "Unable to connect on port 22" error message
Possible causes include:
There is no firewall rule allowing SSH access on the port. SSH access on port 22 is enabled on all Compute
Engine instances by default. If you have disabled access, SSH from the Browser will not work. If you run
sshd on a port other than 22, you need to enable the access to that port with a custom firewall rule.
The firewall rule allowing SSH access is enabled, but is not configured to allow connections from GCP
Console services. Source IP addresses for browser-based SSH sessions are dynamically allocated by GCP
Console and can vary from session to session.
References:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser
QUESTION 3
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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Let’s say that you have some data processing that happens on another cloud provider and you want to transfer
the processed data to Google Cloud Platform. You can use a service account from the virtual machines on the
external cloud to push the data to Google Cloud Platform. To do this, you must create and download a service
account key when you create the service account and then use that key from the external process to call the
Cloud Platform APIs.
References:
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#migrating_data_to_google_cloud_platform
QUESTION 4
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.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
From scenario:
Business Requirements include: Expand services into Asia
Technical Requirements include: Decrease latency in Asia
QUESTION 5
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.
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 6
JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform.
A. Cloud Spanner
B. Google BigQuery
C. Google Cloud SQL
D. Google Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
User profiles
Product catalogs
Game state
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview
Testlet 1
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms.
They build all of their games using some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to
lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global
audience, application servers MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to files and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a
centralized MySQL database for reporting.
Solution Concept
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the
game’s backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics,
and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with a managed NoSQL database.
Business Requirements
Technical Requirements
CEO Statement
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption
and affecting the game’s reputation. Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the
speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide deeper insight into usage patterns so we
can adapt the game to target users.
CTO Statement
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an
environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical
servers.
CFO Statement
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not
engage the right users, we are not confident that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not
selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically impacts our revenue.
QUESTION 1
Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their
existing backends on the other platforms?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
From Scenario:
A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application
servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform include: Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
QUESTION 2
Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a
through testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the
testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
QUESTION 3
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?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Functions is a serverless environment to build and connect cloud services.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub brings the scalability, flexibility, and reliability of enterprise message-oriented
middleware to the cloud. By providing many-to-many, asynchronous messaging that decouples senders and
receivers, it allows for secure and highly available communication between independently written applications.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub delivers low-latency, durable messaging that helps developers quickly integrate systems
hosted on the Google Cloud Platform and externally.
Incorrect Answers:
A: Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and
batch (historical) modes.
C: Store your private Docker container images on Cloud Platform for fast, scalable retrieval and deployment.
Container Registry is a private Docker repository that works with popular continuous delivery systems. It runs
on Cloud Platform to provide consistent uptime on an infrastructure protected by Google's security. You pay
only for storage and internet egress you use, there is no per-image fee.
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/ansible-with-spinnaker-tutorial
http://blog.armory.io/what-is-immutable-infrastructure/
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/
QUESTION 4
Mountkirk Games’ gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new
feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many
of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation: 503 is service unavailable error. If the database was online everyone would get the 503 error.
QUESTION 5
Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application
environments. Developers and testers can access each other’s environments and resources, but they cannot
access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from
production.
What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?
A. Create a project for development and test and another for staging and production
B. Create a network for development and test and another for staging and production
C. Create one subnetwork for development and another for staging and production
D. Create one project for development, a second for staging and a third for production
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/creating-separate-dev-environments
QUESTION 6
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must
meet their technical requirements.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Ingest millions of streaming events per second from anywhere in the world with Cloud Pub/Sub, powered by
Google's unique, high-speed private network. Process the streams with Cloud Dataflow to ensure reliable,
exactly-once, low-latency data transformation. Stream the transformed data into BigQuery, the cloud-native
data warehousing service, for immediate analysis via SQL or popular visualization tools.
From scenario: They plan to deploy the game’s backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture
streaming metrics, run intensive analytics.
References: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/big-data/stream-analytics/
Testlet 1
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their
games using some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical
servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global
audience, application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to files and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a
centralized MySQL database for reporting.
Solution Concept
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the
game’s backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics,
and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with a managed NoSQL database.
Business Requirements
Increase to a global footprint.
Improve uptime – downtime is loss of players.
Increase efficiency of the cloud resources we use.
Reduce latency to all customers.
Technical Requirements
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Executive Statement
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption
and affecting the game’s reputation. Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the
speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide deeper insight into usage patterns so we
can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we
need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load
balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.
QUESTION 1
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their
current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud
Platform.
Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)
A. Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow.
B. Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery.
C. Draw an architecture diagram that shows how to move from a single MySQL database to a MySQL cluster.
D. Load 10 TB of analytics data from a previous game into a Cloud SQL instance, and run test queries against
the full dataset to confirm that they complete successfully.
E. Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to Cloud
Storage.
Correct Answer: AB
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 2
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical
architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk
Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 3
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for
the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which
two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
A. Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train
machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.
B. Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine
to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.
C. Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve
development velocity.
D. Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing
additional player data in the database.
E. Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical
kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.
Correct Answer: CE
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 4
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?
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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 5
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical
architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and
technical requirements, what should you do?
A. Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries.
B. Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries.
C. Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.
D. Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for
historical data queries.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 6
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk’s
technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?
A. Cloud Bigtable
B. Cloud Spanner
C. BigQuery
D. Cloud Datastore
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 7
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?
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.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Testlet 1
Company Overview
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their
business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.
Company background
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World
War II. The company cares about their employees and customers and considers them to be extended
members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and find new markets as their customers’
needs change. For the past 20 years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by
using larger vehicles with a human operator.
Solution Concept
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second. Data is stored
locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via
a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be
upgraded in the field with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data
directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a
total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
TerramEarth’s existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These
systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in
their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks
old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned
downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their
vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.
Business Requirements
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus
inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position
new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies – especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-
growing agricultural business – to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
CEO Statement
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our
customers. Technological change is occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected
devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as our intelligent farming equipment.
With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers’ yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we
expect will generate 50% of our revenues by 2020.
CTO Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better
vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly
being developed, and I’m concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our
industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn’t take technology obsolescence seriously and he considers the many
new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate
market needs through incremental innovations.
QUESTION 1
TerramEarth’s CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a
vehicle in the field will have a catastrophic failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle
data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The push endpoint can be a load balancer.
A container cluster can be used.
Cloud Pub/Sub for Stream Analytics
References: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform#data_ingestion
http://www.eweek.com/big-data-and-analytics/google-touts-value-of-cloud-iot-core-for-analyzing-connected-car-
data
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
QUESTION 2
The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company’s business requirements.
You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom
framework.
A. Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners
B. Use Google App Engine with a JAX-RS Jersey Java-based framework. Focus on an API for the public
C. Use Google App Engine with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for the
public
D. Use Google Container Engine with a Django Python container. Focus on an API for the public
E. Use Google Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger (Open API Specification)
framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Develop, deploy, protect and monitor your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints. Using an Open API Specification
or one of our API frameworks, Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API
development.
From scenario:
Business Requirements
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus
inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new
products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies – especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-
growing agricultural business – to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/cloud-architect/casestudy-terramearth
QUESTION 3
Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to
develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization
against this data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Delegate application authorization with OAuth2
Cloud Platform APIs support OAuth 2.0, and scopes provide granular authorization over the methods that are
supported. Cloud Platform supports both service-account and user-account OAuth, also called three-legged
OAuth.
References: https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-
organizations#delegate_application_authorization_with_oauth2
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/go/authorizing-apps
QUESTION 4
TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20
million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Streamed data is available for real-time analysis within a few seconds of the first streaming insertion into a
table.
Instead of using a job to load data into BigQuery, you can choose to stream your data into BigQuery one record
at a time by using the tabledata().insertAll() method. This approach enables querying data without the delay of
running a load job.
References: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/streaming-data-into-bigquery
QUESTION 5
You analyzed TerramEarth’s business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a
majority of time saving by reducing customer’s wait time for parts. You decided to focus on reduction of the 3
weeks aggregate reporting time.
A. Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning
analysis of metrics
B. Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning
analysis of metrics
C. Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine
learning analysis of metrics
D. Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer
local inventory by a fixed factor
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The Avro binary format is the preferred format for loading compressed data. Avro data is faster to load because
the data can be read in parallel, even when the data blocks are compressed.
Cloud Storage supports streaming transfers with the gsutil tool or boto library, based on HTTP chunked transfer
encoding. Streaming data lets you stream data to and from your Cloud Storage account as soon as it becomes
available without requiring that the data be first saved to a separate file. Streaming transfers are useful if you
have a process that generates data and you do not want to buffer it locally before uploading it, or if you want to
send the result from a computational pipeline directly into Cloud Storage.
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/streaming
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data
QUESTION 6
Which of TerramEarth’s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased
Google Cloud Platform adoption?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 7
To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data
to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the
file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize
data transfer time on the cellular connections.
What should you do?
A. Use one Google Container Engine cluster of FTP servers. Save the data to a Multi-Regional bucket. Run
the ETL process using data in the bucket
B. Use multiple Google Container Engine clusters running FTP servers located in different regions. Save the
data to Multi-Regional buckets in US, EU, and Asia. Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket
C. Directly transfer the files to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in US, EU, and
Asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket
D. Directly transfer the files to a different Google Cloud Regional Storage bucket location in US, EU, and Asia
using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process to retrieve the data from each Regional bucket
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 8
TerramEarth’s 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle’s location, its telemetry
data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US, Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked
you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles.
You want to run this job on all the data.
A. Move all the data into 1 zone, then launch a Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job
B. Move all the data into 1 region, then launch a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job
C. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a multi-
region bucket and use a Dataproc cluster to finish the job
D. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a region
bucket and use a Cloud Dataproc cluster to finish the job
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Storageguarantees 2 replicates which are geo diverse (100 miles apart) which can get better remote latency
and availability.
More importantly, is that multiregional heavily leverages Edge caching and CDNs to provide the content to the
end users.
All this redundancy and caching means that Multiregional comes with overhead to sync and ensure consistency
between geo-diverse areas. As such, it’s much better for write-once-read-many scenarios. This means
frequently accessed (e.g. “hot” objects) around the world, such as website content, streaming videos, gaming
or mobile applications.
References: https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-storage-what-bucket-class-for-the-best-
performance-5c847ac8f9f2
QUESTION 9
TerramEarth has equipped all connected trucks with servers and sensors to collect telemetry data. Next year
they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud while
reducing costs.
What should they do?
A. Have the vehicle’s computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a Google Cloud Storage
(GCS) Nearline bucket
B. Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in
Google BigQuery
C. Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in
Cloud Bigtable
D. Have the vehicle’s computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a GCS Coldline bucket
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Storage is the best choice for data that you plan to access at most once a year, due to its slightly lower
availability, 90-day minimum storage duration, costs for data access, and higher per-operation costs. For
example:
Cold Data Storage - Infrequently accessed data, such as data stored for legal or regulatory reasons, can be
stored at low cost as Coldline Storage, and be available when you need it.
Disaster recovery - In the event of a disaster recovery event, recovery time is key. Cloud Storage provides low
latency access to data stored as Coldline Storage.
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
QUESTION 10
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to
promote strong security during vehicle operation.
A. Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted.
B. Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.
C. Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.
D. Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.
E. Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.
F. Enclose the vehicle's drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.
Correct Answer: AC
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 11
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.
A. Have you 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
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://cloud.google.com/customers/ocado/
Testlet 1
Company Overview
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their
business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.
Solution Concept
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second. Data is stored
locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via
a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be
upgraded in the field with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data
directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second with 22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a
total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
TerramEarth’s existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single
U.S. west coast based data center. These systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, and place
the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that
is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned
downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their
vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.
Business Requirements
Technical Requirements
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American Midwest and east coast.
Create a backup strategy.
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter.
Improve data in the data warehouse.
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs.
Executive Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better
vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly
being developed, and I’m concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our
industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through incremental
innovations.
QUESTION 1
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation,
TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months
when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and
BigQuery. What should you do?
A. Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud
Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36
months.
B. Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud
Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.
C. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36
months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age
condition of 36 months.
D. Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition period to 36 months.
For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36
months.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 2
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud
Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage
cost.
Which two actions should you take?
A. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to
Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action:
“Delete”.
B. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”,
and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to
Nearline”.
C. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to
Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action:
“Set to Coldline”.
D. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to
Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action:
“Delete”.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 3
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution
for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth.
Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
A. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.
B. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.
C. Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.
D. Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional
Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 4
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to
BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an
automated daily basis while managing cost.
A. Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process. Clean the data in a Cloud
Dataflow pipeline.
B. Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger it. Trigger the Cloud Function
from a Compute Engine instance.
C. Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the view daily, and save the
result to a new table.
D. Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the
data.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 5
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you
reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?
A. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and stream data into BigQuery
using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
B. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and upload gzip files to a Multi-
Regional Cloud Storage bucket using gcloud. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.
C. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Upload gzip files to a MultiRegional Cloud Storage
bucket. Upload this data into BigQuery using gcloud. Use Google data Studio for analysis and reporting.
D. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Directly stream data into prtitioned Hive tables. Use Pig
scripts to analyze data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 6
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the
ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices.
Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Testlet 1
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using
a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their
users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce, referrals,
and a premium app model.
Company Background
Dress4win’s application has grown from a few servers in the founder’s garage to several hundred servers and
appliances in a collocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insufficient for the
application’s rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company’s desire to innovate faster, Dress4win is
committing to a full migration to a public cloud.
Solution Concept
For the first phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4win is considering moving their development and test
environments. They are also considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is
at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can migrate as is and which
components they need to change before migrating them.
Business Requirements
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.
Technical Requirements
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.
CEO Statement
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They
are also concerned that a new competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment
and freeing them to focus on developing better features.
CTO Statement
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its
useful life. We are consistently waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our
traffic patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is
sitting idle.
CFO Statement
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an
initial increase in spending, but we expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total
cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our
current model.
QUESTION 1
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.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 2
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?
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.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Follow these rules of thumb when deciding whether to use gsutil or Storage Transfer Service:
* When transferring data from an on-premises location, use gsutil.
* When transferring data from another cloud storage provider, use Storage Transfer Service.
* Otherwise, evaluate both tools with respect to your specific scenario.
QUESTION 3
Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to.
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.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 4
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
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 5
Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying
some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation.
What should you advise?
A. Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud.
B. Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a first move to the
cloud.
C. Suggest moving their in-house databases to the cloud and continue serving requests to on-premise
applications.
D. Recommend moving their message queuing servers to the cloud and continue handling requests to on-
premise applications.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 6
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.
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.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 7
Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services.
The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 8
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.
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.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 9
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
A. They should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to show errors in the code.
B. They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.
C. They should run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working
as intended.
D. They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes
to latency.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 10
You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at
least 10 years.
Cost optimization is your top priority.
A. Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.
B. Google Cloud Storage Nearline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.
C. Google Bigtabte with US or EU as location to store the data, and gcloud to access the data.
D. BigQuery to store the data, and a web server cluster in a managed instance group to access the data.
Google Cloud SQL mirrored across two distinct regions to store the data, and a Redis cluster in a managed
instance group to access the data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
QUESTION 11
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 its system
architecture to multiple locations when Google cloud platform.
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.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Testlet 1
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using
a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their
users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce, referrals,
and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder’s garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now
insufficient for the application’s rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company’s desire to innovate
faster. Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.
Solution Concept
For the first phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4win is moving their development and test
environments. They are also building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single
location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can migrate as is and which
components they need to change before migrating them.
The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
- Tomcat - Java
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN – MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS – image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by defining and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Technical Requirements
Easily create non-production environment in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or
cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.
Executive Statement
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They
are also concerned that a competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and
free them to focus on developing better features. Our traffic patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend
evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an
initial increase in spending, but we expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total
cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction
between 30% and 50% over our current model.
QUESTION 1
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?
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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 2
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?
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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 3
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?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 4
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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 5
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?
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.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 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.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Question Set 1
QUESTION 1
Your company’s test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual
machines. The full test suite takes several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on-premises
servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce the
amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as possible.
A. Google Compute Engine unmanaged instance groups and Network Load Balancer
B. Google Compute Engine managed instance groups with auto-scaling
C. Google Cloud Dataproc to run Apache Hadoop jobs to process each test
D. Google App Engine with Google StackDriver for logging
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Compute Engine enables users to launch virtual machines (VMs) on demand. VMs can be launched
from the standard images or custom images created by users.
Managed instance groups offer autoscaling capabilities that allow you to automatically add or remove instances
from a managed instance group based on increases or decreases in load. Autoscaling helps your applications
gracefully handle increases in traffic and reduces cost when the need for resources is lower.
Incorrect Answers:
B: There is no mention of incoming IP data traffic for the custom C++ applications.
C: Apache Hadoop is not fit for testing C++ applications. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software
framework used for distributed storage and processing of datasets of big data using the MapReduce
programming model.
References: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/
QUESTION 2
A lead software engineer tells you that his new application design uses websockets and HTTP sessions that
are not distributed across the web servers. You want to help him ensure his application will run properly on
Google Cloud Platform.
A. Help the engineer to convert his websocket code to use HTTP streaming
B. Review the encryption requirements for websocket connections with the security team
C. Meet with the cloud operations team and the engineer to discuss load balancer options
D. Help the engineer redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on
websockets and HTTP sessions.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) HTTP(S) load balancing provides global load balancing for HTTP(S) requests
destined for your instances.
The HTTP(S) load balancer has native support for the WebSocket protocol.
Incorrect Answers:
A: HTTP server push, also known as HTTP streaming, is a client-server communication pattern that sends
information from an HTTP server to a client asynchronously, without a client request. A server push architecture
is especially effective for highly interactive web or mobile applications, where one or more clients need to
receive continuous information from the server.
References: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/
QUESTION 3
The application reliability team at your company this added a debug feature to their backend service to send all
server events to Google Cloud Storage for eventual analysis. The event records are at least 50 KB and at most
15 MB and are expected to peak at 3,000 events per second. You want to minimize data loss.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 4
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 origin.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Incorrect Answers:
A: To use the Stackdriver alerting console we must first set up alerting policies.
Audit logs help you determine who did what, where, and when.
Cloud Audit Logging returns two types of logs:
Admin activity logs
Data access logs: Contains log entries for operations that perform read-only operations do not modify any
data, such as get, list, and aggregated list methods.
QUESTION 5
You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage
and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as
a new instance in a different project in the US-East region.
A. Use the Linux dd and netcat commands to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine
instance in the US-East region.
B. Create a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual
machine instance in the US-East region.
C. Create an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new virtual machine instance in
the US-East region
D. Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and
create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file the root disk.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 6
Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific
database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be
allowed to impact disk performance.
A. Configure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk snapshots.
B. Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to move the
backup to Google Cloud Storage.
C. Use gcsfise to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write
backups to the mounted location using mysqldump.
D. Mount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10 array and
use LVM to create snapshots to send to Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://github.com/mvarrieur/MySQL-backup-to-Google-Cloud-Storage
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse
QUESTION 7
You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud
services that run on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable.
A. Ensure that the load tests validate the performance of Cloud Bigtable
B. Create a separate Google Cloud project to use for the load-testing environment
C. Schedule the load-testing tool to regularly run against the production environment
D. Ensure all third-party systems your services use is capable of handling high load
E. Instrument the production services to record every transaction for replay by the load-testing tool
F. Instrument the load-testing tool and the target services with detailed logging and metrics collection
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 8
Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants
detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set
up yourself as the org admin.
What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 9
Your company places a high value on being responsive and meeting customer needs quickly. Their primary
business objectives are release speed and agility. You want to reduce the chance of security errors being
accidentally introduced.
Correct Answer: BE
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 10
You want to enable your running Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application
changes.
A. Add additional nodes to your Kubernetes Engine cluster using the following command:
gcloud container clusters resize
CLUSTER_Name – -size 10
B. Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command:
gcloud compute instances add-tags
INSTANCE - -tags enable-
autoscaling max-nodes-10
C. Update the existing Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters
update mycluster - -enable-
autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10
D. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters
create mycluster - -enable-
autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10
and redeploy your application
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 11
Your marketing department wants to send out a promotional email campaign. The development team wants to
minimize direct operation management. They project a wide range of possible customer responses, from 100 to
500,000 click-through per day. The link leads to a simple website that explains the promotion and collects user
information and preferences.
A. Use Google App Engine to serve the website and Google Cloud Datastore to store user data.
B. Use a Google Container Engine cluster to serve the website and store data to persistent disk.
C. Use a managed instance group to serve the website and Google Cloud Bigtable to store user data.
D. Use a single Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to host a web server, backend by Google Cloud SQL.
Correct Answer: AC
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
QUESTION 12
Your company just finished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have
another 9 months to design and deploy a more cloud-native solution. Specifically, you want a system that is no-
ops and auto-scaling.
Correct Answer: BC
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
B: With Container Engine, Google will automatically deploy your cluster for you, update, patch, secure the
nodes.
Kubernetes Engine's cluster autoscaler automatically resizes clusters based on the demands of the workloads
you want to run.
C: Solutions like Datastore, BigQuery, AppEngine, etc are truly NoOps.
App Engine by default scales the number of instances running up and down to match the load, thus providing
consistent performance for your app at all times while minimizing idle instances and thus reducing cost.
Note: At a high level, NoOps means that there is no infrastructure to build out and manage during usage of the
platform. Typically, the compromise you make with NoOps is that you lose control of the underlying
infrastructure.
References: https://www.quora.com/How-well-does-Google-Container-Engine-support-Google-Cloud-Platform
%E2%80%99s-NoOps-claim
QUESTION 13
One of your primary business objectives is being able to trust the data stored in your application. You want to
log all changes to the application data.
How can you design your logging system to verify authenticity of your logs?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Write a log entry. If the log does not exist, it is created. You can specify a severity for the log entry, and you can
write a structured log entry by specifying --payload-type=json and writing your message as a JSON string:
References: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/tools/gcloud-logging
QUESTION 14
Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create better experiences for their
developers. They need to keep the old version of the API available and deployable, while allowing new
customers and testers to try out the new API. They want to keep the same SSL and DNS records in place to
serve both APIs.
A. Configure a new load balancer for the new version of the API
B. Reconfigure old clients to use a new endpoint for the new API
C. Have the old API forward traffic to the new API based on the path
D. Use separate backend pools for each API path behind the load balancer
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 15
Your company plans to migrate a multi-petabyte data set to the cloud. The data set must be available 24hrs a
day. Your business analysts have experience only with using a SQL interface.
How should you store the data to optimize it for ease of analysis?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
BigQuery is Google's serverless, highly scalable, low cost enterprise data warehouse designed to make all your
data analysts productive. Because there is no infrastructure to manage, you can focus on analyzing data to find
meaningful insights using familiar SQL and you don't need a database administrator.
BigQuery enables you to analyze all your data by creating a logical data warehouse over managed, columnar
storage as well as data from object storage, and spreadsheets.
References: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/
QUESTION 16
The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating
a J2EE application to the cloud.
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/tools/uploadinganapp
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/building-app/cloud-sql
QUESTION 17
A news feed web service has the following code running on Google App Engine. During peak load, users report
that they can see news articles they already viewed.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3164280/google-app-engine-cache-list-in-session-variable?
rq=1
QUESTION 18
An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new
cloud-based product. They want a better tool to capture errors and help them analyze their historical log data.
You want to help them find a solution that meets their needs.
A. Direct them to download and install the Google StackDriver logging agent
B. Send them a list of online resources about logging best practices
C. Help them define their requirements and assess viable logging tools
D. Help them upgrade their current tool to take advantage of any new features
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The Stackdriver Logging agent streams logs from your VM instances and from selected third party software
packages to Stackdriver Logging. Using the agent is optional but we recommend it. The agent runs under both
Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Note: Stackdriver Logging allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from
Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our API also allows ingestion of any custom log
data from any source. Stackdriver Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest
application and system log data from thousands of VMs. Even better, you can analyze all that log data in real
time.
References: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/agent/installation
https://medium.com/google-cloud/hidden-super-powers-of-stackdriver-logging-ca110dae7e74
QUESTION 19
You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your
company’s web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction.
Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? Choose 2 answers.
Correct Answer: AC
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 20
To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development
infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources
go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design
the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the finance
department.
A. Use the - -no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM
B. Use the - -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM
C. Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export
D. Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups
E. Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM
F. Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM
Correct Answer: CE
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
C: Billing export to BigQuery enables you to export your daily usage and cost estimates automatically
throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset you specify.
Labels applied to resources that generate usage metrics are forwarded to the billing system so that you can
break down your billing charges based upon label criteria. For example, the Compute Engine service reports
metrics on VM instances. If you deploy a project with 2,000 VMs, each of which is labeled distinctly, then only
the first 1,000 label maps seen within the 1 hour window will be preserved.
E: You cannot stop an instance that has a local SSD attached. Instead, you must migrate your critical data off
of the local SSD to a persistent disk or to another instance before you delete the instance completely.
You can stop an instance temporarily so you can come back to it at a later time. A stopped instance does not
incur charges, but all of the resources that are attached to the instance will still be charged. Alternatively, if you
are done using an instance, delete the instance and its resources to stop incurring charges.
References:
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/stopping-or-deleting-an-instance
QUESTION 21
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 is equipped with a motion
sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and
several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about
account owners and office locations.
A. Flat file
B. NoSQL
C. Relational
D. Blobstore
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Relational databases were not designed to cope with the scale and agility challenges that face modern
applications, nor were they built to take advantage of the commodity storage and processing power available
today.
NoSQL fits well for:
Developers are working with applications that create massive volumes of new, rapidly changing data types
— structured, semi-structured, unstructured and polymorphic data.
Incorrect Answers:
D: The Blobstore API allows your application to serve data objects, called blobs, that are much larger than the
size allowed for objects in the Datastore service. Blobs are useful for serving large files, such as video or image
files, and for allowing users to upload large data files.
References: https://www.mongodb.com/nosql-explained
QUESTION 22
You set up an autoscaling instance group to serve web traffic for an upcoming launch. After configuring the
instance group as a backend service to an HTTP(S) load balancer, you notice that virtual machine (VM)
instances are being terminated and re-launched every minute. The instances do not have a public IP address.
You have verified the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using the curl command. You
want to ensure the backend is configured correctly.
A. Ensure that a firewall rules exists to allow source traffic on HTTP/HTTPS to reach the load balancer.
B. Assign a public IP to each instance and configure a firewall rule to allow the load balancer to reach the
instance public IP.
C. Ensure that a firewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the instances in the instance
group.
D. Create a tag on each instance with the name of the load balancer. Configure a firewall rule with the name of
the load balancer as the source and the instance tag as the destination.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The best practice when configuration a health check is to check health and serve traffic on the same port.
However, it is possible to perform health checks on one port, but serve traffic on another. If you do use two
different ports, ensure that firewall rules and services running on instances are configured appropriately. If you
run health checks and serve traffic on the same port, but decide to switch ports at some point, be sure to
update both the backend service and the health check.
Backend services that do not have a valid global forwarding rule referencing it will not be health checked and
will have no health status.
References: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/backend-service
QUESTION 23
You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. The
script is printing errors that it cannot connect to BigQuery.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Applications that use BigQuery must be associated with a Google Cloud Platform Console project with the
BigQuery API enabled.
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/create-simple-app-api
QUESTION 24
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises data
center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for
storing passwords.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Provision users to Google's directory
The global Directory is available to both Cloud Platform and G Suite resources and can be provisioned by a
number of means. Provisioned users can take advantage of rich authentication features including single sign-
on (SSO), OAuth, and two-factor verification.
You can provision users automatically using one of the following tools and services:
References: https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-
organizations#authentication-and-identity
QUESTION 25
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their data stream to optimize
operations. They do not have any existing code for this analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These
options include a mix of batch and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and live-
processing some data as it comes in.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and batch
(historical) modes with equal reliability and expressiveness -- no more complex workarounds or compromises
needed.
References: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/
QUESTION 26
Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine application is taking
approximately 30 seconds to load for some of their users. This behavior was not reported before the update.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Stackdriver Logging allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from
Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our API also allows ingestion of any custom log
data from any source. Stackdriver Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest
application and system log data from thousands of VMs. Even better, you can analyze all that log data in real
time.
References: https://cloud.google.com/logging/
QUESTION 27
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 remediate the problem with the least amount of downtime?
A. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and use the resize2fs command in
Linux.
B. Shut down the virtual machine, use the Cloud Platform Console to increase the persistent disk size, then
restart the virtual machine
C. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and verify the new space is ready to
use with the fdisk command in Linux
D. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a new persistent disk attached to the virtual machine, format and
mount it, and configure the database service to move the files to the new disk
E. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a snapshot of the persistent disk restore the snapshot to a new larger
disk, unmount the old disk, mount the new disk and restart the database service
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
On Linux instances, connect to your instance and manually resize your partitions and file systems to use the
additional disk space that you added.
Extend the file system on the disk or the partition to use the added space. If you grew a partition on your disk,
specify the partition. If your disk does not have a partition table, specify only the disk ID.
References: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk
QUESTION 28
Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest scope of Payment Card
Industry (PCI) compliance without compromising the ability to analyze transactional data and trends relating to
which payment methods are used.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/compliance/ways-reduce-pci-dss-audit-scope-tokenizing-
cardholder-data-33194
QUESTION 29
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 have been stored for future analysis by your data
science and user experience teams.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL wide-column database that is suitable for both real-
time access and analytics workloads.
Good for:
Low-latency read/write access
High-throughput analytics
Native time series support
Common workloads:
IoT, finance, adtech
Personalization, recommendations
Monitoring
Geospatial datasets
Graphs
Incorrect Answers:
C: Google Cloud Storage is a scalable, fully-managed, highly reliable, and cost-efficient object / blob store.
Is good for:
Images, pictures, and videos
Objects and blobs
Unstructured data
D: Google Cloud Datastore is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL document database for your web and mobile
applications.
Is good for:
Semi-structured application data
Hierarchical data
Durable key-value data
Common workloads:
User profiles
Product catalogs
Game state
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
QUESTION 30
You are creating a solution to remove backup files older than 90 days from your backup Cloud Storage bucket.
You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend.
A. Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil
B. Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil
C. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls –lr gs://backups/** to find and remove items older than 90
days
D. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls –l gs://backups/** to find and remove items older than 90
days and schedule it with cron
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 31
Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being
run on your local datacenter. You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the
least amount of operations work and code change.
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Dataproc is a fast, easy-to-use, low-cost and fully managed service that lets you run the Apache
Spark and Apache Hadoop ecosystem on Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Dataproc provisions big or small
clusters rapidly, supports many popular job types, and is integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services,
such as Google Cloud Storage and Stackdriver Logging, thus helping you reduce TCO.
References: https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/resources/faq
QUESTION 32
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database
server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance
statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80
GB of SSD persistent disk.
What should they change to get better performance from this system?
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 33
You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting application. The data comes
from 50,000 sensors sending 10 readings a second, in the format of a timestamp and sensor reading.
A. Google BigQuery
B. Google Cloud SQL
C. Google Cloud Bigtable
D. Google Cloud Storage
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL wide-column database that is suitable for both real-
time access and analytics workloads.
Good for:
Low-latency read/write access
High-throughput analytics
Native time series support
Common workloads:
IoT, finance, adtech
Personalization, recommendations
Monitoring
Geospatial datasets
Graphs
References: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
QUESTION 34
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 groups on all layers, except the
database. Currently, only a small group of select customers have access to the portal. The portal meets a
99,99% availability SLA under these conditions. However next quarter, your company will be making the portal
available to all users, including unauthenticated users. You need to develop a resiliency testing strategy to
ensure the system maintains the SLA once they introduce additional user load.
A. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until autoscale is triggered on all layers. At the
same time, terminate all resources in one of the zones
B. Create synthetic random user input, replay synthetic load until autoscale logic is triggered on at least one
layer, and introduce “chaos” to the system by terminating random resources on both zones
C. Expose the new system to a larger group of users, and increase group size each day until autoscale logic is
triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate random resources on both zones
D. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until resource utilization crosses 80%. Also,
derive estimated number of users based on existing user’s usage of the app, and deploy enough resources
to handle 200% of expected load
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 35
One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container Engine with the Dockerfile
below. They report that their application deployments are taking too long.
You want to optimize this Dockerfile for faster deployment times without adversely affecting the app’s
functionality.
Correct Answer: CE
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The speed of deployment can be changed by limiting the size of the uploaded app, limiting the complexity of the
build necessary in the Dockerfile, if present, and by ensuring a fast and reliable internet connection.
Note: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource efficient than
traditional GNU/Linux distributions. A container requires no more than 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk
requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection
of packages from the repository.
References: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/hZMEkmmObDU
https://www.alpinelinux.org/about/
QUESTION 36
Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in staging and test
environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment procedures to avoid this problem in the future.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 37
A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very long time. You know that
each request to the API can traverse many services. You want to know which service takes the longest in those
cases.
A. Set timeouts on your application so that you can fail requests faster
B. Send custom metrics for each of your requests to Stackdriver Monitoring
C. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to look for insights that show when your API latencies are high
D. Instrument your application with Stackdriver Trace in order to break down the request latencies at each
microservice
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/quickstart#find_a_trace
QUESTION 38
During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never
promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 39
Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in
possible legal proceedings.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Stackdriver Logging provides you with the ability to filter, search, and view logs from your cloud and open
source application services. Allows you to define metrics based on log contents that are incorporated into
dashboards and alerts. Enables you to export logs to BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
References: https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/
QUESTION 40
Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user authentication PostgreSQL
database on Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4 TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication
requires private address space communication.
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect provides direct physical connections and RFC 1918 communication
between your on-premises network and Google’s network. Dedicated Interconnect enables you to transfer large
amounts of data between networks, which can be more cost effective than purchasing additional bandwidth
over the public Internet or using VPN tunnels.
Benefits:
Traffic between your on-premises network and your VPC network doesn't traverse the public Internet. Traffic
traverses a dedicated connection with fewer hops, meaning there are less points of failure where traffic
might get dropped or disrupted.
Your VPC network's internal (RFC 1918) IP addresses are directly accessible from your on-premises
network. You don't need to use a NAT device or VPN tunnel to reach internal IP addresses. Currently, you
can only reach internal IP addresses over a dedicated connection. To reach Google external IP addresses,
you must use a separate connection.
You can scale your connection to Google based on your needs. Connection capacity is delivered over one
or more 10 Gbps Ethernet connections, with a maximum of eight connections (80 Gbps total per
interconnect).
The cost of egress traffic from your VPC network to your on-premises network is reduced. A dedicated
connection is generally the least expensive method if you have a high-volume of traffic to and from Google’s
network.
References: https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/details/dedicated
QUESTION 41
Auditors visit your teams every 12 months and ask to review all the Google Cloud Identity and Access
Management (Cloud IAM) policy changes in the previous 12 months. You want to streamline and expedite the
analysis and audit process.
A. Create custom Google Stackdriver alerts and send them to the auditor
B. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the
auditor
C. Use cloud functions to transfer log entries to Google Cloud SQL and use ACLs and views to limit an
auditor’s view
D. Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs into a GCS bucket and delegate access to the
bucket
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 42
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices
needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
References: https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/secret-management
QUESTION 43
A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to
migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment. You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud
Deployment Manager.
What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? Choose 2 answers.
Correct Answer: BF
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
QUESTION 44
A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his requirements and identify what
cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The application must:
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that lets you flexibly orchestrate your build, test, and deployment
pipelines. Kubernetes Engine is a hosted version of Kubernetes, a powerful cluster manager and orchestration
system for containers.
When you need to set up a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline, deploying Jenkins on Kubernetes Engine
provides important benefits over a standard VM-based deployment
Incorrect Answers:
A: Helm is a tool for managing Kubernetes charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes
resources.
Use Helm to:
Find and use popular software packaged as Kubernetes charts
Share your own applications as Kubernetes charts
Create reproducible builds of your Kubernetes applications
Intelligently manage your Kubernetes manifest files
Manage releases of Helm packages
References: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/jenkins-on-kubernetes-engine
QUESTION 45
You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine. You
want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
A startup script, or a shutdown script, is specified through the metadata server, using startup script metadata
keys.
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript
QUESTION 46
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each
tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of the others. Network traffic should flow through the web to
the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Google Cloud Platform(GCP) enforces firewall rules through rules and tags. GCP rules and tags can be defined
once and used across all regions.
References: https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/openstack/
https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/aws/building-three-tier-architectures-with-security-groups/
QUESTION 47
Your development team has installed a new Linux kernel module on the batch servers in Google Compute
Engine (GCE) virtual machines (VMs) to speed up the nightly batch process. Two days after the installation,
50% of the batch servers failed the nightly batch run. You want to collect details on the failure to pass back to
the development team.
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 48
Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log
data to the cloud and test the analytics features available to them there, while also retaining that data as a long-
term disaster recovery backup.
Correct Answer: AC
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 49
You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for
self-healing. One of the changes negatively affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix
it, and investigation could take up to a week.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 50
Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Folders are nodes in the Cloud Platform Resource Hierarchy. A folder can contain projects, other folders, or a
combination of both. You can use folders to group projects under an organization in a hierarchy. For example,
your organization might contain multiple departments, each with its own set of GCP resources. Folders allow
you to group these resources on a per-department basis. Folders are used to group resources that share
common IAM policies. While a folder can contain multiple folders or resources, a given folder or resource can
have exactly one parent.
References: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-folders
QUESTION 51
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the following
stack trace.
What should you do?
A. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application.
B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application
C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 52
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot spoof chat messages, by
providing a message were sent by a specific user.
A. Tag messages client side with the originating user identifier and the destination user.
B. Encrypt the message client side using block-based encryption with a shared key.
C. Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client side using the originating user's private
key.
D. Use a trusted certificate authority to enable SSL connectivity between the client application and the server.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Encrypting each block and tagging each message at the client side is an overhead on the application. Best
method which has been adopted since years is contacting the SSL provider and use the public certificate to
encrypt the traffic between client and the server.
QUESTION 53
As part of implementing their disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to replicate their production MySQL
database from their private data center to their GCP project using a Google Cloud VPN connection. They are
experiencing latency issues and a small amount of packet loss that is disrupting the replication. What should
they do?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 54
Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable for retention and analysis.
What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this data of personally identifiable information or payment
card information before initial storage?
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/pci-dss-compliance-in-
gcp#using_data_loss_prevention_api_to_sanitize_data
QUESTION 55
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks. Where can you store the
file so it is in the default execution path and persists across sessions?
A. ~/bin
B. Cloud Storage
C. /google/scripts
D. /usr/local/bin
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 56
You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute Engine and your on-premises
data center. You require a connection of at least 20 Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.
How should you set up the connection?
A. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single Cloud VPN.
C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises data center
using Dedicated Interconnect.
D. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises datacenter using
a single Cloud VPN.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-advanced
QUESTION 57
You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup’s trial usage of GCP, and you don’t
yet know what consumer demand for your product will be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service
costs and adhere to Google best practices. What should you do?
A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.
B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.
C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.
D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 58
You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source repository and want to
ensure that code changes can be verified deploying to production. What should you do?
A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment strategy so that changes can
easily be rolled back.
B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production deployments.
C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch. Build and deploy changes to production
for 10% of users before doing a complete rollout.
D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a staging environment for testing. After
testing, tag the repository for production and deploy that to the production environment.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/continuous-deployment-on-kubernetes/blob/master/
README.md
QUESTION 59
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instance keep restarting after 5
seconds. You have a health check configured, but autoscaling is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux
expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure that he can access the VMs. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 60
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the migration, you want to
integrate Kubernetes Engine for workload orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-
compliant. Which of the following is most accurate?
A. App Engine is the only compute platform on GCP that is certified for PCI DSS hosting.
B. Kubernetes Engine cannot be used under PCI DSS because it is considered shared hosting.
C. Kubernetes Engine and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant environment.
D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certified PCI-compliant.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 61
Your company has multiple on-premises systems that serve as sources for reporting. The data has not been
maintained well and has become degraded over time. You want to use Google-recommended practices to
detect anomalies in your company data. What should you do?
A. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.
B. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.
C. Connect Cloud Datalab to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.
D. Connect Cloud Dataprep to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 62
Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization, folders, and projects. When
Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy
at a particular node of the hierarchy?
A. The effective policy is determined only by the policy set at the node
B. The effective policy is the policy set at the node and restricted by the policies of its ancestors
C. The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors
D. The effective policy is the intersection of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/cloud-platform-resource-hierarchy
QUESTION 63
You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN to
maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is completed.
You want to make sure all your on-premises systems remain reachable during this period. How should you
organize your networking in Google Cloud?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 64
You have found an error in your App Engine application caused by missing Cloud Datastore indexes. You have
created a YAML file with the required indexes and want to deploy these new indexes to Cloud Datastore. What
should you do?
A. Point gcloud datastore create-indexes to your configuration file
B. Upload the configuration file the App Engine’s default Cloud Storage bucket, and have App Engine detect
the new indexes
C. In the GCP Console, use Datastore Admin to delete the current indexes and upload the new configuration
file
D. Create an HTTP request to the built-in python module to send the index configuration file to your application
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 65
You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an architecture that takes into
account a disaster recovery plan that requires your application to fail over to another region in case of a
regional outage. What should you do?
A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but in a different region. Use
the first instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby
instance in case of a disaster.
B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance. Use the instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP
load balancing service to fail over to an instance on your premises in case of a disaster.
C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same project but in a different
region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to
the standby instance group in case of a disaster.
D. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in separate project and a different
region. Use the first instance group to server traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to
the standby instance in case of a disaster.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 66
You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-premises database. For
security purposes, your on-premises database must not be accessible through the public Internet. What should
you do?
A. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit
access to the open on-premises database.
B. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-
premises database.
C. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use App Engine firewall rules to limit
access to the on-premises database.
D. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-
premises database.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 67
You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine VMs
is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to access an on-premises file server. You need to install
specific software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software?
A. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage. Configure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google
Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using
gsutil.
B. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage and use firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP
address range for Cloud Storage. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.
C. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories. Configure the VM on a subnet with a
Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation files
to the VM using gcloud.
D. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories and use firewall rules to block all traffic
except the IP address range for Cloud Source Repositories. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 68
Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow Google-
recommended practices. What should you do?
A. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use a Transfer Appliance Rehydrator to decrypt the data into
Cloud Storage.
B. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use Cloud Dataprep to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage.
C. Install gsutil on each server that contains data. Use resumable transfers to upload the data into Cloud
Storage.
D. Install gsutil on each server containing data. Use streaming transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/transferring-big-data-sets-to-gcp
QUESTION 69
You have an application deployed on Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echo-deployment. The
deployment is exposed using a Service called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application
with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do?
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/updating-apps
QUESTION 70
Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is distributed over several Google
Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery need to be billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no
query costs are incurred on the projects that contain the data. Users should be able to query the datasets, but
not edit them.
How should you configure users’ access roles?
A. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the role of BigQuery user on the billing project and BigQuery
dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
B. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and
BigQuery user on the projects that contain the data.
C. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the billing project and BigQuery
dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
D. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and
BigQuery jobUser on the projects that contain the data.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/running-queries
QUESTION 71
You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from uploaded
images. You want to test the application and allow specific people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not
all users have a Google Account. How should you have users upload images?
A. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage. Protect the bucket with a password that expires after 24
hours.
B. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires after 24 hours.
C. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images. Configure App Engine to disable
the application after 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud Identity.
D. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images for the next 24 hours. Authenticate
users via Cloud Identity.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 72
Your web application must comply with the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR). You are responsible for the technical architecture of your web application. What should you
do?
A. Ensure that your web application only uses native features and services of Google Cloud Platform, because
Google already has various certifications and provides “pass-on” compliance when you use native features.
B. Enable the relevant GDPR compliance setting within the GCPConsole for each of the services in use within
your application.
C. Ensure that Cloud Security Scanner is part of your test planning strategy in order to pick up any compliance
gaps.
D. Define a design for the security of data in your web application that meets GDPR requirements.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/gdpr-compliant-mobile-app/
QUESTION 73
You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there’s no downtime in case of a
data center outage in any of the zones within a GCP region. What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sql-server-always-on-compute-engine
QUESTION 74
The development team has provided you with a Kubernetes Deployment file. You have no infrastructure yet and
need to deploy the application. What should you do?
A. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment.
B. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.
C. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment.
D. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 75
You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create
a skills gap plan incorporates the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects
successfully to date. What should you do?
A. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
B. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certification
based on job role.
C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google
Cloud certification based on job role.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 76
You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the minimum viable product release,
you’d like to use a managed product that automatically “scales to zero” so you don’t incur costs when there is
no activity.
Which primary compute resource should you choose?
A. Cloud Functions
B. Compute Engine
C. Kubernetes Engine
D. AppEngine flexible environment
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 77
You are creating an App Engine application that uses Cloud Datastore as its persistence layer. You need to
retrieve several root entities for which you have the identifiers. You want to minimize the overhead in operations
performed by Cloud Datastore. What should you do?
A. Create the Key object for each Entity and run a batch get operation
B. Create the Key object for each Entity and run multiple get operations, one operation for each entity
C. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run a batch query operation
D. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run multiple query operations, one operation for each entity
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 78
You need to upload files from your on-premises environment to Cloud Storage. You want the files to be
encrypted on Cloud Storage using customer-supplied encryption keys. What should you do?
A. Supply the encryption key in a .boto configuration file. Use gsutil to upload the files.
B. Supply the encryption key using gcloud config. Use gsutil to upload the files to that bucket.
C. Use gsutil to upload the files, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key.
D. Use gsutil to create a bucket, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key. Use gsutil to
upload the files to that bucket.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 79
Your customer wants to capture multiple GBs of aggregate real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) from
their game servers running on Google Cloud Platform and monitor the KPIs with low latency. How should they
capture the KPIs?
A. Store time-series data from the game servers in Google Bigtable, and view it using Google Data Studio.
B. Output custom metrics to Stackdriver from the game servers, and create a Dashboard in Stackdriver
Monitoring Console to view them.
C. Schedule BigQuery load jobs to ingest analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage every ten minutes, and
visualize the results in Google Data Studio.
D. Insert the KPIs into Cloud Datastore entities, and run ad hoc analysis and visualizations of them in Cloud
Datalab.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:https://cloud.google.com/solutions/data-lifecycle-cloud-platform
QUESTION 80
You have a Python web application with many dependencies that requires 0.1 CPU cores and 128 MB of
memory to operate in production. You want to monitor and maximize machine utilization. You also want to
reliably deploy new versions of the application. Which set of steps should you take?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 81
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?
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 on-
premises AD domain controller using Google Cloud Directory Sync.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/using-your-existing-identity-management-
system-with-google-cloud-platform
QUESTION 82
You are running a cluster on Kubernetes Engine to serve a web application. Users are reporting that a specific
part of the application is not responding anymore. You notice that all pods of your deployment keep restarting
after 2 seconds. The application writes logs to standard output. You want to inspect the logs to find the cause of
the issue. Which approach can you take?
A. Review the Stackdriver logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster.
B. Review the Stackdriver logs for the specific Kubernetes Engine container that is serving the unresponsive
part of the application.
C. Connect to the cluster using gcloud credentials and connect to a container in one of the pods to read the
logs.
D. Review the Serial Port logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 83
You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a specific zone. You want to
introduce high availability. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/configure-ha
QUESTION 84
Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used heavily
during regular business hours and lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the application is
slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application’s performance. What should you do?
A. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create an instance template from the snapshot. Create an
autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template.
B. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create a custom image from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled
managed instance group from the custom image.
C. Create a custom image from the existing disk. Create an instance template from the custom image. Create
an autoscaled managed instance group from the instance template.
D. Create an instance template from the existing disk. Create a custom image from the instance template.
Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the custom image.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 85
Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications
between instances to only the paths and ports you authorize, but you don’t want to rely on static IP addresses
or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict communications?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 86
You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage
increases and ensure that you don’t run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication
lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your requirements?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 87
You are tasked with building an online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tool. This
requires a relational database that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google-
recommended tool for such applications?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/files/BigQueryTechnicalWP.pdf
QUESTION 88
You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make
the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the application
is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 89
Your company pushes batches of sensitive transaction data from its application server VMs to Cloud Pub/Sub
for processing and storage. What is the Google-recommended way for your application to authenticate to the
required Google Cloud services?
A. Ensure that VM service accounts are granted the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.
B. Ensure that VM service accounts do not have access to Cloud Pub/Sub, and use VM access scopes to
grant the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.
C. Generate an OAuth2 access token for accessing Cloud Pub/Sub, encrypt it, and store it in Cloud Storage
for access from each VM.
D. Create a gateway to Cloud Pub/Sub using a Cloud Function, and grant the Cloud Function service account
the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 90
You want to establish a Compute Engine application in a single VPC across two regions. The application must
communicate over VPN to an on-premises network. How should you deploy the VPN?
A. Use VPC Network Peering between the VPC and the on-premises network.
B. Expose the VPC to the on-premises network using IAM and VPC Sharing.
C. Create a global Cloud VPN Gateway with VPN tunnels from each region to the on-premises peer gateway.
D. Deploy Cloud VPN Gateway in each region. Ensure that each region has at least one VPN tunnel to the on-
premises peer gateway.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 91
Your applications will be writing their logs to BigQuery for analysis. Each application should have its own table.
Any logs older than 45 days should be removed. You want to optimize storage and follow Google-
recommended practices. What should you do?
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-tables
QUESTION 92
You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPUload.
A. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler from the GCP
Console.
B. Configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable autoscaling on the managed
instance group for the cluster using the gcloud command.
C. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler
using the gcloud command.
D. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable autoscaling on the
cluster managed instance group from the GCP Console.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 93
You need to develop procedures to verify resilience of disaster recovery for remote recovery using GCP. Your
production environment is hosted on-premises. You need to establish a secure, redundant connection between
your on premises network and the GCP network.
A. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate files to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a
secure connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.
B. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate files to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure
connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.
C. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate files to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a
secure connection between your networks if the Transfer Appliance fails.
D. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate files to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure
connection between your networks if the Transfer Appliance fails.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 94
Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that are
not time-critical. You also need to use GCP services that are HIPAA-certified and manage service costs.
A. Provisioning preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not
HIPAA-compliant.
B. Provisioning preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP and APIs that
are not HIPAA-compliant.
C. Provision standard VMs in the same region to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs
that are not HIPAA-compliant.
D. Provision standard VMs to the same region to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP
services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 95
Your customer wants to do resilience testing of their authentication layer. This consists of a regional managed
instance group serving a public REST API that reads from and writes to a Cloud SQL instance.
A. Engage with a security company to run web scrapes that look your users’ authentication data om malicious
websites and notify you if any if found.
B. Deploy intrusion detection software to your virtual machines to detect and log unauthorized access.
C. Schedule a disaster simulation exercise during which you can shut off all VMs in a zone to see how your
application behaves.
D. Configure a red replica for your Cloud SQL instance in a different zone than the master, and then manually
trigger a failover while monitoring KPIs for our REST API.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 96
Your BigQuery project has several users. For audit purposes, you need to see how many queries each user ran
in the last month.
A. Connect Google Data Studio to BigQuery. Create a dimension for the users and a metric for the amount of
queries per user.
B. In the BigQuery interface, execute a query on the JOBS table to get the required information.
C. Use ‘bq show’ to list all jobs. Per job, use ‘bq Is’ to list job information and get the required information.
D. Use Cloud Audit Logging to view Cloud Audit Logs, and create a filter on the query operation to get the
required information.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/access-control
QUESTION 97
You want to automate the creation of a managed instance group and a startup script to install the OS package
dependencies. You want to minimize the startup time for VMs in the instance group.
A. Use Terraform to create the managed instance group and a startup script to install the OS package
dependencies.
B. Create a custom VM image with all OS package dependencies. Use Deployment Manager to create the
managed instance group with the VM image.
C. Use Puppet to create the managed instance group and install the OS package dependencies.
D. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group and Ansible to install the OS package
dependencies.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 98
Your company captures all web traffic data in Google Analytics 260 and stores it in BigQuery. Each country has
its own dataset. Each dataset has multiple tables. You want analysts from each country
to be able to see and query only the data for their respective countries.
A. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group
‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of
BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-
group.
B. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group
‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of
BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate tables with view access with each respective analyst country-
group.
C. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group
‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of
BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-
group.
D. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group
‘all_analysts’, and add all country-groups as members. Grant the ‘all-analysis’ group the IAM role of
BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate table with view access with each respective analyst country-
group.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 99
You have been engaged by your client to lead the migration of their application infrastructure to GCP. One of
their current problems is that the on-premises high performance SAN is requiring frequent and expensive
upgrades to keep up with the variety of workloads that are identified as follows: 20TB of log archives retained
for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500 GB of image thumbnails; 200 GB of
customer session state data that allows customers to restart sessions even if off-line for several days.
Which of the following best reflects your recommendations for a cost-effective storage allocation?
A. Local SSD for customer session state data. Lifecycle-managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails,
and VM boot/data volumes.
B. Memcache backed by Cloud Datastore for the customer session state data. Lifecycle- managed Cloud
Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes.
C. Memcache backed by Cloud SQL for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-backed instances
for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.
D. Memcache backed by Persistent Disk SSD storage for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-
backed instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 100
Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload requires a
consistent set of hostnames even after pod scaling and relaunches.
A. StatefulSets
B. Role-based access control
C. Container environment variables
D. Persistent Volumes
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 101
You are using Cloud CDN to deliver static HTTP(S) website content hosted on a Compute Engine instance
group. You want to improve the cache hit ratio.
A. Customize the cache keys to omit the protocol from the key.
B. Shorten the expiration time of the cached objects.
C. Make sure the HTTP(S) header “Cache-Region” points to the closest region of your users.
D. Replicate the static content in a Cloud Storage bucket. Point CloudCDN toward a load balancer on that
bucket.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/best-
practices#using_custom_cache_keys_to_improve_cache_hit_ratio
QUESTION 102
Your architecture calls for the centralized collection of all admin activity and VM system logs within your project.
How should you collect these logs from both VMs and services?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/agent/
QUESTION 103
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.
A. Deploy the update using the Instance Group Updater to create a partial rollout, which allows for canary
testing.
B. Deploy the update as a new version in the App Engine application, and split traffic between the new and
current versions.
C. Deploy the update in a new VPC, and use Google’s global HTTP load balancing to split traffic between the
update and current applications.
D. Deploy the update as a new App Engine application, and use Google’s global HTTP load balancing to split
traffic between the new and current applications.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 104
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. You want to enforce this using VPC firewall
rules.
A. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with
priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances.
B. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with
priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances.
C. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress
rule with priority 100 to block all traffic for all instances.
D. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress
rule with priority 1000 to block all traffic for all instances.
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 105
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 Cloud Platform to improve the
quality of results.
What should the customer do to improve their model’s results over time?
A. Export Cloud Machine Learning Engine performance metrics from Stackdriver to BigQuery, to be used to
analyze the efficiency of the model.
B. Build a roadmap to move the machine learning model training from Cloud GPUs to Cloud TPUs, which offer
better results.
C. Monitor Compute Engine announcements for availability of newer CPU architectures, and deploy the model
to them as soon as they are available for additional performance.
D. Save a history of recommendations and results of the recommendations in BigQuery, to be used as training
data.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 106
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 application scales automatically.
A. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling. Use an Ingress resource to load-balance
the HTTPS traffic.
B. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling on the Kubernetes cluster. Use a Service
resource of type LoadBalancer to load-balance the HTTPS traffic.
C. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use an Ingress resource to load balance the
HTTPS traffic.
D. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer
to load-balance the HTTPS traffic.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/cluster-autoscaler
QUESTION 107
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 on Google best practices.
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/url-map
QUESTION 108
You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with HTTP
status codes of 5xx and 429.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/status-codes
QUESTION 109
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.
A. Use Deployment Manager to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs to monitor and debug your
tests.
B. Use Deployment Manager to automate provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.
C. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs monitor and debug your tests.
D. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 110
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 customers. You want to
follow Google-recommended practices.
Correct Answer: B
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 111
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 securely retain this data, and then
delete it as soon as regulations allow.
A. Store the data in Google Drive and manually delete records as they expire.
B. Anonymize the data using the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API and store it indefinitely.
C. Store the data using the Cloud Storage and use lifecycle management to delete files when they expire.
D. Store the data in Cloud Storage and run a nightly batch script that deletes all expired data.
Correct Answer: C
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 112
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.
A. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a key from the hash of the query, and return database
values from memcache before issuing a query to Cloud SQL.
B. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a cron task that runs every minute to populate the
cache with keys containing query results.
C. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a cron task that runs every minute to save all expected
queries to a key called “cached-queries”.
D. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a key called “cached-queries”, and return database
values from the key before using a query to Cloud SQL.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 113
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?
A. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publishing messages directly to a message-processing
utility service running on Compute Engine instances.
B. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to
that topic using a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.
C. Using the Cron service provided by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), publish messages directly to a
message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.
D. Using the Cron service provided by GKE, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that
topic using a message-processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 114
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 applications will be deployed on-premises, and
all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to process and load 7 years of archived .csv files totaling
900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an existing 100-MB internet
connection.
A. Compress and upload both achieved files and files uploaded daily using the qsutil –m option.
B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer
archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnect or
Direct Peering connection and use it to upload files daily.
C. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer
archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish one Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet,
and compares and upload files daily using the gsutil –m option.
D. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to
Cloud Storage. Establish a Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compress and
upload files daily.
Correct Answer: A
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 115
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 processing.
Which products should you deploy to ensure guaranteed-once FIFO (first-in, first-out) delivery of data?
Correct Answer: D
Section: [none]
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering