Question #1Topic 1

Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create
better experiences for their developers. They need to keep the old version of the API
available and deployable, while allowing new customers and testers to try out the
new API. They want to keep the same SSL and DNS records in place to serve both
APIs.
What should they do?

 A. Configure a new load balancer for the new version of the API
 B. Reconfigure old clients to use a new endpoint for the new API
 C. Have the old API forward traffic to the new API based on the path
 D. Use separate backend pools for each API path behind the load balancer

Question #2Topic 1
Your company plans to migrate a multi-petabyte data set to the cloud. The data set
must be available 24hrs a day. Your business analysts have experience only with
using a SQL interface.
How should you store the data to optimize it for ease of analysis?

 A. Load data into Google BigQuery Most Voted

 B. Insert data into Google Cloud SQL
 C. Put flat files into Google Cloud Storage
 D. Stream data into Google Cloud Datastore

Question #3Topic 1
The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she
should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud.
Which three practices should you recommend? (Choose three.)

 A. Port the application code to run on Google App Engine Most VotedMost Voted
 B. Integrate Cloud Dataflow into the application to capture real-time metrics
 C. Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger Most
VotedMost Voted
 D. Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure Most
VotedMost Voted
 E. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging
environment Most VotedMost VotedMost Voted
 F. Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore
or Bigtable

Question #4Topic 1
A news feed web service has the following code running on Google App Engine.
During peak load, users report that they can see news articles they already viewed.
 What is the most likely cause of this problem?

 A. The session variable is local to just a single instance Most Voted

 B. The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore
 C. The URL of the API needs to be modified to prevent caching
 D. The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 stop caching

Question #5Topic 1
An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet
their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a better tool to capture
errors and help them analyze their historical log data. You want to help them find a
solution that meets their needs.
What should you do?

 A. Direct them to download and install the Google StackDriver logging agent Most
Voted
 B. Send them a list of online resources about logging best practices
 C. Help them define their requirements and assess viable logging tools Most Voted
 D. Help them upgrade their current tool to take advantage of any new features
 Question #6Topic 1
You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production
deployments in your company's web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/
Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction.
Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks?
(Choose two.)

 A. Introduce a green-blue deployment model Most Voted

 B. Replace the QA environment with canary releases
 C. Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices Most Voted
 D. Reduce the platform's dependency on relational database systems
 E. Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database

Question #7Topic 1
To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move
their development infrastructure resources from on-premises virtual machines
(VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop
events during the day and require state to persist. You have been asked to design
the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing
cost visibility to the finance department.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

 A. Use the - -no-auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and stop the VM Most Voted
 B. Use the - -auto-delete flag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM
 C. Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export
 D. Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups Most
Voted
 E. Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM
 F. Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and
terminate the VM

Question #8
Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room
reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices
on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status
every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and
several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together
with information about account owners and office locations.
Which database type should you use?

 A. Flat file
 B. NoSQL Most Voted
 C. Relational
 D. Blobstore

Question #9Topic 1
 You set up an autoscaling instance group to serve web traffic for an upcoming
launch. After configuring the instance group as a backend service to an HTTP(S)
load balancer, you notice that virtual machine (VM) instances are being terminated
and re-launched every minute. The instances do not have a public IP address.
You have verified the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using
the curl command. You want to ensure the backend is configured correctly.
What should you do?

 A. Ensure that a firewall rules exists to allow source traffic on HTTP/HTTPS to reach
the load balancer.
 B. Assign a public IP to each instance and configure a firewall rule to allow the load
balancer to reach the instance public IP.
 C. Ensure that a firewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the
instances in the instance group. Most Voted
 D. Create a tag on each instance with the name of the load balancer. Configure a
firewall rule with the name of the load balancer as the source and the instance tag as
the destination.

Question #10Topic 1
You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute
Engine virtual machine. The script is printing errors that it cannot connect to
BigQuery.
What should you do to fix the script?

 A. Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python

 B. Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope
enabled
 C. Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with
that user Most Voted
 D. Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install
bq.

Question #11Topic 1
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform
from an on-premises data center. The business owners require minimal user
disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords.
What authentication strategy should they use?

 A. Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google

 B. Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider Most Voted
 C. Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool
 D. Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password

Question #12Topic 1
Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their
data stream to optimize operations. They do not have any existing code for this
analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These options include a mix of batch
and stream processing, as they are running some hourly jobs and live- processing
 some data as it comes in.
Which technology should they use for this?

 A. Google Cloud Dataproc

 B. Google Cloud Dataflow Most Voted
 C. Google Container Engine with Bigtable
 D. Google Compute Engine with Google BigQuery

Question #13Topic 1
Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine
application is taking approximately 30 seconds to load for some of their users.
This behavior was not reported before the update.
What strategy should you take?

 A. Work with your ISP to diagnose the problem

 B. Open a support ticket to ask for network capture and flow data to diagnose the
problem, then roll back your application
 C. Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver Trace
and Logging to diagnose the problem in a development/test/staging environment Most
Voted
 D. Roll back to an earlier known good release, then push the release again at a
quieter period to investigate. Then use Stackdriver Trace and Logging to diagnose
the problem

Question #14Topic 1
A production database virtual machine on Google Compute Engine has an ext4-
formatted persistent disk for data files. The database is about to run out of storage
space.
How can you remediate the problem with the least amount of downtime?

 A. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and use the
resize2fs command in Linux. Most Voted
 B. Shut down the virtual machine, use the Cloud Platform Console to increase the
persistent disk size, then restart the virtual machine
 C. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and verify
the new space is ready to use with the fdisk command in Linux
 D. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a new persistent disk attached to the virtual
machine, format and mount it, and configure the database service to move the files
to the new disk
 E. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a snapshot of the persistent disk restore the
snapshot to a new larger disk, unmount the old disk, mount the new disk and restart
the database service

Question #15Topic 1
Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest
scope of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance without compromising the ability
to analyze transactional data and trends relating to which payment methods are
 used.
How should you design your architecture?

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

Question #16Topic 1
You have been asked to select the storage system for the click-data of your
company's large portfolio of websites. This data is streamed in from a custom
website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute. With bursts of
up to 8,500 clicks per second. It must have been stored for future analysis by your
data science and user experience teams.
Which storage infrastructure should you choose?

 A. Google Cloud SQL

 B. Google Cloud Bigtable Most Voted
 C. Google Cloud Storage
 D. Google Cloud Datastore

Question #17Topic 1
You are creating a solution to remove backup files older than 90 days from your
backup Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend.
What should you do?

 A. Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil
 B. Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with
gsutil Most Voted
 C. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls ‫ג‬€"lr gs://backups/** to find and remove
items older than 90 days
 D. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls ‫ג‬€"l gs://backups/** to find and remove items
older than 90 days and schedule it with cron

Question #18Topic 1
Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache
Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter. You want to utilize the
cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations
work and code change.
Which product should you use?

 A. Google Cloud Dataflow

 B. Google Cloud Dataproc Most Voted
 C. Google Compute Engine
 D. Google Kubernetes Engine

Question #19Topic 1
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the
performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The
database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built
with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine
with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk.
What should they change to get better performance from this system?

 A. Increase the virtual machine's memory to 64 GB

 B. Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL
 C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB Most Voted
 D. Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery
 E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database

Question #20Topic 1
You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting
application. The data comes from 50,000 sensors sending 10 readings a second, in
the format of a timestamp and sensor reading.
Where should you store the data?

 A. Google BigQuery
 B. Google Cloud SQL
 C. Google Cloud Bigtable Most Voted
 D. Google Cloud Storage

Question #21Topic 1
Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard LAMP stack replicated
across two zones. It is deployed in the us-central1 region and uses autoscaled
managed instance groups on all layers, except the database. Currently, only a small
group of select customers have access to the portal. The portal meets a
99,99% availability SLA under these conditions. However next quarter, your
company will be making the portal available to all users, including unauthenticated
users. You need to develop a resiliency testing strategy to ensure the system
maintains the SLA once they introduce additional user load.
What should you do?

 A. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until autoscale is
triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate all resources in one of the
zones Most Voted
 B. Create synthetic random user input, replay synthetic load until autoscale logic is
triggered on at least one layer, and introduce ‫ג‬€chaos‫ג‬€ to the system by terminating
random resources on both zones Most Voted
 C. Expose the new system to a larger group of users, and increase group size each
day until autoscale logic is triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate
random resources on both zones
 D. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until resource
utilization crosses 80%. Also, derive estimated number of users based on existing
user's usage of the app, and deploy enough resources to handle 200% of expected
load

Question #22Topic 1
One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container
Engine with the Dockerfile below. They report that their application deployments are
taking too long.

You want to optimize this Dockerfile for faster deployment times without adversely
affecting the app's functionality.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)

 A. Remove Python after running pip

 B. Remove dependencies from requirements.txt
 C. Use a slimmed-down base image like Alpine Linux Most Voted
 D. Use larger machine types for your Google Container Engine node pools
 E. Copy the source after he package dependencies (Python and pip) are
installed Most Voted

Question #23Topic 1
Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in
staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment
procedures to avoid this problem in the future.
What should you do?

 A. Deploy fewer changes to production

 B. Deploy smaller changes to production
 C. Increase the load on your test and staging environments Most Voted
 D. Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production

Question #24Topic 1
A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very
long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse many services.
You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases.
What should you do?

 A. Set timeouts on your application so that you can fail requests faster
 B. Send custom metrics for each of your requests to Stackdriver Monitoring
 C. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to look for insights that show when your API latencies
are high
 D. Instrument your application with Stackdriver Trace in order to break down the
request latencies at each microservice Most Voted

Question #25Topic 1
During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but
the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future.
What should you do?

 A. Use a different database

 B. Choose larger instances for your database Most Voted
 C. Create snapshots of your database more regularly
 D. Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases Most Voted

Question #26Topic 1
Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years
for future analysis in possible legal proceedings.
Which approach should you use?

 A. Grant the security team access to the logs in each Project

 B. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery Most Voted
 C. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention policies
 D. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud
Storage Most Voted

Question #27Topic 1
Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user
authentication PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud Platform. The database is 4
TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication requires private address space
communication.
Which networking approach should you use?

 A. Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect Most Voted

 B. Google Cloud VPN connected to the data center network
 C. A NAT and TLS translation gateway installed on-premises
 D. A Google Compute Engine instance with a VPN server installed connected to the
data center network

Question #28Topic 1
Auditors visit your teams every 12 months and ask to review all the Google Cloud
Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) policy changes in the previous 12
months. You want to streamline and expedite the analysis and audit process.
What should you do?

 A. Create custom Google Stackdriver alerts and send them to the auditor
 B. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the
data shared with the auditor Most Voted
 C. Use cloud functions to transfer log entries to Google Cloud SQL and use ACLs
and views to limit an auditor's view
 D. Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs into a GCS bucket
and delegate access to the bucket

Question #29Topic 1
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your
distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to
store the credentials securely.
Where should you store the credentials?

 A. In the source code

 B. In an environment variable
 C. In a secret management system Most Voted
 D. In a config file that has restricted access through ACLs

Question #30Topic 1
A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data
center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment.
You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? (Choose
two.)

 A. Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python

 B. Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future
 C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers Most Voted
 D. Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run
 E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud
resources Most Voted
 F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud
resources Most VotedMost Voted

Question #31Topic 1
A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his
requirements and identify what cloud technologies he can use to meet them. The
application must:
1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability
2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
3. Support continuous software delivery
4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack
5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates
6. Route network traffic to specific services based on URL
Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?

 A. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Helm Most Voted

 B. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Load Balancing
 C. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Deployment Manager
 D. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing

Question #32Topic 1
You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google
Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual
machines are preempted.
What should you do?

 A. Create a shutdown script named k99.shutdown in the /etc/rc.6.d/ directory

 B. Create a shutdown script registered as a xinetd service in Linux and configure a
Stackdriver endpoint check to call the service
 C. Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry with
the key shutdown-script in the Cloud Platform Console when you create the new
virtual machine instance Most Voted
 D. Create a shutdown script, registered as a xinetd service in Linux, and use the
gcloud compute instances add-metadata command to specify the service URL as the
value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script-url

Question #33Topic 1
Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on
Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of
the others. Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to
the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier.
How should you configure the network?

 A. Add each tier to a different subnetwork

 B. Set up software based firewalls on individual VMs
 C. Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired traffic flow
 D. Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic flow Most
Voted

Question #34Topic 1
Your development team has installed a new Linux kernel module on the batch
servers in Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machines (VMs) to speed up the
nightly batch process. Two days after the installation, 50% of the batch servers failed
the nightly batch run. You want to collect details on the failure to pass back to the
development team.
Which three actions should you take? (Choose three.)

 A. Use Stackdriver Logging to search for the module log entries Most Voted
 B. Read the debug GCE Activity log using the API or Cloud Console
 C. Use gcloud or Cloud Console to connect to the serial console and observe the
logs Most Voted
 D. Identify whether a live migration event of the failed server occurred, using in the
activity log
 E. Adjust the Google Stackdriver timeline to match the failure time, and observe the
batch server metrics Most Voted
 F. Export a debug VM into an image, and run the image on a local server where
kernel log messages will be displayed on the native screen

Question #35Topic 1
Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They want to archive
approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and test the analytics features
available to them there, while also retaining that data as a long-term disaster
recovery backup.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

 A. Load logs into Google BigQuery Most Voted

 B. Load logs into Google Cloud SQL
 C. Import logs into Google Stackdriver
 D. Insert logs into Google Cloud Bigtable
 E. Upload log files into Google Cloud Storage Most Voted

Question #36Topic 1
You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your
infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes negatively
affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix it, and
investigation could take up to a week.
What should you do?

 A. Log in to a server, and iterate on the fox locally

 B. Revert the source code change, and rerun the deployment pipeline Most Voted
 C. Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code
 D. Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all
instances Most Voted

Question #37Topic 1
Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments
independently, but centrally.
Which approach should you take?

 A. Multiple Organizations with multiple Folders

 B. Multiple Organizations, one for each department
 C. A single Organization with Folders for each department Most Voted
 D. A single Organization with multiple projects, each with a central owner

Question #38Topic 1
You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy
and gives you the following stack trace.
 What should you do?

 A. Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application.

 B. Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application Most Voted
 C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1

Question #39Topic 1
You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot
spoof chat messages, by providing a message were sent by a specific user.
What should you do?
 A. Tag messages client side with the originating user identifier and the destination
user.
 B. Encrypt the message client side using block-based encryption with a shared key.
 C. Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client side using the
originating user's private key. Most Voted
 D. Use a trusted certificate authority to enable SSL connectivity between the client
application and the server.

Question #40Topic 1
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?

 A. Configure their replication to use UDP.

 B. Configure a Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect. Most Voted
 C. Restore their database daily using Google Cloud SQL.
 D. Add additional VPN connections and load balance them. Most Voted
 E. Send the replicated transaction to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

Question #41Topic 1
Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable
for retention and analysis. What is the recommended approach for sanitizing this
data of personally identifiable information or payment card information before initial
storage?

 A. Hash all data using SHA256

 B. Encrypt all data using elliptic curve cryptography
 C. De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API Most Voted
 D. Use regular expressions to find and redact phone numbers, email addresses, and
credit card numbers

Question #42Topic 1
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks.
Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and persists across
sessions?

 A. ~/bin Most Voted

 B. Cloud Storage
 C. /google/scripts
 D. /usr/local/bin

Question #43Topic 1
You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute Engine
and your on-premises data center. You require a connection of at least 20
 Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you set up
the connection?

 A. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated
Interconnect. Most Voted
 B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single Cloud
VPN.
 C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-
premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.
 D. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-
premises datacenter using a single Cloud VPN.

Question #44Topic 1
You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup's trial
usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for your product will
be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google
best practices. What should you do?

 A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service
cost management.
 B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about
service cost management. Most Voted
 C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for service
cost management.
 D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about
service cost management.

Question #45Topic 1
You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git
source repository and want to ensure that code changes can be verified before
deploying to production. What should you do?

 A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment

strategy so that changes can easily be rolled back.
 B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production
deployments.
 C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch. Build and
deploy changes to production for 10% of users before doing a complete rollout.
 D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a staging
environment for testing. After testing, tag the repository for production and deploy
that to the production environment. Most Voted

Question #46Topic 1
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instances
keep restarting after 5 seconds. You have a health check configured, but autoscaling
is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You
need to make sure that he can access the VMs. What should you do?
 A. Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer
 B. Perform a rolling restart on the instance group
 C. Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-
wide SSH Keys Most Voted
 D. Disable autoscaling for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide
SSH Keys

Question #47Topic 1
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the
migration, you want to integrate Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for workload
orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-compliant. Which of
the following is most accurate?

 A. App Engine is the only compute platform on GCP that is certified for PCI DSS
hosting.
 B. GKE cannot be used under PCI DSS because it is considered shared hosting.
 C. GKE and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant
environment. Most Voted
 D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certified
PCI-compliant.

Question #48Topic 1
Your company has multiple on-premises systems that serve as sources for reporting.
The data has not been maintained well and has become degraded over time.
You want to use Google-recommended practices to detect anomalies in your
company data. What should you do?

 A. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean
your data.
 B. Upload your files into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean
your data. Most Voted
 C. Connect Cloud Datalab to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Datalab to
explore and clean your data.
 D. Connect Cloud Dataprep to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Dataprep to
explore and clean your data.

Question #49Topic 1
Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization,
folders, and projects. When Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy at a particular node of the
hierarchy?

 A. The effective policy is determined only by the policy set at the node
 B. The effective policy is the policy set at the node and restricted by the policies of its
ancestors
 C. The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited
from its ancestors Most Voted
 D. The effective policy is the intersection of the policy set at the node and policies
inherited from its ancestors

Question #50Topic 1
You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You
will use Cloud VPN to maintain a connection between your on-premises systems and
Google Cloud until the migration is completed. You want to make sure all your on-
premise systems remain reachable during this period. How should you organize your
networking in Google Cloud?

 A. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises

 B. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises for your primary
IP range and use a secondary range that does not overlap with the range you use
on-premises
 C. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use
on-premises Most Voted
 D. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use
on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range with the same IP
range as you use on-premises

Question #51Topic 1

You have found an error in your App Engine application caused by missing Cloud
Datastore indexes. You have created a YAML file with the required indexes and want
to deploy these new indexes to Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

 A. Point gcloud datastore create-indexes to your configuration file Most Voted

 B. Upload the configuration file to App Engine's default Cloud Storage bucket, and have App
Engine detect the new indexes
 C. In the GCP Console, use Datastore Admin to delete the current indexes and upload the
new configuration file

D. Create an HTTP request to the built-in python module to send the index configuration file
to your application
Question #52Topic 1
You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an
architecture that takes into account a disaster recovery plan that requires your
application to fail over to another region in case of a regional outage. What should
you do?

 A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but
in a different region. Use the first instance to serve traffic, and use the HTTP load
balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster.
 B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance. Use the instance to serve
traffic, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to an instance on your
premises in case of a disaster.
 C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same
project but in a different region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic, and use
 the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group in case of
a disaster. Most Voted
 D. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in a
separate project and a different region. Use the first instance group to serve traffic,
and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group
in case of a disaster.

Question #53Topic 1
You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-
premises database. For security purposes, your on-premises database must not be
accessible through the public internet. What should you do?

 A. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use App
Engine firewall rules to limit access to the open on-premises database.
 B. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use Cloud VPN
to limit access to the on-premises database.
 C. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use App Engine
firewall rules to limit access to the on-premises database. Most Voted
 D. Deploy your application on App Engine flexible environment and use Cloud VPN
to limit access to the on-premises database. Most Voted

Question #54Topic 1
You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from
the Compute Engine VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a VPN connection to
access an on-premises file server. You need to install specific software on a
Compute Engine instance. How should you install the software?

 A. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage. Configure the VM on a

subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP address to
the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gsutil. Most Voted
 B. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Storage and use firewall rules to
block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Storage. Download the files to
the VM using gsutil.
 C. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories. Configure the
VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an internal IP
address to the VM. Download the installation files to the VM using gcloud.
 D. Upload the required installation files to Cloud Source Repositories and use
firewall rules to block all traffic except the IP address range for Cloud Source
Repositories. Download the files to the VM using gsutil.

Question #55Topic 1
Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud
Storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

 A. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use a Transfer Appliance Rehydrator
to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage. Most Voted
 B. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use Cloud Dataprep to decrypt the
data into Cloud Storage.
 C. Install gsutil on each server that contains data. Use resumable transfers to upload
the data into Cloud Storage.
 D. Install gsutil on each server containing data. Use streaming transfers to upload
the data into Cloud Storage.

Question #56Topic 1
You have an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine using a
Deployment named echo-deployment. The deployment is exposed using a Service
called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal
downtime to the application. What should you do?

 A. Use kubectl set image deployment/echo-deployment <new-image> Most Voted

 B. Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes
cluster
 C. Update the deployment yaml file with the new container image. Use kubectl delete
deployment/echo-deployment and kubectl create ‫ג‬€"f <yaml-file>
 D. Update the service yaml file which the new container image. Use kubectl delete
service/echo-service and kubectl create ‫ג‬€"f <yaml-file>

Question #57Topic 1
Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is
distributed over several Google Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery need to be
billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no query costs are incurred on
the projects that contain the data. Users should be able to query the datasets, but
not edit them.
How should you configure users' access roles?

 A. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the role of BigQuery user on the billing
project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
 B. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the
billing project and BigQuery user on the projects that contain the data.
 C. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the
billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data. Most
Voted
 D. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the
billing project and BigQuery jobUser on the projects that contain the data.

Question #58Topic 1
You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous
paintings from uploaded images. You want to test the application and allow specific
people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not all users have a Google Account.
How should you have users upload images?

 A. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage. Protect the bucket with a
password that expires after 24 hours.
 B. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires
after 24 hours. Most Voted
 C. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images. Configure
App Engine to disable the application after 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud
Identity.
 D. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images for the
next 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud Identity.

Question #59Topic 1
Your web application must comply with the requirements of the European Union's
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You are responsible for the technical
architecture of your web application. What should you do?

 A. Ensure that your web application only uses native features and services of Google
Cloud Platform, because Google already has various certifications and provides
‫ג‬€pass-on‫ג‬€ compliance when you use native features.
 B. Enable the relevant GDPR compliance setting within the GCPConsole for each of
the services in use within your application.
 C. Ensure that Cloud Security Scanner is part of your test planning strategy in order
to pick up any compliance gaps.
 D. Define a design for the security of data in your web application that meets GDPR
requirements. Most Voted

Question #60Topic 1
You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there's
no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the zones within a
GCP region. What should you do?

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

Question #61Topic 1
The development team has provided you with a Kubernetes Deployment file. You
have no infrastructure yet and need to deploy the application. What should you do?

 A. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create

the deployment.
 B. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the
deployment. Most Voted
 C. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create
the deployment.
 D. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.
 Question #62Topic 1
You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform
the evaluation and create a skills gap plan which incorporates the business goal of
cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date.
What should you do?

 A. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.
 B. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve
Google Cloud certification based on job role. Most Voted
 C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new
GCP project.
 D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your
team to achieve Google Cloud certification based on job role.

Question #63Topic 1
You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the
minimum viable product release, you'd like to use a managed product that
automatically `scales to zero` so you don't incur costs when there is no activity.
Which primary compute resource should you choose?

 A. Cloud Functions Most Voted

 B. Compute Engine
 C. Google Kubernetes Engine
 D. AppEngine flexible environment

Question #64Topic 1
You are creating an App Engine application that uses Cloud Datastore as its
persistence layer. You need to retrieve several root entities for which you have the
identifiers. You want to minimize the overhead in operations performed by Cloud
Datastore. What should you do?

 A. Create the Key object for each Entity and run a batch get operation Most Voted
 B. Create the Key object for each Entity and run multiple get operations, one
operation for each entity
 C. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run a batch query operation
 D. Use the identifiers to create a query filter and run multiple query operations, one
operation for each entity

Question #65Topic 1
You need to upload files from your on-premises environment to Cloud Storage. You
want the files to be encrypted on Cloud Storage using customer-supplied encryption
keys. What should you do?

 A. Supply the encryption key in a .boto configuration file. Use gsutil to upload the
files. Most Voted
 B. Supply the encryption key using gcloud config. Use gsutil to upload the files to
that bucket.
 C. Use gsutil to upload the files, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the
encryption key. Most Voted
 D. Use gsutil to create a bucket, and use the flag --encryption-key to supply the
encryption key. Use gsutil to upload the files to that bucket.