Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Questions and Answers
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
The migration of JencoMart’s application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform. Which Google Database should they use?
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study
A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the application servers correctly. What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? Choose 3 answers
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?
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?
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.
Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:
• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.
• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.
• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.
• Deployment artifacts are immutable.
Which set of products should they use?
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study
Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application environments. Developers and testers can access each other's environments and resources, but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from production.
What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL wants better prediction
accuracy from their ML prediction models. They want you to use Google’s AI Platform so HRL can understand
and interpret the predictions. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. The HRL development team
releases a new version of their predictive capability application every Tuesday evening at 3 a.m. UTC to a
repository. The security team at HRL has developed an in-house penetration test Cloud Function called Airwolf.
The security team wants to run Airwolf against the predictive capability application as soon as it is released
every Tuesday. You need to set up Airwolf to run at the recurring weekly cadence. What should you do?
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 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. HRL is looking for a cost-effective
approach for storing their race data such as telemetry. They want to keep all historical records, train models
using only the previous season's data, and plan for data growth in terms of volume and information collected.
You need to propose a data solution. Considering HRL business requirements and the goals expressed by
CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional
racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user
experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic
coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are
a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP
address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?
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 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?
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?
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 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 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?
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?
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?
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?
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 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. 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 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. 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. 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?
Your organization has decided to restrict the use of external IP addresses on instances to only approved instances. You want to enforce this requirement across all of your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). What should you do?
Your company recently acquired a company that has infrastructure in Google Cloud. Each company has its own Google Cloud organization Each company is using a Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to provide network connectivity tor its applications Some of the subnets used by both companies overlap In order for both businesses to integrate, the applications need to have private network connectivity. These applications are not on overlapping subnets. You want to provide connectivity with minimal re-engineering. 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.
You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.
Which two architecture should you consider?
Choose 2 answers:
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US. Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data. What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.
Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study
You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study
Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.
TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour. How should you design the data ingestion?
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?
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. 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 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?
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?
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. You are asked to design a new architecture for the
ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow
Google-recommended practices.
Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?
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?
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?
Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions.
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 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?
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?
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?
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?