2022

Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam

Case Study: 1
Mountkirk Games Case Study
Company Overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based. multiplayer games for the most popular mobile
platforms.
Company Background
Mountkirk Games builds all of its games with some server-side integration and has historically used cloud
providers to lease physical servers. A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had
problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and analytics tools.
Mountkirk's 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.
Technical Requirements
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service.
3. Run customized Linx distro.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
2. Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers.
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks.
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data.
5. Process files that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices.
6. Use only fully managed services
CEO Statement
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resuming 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 games 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
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants you to design its new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from
their existing backends on the other platforms?
A. Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.
B. Unit tests are no longer required, only end-to-end tests.
C. Tests should be applied after the release is in the production environment.
D. Tests should include directly testing the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure.

Question:2
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games has deployed its new backend on the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). You want to create
a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You
want the testing environment to scale economically. How should you design the process?
A. Create a scalable environment in GCP for stimulating production load.
B. Use the existing infrastructure to test the GCP-based backend at scale.
C. Build stress tests into each component of your application using resources internal to GCP to
simulate load.
D. Create assets of static environments in GCP to test different levels of offload—for example, high,
medium, and low.

Question:3
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small
services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following
requirements:
• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.
• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.
• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.
• Deployment artifacts are immutable.
Which set of products should they use?
A. Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine
B. Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Network Load Balancer
C. Google Kubernetes Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer
D. Google Cloud Functions, Google CloudPub/Sub, GoogleCloud Deployment Manager

Question:4
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
MountkirkGames' 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?
A. Verify that the database is online.
B. Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded.
C. Verify that the new feature code did not introduce any performance bugs.
D. Verify that the load-testing team is not running their tool against production.

Question:5
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study
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.

Question:6
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform
must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their
requirements?
A. Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL
B. Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery
C. Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow
D. Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow
E. Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc
 Case Study: 2
TerramEarth Case Study
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 its employees and customers and considers them to be
extended members of their families.
TerramEarth is proud of its ability to innovate on its core products and find new markets as its 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.
TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
Existing Technical Environment
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 IP 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 tower 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:7
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately
when a vehicle in the development team focuses on its failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally
query the vehicle data
a. Which architecture should you recommend?
A)
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B)
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C)
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D)
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A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D

Question:8
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
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. Which method should they use?
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. UseGoogle Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger(Open API Specification)
framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

Question:9
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
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. What should you do?
A. Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.
B. Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system.
C. Restrict data access based on the source IP address of the partner systems.
D. Create secondary credentials for each dealer that can be given to the trusted third party.

Question: 10
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
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. How should you design the data ingestion?
A. Vehicles write data directly to GCS.
B. Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
C. Vehicles
stream data directly to Google BigQuery.
D. Vehicles continue to write data using the existing system (FTP).

Question: 11
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime and found that they can
achieve a majority of time-saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts you decided to focus on
reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company's processes
should you recommend it?
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.

Question: 12
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.
Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of
increased Google Cloud Platform adoption?
A. Opex/Capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning
B. Capacity planning, TCO calculations, Opex/Capex allocation
C. Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion
D. Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement

Question: 13
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
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 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 the us, EU, and Asia. Run the ETL process using the data in
the bucket.
C. Directly transfer the file 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.

Question: 14
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
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. What is the most cost-effective way to
run this job?
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 to
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

Question: 15
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth has equipped unconnected 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 stores
it in GoogleBigQuery.
C. Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and stores
it in CloudBigtable.
D. Have the vehicle's computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, a Store it in a GCS Coldline
bucket.

Question: 16
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study
Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to
increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase
the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you
accomplish this goal?
A. Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make
operational adjustments automatically.
B. Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally
to make operational adjustments automatically.
C. Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud
Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.
D. Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in
Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

Question: 17
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to
promote strong security during vehicle operation. Which two architecture should you consider?
Choose 2 answers:
A. Treat every microservice 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.
 Case Study: 3
JencoMart Case Study
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
JencoMartstarted 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
stores and an 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.
Existing Technical Environment
JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 datacenters:3 in North America and 1 in Europe, most
applications are dual-homed. JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of
its on-premises architecture.
Application Customer loyalty portal
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 on US West Coast, each machine has: Twin, dual-core CPUs with 32 GB of RAM
• Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID1)
• 20 machines on US East Coast, each machine has: Single dual-core CPU with 24 GB of RAM
• Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID1)
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 availably and support
• Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact.
• Move to outsource model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
• Expand services into Asia.
Technical Requirements
• Assess a key application for cloud suitability.
• Modify application for the cloud.
• Move applications to a new infrastructure.
• Leverage managed services wherever feasible
• Sunset 20% of capacity in existing datacenters
• Decrease latency in Asia
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 public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and
machine learning to improve our service 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 and reduce costs.

Question: 18
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a
least privilege model with a separation of duties for administration between production and development
resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?
A. Create two GSuite 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 Suite account to manage users with each stage of each application in its 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.

Question: 19
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
The migration of JencoMart’s application to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly.
The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three
potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)
A. A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput
B. A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task
C. A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances
D. Fewer virtual machines(VMs) in GCP a non-premises machines
E. A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task
F. Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

Question: 20
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study
A few days afterJencoMart 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

Question: 21
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart wants to move its User Profiles database to the Google Cloud Platform. Which Google
Database should they use?
A. Cloud Spanner
B. Google BigQuery
C. Google Cloud SQL
D. Google Cloud Datastore

Question: 22
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application
servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need
access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you
recommend?
A. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and the GCE virtual machines
(VMs).
B. Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for
the VMs.
C. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use the Google Cloud Platform
(GCP) managed keys for the VMs
D. Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises
infrastructure and use GCP-managed keys for the VMs.

Question: 23
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has built a version of their application on the Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia.
You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you
track?
A. Error rates for requests from Asia
B. Latency difference between US and Asia
C. Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia
D. Total visits and average latency for users in Asia
E. The number of character sets present in the database
 Case Study: 4
Dress4Win case study
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps its users organize and manage their wardrobes using a
website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that connects its
users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through advertising, e-commerce,
referrals, and a freemium 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 colocated 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 its migration to the cloud, Dress4win is considering moving its 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.
Existing Technical Environment
The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location.
• Databases:
• MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
• Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
• Application servers:
• Tomcat - Javamicro-services
• Nginx - static content
• Apache Beam - Batch processing
• Storage appliances:
• iSCSI for VM hosts
• Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
• NAS - image storage, logs, backups
• Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
• Data analysis
• Real-time trending calculations
• MQ servers:
• Messaging
• Social notifications
• Events
• Miscellaneous servers:
• Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
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 the 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 the cloud.
• Support failover of the production environment to the cloud during an emergency.
• Identify production services that can migrate to the 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 the 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 free 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: 24
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a low-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.

Question: 25
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers.
How should you proceed?
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's 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.

Question: 26
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the
cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact on their on-premises solution during the
migration. Which approach should you recommend?
A. Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud
environment, and load it into a new MySQL cluster.
B. Set up 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 cloudMySQLmasters, 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.

Question: 27
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
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. What should they do?
A. Install the Stackdriver agent on all of the legacy web servers.
B. In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers' IP addresses and create an
inbound firewall rule
C. Configure their load balancer to pass through the User-Agent HTTP header when the value matches
Google Stack driver Monitoring-Uptime Checks(https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)
D. Configure their legacy web servers to allow requests that contain a User-Agent HTTP header when
the value matches Google Stack driver Monitoring— UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

Question: 28
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
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. Which cloud services should you
choose?
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 a 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.

Question: 29
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
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 latency.

Question: 30
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of
themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be
able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main
application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?
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 contain 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 the 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.

Question: 31
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs)
on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build
and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?
A. Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.
B. Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.
C. Develop a new access request process that grants temporary SSH access to cloud VMs when an
operations engineer needs to perform a task.
D. Have the development team build an API service that allows the operations team to execute
specific remote procedure calls to accomplish their tasks.

Question: 32
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
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.

Question: 33
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
As part of Dress4Win's plan 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 to debug one piece of the application across
many hosts
Which Google StackDriver features should they use?
A. Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug
B. Monitoring, Tracing, Debug, Logging
C. Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting
D. Monitoring, Logging, Debug, and Error Report

Question: 34
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 run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is
working as intended.
B. They should enable the google stack driver debugger on the application code to show errors in the
code
C. They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging
environment.
D. They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release
causes on latency

Question: 35
The current Dress4win system architecture has high latency for some customers because it is located
in one data center. As a future evaluation and optimization for performance in the cloud, Dresss4win
wants to distribute its system architecture to multiple locations in the Google cloud platform. Which
approach should they use?
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 request to a closer group of
virtual machines as part of separate managed instance groups.
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Dress4Win Case 2
Company Overview
Dress4win is a web-based company that helps its users organize and manage their personal wardrobes
using a website and mobile application. The company also cultivates an active social network that
connects its 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.
Existing Technical Environment
The Dress4win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS
v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, and static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8-core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, and 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
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8-core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social notifications, and events:
- 8-core CPUs
- 32GB 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
- 1PBtotalstorage;400TBavailable
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, Identity, and Access Management
(IAM) best practices for the 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 a non-production environment in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in the cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises
datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to the 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: 36
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 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, 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 big query, and NAS to Compute Engine with
Persistent Disk storage.DeployTomcat, 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 CloudDataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.

Question: 37
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 Jenkinsto 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.

Question: 38
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?
A. Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment
B. RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group
C. Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode
D. Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types

Question: 39
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit,
Dress4Win must be able to give insights into all administrative actions that modify the configuration or
metadata of resources on Google Cloud. What should you do?
A. Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.
B. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.
C. Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.
D. Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

Question: 40
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's 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.

Question: 41
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises
architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution. What change in the
on-premises architecture should you make?
A. Replace RabbitMQ with GooglePub/Sub.
B. Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.
C. Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.
D. Containerize the microservices and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.
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TerramEarth Case 2
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 the 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.
Existing Technical Environment
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 them
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
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week.
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.
Technical Requirements
Expand beyond a single data center to decrease latency to the American Midwest and east coast.
Create a backup strategy.
Increase the security of data transfer from equipment to the data center.
Improve data in the data warehouse.
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs.
Application 1: Data ingest
A custom Python application reads uploaded data files from a single server, and writes to the data
warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10TBlocalHDDstorage
Application 2:Reporting
An off-the-shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment
needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5 on the West Coast, 5 on the east coast) can connect to
the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off-the-shelf application. License tied to the number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of ram
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID0
Executive Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better
vehicles for a 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: 42
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 SetStorageClasstoNONE 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.

Question: 43
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in
Cloud storage. You need to configure the Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and
minimize file storage costs. Which two actions should you take?
A. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule withAge: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Setto
Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule withAge: “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 withAge: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action:
“Set to Nearline”.
C. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Setto
Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action:
“Set toColdline”.
D. Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule withAge: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Setto
Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action:
“Delete”.

Question: 44
For this question, refer to the TerramEarthcase 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 preemptible instance with 32 CPUs.

Question: 45
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. What should you do?
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 daily jobs to clean the
data.

Question: 46
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how
should you reduce 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 DataStudio 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 partitioned Hive tables.
Use Pig scripts to analyze data.

Question: 47
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?
A. Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress
B. Cloud IoT Core with public/private key pairs
C. Compute Engine with project-wide SSHkeys
D. Compute Engine with specific SSHkeys
 Case Study: 7
Mountkrik Games Case 2
Company Overview
MountkirkGames 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, take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with a managed NoSQL
database.
Business Requirements
• Increase a global footprint.
• Improve uptime – downtime is the loss of players.
• Increase the efficiency of the cloud resources we use.
• Reduce latency to all customers.
Technical Requirements
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
• Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity.
• Connect to a transactional database service to manage user profiles and game state.
• Store game activity in a time series database service for future analysis.
• As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs.
• Run hardened Linux distro.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
• Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
• Process incoming data on the fly directly from the game servers
• Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
• Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
• Process files that are regularly uploaded by users’ mobile devices
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: 48
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from its
current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets its technical requirements on Google
CloudPlatform. 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 CloudArmor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to
Cloud Storage.

Question: 49
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?
A. Create network load balancers. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.
B. Create network load balancers. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.
C. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use
preemptible Compute Engine instances.
D. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use non
preemptible Compute Engine instances.

Question: 50
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design its 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.

Question: 51
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 into
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.

Question: 52
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.

Question: 53
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

Question: 54
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.
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Mix Questions
Question: 55
One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container Engine with the
Docker file below. They report that their application deployments are taking too long. You want to optimize
this Docker file for faster deployment times without adversely affecting the app’s functionality.
Which two actions should you take? Choose 2 answers.
A. Remove Python after running pip.
B. Remove dependencies from requirements.txt.
C. Use a slimmed-down base image like Alpine Linux.
D. Use larger machine types for your Google Container Engine node pools.
E. Copy the source after the package dependencies(Python and pip) is installed.

Question: 56
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. What should you do?
A. Deploy fewer changes to production.
B. Deploy smaller changes to production.
C. Increase the load on your test and staging environments.
D. Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling them out to production.

Question: 57
Your company has decided to make a major revision of its API in order to create better experiences for its
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. What should they do?
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.

Question: 58
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. What should you do?
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.

Question: 59
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. What should you do?
A. Use a different database.
B. Choose larger instances for your database.
C. Create snapshots of your database more regularly.
D. Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases.

Question: 60
Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in
possible legal proceedings. Which approach should you use?
A. Grant the security team access to the logs in each Project.
B. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery.
C. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention policies.
D. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage.

Question: 61
Your company has decided to build a backup replica of its on-premises user authentication PostgreSQL
database on the Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4 TB, and large updates are frequent.
Replication requires private address space communication. Which networking approach should you use?
A. Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect
B. Google Cloud VPN connected to the data center network
C. A NAT and TLS translation gateway installed on-premises
D. A Google Compute Engine instance with a VPN server installed connected to the data center network

Question: 62
Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs
being run on your local data center You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand
with the least amount of operations work and code change. Which product should you use?
A. Google Cloud Dataflow
B. Google Cloud Dataproc
C. Google Compute Engine
D. Google Container Engine

Question: 63
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. Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend?
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
Question: 64
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. What should you do?
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.

Question: 65
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.
Where should you store the credentials?
A. In the source code
B. In an environment variable
C. In a secret management system
D. In a config file that has restricted access through ACLs

Question: 66
The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when
migrating a J2EE application to the cloud. Which three practices should you recommend? Choose 3
answers
A. Port the application code to run on Google App Engine.
B. Integrate Cloud Dataflow into the application to capture real-time metrics.
C. Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger.
D. Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure.
E. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment.
F. Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or BigTable.

Question: 67
You want to enable your running Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale as demand for your
application changes. What should you do?
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
Question: 68
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
A. Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python.
B. Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future.
C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers.
D. Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run.
E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources.
F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources.

Question: 69
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.What should you do to fix the script?
A. Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python
B. Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope enabled
C. Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with that user
D. Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install bq.

Question: 70
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. Which two compute products should you choose? Choose 2
answers
A. Compute Engine with containers
B. Google Kubernetes Engine with containers
C. Google App Engine Standard Environment
D. Compute Engine with custom instance types
E. Compute Engine with managed instance groups

Question: 71
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
1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability
2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
3. Support continuous software delivery
4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack
5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates
6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL
Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?
A. Google Container Engine, Jenkins, and Helm
B. Google Container Engine and Cloud Load Balancing
C. Google Compute Engine and Cloud Deployment Manager
D. Google Compute Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing

Question: 72
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-throughs per day. The link leads to a simple website
that explains the promotion and collects user information and preferences. Which infrastructure
should you recommend? (CHOOSE TWO)
A. Use Google AppEngine 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 on a 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, backed by Google Cloud
SQL.

Question: 73
One of your primary business objectives is to be 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 the
authenticity of your logs?
A. Write the log concurrently in the cloud and on-premises.
B. Use a SQL database and limit who can modify the log table.
C. Digitally sign each timestamp and log entry and store the signature.
D. Create a JSON dump of each log entry and store it in Google Cloud Storage.

Question: 74
You have created several preemptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine.
You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted. What should
you do?
A. Create a shutdown script named k99.shutdown in the /etc/rc.6.d/ directory.
B. Create a shutdown script registered as a xinetd service in Linux and configure a Stackdnver endpoint
check to call the service.
C. Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown
script in the Cloud Platform Console when you create the new virtual machine instance.
D. Create a shutdown script, registered as a xinetd service in Linux, and use the gcloud compute
instances add-metadata command to specify the service URL as the value for a new metadata entry with
the key shutdown-script-URL

Question: 75
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 PlatformConsole, 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 PlatformConsole, 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.

Question: 76
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on the 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. How should you configure the network?
A. Add each tier to a different sub-network.
B. Set up software-based firewalls on individual VMs.
C. Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired traffic flow.
D. Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic flow.

Question: 77
To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development
infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines(VMs) to the Google Cloud Platform. These
resources go through multiple starts/stop events during the day and require the 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. Which two steps should you take? Choose 2 answers
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 costs to groups.
E. Store all states into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks and terminate the VM.
F. Store all states in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks and terminate the VM.

Question: 78
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 an additional user load.
What should you do?
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 in both zones.
D. Capture existing user input and replay captured user load until resource utilization crosses 80%. Also,
derive an estimated number of users based on existing users' usage of the app, and deploy enough
resources to handle 200% of the expected load.

Question: 79
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. What should you do?
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 gsutilis -lrgs://backups/** to find and remove items older than 90 days.
D. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls-1gs://backups/** to find and remove items older than 90 days
and schedule it with cron.

Question: 80
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 web applications deployed in the same nightly batch run. You want to collect details
on the failure to pass back to the development team. Which three actions should you take? Choose 3
answers
A. Use Stackdriver Logging to search for the module log entries.
B. Read the debug GCE Activity log using the API or Cloud Console.
C. Use gcloud or Cloud Console to connect to the serial console and observe the logs.
D. Identify whether a live migration event of the failed server occurred, using the activity log.
E. Adjust the Google Stackdriver timeline to match the failure time, and observe the batch server metrics.
F. Export a debug VM into an image, and run the image on a local server where kernel log messages will
be displayed on the native screen.

Question: 81
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. Which two steps should they take? Choose 2 answers
A. Load logs into Google BigQuery.
B. Load logs into Google CloudSQL.
C. Import logs into Google Stackdriver.
D. Insert logs into Google Cloud Bigtable.
E. Upload log files into Google Cloud Storage.

Question: 82
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. What should you do?
A. Ensure that a firewall rule 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's 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.

Question: 83
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. Where should you store the data?
A. Google BigQuery
B. Google Cloud SQL
C. Google Cloud Bigtable
D. Google Cloud Storage

Question: 84
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?
A. Increase the virtual machine's memory to 64 GB.
B. Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL.
C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB.
D. Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery.
E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database.

Question: 85
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. How should you design your architecture?
A. Create a tokenizer service and store only tokenized data.
B. Create separate projects that only process credit card data.
C. Create separate subnetworks and isolate the components that process credit card data.
D. Streamline the audit discovery phase by labeling all of the virtual machines(VMs) that process PCI
data.
E. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with
the auditor.

Question: 86
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 be stored for future analysis by
your data science and user experience teams. Which storage infrastructure should you choose?
A. Google Cloud SQL
B. Google Cloud Bigtable
C. Google Cloud Storage
D. Google Cloud Datastore

Question: 87
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. What strategy should you take?
A. Work with your ISP to diagnose the problem.
B. Open a support ticket to ask for network capture and flow data to diagnose the problem, then roll
back your application.
C. Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver Trace and logging to
diagnose the problem in a development/test/staging environment.
D. Roll back to an earlier known good release, then push the release again at a quieter period to
investigate. Then use Stackdriver Trace and logging to diagnose the problem.

Question: 88
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze its 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. Which technology should they use for this?
A. Google Cloud Dataproc
B. Google Cloud Dataflow
C. Google Container Engine withBigtable
D. Google Compute Engine with GoogleBigQuery

Question: 89
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to the Google Cloud Platform from an
on-premises data center. Business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team
requirements for storing passwords. What authentication strategy should they use?
A. Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google.
B. Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider.
C. Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.
D. Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password.

Question: 90
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 the account to owners and office locations. Which database type should you use?
A. Flat file
B. NoSQL
C. Relational
D. Blobstore

Question: 91
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
A. Introduce a green-blue deployment model.
B. Replace the QA environment with canary releases.
C. Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices.
D. Reduce the platform's dependency on relational database systems.
E. Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database.

Question: 92
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, what should you do?
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.

Question: 93
A newsfeed 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. What is the most likely cause of this problem?
A. The session variable is local to just a single instance.
B. The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore.
C. The URL of the API needs to be modified to prevent caching.
D. The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 to stop caching.

Question: 94
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?
A. Load data into Google BigQuery.
B. Insert data into Google Cloud SQL.
C. Put flat files into Google Cloud Storage.
D. Stream data into Google Cloud Datastore.

Question: 95
Your customer is moving their corporate applications to the 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'?
A. Org viewer, project owner
B. Org viewer, project viewer
C. Org admin, projectbrowser
D. Project owner, network admin

Question: 96
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. Which two actions can you take? Choose 2 answers
A. Ensure every code check-in is peer-reviewed by a security SME.
B. Use source code security analyzers as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
C. Ensure you have stubs to unit test all interfaces between components.
D. Enable code signing and a trusted binary repository integrated with your CI/CD pipeline.
E. Run a vulnerability security scanner as part of your continuous integration/continuous-delivery
(CI/CD) pipeline.

Question: 97
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. Which three requirements should they
include? Choose 3 answers
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 are capable of handling the high loads.
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.

Question: 98
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. What steps must you
take?
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 the Linux dd command, create a new disk from the image
file, and use it to 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 for the root disk.

Question: 99
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. How should you configure the storage?
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 gcsfuse 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.

Question: 100
You deploy your custom Java application to Google AppEngine.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 an MD5 hash instead of SHA1

Question: 101
The application reliability team at your company has 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 50K
Band at most 15MB and are expected to peak at 3,000 events per second. You want to minimize data
loss. Which process should you implement?
A. • Append metadata to file body.
• Compress individual files.
• Name files with serverName-Timestamp.
• Create a new bucket if the bucket is older than 1 hour and save individual files to the new bucket.
Otherwise, save files to the existing bucket
B. • Batch every 10,000 events with a single manifest file for metadata.
• Compress event files and manifest files into a single archive file.
• Name files using serverName-EventSequence.
• Create a new bucket if the bucket is older than 1 day and save the single archive file to the new bucket.
Otherwise, save the single archive file to the existing bucket.
C. • Compress individual files.
• Name files with serverName-EventSequence.
• Save files to one bucket
• Set custom metadata headers for each object after saving.
D. • Append metadata to file body.
• Compress individual files.
• Name files with a random prefix pattern.
• Save files to one bucket

Question: 102
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 the Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?
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.

Question: 103
You want to enable your running Google Container Engine cluster to scale as demand for your
application changes. What should you do?
A. Add additional nodes to your Container Engine cluster using the following command:
gcloud container clustersresize 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 Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster --enable-autoscaling --min-nodes=1 --maxnodes=10
D. Create a new Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster --enable-autoscaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10
and redeploy your application.

Question: 104
You deploy your custom java application to the google app engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the
following stack trace:
A. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using an MD5 hash instead of SHA1
B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application.
C. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application

Question: 105
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot spoof chat messages, by
providing a message that was sent by a specific user. What should you do
A. Tag messages client side with the originating user identifier and the destination user.
B. Encrypt the message clientside 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.

Question: 106
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 the investigation could take up to a week. What should you do
A. Log in to a server, and iterate a fix locally
B. Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all instances.
C. Revert the source code change and rerun the deployment pipeline
D. Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code

Question: 107
Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally.
Which approach should you take?
A. Multiple Organizations with multiple folders
B. Multiple Organizations, one for each department
C. A single Organization with a Folder for each department
D. A single Organization with multiple projects, each with a central owner

Question: 108
A recent audit that a new network was created in Your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has
an SSH port to open the world. You want to discover this network's origin. What should you do?
A. Search for Create VM entry in the Stackdriver alerting console.
B. Navigate to the Activity page in the Home section. Set the category to Data Access and search for
Create VM entry.
C. In the logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section. Search for the
create Insert entry.
D. Connect to the GCE instance using project SSH Keys. Identify previous logins in system logs, and
match these with the project owners list.

Question: 109
As part of implementing its disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to replicate its production
MySQL database from its private data center to its 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?
A. Configure their replication to use UDP.
B. Configure a Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect.
C. Restore their database daily using Google Cloud SQL.
D. Add additional VPN connections and load balance them.
E. Send the replicated transaction to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

Question: 110
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?
A. Hash all data using SHA256
B. Encrypt all data using elliptic curve cryptography
C. De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
D. Use regular expressions to find and redact phone numbers, email addresses, and credit card
numbers

Question: 111
You are using CloudShell 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

Question: 112
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 data center
using a single Cloud VPN.

Question: 113
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.

Question: 114
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 by 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.
Question: 115
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instances 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?
A. Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer
B. Perform a rolling restart on the instance group
C. Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSHkey to the project-wide SSHkeys
D. Disable autoscaling for the instance group. Add his SSHkey to the project-wide SSH Keys

Question: 116
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 PCIDSS-compliant environment.
D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certified PCI-compliant.

Question: 117
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.

Question: 118
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

Question: 119
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?
A. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises
B. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a
secondary range that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises
C. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises
D. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises for your
primary IP range and use a secondary range with the same IP range as you use on-premises

Question: 120
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 to the App Engine’s default cloud storage bucket, and have the 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

Question: 121
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 failover 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 failover 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 a 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.

Question: 122
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.

Question: 123
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.

Question: 124
Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow
Google's 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.

Question: 125
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?
A. Use kubect1 set image deployment/echo-deployment <new-image>
B. Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes cluster
C. Update the deployment YAML file with the new container image. Use kubect1 to delete deployment/
echo-deployment and kubect1 create –f <yaml-file>
D. Update the service YAML file with the new container image. Use kubect1 delete service/echo service
and kubect1 create –f <yaml-file>
Question: 126
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 BigQueryUser 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.

Question: 127
You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from
uploaded images. You want to test the applications 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 CloudIdentity.

Question: 128
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 CloudPlatform,
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 GCP Console 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.

Question: 129
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?
A. Configure a Cloud SQL instance with high availability enabled.
B. Configure a Cloud Spanner instance with a regional instance configuration.
C. Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover
Clustering. Place nodes in different subnets.
D. Setup SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in
different zones.

Question: 130
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 kubect1 to create the deployment.
C. Use kubect1 to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment.
D. Use kubect1 to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubect1 to create the deployment.

Question: 131
You need to evaluate your team's readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation
and create a skills gap plan that 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 the job role.
C. Allocate the budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
D. Allocate the budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve
Google Cloud certification based on the job role.

Question: 132
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 computing resource should you choose?
A. Cloud Functions
B. Compute Engine
C. Kubernetes Engine
D. App Engine flexible environment

Question: 133
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
Question: 134
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 file 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 file to that bucket.

Question: 135
Your customer wants to capture multiple GBs of aggregate real-time key performance indicators
(KPIs) from their game servers running on the Google Cloud Platform and monitoring 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 the min
Cloud Datalab.

Question: 136
You have a Python web application with many dependencies that require 0.1 CPU cores and 128 MB of
memory to operate in production. You want to monitor and maximize machine utilization. You also have to
reliably deploy new versions of the application. Which set of steps should you take?
A. Perform the following:
1) Create a managed instance group with f1-micro-type machines.
2) Use a startup script to clone the repository, check out the production branch, install the
dependencies, and start the Python app.
3) Restart the instances to automatically deploy new production releases.
B. Perform the following:
1) Create a managed instance group with n1-standard-1 type machines.
2) Build a Compute engine image from the production branch that contains all of the dependencies and
automatically starts the Python app.
3) Rebuild the Compute Engine image, and update the instance template to deploy new production
releases.
C. Perform the following:
1) Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster with n1-standard-1 type machines.
2) Build a Docker image from the production branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with the
version number.
3) Create a Kubernetes Deployment with the imagePullPolicy set to “IfNotPresent” in the staging
namespace, and then promote it to the production namespace after testing.
D. Perform the following:
1) Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster with n1-standard-4 type machines.
2) Build a docker image from the master branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with “latest”.
3) Create a Kubernetes Deployment in the default namespace with the imagePullPolicy set to “Always”.
Restart the pods to automatically deploy new production releases.

Question: 137
Your company wants to start using Google Cloud resources but wants to retain its 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 CloudDirectory Sync.

Question: 138
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 Stack driver 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.

Question: 139
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?
A. Create a read replica instance in a different region
B. Create a failover replica instance in a different region
C. Create a read replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone
D. Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

Question: 140
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.

Question: 141
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?
A. Use separate VPCs to restrict traffic
B. Use firewall rules based on network tags attached to the compute instances
C. Use Cloud DNS and only allow connections from authorized hostnames
D. Use service accounts and configure the web application's particular service account to have access

Question: 142
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?
A. 1) Enable automatic storage increase for the instance.
2) Create a Stackdriver alert when CPU usage exceeds 75%, and change the instance type to reduce
CPU usage.
3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.
B. 1) Enable automatic storage increase for the instance.
2) Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to keep CPU usage below 75%.
3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.
C. 1)Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the
instance to create more space.
2) Deploy Memcached to reduce CPU load.
3) Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag.
D. 1)Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the
instance to create more space.
2) Deploy Memcached to reduce CPU load.
3) Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and change the instance type to a 32-core machine
type to reduce replication lag.

Question: 143
You are tasked with building online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tools.
This requires a relational database that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google
recommended tool for such applications?
A. Cloud Spanner, because it is globally distributed
B. Cloud SQL, because it is a fully managed relational database
C. Cloud Firestore, because it offers real-time synchronization across devices
D. BigQuery, because it is designed for large-scale processing of tabular data

Question: 144
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?
A. Use gcloud SQL instances restart.
B. Validate that the Service Account used by the Cloud SQL proxy container still has the Cloud Build
Editor role.
C. In the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging. Consult logs for Kubernetes Engine and Cloud
SQL.
D. In the GCP Console, navigate to CloudSQL.Restore the latest backup. Use kubect1 to restart all pods.

Question: 145
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.

Question: 146
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.

Question: 147
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?
A. Configure the expiration time for your tables at 45 days
B. Make the tables time-partitioned, and configure the partition expiration at 45 days
C. Rely on BigQuery’s default behavior to prune application logs older than 45 days
D. Create a script that uses the BigQuery command line tool (bq) to remove records older than 45 days

Question: 148
You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPU
load. What should you do?
A. Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler from
the GCP Console.
B. Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler 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.

Question: 149
You need to develop procedures to verify the 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. What should you do?
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 filestoGCP.Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a
secure connection between your networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.
C. Verify that the TransferAppliance 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.

Question: 150
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. How should you design to meet Google's best practices?
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 using 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 using all
GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.

Question: 151
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.
What should you do?
A. Engage with a security company to run web scrapes that look at your users’ authentication data from
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 read 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.

Question: 152
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.

Question: 153
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. What
should you do?
A. Use Terraform to create the managed instance group and 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.

Question: 154
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. How should you configure the access
rights?
A. Create a group per country. Add analysts to the irrespective 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 the irrespective 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 the irrespective 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 the irrespective 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.

Question: 155
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: 20 TB of
log archives retained for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500GB 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 CloudStorage 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 VMboot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.
D. Memcache backed by PersistentDisk SSD storage for customer session state data.Assorted local
SSD-backed instances for VMboot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.

Question: 156
Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload
requires a consistent set of host names even after pod scaling and relaunches. Which feature of
Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this?
A. StatefulSets
B. Role-based access control
C. Container environment variables
D. Persistent Volumes

Question: 157
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. What should you do?
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 Cloud CDN toward a load balancer on
that bucket.

Question: 158
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?
A. All admin and VM system logs are automatically collected by Stackdriver.
B. Stackdriver automatically collects admin activity logs for most services. The Stackdriver Logging agent
must be installed on each instance to collect system logs.
C. Launch a custom syslogd compute instance and configure your GCP project and VMs to forward all
logs to it.
D. Install the Stackdriver Logging agent on a single compute instance and let it collect all audit and
access logs for your environment.

Question: 159
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. What should you do?
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.

Question: 160
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. How should you configure the 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.

Question: 161
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 the 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 the 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.

Question: 162
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. How should you deploy to GKE?
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 the type Load
Balancer to load-balance the HTTPS traffic.

Question: 163
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's best
practices.
What should you do?
A. Create a cross-region load balancer with URL Maps.
B. Create an HTTPS load balancer with URL maps.
C. Create appropriate instance groups and instances. Configure SSL proxy load balancing.
D. Create a global forwarding rule. Configure SSL proxy balancing.

Question: 164
You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with
HTTP status codes 5xx and 429. How should you handle these types of errors?
A. Use gRPC instead of HTTP for better performance.
B. Implementretry logic using a truncated exponential backoff strategy.
C. Make sure the Cloud Storage bucket is multi-regional for geo-redundancy.
D. Monitor https://status.cloud.google.com/feed.atom and only make requests if Cloud Storage is not
reporting an incident.

Question: 165
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. What should you do?
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 automated scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs monitor and debug your
tests.

Question: 166
Your company creates rendering software that 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. How should you store the files?
A. Save the files in a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket.
B. Save the files in a Regional Cloud Storage bucket, one bucket per zone of the region.
C. Save the files in multiple Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per zone per region.
D. Save the files in multiple Multi-Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per multi-region.

Question: 167
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. Which approach should you take?
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 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.

Question: 168
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. What should you do?
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.

Question: 169
You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task 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.
Question: 170
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. What actions will meet your company’s needs?
A. Compress and upload both achieved files and files uploaded daily using the gsutil –m option.
B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, send it, and send it to Google to transfer
archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnector
Direct Peering connection and use it to upload files daily.
C. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, 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.

Question: 171
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?
A. Cloud Pub/Sub alone
B. Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud DataFlow
C. Cloud Pub/Sub to Stackdriver
D. Cloud Pub/Sub to CloudSQL