Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer || Real Exam
Simulation with Correct A+ Answers!!
Your company has decided to build an in-house application for payroll processing, and you
have been assigned a task to create a VM, Cloud SQL DB, and Cloud Storage bucket. While
testing the application, developers found that they couldn't upload files to the bucket. You
want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do? correct answers Create
a service account and add it to the IAM role 'storage.objectCreator' for that bucket.
You are currently working on a freelance project where you have to deploy a WordPress
website on VM. You decided to use a startup script to install WordPress and other libraries
instead of manual installation. While launching you forgot to use the startup script and are
wondering how to do it now. What should you do? correct answers Stop the instance, add a
metadata with startup-script as key, and script content as value, and start the instance.
You are working in a team that develops Healthcare applications. The application is using
Cloud Storage to store backup files for disaster recovery purposes. Once every quarter, the
files will be accessed for audit. Your manager asked your opinion about the most appropriate
storage class for this case. Which storage option would you recommend to the manager?
correct answers Coldline Storage
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? correct answers Add the support team
group to the roles/monitoring.viewer role.
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? correct answers Run gcloud projects list to get the project ID, and then run
gcloud services list --project <project ID>.
As per your manager's instruction, you created a custom VPC with a subnet mask of 24
which provides 256 IP addresses, but are only able to use 252 addresses out of it. Your
manager is trying to figure out what's going wrong and approaches you for the answer. What
will you answer to your manager? correct answers GCP reserves four IP addresses in each
primary subnet range, because of which the usable IP count is 252.
Your company has 5 TB of testing data stored in the production database of a testing tool
name Quality Center. The data is being used to create a real-time analytics system which is
causing a slow response to the tester while using the tool. What should you do the improve
the load on the database? correct answers Set up a read replica.
Your Accounting team has to perform cost analysis measures to review and plan for the next
IT budget. They need your help to export the billing details, crunch the numbers, reduce
complexity and visualize it in a dashboard. Choose the correct method of setting up the
billing export. correct answers Export data to BigQuery and use Looker (Data Studio) to
create customizable informative reports right.
,In your organization, it was recently reported that a dev environment's database was
compromised but quickly secured back. Based on the internal analysis, it was found that a
new intern had unknowingly allowed internet access to a Cloud SQL instance. Although it is
a matter of lesser significance in a dev environment, you want to make sure this issue does
not happen again. Hence you decide to enforce a centralized organization policy. Which of
the following action accomplishes this task? correct answers Set an Organization Policy to
use constraints/sql.restrictPubliclp to restrict external internet access rights.
While working on a project, an application administrator has been given the responsibility of
managing all resources. He wants to delegate the responsibility of managing the existing
service accounts to another administrator. He will also be responsible to manage the other
service accounts that will be created. Which of the following is the best way to delegate the
privileges required to manage all the service accounts? correct answers Granting
iam.serviceAccountUser to the administrator at the project level
You and your team are building a financial application called Money Tracker App that will
store relational data from users across the globe. The Stakeholders are concerned about the
scaling requirements because the size of the user base is unknown. Hence, your manager
asked you to look for a database solution in GCP that can scale with the user growth with
minimum configuration changes. Which storage solution should you use? correct answers
Cloud Spanner
You are working for a genomics company in the US that is planning to conduct data analysis
on around 10 TB of data. The company would require 20 vCPUs and 60 GB of RAM for the
VM. You have been asked to figure out the cheapest option to conduct the analysis. Which of
the following would you use? correct answers Preemptible instances
You have to build a functionality to manage user sessions in an online shopping cart for retail
transactions. There is a need to ensure that users can lock down one or more documents until
their transaction is complete. What would be the correct choice of database to handle the
requirement? correct answers Use Cloud Firestore to handle user session management.
You are building up an application for your client which has Web, API, and DB layers. The
client has asked you to decouple the application so that each request is successfully
acknowledged and processed by the application layer. Which service will you use for this
need? correct answers Cloud Pub/Sub
You have set a firewall rule that will permit inbound connections to a VM instance named
dev-server-2. You want to apply this rule only if there is no other rule that would deny that
traffic. What priority would you give to this rule? correct answers 65535
For developing a small-scale PoC (Proof of Concept), there is a requirement to run workloads
like batch job processing and building agents as a part of your continuous
integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) infrastructure pipeline. These tasks run for less than
a day and are estimated to be short-lived processes. The workloads should be flexible to
configure as well as cost-effective. correct answers Use Compute Engine with preemptible
VM instances.
You have been hired as a contractor by one of the travel technology companies that is
planning to containerize their existing applications in such a way that they can perform a lift
, and shift very easily in the future if they plan to move away from Google Cloud. Which
service will best suit this case? correct answers Google Kubernetes Engine
You work for a retail company that has a busy online store. As you are approaching New
Year, you find that your e-store is getting more and more traffic. You ensure that your web
servers are behind a managed instance group. However, you notice that the web tier is
frequently scaling, sometimes multiple times in an hour. You need to prevent the instance
group from scaling up and down so rapidly. Which of the following options would help you
to achieve this? correct answers Increase the cooldown period.
Your managers want you to suggest a low-cost storage option that could be used to share
read-only data across multiple instances with high performance and no edge caching. Which
storage option would you suggest? correct answers Cloud Storage
Your client wants to develop a new cost-effective web application that runs on a serverless
platform using Cloud Function, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud CDN. The expected data
would be 20 GB. Which of the following databases would be the most suitable schemaless
option to support the serverless functionality? correct answers Cloud Firestore
Your program manager wants you to set up a hybrid network between your Google Cloud
and on-premise infrastructure that allows high bandwidth, low latency connection between
both networks. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, which one of the following services will you
select? correct answers Cloud Interconnect
An IoT (Internet of Things) application system needs to ingest and process the streaming
sensor data received from multiple sources of connected devices. Choose the best set of tools
to handle incoming data. correct answers Use Cloud Pub/Sub to receive data and process it
via Cloud Dataflow pipelines.
You created an application for a large hospital that stores around 1 GB of files every day on
Cloud Storage. Most of these files are accessed very rarely after six months from the day of
the first upload but are important and cannot be deleted. Which storage class would you
prefer to save money on after 6 months? correct answers Coldline
The engineering team is building an application that routes requests on the TCP layer. They
need a load balancer with support for SSL termination on the load balancer. Which of the
following is the best available option? correct answers External SSL Proxy Load Balancing
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? correct answers Use a custom mode VPC
network, use Cloud Router border gateway protocol (BGP) routes, and use active/passive
routing.
You are working for a service company that has an automobile client. The client has
developed an application for internal use with Erlang and has approached your company to
help him to ease the application deployment process on Google Cloud. The company does
not have highly trained people, so it wants you to deploy the application in such a way that
Simulation with Correct A+ Answers!!
Your company has decided to build an in-house application for payroll processing, and you
have been assigned a task to create a VM, Cloud SQL DB, and Cloud Storage bucket. While
testing the application, developers found that they couldn't upload files to the bucket. You
want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do? correct answers Create
a service account and add it to the IAM role 'storage.objectCreator' for that bucket.
You are currently working on a freelance project where you have to deploy a WordPress
website on VM. You decided to use a startup script to install WordPress and other libraries
instead of manual installation. While launching you forgot to use the startup script and are
wondering how to do it now. What should you do? correct answers Stop the instance, add a
metadata with startup-script as key, and script content as value, and start the instance.
You are working in a team that develops Healthcare applications. The application is using
Cloud Storage to store backup files for disaster recovery purposes. Once every quarter, the
files will be accessed for audit. Your manager asked your opinion about the most appropriate
storage class for this case. Which storage option would you recommend to the manager?
correct answers Coldline Storage
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? correct answers Add the support team
group to the roles/monitoring.viewer role.
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? correct answers Run gcloud projects list to get the project ID, and then run
gcloud services list --project <project ID>.
As per your manager's instruction, you created a custom VPC with a subnet mask of 24
which provides 256 IP addresses, but are only able to use 252 addresses out of it. Your
manager is trying to figure out what's going wrong and approaches you for the answer. What
will you answer to your manager? correct answers GCP reserves four IP addresses in each
primary subnet range, because of which the usable IP count is 252.
Your company has 5 TB of testing data stored in the production database of a testing tool
name Quality Center. The data is being used to create a real-time analytics system which is
causing a slow response to the tester while using the tool. What should you do the improve
the load on the database? correct answers Set up a read replica.
Your Accounting team has to perform cost analysis measures to review and plan for the next
IT budget. They need your help to export the billing details, crunch the numbers, reduce
complexity and visualize it in a dashboard. Choose the correct method of setting up the
billing export. correct answers Export data to BigQuery and use Looker (Data Studio) to
create customizable informative reports right.
,In your organization, it was recently reported that a dev environment's database was
compromised but quickly secured back. Based on the internal analysis, it was found that a
new intern had unknowingly allowed internet access to a Cloud SQL instance. Although it is
a matter of lesser significance in a dev environment, you want to make sure this issue does
not happen again. Hence you decide to enforce a centralized organization policy. Which of
the following action accomplishes this task? correct answers Set an Organization Policy to
use constraints/sql.restrictPubliclp to restrict external internet access rights.
While working on a project, an application administrator has been given the responsibility of
managing all resources. He wants to delegate the responsibility of managing the existing
service accounts to another administrator. He will also be responsible to manage the other
service accounts that will be created. Which of the following is the best way to delegate the
privileges required to manage all the service accounts? correct answers Granting
iam.serviceAccountUser to the administrator at the project level
You and your team are building a financial application called Money Tracker App that will
store relational data from users across the globe. The Stakeholders are concerned about the
scaling requirements because the size of the user base is unknown. Hence, your manager
asked you to look for a database solution in GCP that can scale with the user growth with
minimum configuration changes. Which storage solution should you use? correct answers
Cloud Spanner
You are working for a genomics company in the US that is planning to conduct data analysis
on around 10 TB of data. The company would require 20 vCPUs and 60 GB of RAM for the
VM. You have been asked to figure out the cheapest option to conduct the analysis. Which of
the following would you use? correct answers Preemptible instances
You have to build a functionality to manage user sessions in an online shopping cart for retail
transactions. There is a need to ensure that users can lock down one or more documents until
their transaction is complete. What would be the correct choice of database to handle the
requirement? correct answers Use Cloud Firestore to handle user session management.
You are building up an application for your client which has Web, API, and DB layers. The
client has asked you to decouple the application so that each request is successfully
acknowledged and processed by the application layer. Which service will you use for this
need? correct answers Cloud Pub/Sub
You have set a firewall rule that will permit inbound connections to a VM instance named
dev-server-2. You want to apply this rule only if there is no other rule that would deny that
traffic. What priority would you give to this rule? correct answers 65535
For developing a small-scale PoC (Proof of Concept), there is a requirement to run workloads
like batch job processing and building agents as a part of your continuous
integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) infrastructure pipeline. These tasks run for less than
a day and are estimated to be short-lived processes. The workloads should be flexible to
configure as well as cost-effective. correct answers Use Compute Engine with preemptible
VM instances.
You have been hired as a contractor by one of the travel technology companies that is
planning to containerize their existing applications in such a way that they can perform a lift
, and shift very easily in the future if they plan to move away from Google Cloud. Which
service will best suit this case? correct answers Google Kubernetes Engine
You work for a retail company that has a busy online store. As you are approaching New
Year, you find that your e-store is getting more and more traffic. You ensure that your web
servers are behind a managed instance group. However, you notice that the web tier is
frequently scaling, sometimes multiple times in an hour. You need to prevent the instance
group from scaling up and down so rapidly. Which of the following options would help you
to achieve this? correct answers Increase the cooldown period.
Your managers want you to suggest a low-cost storage option that could be used to share
read-only data across multiple instances with high performance and no edge caching. Which
storage option would you suggest? correct answers Cloud Storage
Your client wants to develop a new cost-effective web application that runs on a serverless
platform using Cloud Function, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud CDN. The expected data
would be 20 GB. Which of the following databases would be the most suitable schemaless
option to support the serverless functionality? correct answers Cloud Firestore
Your program manager wants you to set up a hybrid network between your Google Cloud
and on-premise infrastructure that allows high bandwidth, low latency connection between
both networks. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, which one of the following services will you
select? correct answers Cloud Interconnect
An IoT (Internet of Things) application system needs to ingest and process the streaming
sensor data received from multiple sources of connected devices. Choose the best set of tools
to handle incoming data. correct answers Use Cloud Pub/Sub to receive data and process it
via Cloud Dataflow pipelines.
You created an application for a large hospital that stores around 1 GB of files every day on
Cloud Storage. Most of these files are accessed very rarely after six months from the day of
the first upload but are important and cannot be deleted. Which storage class would you
prefer to save money on after 6 months? correct answers Coldline
The engineering team is building an application that routes requests on the TCP layer. They
need a load balancer with support for SSL termination on the load balancer. Which of the
following is the best available option? correct answers External SSL Proxy Load Balancing
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? correct answers Use a custom mode VPC
network, use Cloud Router border gateway protocol (BGP) routes, and use active/passive
routing.
You are working for a service company that has an automobile client. The client has
developed an application for internal use with Erlang and has approached your company to
help him to ease the application deployment process on Google Cloud. The company does
not have highly trained people, so it wants you to deploy the application in such a way that
