GCP ACE (Associate Cloud Engineer) Dumps

Google Cloud Platform – Associate Cloud Engineer Dumps

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Your company runs one batch process in an on-premises server that takes around 30 hours to complete. The task runs monthly, can be performed offline, and must be restarted if interrupted. You want to migrate this workload to the cloud while minimizing cost. What should you do?
Migrate the workload to a compute Engine VM. Start and stop the instance as needed

You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible. What should you do?
Deploy Jenkins through the Google Cloud Marketplace

You have downloaded and installed the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and have authenticated with your Google Account. Most of your Compute Engine instances in your project run in the europe-west1-d zone. You want to avoid having to specify this zone with each CLI command when managing these instances. What should you do?
Set the eurpoe-west1-d zone as the default using gcloud config subcommand

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput 'up to thousands of events per hour per device' and need to retrieve consistent data based on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?
Ingest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput 'up to thousands of events per hour per device' and need to retrieve consistent data based on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?

Ingest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp

You are asked to set up application performance monitoring on Google Cloud projects A, B, and C as a single pane of glass. You want to monitor CPU, memory, and disk. What should you do?
Enable API, create a workspace under project A, and then add projects B and C

You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?
Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio

Your team maintains the infrastructure for your organization. The current infrastructure requires changes. You need to share your proposed changes with the rest of the team. You want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?
Use Deployment Manager templates to describe the proposed changes and store them in a Cloud Storage bucket

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?
1. In the cloud console go to the compute Engine Disks page and select your instance’s disk 2. In the Snapshot Schedule section, select create schedule and confiure the following parameters - Schedule frequency: Daily - Start time: 1:00AM – 2:00AM - Autodelete snapshots after: 30 days

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?

1. In the cloud console go to the compute Engine Disks page and select your instance’s disk

2. In the Snapshot Schedule section, select create schedule and confiure the following parameters

- Schedule frequency: Daily

- Start time: 1:00AM – 2:00AM

- Autodelete snapshots after: 30 days

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1-standard-2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2-highmem-16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?
Create a new Node Pool and specify machine type n2-highmem-16. Deploy the new pods

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a database backend to keep current state information about users. Cloud Bigtable logs all events triggered by users. You export Cloud Spanner data to Cloud Storage during daily backups. One of your analysts asks you to join data from Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable for specific users. You want to complete this ad hoc request as efficiently as possible. What should you do?
Create two separate BigQuery externals tables on Cloud Storage for specific users

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a database backend to keep current state information about users. Cloud Bigtable logs all events triggered by users. You export Cloud Spanner data to Cloud Storage during daily backups. One of your analysts asks you to join data from Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable for specific users. You want to complete this ad hoc request as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

Create two separate BigQuery externals tables on Cloud Storage for specific users

You are hosting an application from Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) in us-central1-a. You want to adjust your design to support the failure of a single Compute Engine zone, eliminate downtime, and minimize cost. What should you do?
-Create Compute Engine resource in us-central1-b - Balance the load across both us-central1-a and us-central1-b

You are hosting an application from Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs) in us-central1-a. You want to adjust your design to support the failure of a single Compute Engine zone, eliminate downtime, and minimize cost. What should you do?

-Create Compute Engine resource in us-central1-b

- Balance the load across both us-central1-a and us-central1-b

A colleague handed over a Google Cloud Platform project for you to maintain. As part of a security checkup, you want to review who has been granted the Project Owner role. What should you do?
Use the command gcloud projects get-iam-policy to view the current role assignment

You are running multiple VPC-native Google Kubernetes Engine clusters in the same subnet. The IPs available for the nodes are exhausted, and you want to ensure that the clusters can grow in nodes when needed. What should you do?
Expand the CIDR range of the relevant subnet for the cluster

You have a batch workload that runs every night and uses a large number of virtual machines (VMs). It is fault-tolerant and can tolerate some of the VMs being terminated. The current cost of VMs is too high. What should you do?
Run a test using simulated maintenance events. If the test is successful, use the preemptible N1 standard VMs when running future jobs

You are working with a user to set up an application in a new VPC behind a firewall. The user is concerned about data egress. You want to configure the fewest open egress ports. What should you do?
Set up a low-priority (65543) rule that blocks all egress and a high-priority rule (1000) that allows only the appropriate ports

Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?
Ask the operations partner to generate SSH key pairs, and add the public keys to the VM instances

You have created a code snippet that should be triggered whenever a new file is uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to deploy this code snippet. What should you do?
Use Cloud Functions and configure the bucket as a trigger resource

You have been asked to set up Object Lifecycle Management for objects stored in storage buckets. The objects are written once and accessed frequently for 30 days. After 30 days, the objects are not read again unless there is a special need. The objects should be kept for three years, and you need to minimize cost. What should you do?
Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years

You are storing sensitive information in a Cloud Storage bucket. For legal reasons, you need to be able to record all requests that read any of the stored data. You want to make sure you comply with these requirements. What should you do?
Enable Data Access audits logs for the Cloud Storage API

You are the team lead of a group of 10 developers. You provided each developer with an individual Google Cloud Project that they can use as their personal sandbox to experiment with different Google Cloud solutions. You want to be notified if any of the developers are spending above $500 per month on their sandbox environment. What should you do?
Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all these budgets

You are deploying a production application on Compute Engine. You want to prevent anyone from accidentally destroying the instance by clicking the wrong button. What should you do?
Enable delete protection on the instance

You are deploying an application to a Compute Engine VM in a managed instance group. The application must be running at all times, but only a single instance of the VM should run per GCP project. How should you configure the instance group?
Set autoscaling to ON, set the minimum number of instances to 1, and then set the maximum number of instances to 1

You are building an application that processes data files uploaded from thousands of suppliers. Your primary goals for the application are data security and the expiration of aged data. You need to design the application to: -Restrict access so that suppliers can access only their own data. -Give suppliers write access to data only for 30 minutes. -Delete data that is over 45 days old. You have a very short development cycle, and you need to make sure that the application requires minimal maintenance. Which two strategies should you use? (Choose two.)
Build a lifecycle policy to delete Cloud Storage objects after 45 days Use signed URL’s to allow suppliers limited time access to store their objects

You are building an application that processes data files uploaded from thousands of suppliers. Your primary goals for the application are data security and the expiration of aged data. You need to design the application to:

-Restrict access so that suppliers can access only their own data.

-Give suppliers write access to data only for 30 minutes.

-Delete data that is over 45 days old.

You have a very short development cycle, and you need to make sure that the application requires minimal maintenance.

Which two strategies should you use? (Choose two.)

Build a lifecycle policy to delete Cloud Storage objects after 45 days

Use signed URL’s to allow suppliers limited time access to store their objects

Your company wants to standardize the creation and management of multiple Google Cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code. You want to minimize the amount of repetitive code needed to manage the environment. What should you do?
Develop templates for the environment using Cloud Deployment Manager

You are performing a monthly security check of your Google Cloud environment and want to know who has access to view data stored in your Google Cloud Project. What should you?
Review the IAM permissions for any role that allows for data access

Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud with your company's on-premises network. Multiple applications in Google Cloud need to connect to an on-premises database server, and you want to avoid having to change the IP configuration in all of your applications when the IP of the database changes. What should you do?
Create a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name

You have developed a containerized web application that will serve internal colleagues during business hours. You want to ensure that no costs are incurred outside of the hours the application is used. You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy the application. What should you do?
Deploy the container on Cloud Run (fully managed), and set the minimum number of instances to zero

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?
Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company

You are running a data warehouse on BigQuery. A partner company is offering a recommendation engine based on the data in your data warehouse. The partner company is also running their application on Google Cloud. They manage the resources in their own project, but they need access to the BigQuery dataset in your project. You want to provide the partner company with access to the dataset. What should you do?
Ask the partner to create a Service Account in their project, and grant their Service Account access to the bigQuery dataset in your projects

Your web application has been running successfully on Cloud Run for Anthos. You want to evaluate an updated version of the application with a specific percentage of your production users (canary deployment). What should you do?
Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running.

Your company developed a mobile game that is deployed on Google Cloud. Gamers are connecting to the game with their personal phones over the Internet. The game sends UDP packets to update the servers about the gamers' actions while they are playing in multiplayer mode. Your game backend can scale over multiple virtual machines (VMs), and you want to expose the VMs over a single IP address. What should you do?
Configure an External Network load balancer in front of the application servers

You are working for a hospital that stores its medical images in an on-premises data room. The hospital wants to use Cloud Storage for archival storage of these images. The hospital wants an automated process to upload any new medical images to Cloud Storage. You need to design and implement a solution. What should you do?
Create a script that uses the gsutil command line interface to synchronize the on-premises storage with cloud storage. Schedule the script as a cron job

Your auditor wants to view your organization's use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?
Turn on Data Access Logs for the buckets they want to audit, and then build a query in the log viewer that filters on Cloud Storage

You received a JSON file that contained a private key of a Service Account in order to get access to several resources in a Google Cloud project. You downloaded and installed the Cloud SDK and want to use this private key for authentication and authorization when performing gcloud commands. What should you do?
Use the command gcloud auth activate-service-account and point it to the private key

You are working with a Cloud SQL MySQL database at your company. You need to retain a month-end copy of the database for three years for audit purposes. What should you do?
Save the automatic first-of-the-month backup for three years. Store the backup file in an Archive class Cloud Storage bucket

You are monitoring an application and receive user feedback that a specific error is spiking. You notice that the error is caused by a Service Account having insufficient permissions. You are able to solve the problem but want to be notified if the problem recurs. What should you do?
Create a custom log-based metric for the specific error to be used in an Alerting Policy

You are developing a financial trading application that will be used globally. Data is stored and queried using a relational structure, and clients from all over the world should get the exact identical state of the data. The application will be deployed in multiple regions to provide the lowest latency to end users. You need to select a storage option for the application data while minimizing latency. What should you do?
Use Cloud Spanner for data storage

You are about to deploy a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system on Google Cloud. The application holds the full database in-memory for fast data access, and you need to configure the most appropriate resources on Google Cloud for this application. What should you do?
Provision Compute Engine instances with M1 machine type

You have developed an application that consists of multiple microservices, with each microservice packaged in its own Docker container image. You want to deploy the entire application on Google Kubernetes Engine so that each microservice can be scaled individually. What should you do?
Create and deploy a Deployment per microservice

You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. What should you do?
When creating the instance, specify a Service Account for each instance

You are creating an application that will run on Google Kubernetes Engine. You have identified MongoDB as the most suitable database system for your application and want to deploy a managed MongoDB environment that provides a support SLA. What should you do?
Deploy MongoDB Atlas from the Google Cloud Marketplace

You are managing a project for the Business Intelligence (BI) department in your company. A data pipeline ingests data into BigQuery via streaming. You want the users in the BI department to be able to run the custom SQL queries against the latest data in BigQuery. What should you do?
Assign the IAM role of BigQuery user to a Google Group that contains the members of the BI team

Your company is moving its entire workload to Compute Engine. Some servers should be accessible through the Internet, and other servers should only be accessible over the internal network. All servers need to be able to talk to each other over specific ports and protocols. The current on-premises network relies on a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the public servers and a Local Area Network (LAN) for the private servers. You need to design the networking infrastructure on Google Cloud to match these requirements. What should you do?
1. Create a single VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and a subnet for the LAN 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, another firewall rule to allow public ingress traffic for the DMZ.

Your company is moving its entire workload to Compute Engine. Some servers should be accessible through the Internet, and other servers should only be accessible over the internal network. All servers need to be able to talk to each other over specific ports and protocols. The current on-premises network relies on a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the public servers and a Local Area Network (LAN) for the private servers. You need to design the networking infrastructure on Google Cloud to match these requirements. What should you do?

1. Create a single VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and a subnet for the LAN

2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, another firewall rule to allow public ingress traffic for the DMZ.

Your project has all its Compute Engine resources in the europe-west1 region. You want to set europe-west1 as the default region for gcloud commands. What should you do?
Use gcloud config set compute/region Europe-west1 to set the default region for future gcloud commands

You have a definition for an instance template that contains a web application. You are asked to deploy the application so that it can scale based on the HTTP traffic it receives. What should you do?
Create managed instance group based on the instance template. Configure autoscaling based on HTTP traffic and configure the instance group as the backend service of an HTTP Load Balancer

Your company has a mission-critical application that serves users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage system for this application. Which two products should you choose?
Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner

You need to estimate the annual cost of running a Bigquery query that is scheduled to run nightly. What should you do?
Use “bq query ---dry_run” to determine the number of bytes read by the query. Use this number in the pricing Calculator

You need to verify the assigned permissions in a custom IAM role. What should you do?
Use the GCP Console, IAM section to view the information

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status. What is the most likely cause? $kubeclt get pods -l app=myapp
To many pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resource left to schedule the pending Pod.

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status. What is the most likely cause?

$kubeclt get pods -l app=myapp

To many pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resource left to schedule the pending Pod.

You are building an ML model to detect anomalies in real-time sensor data. You will use Pub/Sub to handle incoming requests. You want to store the results for analytics and visualization. How should you configure the pipeline?
1= Dataflow, 2=AI platform, 3=Bigquery

Your finance team wants to view the billing report for your projects. You want to make sure that the finance team does not get additional permissions to the project. What should you do?
Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing viewer role

Your organization has strict requirements to control access to Google Cloud projects. You need to enable your Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to approve requests from the Google Cloud support team when an SRE opens a support case. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/access approval.approver role

Your organization needs to grant users access to query datasets in BigQuery but prevent them from accidentally deleting the datasets. You want a solution that follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Create a custom role by removing delete premissions. Add users to the group and then add the group to the custom role.

You are building an application that stores relational data from users. Users across the globe will use this application. Your CTO is concerned about the scaling requirements because the size of the user base is unknown. You need to implement a database solution that can scale with your user growth with minimum configuration changes. Which storage solution should you use?
Cloud Spanner

Your company set up a complex organizational structure on Google Cloud. The structure includes hundreds of folders and projects. Only a few team members should be able to view the hierarchical structure. You need to assign minimum permissions to these team members, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Add the users to a group, and this group to roles/browser

Your company has a single sign-on (SSO) identity provider that supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) integration with service providers. Your company has users in Cloud Identity. You would like users to authenticate using your company's SSO provider. What should you do?
In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider

You are building an archival solution for your data warehouse and have selected Cloud Storage to archive your data. Your users need to be able to access this archived data once a quarter for some regulatory requirements. You want to select a cost-efficient option. Which storage option should you use?
Nearline Storage

A team of data scientists infrequently needs to use a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster that you manage. They require GPUs for some long-running, non-restartable jobs. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?
Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster

Your organization has user identities in Active Directory. Your organization wants to use Active Directory as their source of truth for identities. Your organization wants to have full control over the Google accounts used by employees for all Google services, including your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) organization. What should you do?
Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to Synchronize users into Cloud Identity

You have successfully created a development environment in a project for an application. This application uses Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. Now you need to create a production environment for this application. The security team has forbidden the existence of network routes between these 2 environments and has asked you to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Creata a new projects, enable the Computer Engine and Cloud SQL APIs in that project, and replicate the setup you have created in the development enivironment

Your management has asked an external auditor to review all the resources in a specific project. The security team has enabled the Organization Policy called Domain Restricted Sharing on the organization node by specifying only your Cloud Identity domain. You want the auditor to only be able to view, but not modify, the resources in that project. What should you do?
Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Viewer role on the project

You have a workload running on Compute Engine that is critical to your business. You want to ensure that the data on the boot disk of this workload is backed up regularly. You need to be able to restore a backup as quickly as possible in case of disaster. You also want older backups to be cleaned automatically to save on cost. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Create a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval

Your organization has a dedicated person who creates and manages all service accounts for Google Cloud projects. You need to assign this person the minimum role for projects. What should you do?
Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role

You need to assign a Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) role to an external auditor. The auditor needs to have permissions to review your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Audit Logs and also to review your Data Access logs. What should you do?
Assign the auditor the IAM role/roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM Policy

You are managing several Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and need access to all logs for the past 60 days. You want to be able to explore and quickly analyze the log contents. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to obtain the combined logs for all projects. What should you do?
Create a Stackdriver Logging Export with a Sink destination to a BigQuery dataset. Configure the table expiration to 60 days

You need to reduce GCP service costs for a division of your company using the fewest possible steps. You need to turn off all configured services in an existing GCP project. What should you do?

Verify that you are assigned the project ownsers IAM role for this project

Locate the project in the GCP Console, click shut down and then enter the project ID

You are configuring service accounts for an application that spans multiple projects. Virtual machines (VMs) running in the web-applications project need access to BigQuery datasets in crm-databases-proj. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to give access to the service account in the web-applications project. What should you do?
Give the bigquery.data.Viewer role to crm-database-proj and appropriate roles to web-application

You need to host an application on a Compute Engine instance in a project shared with other teams. You want to prevent the other teams from accidentally causing downtime on that application. Which feature should you use?
Enable deletion protection on the instance

An employee was terminated, but their access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was not removed until 2 weeks later. You need to find out this employee accessed any sensitive customer information after their termination. What should you do?
View Data Access audit logs in StackDriver.Search for the user’s email as the principal

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?
Use permissions in your role that use the supported support level for role permissions. Set the tole stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions

Your company has a large quantity of unstructured data in different file formats. You want to perform ETL transformations on the data. You need to make the data accessible on Google Cloud so it can be processed by a Dataflow job. What should you do?
Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool

You need to manage multiple Google Cloud projects in the fewest steps possible. You want to configure the Google Cloud SDK command line interface (CLI) so that you can easily manage multiple projects. What should you do?

Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.

Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned Google Cloud projects

Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?
Verify that the instance template being used by the instance group contains valid syntax. Delete persistent disk with the same name as instance names. Set the disks.autoDelete property to true

Your company is moving from an on-premises environment to Google Cloud. You have multiple development teams that use Cassandra environments as backend databases. They all need a development environment that is isolated from other Cassandra instances. You want to move to Google Cloud quickly and with minimal support effort. What should you do?

1. Advise your developers to go to Cloud Marketplace

2. Ask the developers to launch a Cassandra image for their development work

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?
Create a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to webhook when Cloud Spanner CPU is over under your threshold. Create a cloud function that listens to HTTP and resizes Spanner resources accordingly.

Your company publishes large files on an Apache web server that runs on a Compute Engine instance. The Apache web server is not the only application running in the project. You want to receive an email when the egress network costs for the server exceed 100 dollars for the current month as measured by Google Cloud. What should you do?
Export the billing data to BigQuery. Create Cloud Functions that uses BigQuery to sum the egress network costs of the exported billing data for the Apache web server for the current month and sends an email if it is over 100 dollars. Schedule the Cloud Function using Cloud Scheduler to run hourly

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud that uses multiple Google Cloud products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?
For each google cloud product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Use the pricing calculator to total the monthly costs for each Google Cloud product

You have an application that receives SSL-encrypted TCP traffic on port 443. Clients for this application are located all over the world. You want to minimize latency for the clients. Which load balancing option should you use?
SSL Proxy Load Balancer

You have an application on a general-purpose Compute Engine instance that is experiencing excessive disk read throttling on its Zonal SSD Persistent Disk. The application primarily reads large files from the disk. The disk size is currently 350 GB. You want to provide the maximum amount of throughput while minimizing costs. What should you do?
Migrate to use a local SSD on the instance

Your Dataproc cluster runs in a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network in a single subnet with range 172.16.20.128/25. There are no private IP addresses available in the VPC network. You want to add new VMs to communicate with your cluster using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?
Modify the existing subnet range to 172.16.20.0/24

You manage an App Engine Service that aggregates and visualizes data from BigQuery. The application is deployed with the default App Engine Service account. The data that needs to be visualized resides in a different project managed by another team. You do not have access to this project, but you want your application to be able to read data from the BigQuery dataset. What should you do?
Ask the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Data Viewer

You need to create a copy of a custom Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to facilitate an expected increase in application traffic due to a business acquisition. What should you do?
Create a custom Compute Engine Image from a snapshot. Create your instance from that image

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?
Install and configure the cloud logging agent and view the logs from the Cloud Logging

An application generates daily reports in a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM). The VM is in the project corp-iot-insights. Your team operates only in the project corp-aggregate-reports and needs a copy of the daily exports in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage. You want to configure access so that the daily reports from the VM are available in the bucket corp-aggregate-reports-storage and use as few steps as possible while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Grant the VM service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-aggregate-reports-storage

You built an application on your development laptop that uses Google Cloud services. Your application uses Application Default Credentials for authentication and works fine on your development laptop. You want to migrate this application to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) and set up authentication using Google-recommended practices and minimal changes. What should you do?
Assign appropriate access for Google Services to the service account used by the Compute Engine VM

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn't exist yet. What should you do?
Using the Cloud SDK, create a new project, enable the Compute Engine API in that project, and then create the instance specifying your new project

You have a project using BigQuery. You want to list all BigQuery jobs for that project. You want to set this project as the default for the bq command-line tool. What should you do?
Use gcloud config set project to set the default project

Your application has a large international audience and runs stateless virtual machines within a managed instance group across multiple locations. One feature of the application lets users upload files and share them with other users. Files must be available for 30 days; after that, they are removed from the system entirely. Which storage solution should you choose?

A multi-regional Cloud Storage Bucket

You have an application server running on Compute Engine in the europe-west1-d zone. You need to ensure high availability and replicate the server to the europe-west2-c zone using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?

1.Create a snapshot from the disk

2. Create a disk from the snapshot in the Europe-west2=c zone

3.Create a new VM with that disk

You have created a Kubernetes deployment, called Deployment-A, with 3 replicas on your cluster. Another deployment, called Deployment-B, needs access to Deployment-A. You cannot expose Deployment-A outside of the cluster. What should you do?

Create a Service of type ClusterIP for Deployment.

Have deployment B use the service IP address

You work in a small company where everyone should be able to view all resources of a specific project. You want to grant them access following Google’s recommended practices. What should you do?
Create a new Google Group and add all users to the group. Use gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding with the project viewer role and group email address

Your company's infrastructure is on-premises, but all machines are running at maximum capacity. You want to burst to Google Cloud. The workloads on Google Cloud must be able to directly communicate to the workloads on-premises using a private IP range. What should you do?
Setup Cloud VPN between the infrastructure on-premisis and Google Cloud

You want to select and configure a solution for storing and archiving data on Google Cloud Platform. You need to support compliance objectives for data from one geographic location. This data is archived after 30 days and needs to be accessed annually. What should you do?
Select Regional Strorage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage

Your company uses BigQuery for data warehousing. Over time, many different business units in your company have created 1000+ datasets across hundreds of projects. Your CIO wants you to examine all datasets to find tables that contain an employee_ssn column. You want to minimize effort in performing this task. What should you do?
Go to Data Catalog and search for employee_ssn in the search box

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting a production application. You want to receive an email if the instance consumes more than 90% of its CPU resources for more than 15 minutes. You want to use Google services. What should you do?

Create a stackdriver workspace, and associate your google cloud Platform (GCP) project with it.

Create an Alerting Policy in Stackdriver that uses the threshold as a trigger considion

Configure your email address in the notification channel

You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. What should you do in the GCP Console?
Go to the Stackdriver Logging console, review admin activity logs, and filter them for Cloud Spanner IAM roles.

Your company implemented BigQuery as an enterprise data warehouse. Users from multiple business units run queries on this data warehouse. However, you notice that query costs for BigQuery are very high, and you need to control costs. Which two methods should you use? (Choose two.)

Apply a user-or project – level custom query quote for BigQuery data warehouse

Change your BigQuery model from on-demand to flat rate. Apply the appropriate number of slots to each Project

You are building a product on top of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You have a single GKE cluster. For each of your customers, a Pod is running in that cluster, and your customers can run arbitrary code inside their Pod. You want to maximize the isolation between your customers' Pods. What should you do?
Create a GKE node pool with a sandbox type configured to gvisor. Add the parameter runtimeClassName: gvisior to the specification of your customers Pods

Your customer has implemented a solution that uses Cloud Spanner and notices some read latency-related performance issues on one table. This table is accessed only by their users using a primary key. The table schema is shown below. You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?

Change the primary key to not have monotonically increasing values

You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database backend. You want to store the credentials securely. Where should you store the credentials?
In a secret management system

Your organization uses G Suite for communication and collaboration. All users in your organization have a G Suite account. You want to grant some G Suite users access to your Cloud Platform project. What should you do?
Grant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address

You have a large 5-TB AVRO file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your analysts are proficient only in SQL and need access to the data stored in this file. You want to find a cost-effective way to complete their request as soon as possible. What should you do?
Create a external tables in BigQuery that point to Cloud Storage buckets and run a SQL query on thee external tables to complete your request

You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?
Add a network tag of your choice to the instance. Create a firewall rule to allow ingress on UDP port 636 for that network tag

You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engineer services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?
Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project

You want to configure a solution for archiving data in a Cloud Storage bucket. The solution must be cost-effective. Data with multiple versions should be archived after 30 days. Previous versions are accessed once a month for reporting. This archive data is also occasionally updated at month-end. What should you do?
Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to nearline Storage

You have a Google Cloud Platform account with access to both production and development projects. You need to create an automated process to list all compute instances in development and production projects on a daily basis. What should you do?
Create two configurations using gcloud config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gcloud compute instances list to get a list of compute resources

Your company has reserved a monthly budget for your project. You want to be informed automatically of your project spend so that you can take action when you approach the limit. What should you do?
Create a budget aleart for 50%,90%,and 100% of your total monthly budget

Your company processes high volumes of IoT data that are time-stamped. The total data volume can be several petabytes. The data needs to be written and changed at a high speed. You want to use the most performant storage option for your data. Which product should you use?
Cloud Bigtable

You need to create a new Kubernetes Cluster on Google Cloud Platform that can autoscale the number of worker nodes. What should you do?
Create a cluster on Kubernetes Engine and enable autoscaling on Kubernetes Engine

You created an update for your application on App Engine. You want to deploy the update without impacting your users. You want to be able to roll back as quickly as possible if it fails. What should you do?

Deploy the update as a new version. Migrate traffic from the current version

You want to create a new role for your colleagues that will apply to all current and future projects created in your organization. The role should have the permissions of the BigQuery Job User and Cloud Bigtable User roles. You want to follow Google’s recommended practices. How should you create the new role?
For your organization, in the Google Cloud Platform Console under Roles, select both and combine them into a new custom role.

You have a developer laptop with the Cloud SDK installed on Ubuntu. The Cloud SDK was installed from the Google Cloud Ubuntu package repository. You want to test your application locally on your laptop with Cloud Datastore. What should you do?
Install the google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator component using the apt-get install command

You deployed an App Engine application using gcloud app deploy, but it did not deploy to the intended project. You want to find out why this happened and where the application deployed. What should you do?
Go to Cloud Shell and run Gcloud config list to review the google cloud configuration used for deployment

You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when a maintenance occurs. Your requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if they crash. Also, the instances should be highly available including during system maintenance. What should you do?
Create an instance template for the instances. Set the automatic restart to on. Set the on-host maintaince to migrate VM instance. Add the instance template to an instance group

You want to send and consume Cloud Pub/Sub messages from your App Engine application. The Cloud Pub/Sub API is currently disabled. You will use a service account to authenticate your application to the API. You want to make sure your application can use Cloud Pub/Sub. What should you do?
Enable the Cloud Pub/Sub API in the library on the GCP Console

You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?
Filter the activity log to view the configuration category. Filter the resource type to Service account

You have a virtual machine that is currently configured with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory. It is running out of memory. You want to upgrade the virtual machine to have 8 GB of memory. What should you do?
Stop the VM , increase the memory to 8GB and start the VM

You have production and test workloads that you want to deploy on Compute Engine. Production VMs need to be in a different subnet than the test VMs. All the VMs must be able to reach each other over Internal IP without creating additional routes. You need to set up VPC and the 2 subnets. Which configuration meets these requirements?
Create a single custom VPC with 2 subnets. Create each subnet in a different region and with a different CIDR range

You need to create an autoscaling managed instance group for an HTTPS web application. You want to make sure that unhealthy VMs are recreated. What should you do?
Create a health check on port 443 and use that when creating the managed instance group

Your company has a Google Cloud Platform project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. Your data science team changes frequently and has few members. You need to allow members of this team to perform queries. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a dedicated Google group in Cloud identity

Add each data scientist user account to the group

Assign the BigQuery jobuser role to the group

Your company has a 3-tier solution running on Compute Engine. The configuration of the current infrastructure is shown below. Each tier has a service account that is associated with all instances within it. You need to enable communication on TCP port 8080 between tiers as follows:

- Instances in tier #1 must communicate with tier #2.

- Instances in tier #2 must communicate with tier #3.

Create an ingress firewall rule with the following settings

- Target all instances with tier #2 service account

- Source filter all instances with tier #1 service account

- Protocols allow TCP:8080

Create an igress firewall rule with the following settings:

- Target all instances with tier #3 service account

- Source filter all instances with tier #2 service account

- - Protocol allow TCP:8080

You are given a project with a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a single subnetwork in the us-central1 region. There is a Compute Engine instance hosting an application in this subnetwork. You need to deploy a new instance in the same project in the europe-west1 region. This new instance needs access to the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a subnetwork in the same VPC, in Europe-west1

Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the first instance’s private adderss as the endpoint

Your projects incurred more costs than you expected last month. Your research reveals that a development GKE container emitted a huge number of logs, which resulted in higher costs. You want to disable the logs quickly using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?
Go to the logs ingrestion window in stackdriver logging and disable the log source for the GKE container resource

You have a website hosted on App Engine standard environment. You want 1% of your users to see a new test version of the website. You want to minimize complexity. What should you do?
Deploy the new version in the same application and use the –splits option to give a weight of 99 to the current version and a weight of 1 to the new version

You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?
Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurget set to 1 and maxUnavailable to 0

You are the organization and billing administrator for your company. The engineering team has the Project Creator role on the organization. You do not want the engineering team to be able to link projects to the billing account. Only the finance team should be able to link a project to a billing account, but they should not be able to make any other changes to projects. What should you do?
Assign the finance team the Billing Account User role on the billing account and the project Billing Manager role on the organization

You have an application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with cluster autoscaling enabled. The application exposes a TCP endpoint. There are several replicas of this application. You have a Compute Engine instance in the same region, but in another Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), called gce-network, that has no overlapping IP ranges with the first VPC. This instance needs to connect to the application on GKE. You want to minimize effort. What should you do?

In GKE, create a Service of type LoadBalancer that uses the application’s pods as backend

Add an annotation to this service: cloud.google.com/load-balancer-type: internal

Peer the two VPCs together

Configure the Compute Engine instance to use the address of the load balancer that has been created

Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for log file retention. What should you do?
Create an export to sink that saves logs from cloud audit to a coldline storage bucket

You want to run a single caching HTTP reverse proxy on GCP for a latency-sensitive website. This specific reverse proxy consumes almost no CPU. You want to have a 30-GB in-memory cache, and need an additional 2 GB of memory for the rest of the processes. You want to minimize cost. How should you run this reverse proxy?
Create a Cloud Memorystore for redis instance with 32-Gb capacity

You are hosting an application on bare-metal servers in your own data center. The application needs access to Cloud Storage. However, security policies prevent the servers hosting the application from having public IP addresses or access to the internet. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to provide the application with access to Cloud Storage. What should you do?

1.Using Cloud VPN or Interconnect,create a tunnel to a VPC in Google Cloud

2.Use Cloud Router to create a custom route advertisement for 199.36.153.3/30. Announce that network to your on-premises network through the VPN tunnel

3. In your on-premises network, configure your DNS server to resolve *.googleapis.com as a CNAME to restricted.googleapis.com

You need to deploy an application, which is packaged in a container image, in a new project. The application exposes an HTTP endpoint and receives very few requests per day. You want to minimize costs. What should you do?
Deploy the container on Cloud Run

Your company has an existing GCP organization with hundreds of projects and a billing account. Your company recently acquired another company that also has hundreds of projects and its own billing account. You would like to consolidate all GCP costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice. You would like to consolidate all costs as of tomorrow. What should you do?
Link the acquired company’s project to your company’s billing account

You built an application on Google Cloud that uses Cloud Spanner. Your support team needs to monitor the environment but should not have access to table data. You need a streamlined solution to grant the correct permissions to your support team, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Add the support team group to the roles/monitoring.viewer role

For analysis purposes, you need to send all the logs from all of your Compute Engine instances to a BigQuery dataset called platform-logs. You have already installed the Cloud Logging agent on all the instances. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?

1.In cloud logging, create a filter to view only Compute Engine logs.

2. Clieck cCreate Export

3. Choose BigQuery as Sink Service, and the platform-logs dataset as Sink Destination

You are using Deployment Manager to create a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. Using the same Deployment Manager deployment, you also want to create a DaemonSet in the kube-system namespace of the cluster. You want a solution that uses the fewest possible services. What should you do?
Add the cluster’s API as a new Type Provider in Deployment Manager, and use the new type to create the DaemonSet

You are building an application that will run in your data center. The application will use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like AutoML. You created a service account that has appropriate access to AutoML. You need to enable authentication to the APIs from your on-premises environment. What should you do?
Use gcloud to create a key file for the service account that has appropriate permissions.

You are using Container Registry to centrally store your company's container images in a separate project. In another project, you want to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You want to ensure that Kubernetes can download images from Container Registry. What should you do?
In the project where the images are stored, grant the storage object viewer IAM role to the service used by the Kubernetes nodes.

You deployed a new application inside your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below.

You check the status of the deployed pods and notice that one of them is still in PENDING status:

Review details of my-app-deployment-58ddbbb995-lp86m Pod and check for warning messages

You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?
After the VM has been created use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM

You want to configure an SSH connection to a single Compute Engine instance for users in the dev1 group. This instance is the only resource in this particular Google Cloud Platform project that the dev1 users should be able to connect to. What should you do?
Set the metadata to enable-oslogin=true for the instance. Grant the dev1 group the compute.osLogin role. Direct them to use the cloud shell to ssh to that instance

You need to produce a list of the enabled Google Cloud Platform APIs for a GCP project using the gcloud command line in the Cloud Shell. The project name is my-project. What should you do?
Run the gcloud projects list to get the project ID, and then run gcloud services list –project

You are building a new version of an application hosted in an App Engine environment. You want to test the new version with 1% of users before you completely switch your application over to the new version. What should you do?
Deploy a new version of your application in App Engine. Then go to app engine settings in GCP console and splot traffic between the current version and newly deployed versions accordingly.

You need to provide a cost estimate for a Kubernetes cluster using the GCP pricing calculator for Kubernetes. Your workload requires high IOPs, and you will also be using disk snapshots. You start by entering the number of nodes, average hours, and average days. What should you do next?
Fill the local SSD. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage

You are using Google Kubernetes Engine with autoscaling enabled to host a new application. You want to expose this new application to the public, using HTTPS on a public IP address. What should you do?
Create a Kubernets Service of type NodePort for your application, and a Kubernets Ingress to export this Service via a cloud load balancer

You want to add a new auditor to a Google Cloud Platform project. The auditor should be allowed to read, but not modify, all project items. How should you configure the auditor's permissions?
Select the built-in IAM project Viewer role Add the user’s account to this role.

You are operating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster for your company where different teams can run non-production workloads. Your Machine Learning (ML) team needs access to Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs to train their models. You want to minimize effort and cost. What should you do?
Add a new, GPU-enabled, node pool to the GKE cluster, Ask your ML team to add the cloud.google.com/gke -accelerator:nvifea-testla-p-100 nodeSelector to their pod specification

You want to find out who in your organization has Owner access to a project called "my-project". What should you do?
In the Google Cloud Platform Console, go the IAM page for your project and apply the filter “Role”Owner”

Your VMs are running in a subnet that has a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240. The current subnet has no more free IP addresses and you require an additional 10 IP addresses for new VMs. The existing and new VMs should all be able to reach each other without additional routes. What should you do?
Use gcloud to expand the IP range of the current subnet

You have a project for your App Engine application that serves a development environment. The required testing has succeeded and you want to create a new project to serve as your production environment. What should you do?
Use gcloud to create the new project and then deploy your application to the new project

Every employee of your company has a Google account. Your operational team needs to manage a large number of instances on Compute Engine. Each member of this team needs only administrative access to the servers. Your security team wants to ensure that the deployment of credentials is operationally efficient and must be able to determine who accessed a given instance. What should you do?
Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to add public key to their Google account. Grant the ‘compute.osAdminLogin’ role to the Google group corresponding to this team

You need to create a custom VPC with a single subnet. The subnet's range must be as large as possible. Which range should you use?
10.0.0.0/8

You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic location. You need to support point-in-time recovery. What should you do?
Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Verify that the enable binary logging option is selected

You want to configure autohealing for network load balancing for a group of Compute Engine instances that run in multiple zones, using the fewest possible steps. You need to configure re-creation of VMs if they are unresponsive after 3 attempts of 10 seconds each. What should you do?
Create a managed instance group. Set the autohealing health check to healthy (HTTP)

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?
Use kubectl config use-context and kubectl config view to review the output

Your company uses Cloud Storage to store application backup files for disaster recovery purposes. You want to follow Google's recommended practices. Which storage option should you use?
Codeline Storage

Several employees at your company have been creating projects with Cloud Platform and paying for it with their personal credit cards, which the company reimburses. The company wants to centralize all these projects under a single, new billing account. What should you do?
In the Google Cloud Platform Console. Create a new billing account and set up a payment method

You have an application that looks for its licensing server on the IP 10.0.3.21. You need to deploy the licensing server on Compute Engine. You do not want to change the configuration of the application and want the application to be able to reach the licensing server. What should you do?
Reserve the IP 10.0.3.21 as static internal IP address using gcloud and assign it to the licensing server

You are deploying an application to App Engine. You want the number of instances to scale based on request rate. You need at least 3 unoccupied instances at all times. Which scaling type should you use?
Automatic scaling with min_idle_instances set to 3

You have a development project with appropriate IAM roles defined. You are creating a production project and want to have the same IAM roles on the new project, using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?
Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify the production project as the destination project

You need a dynamic way of provisioning VMs on Compute Engine. The exact specifications will be in a dedicated configuration file. You want to follow Google's recommended practices. Which method should you use?
Deployment Manager

You have a Dockerfile that you need to deploy on Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?
Create a docker image from the dockerfile and upload it to Container Registry. Create a Deployment with that file

Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?
Use the GCP Market place to launch the Jenkins Solutions

You need to update a deployment in Deployment Manager without any resource downtime in the deployment. Which command should you use?
Gcloud deployment-manager deployments update –config

You need to run an important query in BigQuery but expect it to return a lot of records. You want to find out how much it will cost to run the query. You are using on-demand pricing. What should you do?
Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes read. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing calculator

You have a single binary application that you want to run on Google Cloud Platform. You decided to automatically scale the application based on underlying infrastructure CPU usage. Your organizational policies require you to use virtual machines directly. You need to ensure that the application scaling is operationally efficient and completed as quickly as possible. What should you do?
Create an instance template, and use the templates in a managed instance group with autoscaling configured

You are analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects. You want to use this information to create service cost estimates by service type, daily and monthly, for the next six months using standard query syntax. What should you do?
Export your bill to a BigQuery dataset, and then write time window-based SQL queries for analysis

You need to set up a policy so that videos stored in a specific Cloud Storage Regional bucket are moved to Coldline after 90 days, and then deleted after one year from their creation. How should you set up the policy?
Use Cloud Storage Object Lifecycle Management using Age conditions with SetStorageClass and Delete actions. Set the SetStorageClass action to 90 days and the delete action to 365 days

You have a Linux VM that must connect to Cloud SQL. You created a service account with the appropriate access rights. You want to make sure that the VM uses this service account instead of the default Compute Engine service account. What should you do?
When creating the VM via the web console, specify the service account under the ‘Identity and API Access’ section

You created an instance of SQL Server 2017 on Compute Engine to test features in the new version. You want to connect to this instance using the fewest number of steps. What should you do?
Set windows username and password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console, and supply the credentials to log in

You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a non-default region and zone. You want to start a new Compute Engine instance in these two Google Cloud Platform accounts using the command line interface. What should you do?
Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [name]. Run gcloud config configuration activate [name] to switch between accounts when running the commands to start the Compute Engine instances

You significantly changed a complex Deployment Manager template and want to confirm that the dependencies of all defined resources are properly met before committing it to the project. You want the most rapid feedback on your changes. What should you do?
Execute the Deployment Manager template using the –preview option in the same project, and observe the state of interdependent resources

You are building a pipeline to process time-series data. Which Google Cloud Platform services should you put in boxes 1,2,3, and 4?

Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Bigtable, BigQuery

You need to configure IAM access audit logging in BigQuery for external auditors. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Add the auditors group to the ‘logging.viewer’ and ‘bigquery.dataViewer’ predefined IAM roles

You created a Google Cloud Platform project with an App Engine application inside the project. You initially configured the application to be served from the us- central region. Now you want the application to be served from the asia-northeast1 region. What should you do?
Create a new GCP project and create an App Engine application inside this new project. Specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application

You need to set up permissions for a set of Compute Engine instances to enable them to write data into a particular Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Create a service account and add it to the IAM role ‘storage.objectCreator’ for that buccket

You have sensitive data stored in three Cloud Storage buckets and have enabled data access logging. You want to verify activities for a particular user for these buckets, using the fewest possible steps. You need to verify the addition of metadata labels and which files have been viewed from those buckets. What should you do?
Using the GCP Console, filter the activity log to view the information

You are the project owner of a GCP project and want to delegate control to colleagues to manage buckets and files in Cloud Storage. You want to follow Google- recommended practices. Which IAM roles should you grant your colleagues?
Storage Admin

You have an object in a Cloud Storage bucket that you want to share with an external company. The object contains sensitive data. You want access to the content to be removed after four hours. The external company does not have a Google account to which you can grant specific user-based access privileges. You want to use the most secure method that requires the fewest steps. What should you do?
Create a signed URL with a four-hour expiration and share the URL with the company

You have an instance group that you want to load balance. You want the load balancer to terminate the client SSL session. The instance group is used to serve a public web application over HTTPS. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Configure an HTTP(s) load balancer

You are creating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with a cluster autoscaler feature enabled. You need to make sure that each node of the cluster will run a monitoring pod that sends container metrics to a third-party monitoring solution. What should you do?
Deploy the monitoring pod in a DaemonSet object

You need to monitor resources that are distributed over different projects in Google Cloud Platform. You want to consolidate reporting under the same Stackdriver Monitoring dashboard. What should you do?
Configure a single Stackdriver account, and link all projects to the same amount

You want to verify the IAM users and roles assigned within a GCP project named my-project. What should you do?
Navigate to the project and then to the IAM section in the GCP console. Review the members and roles

You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?
Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Create a new billing account and link the new billing account to the existing project

You have one project called proj-sa where you manage all your service accounts. You want to be able to use a service account from this project to take snapshots of VMs running in another project called proj-vm. What should you do?
Grant the service account the IAM role of Computer Storage Admin in the project called proj-vm

You need to grant access for three users so that they can view and edit table data on a Cloud Spanner instance. What should you do?
Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseUser.Add the user to a new group. Add the group to the role

You create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and want to make sure that it always runs a supported and stable version of Kubernetes. What should you do?
Enable the node Auto-upgrades feature for your GKE cluster

You have 32 GB of data in a single file that you need to upload to a Nearline Storage bucket. The WAN connection you are using is rated at 1 Gbps, and you are the only one on the connection. You want to use as much of the rated 1 Gbps as possible to transfer the file rapidly. How should you upload the file?
Enable parallel composite uploads using gsutil on the file transfer

You've deployed a microservice called myapp1 to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below. You need to refactor this configuration so that the database password is not stored in plain text. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Storage the database password inside a Secrect Object. Modify the YAML file to populate the DB_PASSWORD environment variable from the Secrect

You are running an application on multiple virtual machines within a managed instance group and have autoscaling enabled. The autoscaling policy is configured so that additional instances are added to the group if the CPU utilization of instances goes above 80%. VMs are added until the instance group reaches its maximum limit of five VMs or until CPU utilization of instances lowers to 80%. The initial delay for HTTP health checks against the instances is set to 30 seconds. The virtual machine instances take around three minutes to become available for users. You observe that when the instance group autoscales, it adds more instances then necessary to support the levels of end-user traffic. You want to properly maintain instance group sizes when autoscaling. What should you do?
Increase the initial delay of the HTTP health check to 200 seconds

You need to select and configure compute resources for a set of batch processing jobs. These jobs take around 2 hours to complete and are run nightly. You want to minimize service costs. What should you do?
Select compute Engine Use preemptible VM instancaes of the appropriate standard machine type

You recently deployed a new version of an application to App Engine and then discovered a bug in the release. You need to immediately revert to the prior version of the application. What should you do?
On the app Engine Versions page of the GCP console, route 100% of the traffic to the previous version

You are a project owner and need your co-worker to deploy a new version of your application to App Engine. You want to follow Google’s recommended practices. Which IAM roles should you grant your co-worker?
App Engine Deployer

You developed a new application for App Engine and are ready to deploy it to production. You need to estimate the costs of running your application on Google Cloud Platform as accurately as possible. What should you do?
Use the pricing calculator for App Engine to get an accuracete estimation of the expected charges

You are creating a Kubernetes Engine cluster to deploy multiple pods inside the cluster. All container logs must be stored in BigQuery for later analysis. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Which two approaches can you take?

Turn on Stack driver Logging during the Kubernets Engine Cluster creation,

Use the stack driver logging export feature to create a sink to BigQuery. Specify a filter expression to export log records related to your Kuberneters Engine cluster only

You have a Kubernetes cluster with 1 node-pool. The cluster receives a lot of traffic and needs to grow. You decide to add a node. What should you do?
Use gcloud container cluster resize with the desired number of nodes

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?
When creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96

You host a static website on Cloud Storage. Recently, you began to include links to PDF files on this site. Currently, when users click on the links to these PDF files, their browsers prompt them to save the file onto their local system. Instead, you want the clicked PDF files to be displayed within the browser window directly, without prompting the user to save the file locally. What should you do?
Set Content-type meta data to application/pdf on the PDF file objects

Your company uses a large number of Google Cloud services centralized in a single project. All teams have specific projects for testing and development. The DevOps team needs access to all of the production services in order to perform their job. You want to prevent Google Cloud product changes from broadening their permissions in the future. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Create a custom role that combines the required permissions, Grant the Devops team the custom role on the production project

Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep their development environment in sync with the various production services. Which technology should you choose?

Containers