Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Questions and Answers
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.
What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.
What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in
Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.
Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Your team is in charge of creating a
payment card data vault for card numbers used to bill tens of thousands of viewers, merchandise consumers,
and season ticket holders. You need to implement a custom card tokenization service that meets the following
requirements:
• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.
• It must be able to identify duplicate credit cards and must not store plaintext card numbers.
• It should support annual key rotation.
Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud
infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video
encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted
after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you
do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to design a cloud-first data storage infrastructure for the product catalog modernization project. You want to ensure efficient data access and high availability for Cymbals web application and virtual agents while minimizing operational costs. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal has a centralized project that supports large video files for Vertex Al model training. Standard storage costs have suddenly increased this month, and you need to determine why. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study Cymbal plans to migrate their existing on-premises systems to Google Cloud and implement Al-powered virtual agents to handle customer interactions You need to provision the compute resources that can scale for the Al-powered virtual agents What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal ' s generative Al models require high-performance storage for temporary files generated during model training and inference. These files are ephemeral and frequently accessed and modified You need to select a storage solution that minimizes latency and cost and maximizes performance for generative Al workloads. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate its diverse database environment to Google Cloud while ensuring high availability and performance for online customers. The company also wants to efficiently store and access large product images These images typically stay In the catalog for more than 90 days and are accessed less and less frequently. You need to select the appropriate Google Cloud services for each database. You also need to design a storage solution for the product images that optimizes cost and performance What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate their product catalog management processes to Google Cloud. You need to ensure a smooth migration with proper change management to minimize disruption and risks to the business. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate product catalog enrichment, improve product discoverability, increase customer engagement, and minimize costs. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to connect their on-premises systems to Google Cloud while maintaining secure communication between their on-premises and cloud environments You want to follow Google ' s recommended approach to ensure the most secure and manageable solution. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth ' s CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?
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Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions.
What should you do?
You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical
requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud
regions. What should you do?
Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google
Cloud. You want to streamline the process and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.
The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract
transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?
Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and
iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What
should you do?
You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game
programmatic access to a legacy game ' s Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible. What
should you do?
Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily.
You want to create service level indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user’s
perspective. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, configuration errors put public IP addresses on backend servers that should not have been accessible from the Internet. You need to ensure that no one can put external IP addresses on backend Compute Engine instances and that external IP addresses can only be configured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity between EHR ' s on-premises systems and Google Cloud. You want to follow Google ' s recommended practices for production-level applications. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You want to improve publishing latency. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. EHR has single Dedicated Interconnect
connection between their primary data center and Googles network. This connection satisfies
EHR’s network and security policies:
• On-premises servers without public IP addresses need to connect to cloud resources
without public IP addresses
• Traffic flows from production network mgmt. servers to Compute Engine virtual
machines should never traverse the public internet.
You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new
connection design must support business critical needs and meet the same network and
security policy requirements. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google Kubernetes Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to reduce the attack surface?
You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new connection design must support business-critical needs and meet the same network and security policy requirements. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR ' s use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform’s resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game communicates with the backend over a REST API.
You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their current analytics and statistics reporting model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud Platform.
Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk’s technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?
TerramEarth has about 1 petabyte (PB) of vehicle testing data in a private data center. You want to move the data to Cloud Storage for your machine learning team. Currently, a 1-Gbps interconnect link is available for you. The machine learning team wants to start using the data in a month. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
You start to build a new application that uses a few Cloud Functions for the backend. One use case requires a Cloud Function func_display to invoke another Cloud Function func_query. You want func_query only to accept invocations from func_display. You also want to follow Google ' s recommended best practices. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost.
Which two actions should you take?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?
TerramEarth has a legacy web application that you cannot migrate to cloud. However, you still want to build a cloud-native way to monitor the application. If the application goes down, you want the URL to point to a " Site is unavailable " page as soon as possible. You also want your Ops team to receive a notification for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum cost
What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and BigQuery. What should you do?
You are migrating a Linux-based application from your private data center to Google Cloud. The TerramEarth security team sent you several recent Linux vulnerabilities published by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). You need assistance in understanding how these vulnerabilities could impact your migration. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
You want to ensure Dress4Win ' s sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years. Cost optimization is your top priority. Which cloud services should you choose?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
As part of Dress4Win ' s plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that:
• The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day
• Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.
• They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts
Which Google StackDriver features should they use?
Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding the performance analysis of their media processing pipeline.
Altostrat needs to analyze the performance of its media processing pipeline running on Java-based Cloud Run function. You need to select the most effective tool for the task. What should you do?
Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution regarding API management and cost control.
Altostrat is using Apigee for API management and wants to ensure their APIs are protected from overuse and abuse. You need to implement an Apigee feature to control the total number of API calls for cost management. What should you do?
Altostrat ' s development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?
Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solution.
Altostrat is concerned about sophisticated, multi-vector Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting various layers of their infrastructure. DDoS attacks could potentially disrupt video streaming and cause financial losses. You need to mitigate this risk. What should you do?
Altostrat stores a large library of media content, including sensitive interviews and documentaries, in Cloud Storage. They are concerned about the confidentiality of this content and want to protect it from unauthorized access. You need to implement a Google-recommended solution that is easy to integrate and provides Altostrat with control and auditability of the encryption keys. What should you do?
Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solutions regarding cost optimization for batch processing and microservices testing strategies.
Altostrat is experiencing fluctuating computational demands for its batch processing jobs. These jobs are not time-critical and can tolerate occasional interruptions. You want to optimize cloud costs and address batch processing needs. What should you do?
You need to migrate Hadoop jobs for your company’s Data Science team without modifying the underlying infrastructure. You want to minimize costs and infrastructure management effort. What should you do?
As part of implementing their disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to replicate their production
MySQL database from their private data center to their GCP project using a Google Cloud VPN connection.
They are experiencing latency issues and a small amount of packet loss that is disrupting the replication. What should they do?
