GCP High-Availability Cloud VPN Quiz: Set Up Robust VPN Connectivity with Dynamic Routing

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What is the recommended way to authenticate and authorize gcloud commands using the private key of a Service Account in a Google Cloud project?

Upload the private key to the Google Cloud Console

Manually copy and paste the private key into each gcloud command

Add the private key to your local machine's environment variables

Use the gcloud command 'gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=<path_to_key_file>' (correct)

What is the purpose of a private key in a Service Account in a Google Cloud project?

To provide additional security to a user account

To decrypt data for secure retrieval

To authenticate and authorize access to resources (correct)

To encrypt data for secure storage

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

Use the command gcloud auth login and point it to the private key.

Use the command gcloud auth activate-service-account and point it to the private key. (correct)

Place the private key file in the installation directory of the Cloud SDK and rename it to ג€credentials.jsonג€.

Place the private key file in your home directory and rename it to ג€GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALSג€.

Every employee of your company has a Google account. Your operational team needs to manage a large number of instances on Compute Engine. Each member of this team needs only administrative access to the servers. Your security team wants to ensure that the deployment of credentials is operationally efficient and must be able to determine who accessed a given instance. What should you do?

Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to add the public key to their Google account. Grant the ג€compute.osAdminLoginג€ role to the Google group corresponding to this team. Signup and view all the answers

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

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, create a new billing account and set up a payment method. Signup and view all the answers

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

Coldline Storage Signup and view all the answers

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

Use kubectl config use-context and kubectl config view to review the output. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a managed instance group. Set the Autohealing health check to healthy (HTTP) Signup and view all the answers

You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic location. You need to support point-in-time recovery. What should you do?

Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Verify that the enable binary logging option is selected. Signup and view all the answers

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

10.0.0.0/8 Signup and view all the answers

Your organization has three existing Google Cloud projects. You need to bill the Marketing department for only their Google Cloud services for a new initiative within their group. What should you do?

Verify that you are assigned the Billing Administrator IAM role for your organization's Google Cloud Project for the Marketing department. 2. Link the new project to a Marketing Billing Account. Signup and view all the answers

You are running multiple microservices in a Kubernetes Engine cluster. One microservice is rendering images. The microservice responsible for the image rendering requires a large amount of CPU time compared to the memory it requires. The other microservices are workloads that are optimized for n1-standard machine types. You need to optimize your cluster so that all workloads are using resources as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

Create a node pool with compute-optimized machine type nodes for the image rendering microservice. Use the node pool with general-purpose machine type nodes for the other microservices. Signup and view all the answers

You have been asked to create robust Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity between a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a remote site. Key requirements include dynamic routing, a shared address space of 10.19.0.1/22, and no overprovisioning of tunnels during a failover event. You want to follow Google- recommended practices to set up a high availability Cloud VPN. What should you do?

Use a custom mode VPC network, use Cloud Router border gateway protocol (BGP) routes, and use active/passive routing. Signup and view all the answers

You have been asked to set up the billing configuration for a new Google Cloud customer. Your customer wants to group resources that share common IAM policies. What should you do?

Use folders to group resources that share common IAM policies. Signup and view all the answers

You are using Data Studio to visualize a table from your data warehouse that is built on top of BigQuery. Data is appended to the data warehouse during the day. At night, the daily summary is recalculated by overwriting the table. You just noticed that the charts in Data Studio are broken, and you want to analyze the problem. What should you do?

Use the BigQuery interface to review the nightly job and look for any errors. Signup and view all the answers

You are using Data Studio to visualize a table from your data warehouse that is built on top of BigQuery. Data is appended to the data warehouse during the day. At night, the daily summary is recalculated by overwriting the table. You just noticed that the charts in Data Studio are broken, and you want to analyze the problem. What should you do?

In Cloud Logging, create a filter for your Data Studio report. Signup and view all the answers

You have created an application that is packaged into a Docker image. You want to deploy the Docker image as a workload on Google Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?

Upload the image to Cloud Storage and create a Kubernetes Deployment referencing the image. Signup and view all the answers

The sales team has a project named Sales Data Digest that has the ID acme-data-digest. You need to set up similar Google Cloud resources for the marketing team but their resources must be organized independently of the sales team. What should you do?

Create another project with the ID acme-marketing-data-digest for the Marketing team and deploy the resources there. Signup and view all the answers

You are assigned to maintain a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster named 'dev' that was deployed on Google Cloud. You want to manage the GKE configuration using the command line interface (CLI). You have just downloaded and installed the Cloud SDK. You want to ensure that future CLI commands by default address this specific cluster What should you do?

Use the command gcloud config set container/cluster dev. Signup and view all the answers

Your company has an internal application for managing transactional orders. The application is used exclusively by employees in a single physical location. The application requires strong consistency, fast queries, and ACID guarantees for multi-table transactional updates. The first version of the application is implemented in PostgreSQL, and you want to deploy it to the cloud with minimal code changes. Which database is most appropriate for this application?

Cloud SQL Signup and view all the answers

You need to manage a Cloud Spanner instance for best query performance. Your instance in production runs in a single Google Cloud region. You need to improve performance in the shortest amount of time. You want to follow Google best practices for service configuration. What should you do?

Create an alert in Cloud Monitoring to alert when the percentage of high priority CPU utilization reaches 65%. If you exceed this threshold, add nodes to your instance. Signup and view all the answers

You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google's recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?

Invite the user to transfer their existing account. Signup and view all the answers

You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google's recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?

Invite the user to transfer their existing account. Signup and view all the answers

You are developing a new web application that will be deployed on Google Cloud Platform. As part of your release cycle, you want to test updates to your application on a small portion of real user traffic. The majority of the users should still be directed towards a stable version of your application. What should you do?

Deploy the application on App Engine. For each update, create a new version of the same service. Configure traffic splitting to send a small percentage of traffic to the new version. Signup and view all the answers

You need to manage a third-party application that will run on a Compute Engine instance. Other Compute Engine instances are already running with default configuration. Application installation files are hosted on Cloud Storage. You need to access these files from the new instance without allowing other virtual machines (VMs) to access these files. What should you do?

Create a new service account and assign this service account to the new instance. Grant the service account permissions on Cloud Storage. Signup and view all the answers

Your company has developed a new application that consists of multiple microservices. You want to deploy the application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and you want to ensure that the cluster can scale as more applications are deployed in the future. You want to avoid manual intervention when each new application is deployed. What should you do?

Create a GKE cluster with autoscaling enabled on the node pool. Set a minimum and maximum for the size of the node pool. Signup and view all the answers

You have created a new project in Google Cloud through the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and linked a billing account. You need to create a new Compute Engine instance using the CLI. You need to perform the prerequisite steps. What should you do?

Enable the compute googleapis.com API. Signup and view all the answers

You have just created a new project which will be used to deploy a globally distributed application. You will use Cloud Spanner for data storage. You want to create a Cloud Spanner instance. You want to perform the first step in preparation of creating the instance. What should you do?

Enable the Cloud Spanner API. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a single VPC with a subnet for the DMZ and a subnet for the LAN. 2. Set up firewall rules to open up relevant traffic between the DMZ and the LAN subnets, and another firewall rule to allow public ingress traffic for the DMZ. Signup and view all the answers

You are managing a project for the Business Intelligence (BI) department in your company. A data pipeline ingests data into BigQuery via streaming. You want the users in the BI department to be able to run the custom SQL queries against the latest data in BigQuery. What should you do?

Assign the IAM role of BigQuery User to a Google Group that contains the members of the BI team. Signup and view all the answers

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

Deploy MongoDB Atlas from the Google Cloud Marketplace. Signup and view all the answers

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

When creating the instances, specify a Service Account for each instance. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create and deploy a Deployment per microservice. Signup and view all the answers

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

Provision Compute Engine instances with M1 machine type. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use Cloud Spanner for data storage. Signup and view all the answers

You are monitoring an application and receive user feedback that a specific error is spiking. You notice that the error is caused by a Service Account having insufficient permissions. You are able to solve the problem but want to be notified if the problem recurs. What should you do?

Create a custom log-based metric for the specific error to be used in an Alerting Policy. Signup and view all the answers

You are working with a Cloud SQL MySQL database at your company. You need to retain a month-end copy of the database for three years for audit purposes. What should you do?

Set up an export job for the first of the month. Write the export file to an Archive class Cloud Storage bucket. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use the command gcloud auth activate-service-account and point it to the private key. Signup and view all the answers

Your auditor wants to view your organization's use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?

Turn on Data Access Logs for the buckets they want to audit, and then build a query in the log viewer that filters on Cloud Storage. Signup and view all the answers

You are working for a hospital that stores its medical images in an on-premises data room. The hospital wants to use Cloud Storage for archival storage of these images. The hospital wants an automated process to upload any new medical images to Cloud Storage. You need to design and implement a solution. What should you do?

Create a script that uses the gsutil command line interface to synchronize the on-premises storage with Cloud Storage. Schedule the script as a cron job. Signup and view all the answers

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

Configure an External Network load balancer in front of the application servers. Signup and view all the answers

Your web application has been running successfully on Cloud Run for Anthos. You want to evaluate an updated version of the application with a specific percentage of your production users (canary deployment). What should you do?

Create a new revision with the new version of the application. Split traffic between this version and the version that is currently running. Signup and view all the answers

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

Ask the partner to create a Service Account in their project, and grant their Service Account access to the BigQuery dataset in your project. Signup and view all the answers

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

Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company. Signup and view all the answers

You have developed a containerized web application that will serve internal colleagues during business hours. You want to ensure that no costs are incurred outside of the hours the application is used. You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy the application. What should you do?

Deploy the container on Cloud Run (fully managed), and set the minimum number of instances to zero. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name. Signup and view all the answers

You are performing a monthly security check of your Google Cloud environment and want to know who has access to view data stored in your Google Cloud Project. What should you do?

Review the IAM permissions for any role that allows for data access. Signup and view all the answers

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

Develop templates for the environment using Cloud Deployment Manager. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a custom role that combines the required permissions. Grant the DevOps team the custom role on the production project. Signup and view all the answers

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

Enable delete protection on the instance. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all of these budgets. Signup and view all the answers

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

Enable Data Access audit logs for the Cloud Storage API. Signup and view all the answers

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

Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years. Signup and view all the answers

You have created a code snippet that should be triggered whenever a new file is uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to deploy this code snippet. What should you do?

Use Cloud Functions and configure the bucket as a trigger resource. Signup and view all the answers

Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?

Enable Cloud IAP for the Compute Engine instances, and add the operations partner as a Cloud IAP Tunnel User. Signup and view all the answers

You are working with a user to set up an application in a new VPC behind a firewall. The user is concerned about data egress. You want to configure the fewest open egress ports. What should you do?

Set up a low-priority (65534) rule that blocks all egress and a high-priority rule (1000) that allows only the appropriate ports. Signup and view all the answers

You have a batch workload that runs every night and uses a large number of virtual machines (VMs). It is fault-tolerant and can tolerate some of the VMs being terminated. The current cost of VMs is too high. What should you do?

Run a test using simulated maintenance events. If the test is successful, use preemptible N1 Standard VMs when running future jobs. Signup and view all the answers

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

Expand the CIDR range of the relevant subnet for the cluster. Signup and view all the answers

A colleague handed over a Google Cloud Platform project for you to maintain. As part of a security checkup, you want to review who has been granted the Project Owner role. What should you do?

Use the command gcloud projects getג€"iamג€"policy to view the current role assignments. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create Compute Engine resources in usג€"central1ג€"b. ג€" Balance the load across both usג€"central1ג€"a and usג€"central1ג€"b. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create two separate BigQuery external tables on Cloud Storage and Cloud Bigtable. Use the BigQuery console to join these tables through user fields, and apply appropriate filters. Signup and view all the answers

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1`"standard`"2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2`"highmem`"16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?

Create a new Node Pool and specify machine type n2ג€"highmemג€"16. Deploy the new pods. Signup and view all the answers

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

In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk. 2. In the Snapshot Schedule section, select Create Schedule and configure the following parameters: - Schedule frequency: Daily - Start time: 1:00 AM ג€" 2:00 AM - Autodelete snapshots after: 30 days Signup and view all the answers

Your team maintains the infrastructure for your organization. The current infrastructure requires changes. You need to share your proposed changes with the rest of the team. You want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

Use Deployment Manager templates to describe the proposed changes and store them in Cloud Source Repositories. Signup and view all the answers

Your company has workloads running on Compute Engine and on-premises. The Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is connected to your WAN over a Virtual Private Network (VPN). You need to deploy a new Compute Engine instance and ensure that no public Internet traffic can be routed to it. What should you do?

Create the instance without a public IP address. Signup and view all the answers

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

Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio. Signup and view all the answers

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

Enable API, create a workspace under project A, and then add projects B and C. Signup and view all the answers

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

Ingest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp. Signup and view all the answers

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

Set the europe-west1-d zone as the default zone using the gcloud config subcommand. Signup and view all the answers

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

Deploy Jenkins through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create an Instance Template with Preemptible VMs On. Create a Managed Instance Group from the template and adjust Target CPU Utilization. Migrate the workload. Signup and view all the answers

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn't exist yet. What should you do?

Using the Cloud SDK, create a new project, enable the Compute Engine API in that project, and then create the instance specifying your new project. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a service account with appropriate access for Google services, and configure the application to use this account. Signup and view all the answers

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

Grant the VM Service Account the role Storage Object Creator on corp-aggregate-reports-storage. Signup and view all the answers

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?

Navigate to Cloud Logging and view the application logs. Signup and view all the answers

You need to create a copy of a custom Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to facilitate an expected increase in application traffic due to a business acquisition. What should you do?

Create a Compute Engine snapshot of your base VM. Create your instances from that snapshot. Signup and view all the answers

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

Ask the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Data Viewer. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a new VPC network for the VMs. Enable VPC Peering between the VMs' VPC network and the Dataproc cluster VPC network. Signup and view all the answers

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

Migrate to use a Local SSD on the instance. Signup and view all the answers

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

SSL Proxy Load Balancer Signup and view all the answers

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud that uses multiple Google Cloud products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?

For each Google Cloud product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Use the pricing calculator to total the monthly costs for each Google Cloud product. Signup and view all the answers

Your company publishes large files on an Apache web server that runs on a Compute Engine instance. The Apache web server is not the only application running in the project. You want to receive an email when the egress network costs for the server exceed 100 dollars for the current month as measured by Google Cloud. What should you do?

Export the billing data to BigQuery. Create a Cloud Function that uses BigQuery to sum the egress network costs of the exported billing data for the Apache web server for the current month and sends an email if it is over 100 dollars. Schedule the Cloud Function using Cloud Scheduler to run hourly. Signup and view all the answers

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?

Create a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to webhook when Cloud Spanner CPU is over or under your threshold. Create a Cloud Function that listens to HTTP and resizes Spanner resources accordingly. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Create a Cloud Monitoring Workspace and associate your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project with it. 2. Create a Cloud Monitoring Alerting Policy that uses the threshold as a trigger condition. 3. Configure your email address in the notification channel.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Advise your developers to go to Cloud Marketplace. 2. Ask the developers to launch a Cassandra image for their development work.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?

Create an instance template that contains valid syntax that will be used by the instance group. Verify that the instance name and persistent disk name values are not the same in the template. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Create a configuration for each project you need to manage. 2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned Google Cloud projects.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool. Signup and view all the answers

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

Use permissions in your role that use the 'supported' support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions. Signup and view all the answers

An employee was terminated, but their access to Google Cloud was not removed until 2 weeks later. You need to find out if this employee accessed any sensitive customer information after their termination. What should you do?

View Data Access audit logs in Cloud Logging. Search for the user's email as the principal. Signup and view all the answers

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

Give ג€project ownerג€ role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project. 2. Locate the project in the GCP console, click Shut down and then enter the project ID.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

You are managing several Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and need access to all logs for the past 60 days. You want to be able to explore and quickly analyze the log contents. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to obtain the combined logs for all projects. What should you do?

Create a Stackdriver Logging Export with a Sink destination to a BigQuery dataset. Configure the table expiration to 60 days. Signup and view all the answers

You need to assign a Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) role to an external auditor. The auditor needs to have permissions to review your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Audit Logs and also to review your Data Access logs. What should you do?

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Viewer role on the project. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a new project, enable the Compute Engine and Cloud SQL APIs in that project, and replicate the setup you have created in the development environment. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to synchronize users into Cloud Identity. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a node pool of instances with GPUs, and enable autoscaling on this node pool with a minimum size of 1. Signup and view all the answers

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

Cold Storage Signup and view all the answers

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

Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role. Signup and view all the answers

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

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider. Signup and view all the answers

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

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/browser. Signup and view all the answers

You have a developer laptop with the Cloud SDK installed on Ubuntu. The Cloud SDK was installed from the Google Cloud Ubuntu package repository. You want to test your application locally on your laptop with Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

Install the google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator component using the apt get install command. Signup and view all the answers

Your organization needs to grant users access to query datasets in BigQuery but prevent them from accidentally deleting the datasets. You want a solution that follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions. Add users to the group, and then add the group to the custom role. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use a sole-tenant node. Signup and view all the answers

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

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/accessapproval.approver role. Signup and view all the answers

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

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing viewer role. Signup and view all the answers

You are building a product on top of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You have a single GKE cluster. For each of your customers, a Pod is running in that cluster, and your customers can run arbitrary code inside their Pod. You want to maximize the isolation between your customers' Pods. What should you do?

Create a GKE node pool with a sandbox type configured to gvisor. Add the parameter runtimeClassName: gvisor to the specification of your customers' Pods. Signup and view all the answers

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

Apply a user- or project-level custom query quota for BigQuery data warehouse; Change your BigQuery query model from on-demand to flat rate. Apply the appropriate number of slots to each Project. Signup and view all the answers

You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. What should you do in the GCP Console?

Go to the Stackdriver Logging console, review admin activity logs, and filter them for Cloud Spanner IAM roles. Signup and view all the answers

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

Go to Data Catalog and search for employee_ssn in the search box. Signup and view all the answers

You want to select and configure a solution for storing and archiving data on Google Cloud Platform. You need to support compliance objectives for data from one geographic location. This data is archived after 30 days and needs to be accessed annually. What should you do?

Select Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage. Signup and view all the answers

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

Set up Cloud VPN between the infrastructure on-premises and Google Cloud. Signup and view all the answers

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

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Nearline Storage. Signup and view all the answers

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?

When creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96. Signup and view all the answers

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

Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project. Signup and view all the answers

You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance. Create a firewall rule to allow ingress on UDP port 636 for that network tag. Signup and view all the answers

You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?

Filter the Activity log to view the Configuration category. Filter the Resource type to Service Account. Signup and view all the answers

You have a large 5-TB AVRO file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your analysts are proficient only in SQL and need access to the data stored in this file. You want to find a cost-effective way to complete their request as soon as possible. What should you do?

Create external tables in BigQuery that point to Cloud Storage buckets and run a SQL query on these external tables to complete your request. Signup and view all the answers

You have a Google Cloud Platform account with access to both production and development projects. You need to create an automated process to list all compute instances in development and production projects on a daily basis. What should you do?

Create two configurations using gcloud config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gcloud compute instances list to get a list of compute resources. Signup and view all the answers

Your organization uses G Suite for communication and collaboration. All users in your organization have a G Suite account. You want to grant some G Suite users access to your Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

Grant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use gcloud to expand the IP range of the current subnet. Signup and view all the answers

You are operating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster for your company where different teams can run non-production workloads. Your Machine Learning (ML) team needs access to Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs to train their models. You want to minimize effort and cost. What should you do?

Add a new, GPU-enabled, node pool to the GKE cluster. Ask your ML team to add the cloud.google.com/gke -accelerator: nvidia-tesla-p100 nodeSelector to their pod specification. Signup and view all the answers

You want to add a new auditor to a Google Cloud Platform project. The auditor should be allowed to read, but not modify, all project items. How should you configure the auditor's permissions?

Select the built-in IAM project Viewer role. Add the user's account to this role. Signup and view all the answers

You need to enable traffic between multiple groups of Compute Engine instances that are currently running two different GCP projects. Each group of Compute Engine instances is running in its own VPC. What should you do?

Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organization. Share the VPC from one project and request that the Compute Engine instances in the other project use this shared VPC. Signup and view all the answers

You are using Google Kubernetes Engine with autoscaling enabled to host a new application. You want to expose this new application to the public, using HTTPS on a public IP address. What should you do?

Create a Kubernetes Service of type NodePort for your application, and a Kubernetes Ingress to expose this Service via a Cloud Load Balancer. Signup and view all the answers

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

Fill in local SSD. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage. Signup and view all the answers

You are building a new version of an application hosted in an App Engine environment. You want to test the new version with 1% of users before you completely switch your application over to the new version. What should you do?

Deploy a new version of your application in App Engine. Then go to App Engine settings in GCP Console and split traffic between the current version and newly deployed versions accordingly. Signup and view all the answers

You need to produce a list of the enabled Google Cloud Platform APIs for a GCP project using the gcloud command line in the Cloud Shell. The project name is my-project. What should you do?

Run gcloud projects list to get the project ID, and then run gcloud services list --project <project ID>. Signup and view all the answers

You want to configure an SSH connection to a single Compute Engine instance for users in the dev1 group. This instance is the only resource in this particular Google Cloud Platform project that the dev1 users should be able to connect to. What should you do?

Set metadata to enable-oslogin=true for the instance. Grant the dev1 group the compute.osLogin role. Direct them to use the Cloud Shell to ssh to that instance. Signup and view all the answers

You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?

After the VM has been created, use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM. Signup and view all the answers

You are using Container Registry to centrally store your company's container images in a separate project. In another project, you want to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You want to ensure that Kubernetes can download images from Container Registry. What should you do?

In the project where the images are stored, grant the Storage Object Viewer IAM role to the service account used by the Kubernetes nodes. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use gcloud to create a key file for the service account that has appropriate permissions. Signup and view all the answers

You are using Deployment Manager to create a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. Using the same Deployment Manager deployment, you also want to create a DaemonSet in the kube-system namespace of the cluster. You want a solution that uses the fewest possible services. What should you do?

With Deployment Manager, create a Compute Engine instance with a startup script that uses kubectl to create the DaemonSet. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>In Cloud Logging, create a filter to view only Compute Engine logs. 2. Click Create Export. 3. Choose BigQuery as Sink Service, and the platform-logs dataset as Sink Destination.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

Add the support team group to the roles/monitoring.viewer role Signup and view all the answers

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

Link the acquired company's projects to your company's billing account. Signup and view all the answers

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

Deploy the container on Cloud Run. Signup and view all the answers

You want to deploy an application on Cloud Run that processes messages from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

<ol> <li>Create a service account. 2. Give the Cloud Run Invoker role to that service account for your Cloud Run application. 3. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription that uses that service account and uses your Cloud Run application as the push endpoint.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Using Cloud VPN or Interconnect, create a tunnel to a VPC in Google Cloud. 2. Use Cloud Router to create a custom route advertisement for 199.36.153.4/30. Announce that network to your on-premises network through the VPN tunnel. 3. In your on-premises network, configure your DNS server to resolve *.googleapis.com as a CNAME to restricted.googleapis.com.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a Cloud Memorystore for Redis instance with 32-GB capacity. Signup and view all the answers

Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for log file retention. What should you do?

Create an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to a Coldline Storage bucket. Signup and view all the answers

You have a website hosted on App Engine standard environment. You want 1% of your users to see a new test version of the website. You want to minimize complexity. What should you do?

Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --splits option to give a weight of 99 to the current version and a weight of 1 to the new version. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>In GKE, create a Service of type LoadBalancer that uses the application's Pods as backend. 2. Set the service's externalTrafficPolicy to Cluster. 3. Configure the Compute Engine instance to use the address of the load balancer that has been created.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

Assign the finance team the Billing Account User role on the billing account and the Project Billing Manager role on the organization. Signup and view all the answers

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

Cloud Spanner Signup and view all the answers

You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?

Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 1 and maxUnavailable set to 0. Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Go to the Logs ingestion window in Stackdriver Logging, and disable the log source for the GKE container resource.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Create a subnetwork in the same VPC, in europe-west1. 2. Create the new instance in the new subnetwork and use the first instance's private address as the endpoint.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

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

<ol> <li>Create a dedicated Google group in Cloud Identity. 2. Add each data scientist's user account to the group. 3. Assign the BigQuery jobUser role to the group.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

You need to create an autoscaling managed instance group for an HTTPS web application. You want to make sure that unhealthy VMs are recreated. What should you do?

Create a health check on port 443 and use that when creating the Managed Instance Group. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a single custom VPC with 2 subnets. Create each subnet in a different region and with a different CIDR range. Signup and view all the answers

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

Stop the VM, increase the memory to 8 GB, and start the VM. Signup and view all the answers

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

Set Content-Type metadata to application/pdf on the PDF file objects. Signup and view all the answers

You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when maintenance occurs. Your requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if they crash. Also, the instances should be highly available including during system maintenance. What should you do?

Create an instance template for the instances. Set the 'Automatic Restart' to on. Set the 'On-host maintenance' to Migrate VM instance. Add the instance template to an instance group. Signup and view all the answers

You deployed an App Engine application using gcloud app deploy, but it did not deploy to the intended project. You want to find out why this happened and where the application deployed. What should you do?

Go to Cloud Shell and run gcloud config list to review the Google Cloud configuration used for deployment. Signup and view all the answers

You recently deployed a new version of an application to App Engine and then discovered a bug in the release. You need to immediately revert to the prior version of the application. What should you do?

On the App Engine Versions page of the GCP Console, route 100% of the traffic to the previous version. Signup and view all the answers

You need to select and configure compute resources for a set of batch processing jobs. These jobs take around 2 hours to complete and are run nightly. You want to minimize service costs. What should you do?

Select Compute Engine. Use preemptible VM instances of the appropriate standard machine type. Signup and view all the answers

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

Increase the initial delay of the HTTP health check to 200 seconds. Signup and view all the answers

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

Enable parallel composite uploads using gsutil on the file transfer. Signup and view all the answers

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

Configure an HTTP(S) load balancer. Signup and view all the answers

You create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and want to make sure that it always runs a supported and stable version of Kubernetes. What should you do?

Enable the Node Auto-Upgrades feature for your GKE cluster. Signup and view all the answers

You need to grant access for three users so that they can view and edit table data on a Cloud Spanner instance. What should you do?

Run gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseUser. Add the users to a new group. Add the group to the role. Signup and view all the answers

You created a Google Cloud Platform project with an App Engine application inside the project. You initially configured the application to be served from the us- central region. Now you want the application to be served from the asia-northeast1 region. What should you do?

Create a new GCP project and create an App Engine application inside this new project. Specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application. Signup and view all the answers

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

Grant the service account the IAM Role of Compute Storage Admin in the project called proj-vm. Signup and view all the answers

You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Create a new billing account and link the new billing account to the existing project. Signup and view all the answers

You want to verify the IAM users and roles assigned within a GCP project named my-project. What should you do?

Navigate to the project and then to the IAM section in the GCP Console. Review the members and roles. Signup and view all the answers

You are deploying an application to a Compute Engine VM in a managed instance group. The application must be running at all times, but only a single instance of the VM should run per GCP project. How should you configure the instance group?

Set autoscaling to On, set the minimum number of instances to 1, and then set the maximum number of instances to 1. Signup and view all the answers

You need to monitor resources that are distributed over different projects in Google Cloud Platform. You want to consolidate reporting under the same Stackdriver Monitoring dashboard. What should you do?

Configure a single Stackdriver account, and link all projects to the same account. Signup and view all the answers

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

Enable the Cloud Pub/Sub API in the API Library on the GCP Console. Signup and view all the answers

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

Deploy the monitoring pod in a DaemonSet object. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create a signed URL with a four-hour expiration and share the URL with the company. Signup and view all the answers

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

Storage Admin Signup and view all the answers

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

Using the GCP Console, filter the Stackdriver log to view the information. Signup and view all the answers

You need to set up permissions for a set of Compute Engine instances to enable them to write data into a particular Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a service account and add it to the IAM role 'storage.objectCreator' for that bucket. Signup and view all the answers

You need to configure IAM access audit logging in BigQuery for external auditors. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Add the auditors group to the 'logging.viewer' and 'bigQuery.dataViewer' predefined IAM roles. Signup and view all the answers

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

Use gcloud to create the new project, and then deploy your application to the new project. Signup and view all the answers

You significantly changed a complex Deployment Manager template and want to confirm that the dependencies of all defined resources are properly met before committing it to the project. You want the most rapid feedback on your changes. What should you do?

Execute the Deployment Manager template using the ג€"-preview option in the same project, and observe the state of interdependent resources. Signup and view all the answers

You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a non-default region and zone. You want to start a new Compute Engine instance in these two Google Cloud Platform accounts using the command line interface. What should you do?

Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [NAME]. Run gcloud config configurations activate [NAME] to switch between accounts when running the commands to start the Compute Engine instances. Signup and view all the answers

You created an instance of SQL Server 2017 on Compute Engine to test features in the new version. You want to connect to this instance using the fewest number of steps. What should you do?

Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console, and supply the credentials to log in. Signup and view all the answers

You have a Linux VM that must connect to Cloud SQL. You created a service account with the appropriate access rights. You want to make sure that the VM uses this service account instead of the default Compute Engine service account. What should you do?

When creating the VM via the web console, specify the service account under the 'Identity and API Access' section. Signup and view all the answers

You need to set up a policy so that videos stored in a specific Cloud Storage Regional bucket are moved to Coldline after 90 days, and then deleted after one year from their creation. How should you set up the policy?

Use Cloud Storage Object Lifecycle Management using Age conditions with SetStorageClass and Delete actions. Set the SetStorageClass action to 90 days and the Delete action to 365 days. Signup and view all the answers

You are analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects. You want to use this information to create service cost estimates by service type, daily and monthly, for the next six months using standard query syntax. What should you do?

Export your bill to a BigQuery dataset, and then write time window-based SQL queries for analysis. Signup and view all the answers

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

Create an instance template, and use the template in a managed instance group with autoscaling configured. Signup and view all the answers

You need to run an important query in BigQuery but expect it to return a lot of records. You want to find out how much it will cost to run the query. You are using on-demand pricing. What should you do?

Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes read. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing Calculator. Signup and view all the answers

You need to update a deployment in Deployment Manager without any resource downtime in the deployment. Which command should you use?

gcloud deployment-manager deployments update --config <deployment-config-path> Signup and view all the answers

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

Use GCP Marketplace to launch the Jenkins solution. Signup and view all the answers

You have a Dockerfile that you need to deploy on Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?

Create a docker image from the Dockerfile and upload it to Container Registry. Create a Deployment YAML file to point to that image. Use kubectl to create the deployment with that file. Signup and view all the answers

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

Deployment Manager Signup and view all the answers

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

Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify the production project as the destination project. Signup and view all the answers

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

Automatic Scaling with min_idle_instances set to 3. Signup and view all the answers

You have an application that looks for its licensing server on the IP 10.0.3.21. You need to deploy the licensing server on Compute Engine. You do not want to change the configuration of the application and want the application to be able to reach the licensing server. What should you do?

Reserve the IP 10.0.3.21 as a static internal IP address using gcloud and assign it to the licensing server. Signup and view all the answers

What is the Cloud SDK and why is it useful for working with Google Cloud resources?

A command-line interface for interacting with Google Cloud resources Signup and view all the answers

What is the recommended way to bill a specific department for their Google Cloud services within a project with multiple departments?

Use labels to track costs for the specific department Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of billing labels in Google Cloud?

To allocate costs to specific departments or teams Signup and view all the answers

What is the benefit of using labels to track costs in Google Cloud?

It allows for easy tracking and allocation of costs to specific departments or teams Signup and view all the answers

You have deployed multiple Linux instances on Compute Engine. You plan on adding more instances in the coming weeks. You want to be able to access all of these instances through your SSH client over the internet without having to configure specific access on the existing and new instances. You do not want the Compute Engine instances to have a public IP. What should you do?

Configure Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for SSH and TCP resources Signup and view all the answers

You need to configure optimal data storage for files stored in Cloud Storage for minimal cost. The files are used in a mission-critical analytics pipeline that is used continually. The users are in Boston, MA (United States). What should you do?

Configure dual-regional storage for the dual region closest to the users. Configure a Standard storage class. Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Authentication and Authorization

Use the private key of a Service Account to authenticate and authorize gcloud commands after downloading the JSON file with the key.
A private key allows secure access to Google Cloud resources from applications and services, ensuring that the calling service is properly identified.

Managing Compute Engine Access

Assign administrative access to Compute Engine instances for the operational team using Google accounts.
Implement IAM policies to log who accessed each instance, adhering to security team requirements.

Centralizing Projects under a Billing Account

Transfer projects that use personal credit cards to a new centralized billing account to streamline costs and manage payments better.

Cloud Storage Best Practices

For storing application backup files for disaster recovery, use Cloud Storage's multi-regional or regional options, based on compliance and access frequency.

Kubernetes Cluster Configuration

To view the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster for an inactive gcloud configuration, use the command gcloud config configurations describe [CONFIG_NAME].

Network Load Balancing Autohealing

Configure autohealing by setting up health checks that will recreate unresponsive VMs after 3 attempts of 10-second intervals.

Cost-effective Database Solutions

Choose Cloud SQL for relational data with point-in-time recovery needs, particularly for small data sets located in one geographic area.

Creating a Custom VPC

Use an address range of 10.0.0.0/8 for the largest possible subnet, allowing extensive IP configuration for future scalability.

Marketing Department Cost Tracking

Create separate billing accounts for each project to only bill the Marketing department for their resources.

Optimizing Kubernetes Resources

For workloads with varying resource needs, organize microservices in GKE using different machine types to match their CPU and memory requirements appropriately.

High Availability Cloud VPN

Set up a Cloud VPN with dynamic routing and shared address space, ensuring minimal tunnel overprovisioning during failovers for high availability.

Billing Configuration Grouping

Group resources under a single billing account that share common IAM policies to streamline access and cost management.

Data Studio Issues

When facing broken charts in Data Studio due to overwriting data during nightly summarization, check the data source for schema issues or updated field references.

Docker Image Deployment

Deploy Docker images in GKE using a CI/CD pipeline to ensure seamless integration into the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Independent Resource Organization

Create a new Google Cloud project for the marketing team to manage their resources independently from the sales team.

GKE Configuration Management

Use the command line to set context to the specific GKE cluster with gcloud container clusters get-credentials [CLUSTER_NAME].

Database Selection for Strong Consistency

Choose Cloud Spanner for the ERP system needing strong consistency and ACID compliance, given its inherent features for transactional updates.

Cloud Spanner Query Performance

Optimize Cloud Spanner configuration for performance by adjusting service parameters for single-region operation after reviewing usage patterns.

Adding Users to Cloud Identity

For users with existing Google accounts, adopt a strategy of using email mappings to avoid duplicating identities when adding to Cloud Identity.

Canary Deployment Strategy

Implement a canary deployment strategy to test application updates by directing a subset of users to the new version while maintaining stability for the majority.

Secure Access from Compute Engine

Grant access to Cloud Storage files from a new Compute Engine instance using IAM policies without exposing them to other VMs.

Microservices Deployment in GKE

Ensure each microservice can be independently deployed and scaled in GKE by setting appropriate resource limits and using Kubernetes Deployments.

ERP System Resource Configuration

Use VM instances optimized for in-memory processing to support the high-speed access requirements of the ERP system.

Global Financial Application Latency Minimization

Deploy a database solution that provides low-latency responses globally, such as Cloud Spanner with regional instances.

Notification of Permission Errors

Set up logging and monitoring alerts for service account permission errors in order to respond promptly when recurrent issues occur.

Cloud SQL Backup Compliance

Configure regular backups of Cloud SQL databases, storing month-end snapshots for three years for audit requirements.

Audit Data Access in Cloud Storage

Review and enhance IAM policies and logging settings in Cloud Storage to provide necessary auditing capabilities for data access.

Automated Medical Image Upload

Design and implement a solution with Google Cloud Functions to automate the upload process of medical images to Cloud Storage.

Game Backend Infrastructure

Utilize Google Cloud Load Balancing to expose multiple VMs running a game backend over a single public IP for UDP connections.

Cloud Run for Anthos Canary Deployment

Implement a traffic splitting strategy in Cloud Run for Anthos to facilitate gradual rollouts of application updates.

Partner Access to BigQuery

Grant resource-specific access to partners in your Google Cloud project by configuring IAM roles that allow access to the required BigQuery dataset.

Company Billing Process Streamlining

Transition personal projects to the company’s organizational billing structure to ensure all costs are incurred through a single account.

Cost-effective Application Deployment

Deploy the internal application using Cloud Scheduler to ensure no costs are incurred outside business hours.

Hybrid Cloud Connection Efficiency

Use Cloud DNS to abstract the on-premises database server's IP address in client applications, enabling easier management of IP changes.

Data Access Security Review

Conduct regular audits of IAM roles and permissions to ensure appropriate access controls for viewing sensitive data in the Google Cloud project.

Standardizing Resource Management

Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to standardize Google Cloud resource management.

Preventing Accidental Instance Deletion

Use Google Cloud’s settings to enable protection on production Compute Engine instances against accidental deletion.

Sandbox Project Cost Monitoring

Set budget alerts for developer sandbox projects to monitor and notify spending when costs exceed thresholds.

Logging Access to Sensitive Bucket Data

Enable Cloud Audit Logs for your Cloud Storage bucket to track and record read access for compliance purposes.

Object Lifecycle Management Configuration

Configure Object Lifecycle Management to optimize storage costs while ensuring data is retained for three years and minimally accessed after the first month.

Triggering Functions on Object Upload

Deploy Cloud Functions to respond to new object uploads in Cloud Storage, enabling automated processing of uploaded files.

Granting Access to Linux Workloads

Use OS Login or IAM roles to grant external operations partners secure access to Linux instances without Google accounts.

Configuring Minimal Egress Ports

Use least privilege principles to restrict open egress ports, allowing only necessary protocols for secure connectivity.

Managing Batch Workloads Efficiently

Utilize Preemptible VMs in Compute Engine for batch processes to reduce costs while accommodating fault tolerance in task execution.

Scaling Kubernetes Nodes

Manage node IP exhaustion in GKE by using the VPC-native implementation, allowing for better scaling without IP conflicts.

Reviewing Project Owner Access

Conduct audits to review the assignments of Project Owner roles to ensure compliance and security best practices.

Minimize Downtime in Application Hosting

Implement regional redundancy in Compute Engine instances to avoid single points of failure, enhancing application availability.

Efficient Data Linking Between Spanner and Bigtable

Utilize data export tools to integrate datasets between Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable for analytics while managing data consistency.

GKE Pod Deployment without Downtime

Use rolling updates in GKE to add high-memory nodes seamlessly while keeping the existing application operational without interruptions.

Backup Strategies for Compute Engine

Utilize snapshots integrated with Google Cloud Storage to back up Compute Engine instances daily for disaster recovery.

Document proposed infrastructure changes using collaborative tools to maintain transparency and follow Google best practices.

Deploying Private Compute Engine Instances

Ensure that newly deployed Compute Engine instances within a VPC are restricted from public Internet access through proper subnet configurations.

Visualizing Multi-Project Cost Data

Use Google Cloud Billing reports and dashboards to consolidate cost data across projects linked to different accounts for better oversight.

Monitoring Performance Across Projects

Set up Cloud Monitoring to track key metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk across multiple Google Cloud projects for cohesive performance insight.

Construction Equipment Rental Data Handling

Implement a time-series database service optimized for high-throughput event handling to track consumption data from sensors while ensuring atomicity.

Setting Default Zone for gcloud CLI

Configure gcloud CLI with a default zone by using the command gcloud config set compute/zone europe-west1-d for a streamlined resource management experience.

Quick Jenkins Installation for CI/CD

Use Google Cloud Marketplace or Terraform scripts for a fast setup of Jenkins for continuous integration and deployment needs.

Long-running On-Premises Batch Processes

Consider migrating lengthy batch processes from on-premises to Google Cloud to reduce execution times and improve scalability.### Cloud Migration and Workload Management
Monthly tasks that can be performed offline must be restarted if interrupted when migrating workloads to the cloud while minimizing costs.
Create a Compute Engine instance in a newly established project to support this migration effectively.

Application Migration and Authentication

Use Application Default Credentials to maintain authentication consistency when migrating applications from development laptops to Compute Engine VMs.
Implement Google-recommended practices to ensure minimal changes in the authentication process during migration.

Data Access and Configuration

To share daily reports generated in a VM, configure access from the corp-iot-insights project to the corp-aggregate-reports bucket effectively and succinctly in compliance with Google best practices.
Resolve application errors on a Compute Engine instance by diagnosing logs written to disk for effective troubleshooting.

Scaling and Resource Management

Create copies of custom Compute Engine VMs to accommodate increased application traffic post-business acquisition.
Implement automatic scaling of Cloud Spanner nodes based on predictable traffic patterns to optimize resource allocation efficiently.

Alerting and Cost Management

Set up alerts to receive notifications via email when Compute Engine instances consume more than 90% of CPU resources for over 15 minutes.
Monitor egress network costs for the Apache web server, configuring alerts for when costs exceed $100 in a month.

Network and Load Balancing Solutions

Use Global HTTP(S) Load Balancing to minimize latency for an application receiving SSL-encrypted TCP traffic globally on port 443.
Expedite the addition of new VMs to a Dataproc cluster located in a single subnet without private IPs by following streamlined processes.

Project and Role Management

Manage multiple Google Cloud projects efficiently through Google Cloud SDK CLI configuration for easier transitions across projects with minimal steps.
Create custom IAM roles suitable for production use, emphasizing clear internal communication regarding their status.

Security and Auditing

Detect potential access to sensitive information by an employee after termination by thoroughly reviewing logs.
Assign appropriate Cloud IAM roles to external auditors for reviewing GCP Audit and Data Access logs, ensuring compliance with security protocols.

Backup and Disaster Recovery

Implement regular backups for critical Compute Engine workloads focused on the boot disk, ensuring quick restoration during disasters while automatically cleaning older backups to save costs.

Organizational Identity and Access

Integrate Active Directory for identity management, ensuring full control over Google accounts within an organization for GCP resources.
For specific project resources, enable Domain Restricted Sharing, providing auditors with view-only access to maintain security.

Cost-Effective Solutions and Data Access

Utilize a cost-efficient storage option for archiving data in Cloud Storage, maintaining accessibility once a quarter for regulatory requirements while minimizing expenses.
Support data scientists' needs for infrequently used Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters by efficiently allocating GPUs for long-running, non-restartable jobs to control costs.

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What is the recommended way to authenticate and authorize gcloud commands using the private key of a Service Account in a Google Cloud project?

What is the purpose of a private key in a Service Account in a Google Cloud project?

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

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

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

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

You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic location. You need to support point-in-time recovery. What should you do?

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

Your organization has three existing Google Cloud projects. You need to bill the Marketing department for only their Google Cloud services for a new initiative within their group. What should you do?

You have been asked to set up the billing configuration for a new Google Cloud customer. Your customer wants to group resources that share common IAM policies. What should you do?

You have created an application that is packaged into a Docker image. You want to deploy the Docker image as a workload on Google Kubernetes Engine. What should you do?

The sales team has a project named Sales Data Digest that has the ID acme-data-digest. You need to set up similar Google Cloud resources for the marketing team but their resources must be organized independently of the sales team. What should you do?

You need to manage a Cloud Spanner instance for best query performance. Your instance in production runs in a single Google Cloud region. You need to improve performance in the shortest amount of time. You want to follow Google best practices for service configuration. What should you do?

You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google's recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?

You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google's recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?

You have created a new project in Google Cloud through the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and linked a billing account. You need to create a new Compute Engine instance using the CLI. You need to perform the prerequisite steps. What should you do?

You have just created a new project which will be used to deploy a globally distributed application. You will use Cloud Spanner for data storage. You want to create a Cloud Spanner instance. You want to perform the first step in preparation of creating the instance. What should you do?

You are managing a project for the Business Intelligence (BI) department in your company. A data pipeline ingests data into BigQuery via streaming. You want the users in the BI department to be able to run the custom SQL queries against the latest data in BigQuery. What should you do?

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

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

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

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

You are monitoring an application and receive user feedback that a specific error is spiking. You notice that the error is caused by a Service Account having insufficient permissions. You are able to solve the problem but want to be notified if the problem recurs. What should you do?

You are working with a Cloud SQL MySQL database at your company. You need to retain a month-end copy of the database for three years for audit purposes. What should you do?

Your auditor wants to view your organization's use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?

Your web application has been running successfully on Cloud Run for Anthos. You want to evaluate an updated version of the application with a specific percentage of your production users (canary deployment). What should you do?

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

You are performing a monthly security check of your Google Cloud environment and want to know who has access to view data stored in your Google Cloud Project. What should you do?

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

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

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

You have created a code snippet that should be triggered whenever a new file is uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to deploy this code snippet. What should you do?

Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?

You are working with a user to set up an application in a new VPC behind a firewall. The user is concerned about data egress. You want to configure the fewest open egress ports. What should you do?

You have a batch workload that runs every night and uses a large number of virtual machines (VMs). It is fault-tolerant and can tolerate some of the VMs being terminated. The current cost of VMs is too high. What should you do?

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

A colleague handed over a Google Cloud Platform project for you to maintain. As part of a security checkup, you want to review who has been granted the Project Owner role. What should you do?

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

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1"standard"2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2"highmem"16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?

Your team maintains the infrastructure for your organization. The current infrastructure requires changes. You need to share your proposed changes with the rest of the team. You want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

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

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

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

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn't exist yet. What should you do?

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?

You need to create a copy of a custom Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to facilitate an expected increase in application traffic due to a business acquisition. What should you do?

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

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

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud that uses multiple Google Cloud products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?

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

Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?

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

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

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

An employee was terminated, but their access to Google Cloud was not removed until 2 weeks later. You need to find out if this employee accessed any sensitive customer information after their termination. What should you do?

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

You are managing several Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and need access to all logs for the past 60 days. You want to be able to explore and quickly analyze the log contents. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to obtain the combined logs for all projects. What should you do?

You need to assign a Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) role to an external auditor. The auditor needs to have permissions to review your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Audit Logs and also to review your Data Access logs. What should you do?

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

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

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

You have a developer laptop with the Cloud SDK installed on Ubuntu. The Cloud SDK was installed from the Google Cloud Ubuntu package repository. You want to test your application locally on your laptop with Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

Your organization needs to grant users access to query datasets in BigQuery but prevent them from accidentally deleting the datasets. You want a solution that follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

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

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

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

You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. What should you do in the GCP Console?

You want to select and configure a solution for storing and archiving data on Google Cloud Platform. You need to support compliance objectives for data from one geographic location. This data is archived after 30 days and needs to be accessed annually. What should you do?

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

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?

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

You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?

You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?

You have a large 5-TB AVRO file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your analysts are proficient only in SQL and need access to the data stored in this file. You want to find a cost-effective way to complete their request as soon as possible. What should you do?

You have a Google Cloud Platform account with access to both production and development projects. You need to create an automated process to list all compute instances in development and production projects on a daily basis. What should you do?

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

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1`"standard`"2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2`"highmem`"16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?